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After over two^h^h^h three years of not doing anything here, the recent exodus from “Birdsite” to Mastodon has brought up the topic of self hosted and independent content. Time to dust of the old blog. I had to update a few files in my Chaschper Theme to make it compatible with a more recent version of Hugo than the one I had installed. I also had to do the usual Yak shaving to get everything back up to speed on a new laptop (where new is relative - I’ve had this machine for over 6 months and just not had the need to run Git or Hugo from the commandline since then. ...

Having a git based blog makes it slightly difficult to post while on the go. I have read at least two accounts of people who pulled that off, but neither workflow quite worked for me. Here’s where I’m at: use WorkingCopy to clone this sites jcfischer/invisible_ch repository use a Siri shortcut to convert urls to markdown links use a Siri shortcut to export images from Photos to WorkingCopy by saving it through the Files app in the repository that WorkingCopy hosts Using iA Writer to edit files that are stored in A git repository (add WorkingCopy as a file provider in iA Writer) Things I tried that didn’t work: ...

Contrary to what the last blog post was (or wasn’t suggesting) I didn’t die while fasting - I just lost 7kg and the will to finish the 100 day blogging challenge (call it 95% success) And then a Wordpress update led to me not being able to access the backend, so I couldn’t blog anymore. And then a lot of other things happened in RL that just put blogging on the back burner. ...

So we are running an OpenStack installation based on Folsom, but with Ceph as our underlying storage engine for volumes. This is a bit cutting edge. To make matters more bleeding, we run the Ceph OSDs on BTRFS - definitively bleeding edge, as we had various of our servers die with BTRFS related kernel panics. The advice usually given is to upgrade the BTRFS code - so we have started to migrate our Quantal (12. ...

Almost at the end of day one of the fast - this was both more and less difficult than the last time I remember. Easier because I’m not actually hungry, there is sort of a constant nagging from the stomach, but nothing that is really difficult to ignore (or to shut down with a glass of water). The family (of course) continues to eat, and that is a bit more difficult to stomach - so to speak - so I have not spent time with them at the table. ...

Tomorrow I will start a 7 day fast. Today saw reduced food intake (even though I had two social events to attend to) and not-tea instead of tea. The last time I held fast must be around 18 years ago. I remember deeply enjoying the experience (and missing the act of chewing the most) and I have been on the verge of fasting again from time to time. But now, finally, the stars have aligned and I am ready to do it again. ...