18 January, 2020

Status update

New year...new stuff?

   It's only been a two weeks since I got back to campus, and we've
   already got our first round of cycle tests starting this Tuesday.
   Granted, I returned a week late, but...that's nuts!

   We're two whole weeks into 2020; I should've been working on something
   status update worthy, right? Not really, but we'll see.

No more Cloudflare!

   Yep. If you weren't aware -- pre-2020 this site was behind Cloudflare
   SSL and their DNS. I have since migrated off it to [1]he.net, thanks to
   highly upvoted Lobste.rs comment. Because of this switch, I infact,
   learnt a ton about DNS.

   Migrating to HE was very painless, but I did have to research a lot
   about PTR records -- Cloudflare kinda dumbs it down. In my case, I had
   to rename my DigitalOcean VPS instance to the FQDN, which then
   automagically created a PTR record at DO's end.

I dropped icyrc

   The IRC client I was working on during the end of last
   December--early-January? Yeah, I lost interest. Apparently writing C
   and ncurses isn't very fun or stimulating.

   This also means I'm back on weechat. Until I find another client that
   plays well with ZNC, that is.

KISS stuff

   I now maintain two new packages in the KISS community repository --
   2bwm and aerc! The KISS package system is stupid simple to work with.
   Creating packages has never been easier.

[2]icyphox.sh/friends

   Did you notice that yet? I've been curating a list of people I know IRL
   and online, and linking to their online presence. This is like a
   webring of sorts, and promotes inter-site traffic -- making the web
   more "web" again.

   If you know me, feel free to [3]hit me up and I'll link your site too!
   My apologies if I've forgotten your name.

Patreon!

   Is this big news? I dunno, but yes -- I now have a Patreon. I figured
   I'd cash in on the newfound traffic my site's been getting. There won't
   be any exclusive content or any tiers or whatever. Nothing will change.
   Just a place for y'all to toss me some $$$ if you wish to do so. ;)

   Oh, and it's at [4]patreon.com/icyphox.

Misc.

   The Stormlight Archive is likely the best epic I have ever read till
   date. I'm still not done yet; about 500 odd pages to go as of this
   writing. But wow, Brandon really does know how to build worlds and
   magic systems. I cannot wait to read all about the [5]cosmere.

   I have also been working out for the past month or so. I can see them
   gainzzz. I plan to keep track of my progress, I just don't know how to
   quantify it. Perhaps I'll log the number of reps × sets I do each time,
   and with what weights. I can then look back to see if either the
   weights have increased since, or the number of reps × sets have. If you
   know of a better way to quantify progress, let me know! I'm pretty new
   to this.

References

   1. https://he.net/
   2. https://icyphox.sh/friends
   3. https://icyphox.sh/about#contact
   4. https://patreon.com/icyphox
   5. https://coppermind.net/wiki/Cosmere