The Eternal Dilemma. The first door that opened when I decided to leave Twitter was Mastodon, and I have a special fondness for it because of that. It also gave me the chance to experience what it’s like to run an instance with actual users. Does it have its problems? Absolutely:
I love automating anything that even hints at being repetitive. I don’t mind investing time in it because I know that sooner or later I’ll be grateful I did. Another one of my “sins” (from an excess) is documentation—I’m always thinking about my future self.
The other day a blog reader - I assume - let me know that my feed content was broken. The content syndication was failing because, in every post that loaded an image with the theme’s gallery shortcode, the code appeared instead of the images:
As the wikipedia says, «The term “digital nomad” started to be used in the early 1990s to describe a new type of high tech traveling lifestyle made possible by the growth of computer networking and popularization of mobile devices like laptops, tablets and PDAs.».
As I mentioned in the update of the last post, I decided to give Bluesky a chance as long as I could host my own PDS to maintain the feeling of owning my data.
Lately, I’ve been seeing a lot of —annoying— noise about the little blue bird (which is no longer a bird, nor blue), the blue butterfly (Bluesky, I guess), and the Mastodon.
As someone who consumes and tracks a some media items (books, series, movies, videogames, music…), I’ve always looked for ways to keep an updated record without adding too much friction to my workflow. After several iterations, I’ve created a Go script that automates this process using tools I already use daily: Obsidian and Hugo.
I’ve finally managed to make a few small changes to this site that I’ve been wanting for a while. There were certain small details that didn’t quite convince me, and with each passing day, I felt a growing need to try and adjust them. These are minor adjustments, but they make the site feel more enjoyable to me.
Lately, I’ve been diving - a bit more - into Hugo templates and archetypes, and I decided to create a medialog to track all the media I’m currently consuming: movies, series, books, games, music… This space helps me keep everything organized, and I’m hoping it won’t be forgotten—like some other parts of this site have been!
Everyone I know enjoys taking vacations, having free time, spending time with family, and doing different things that the daily grind might not allow for, etc. As much as I love disconnecting during this leisure time, due to the nature of my work, I always need to have a data plan and some gadget on hand that allows me to remotely connect to servers, if only to be able to restart a service that’s acting up.