This breakfast sandwich from Golden Bakery is so good. Man, it’s good.
- I used Zed for a lot of my migration work. Its remote editing via an ssh connection works beautifully (and in fact is how I’m writing this post).
- Caddy is great! The way it enables automatic certificate installation is so seamless.
- I post with a Drafts action and a cross-platform shortcut for uploading images, both of which hit a little PHP micropub endpoint. It’s really pretty cool that with updates of authentication, I could move my posting tools over to a new host and just … keep using them.
- web sites and servers are cool and fun to play with
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If you happen to want to plink around with some new servers of your own, follow the Hetzner signup link in Adam’s IRC guide; you’ll get a credit and he’ll get one, too, if you stick around! ↩︎
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That’s “live” web site time; I just realized that if I go back to college archives, I’m at more than thirty years. Which. Well. ↩︎
Boring website administrivia
It’s been a couple of nice hobby web site weekends here are Pretty Good Hat PNW. Reading Adam’s great writeup of setting up an IRC server put me in the mood to play around with servers, and with the price of my shared hosting having gone up last year, I thought I’d experiment with setting up some servers at Hetzner.
Well, one good thing led to another, and curling was on TV so I had a lot of good laptop time, and so I’m finishing out this weekend having completely migrated from my prior host after more than ten years there. I learned a bunch about setting up new servers! I can’t say enough good things about Adam’s guide and the encouragement to be found hanging around the omg.lol community.1
Before cancelling my old service, I made an exhaustive scroll through all the content in that home directory, downloading and archiving a lot. Over the years I’ve had everything from twenty years of web sites2, to old versions of my CV, to little R experiments, ruby projects, and other things that kind of scaffolded a lot of my history. It really is true that a good chunk of the story of my life is the story of all the things I’ve done with web sites in that time. It’s a very specific kind of time capsule, those directories full of web projects, jpegs, and datestamps.
misc tools & process notes
One thing I did not anticipate about living in the future was how many Mychart accounts I’d have.
I’ve just recently began to find that newer releases of Qobuz provide the continuity across devices that I’ve missed from Rdio for years. I think this is because Qobuz Connect creates a link between devices that hasn’t previously existed. It’s great: I can listen in the car, and then pick up at the same place from my desk. It’s a little thing that makes a huge difference, and nothing since the good days of Rdio has done it in such a seamless way.
Sometimes one does get the urge to change web hosts and screw around with servers for a couple of weekends.
I played through Cairn this week and have lots more thoughts to come on this endlessly scenic, challenging and interesting game.
After briefly operating again, authentication to the Peloton API has been re-restricted. There are apparently some workarounds, but building a bunch of OAuth mechanics on top of a non-public API is a lot of work on something too fragile for me to rely on. That means that RideShare is inoperable for the foreseeable future, and that’s a big bummer!
Much, but not all of the ride data continues to be available through Apple Health, so I can continue to use a lot of what I did to summarize the year’s exercise data last year. Here’s a quick comparison of workout intensity in 2025 and 2024.
The rest of the family slept late enough on Christmas Day that I started a Project — the proper sorting of the albums, which had been in a jumble ever since we moved.
Today’s hobby project troubleshooting: Darn, which library did I update in that other project (don’t renv me right now, I’m riffing) that’s causing this to fail? Okay, update some other libraries. Okay, maybe there’s new R version conflict; update R. Now reinstall all libraries. Hmm. Okay, rewrite to go around the place where I think the error is raised. Nope, but that isolated enough that I can see the problem. Fixed in one minute.
I’ve updated my annual last.fm summary stats app for 2025. I’m really happy with this year’s changes: The app should be faster for most users and it offers a simpler couple of visuals, displaying a shareable card for your top “new to you” artists as well as for your top overall artists of the year. It’s fun to update this year over year. If you’re a last.fm user, I hope you’ll try it out!