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 2date: '2020-01-18'
 3subtitle: 'New year...new stuff?'
 4title: Status update
 5url: '2020-01-18'
 6---
 7
 8It's only been a two weeks since I got back to campus, and we've
 9*already* got our first round of cycle tests starting this Tuesday.
10Granted, I returned a week late, but...that's nuts!
11
12We're two whole weeks into 2020; I should've been working on something
13status update worthy, right? Not really, but we'll see.
14
15No more Cloudflare!
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17
18Yep. If you weren't aware---pre-2020 this site was behind Cloudflare SSL
19and their DNS. I have since migrated off it to [he.net](https://he.net),
20thanks to highly upvoted Lobste.rs comment. Because of this switch, I
21infact, learnt a ton about DNS.
22
23Migrating to HE was very painless, but I did have to research a lot
24about PTR records---Cloudflare kinda dumbs it down. In my case, I had to
25rename my DigitalOcean VPS instance to the FQDN, which then
26automagically created a PTR record at DO's end.
27
28I dropped icyrc
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30
31The IRC client I was working on during the end of last
32December--early-January? Yeah, I lost interest. Apparently writing C and
33ncurses isn't very fun or stimulating.
34
35This also means I'm back on weechat. Until I find another client that
36plays well with ZNC, that is.
37
38KISS stuff
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40
41I now maintain two new packages in the KISS community repository---2bwm
42and aerc! The KISS package system is stupid simple to work with.
43Creating packages has never been easier.
44
45[icyphox.sh/friends](/friends)
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47
48Did you notice that yet? I've been curating a list of people I know IRL
49and online, and linking to their online presence. This is like a webring
50of sorts, and promotes inter-site traffic---making the web more "web"
51again.
52
53If you know me, feel free to [hit me up](/about#contact) and I'll link
54your site too! My apologies if I've forgotten your name.
55
56Patreon!
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58
59Is this big news? I dunno, but yes---I now have a Patreon. I figured I'd
60cash in on the newfound traffic my site's been getting. There won't be
61any exclusive content or any tiers or whatever. Nothing will change.
62Just a place for y'all to toss me some \$\$\$ if you wish to do so. ;)
63
64Oh, and it's at [patreon.com/icyphox](https://patreon.com/icyphox).
65
66Misc.
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68
69The Stormlight Archive is likely the *best* epic I have ever read till
70date. I'm still not done yet; about 500 odd pages to go as of this
71writing. But wow, Brandon really does know how to build worlds and magic
72systems. I cannot wait to read all about the
73[cosmere](https://coppermind.net/wiki/Cosmere).
74
75I have also been working out for the past month or so. I can see them
76gainzzz. I plan to keep track of my progress, I just don't know how to
77quantify it. Perhaps I'll log the number of reps × sets I do each time,
78and with what weights. I can then look back to see if either the weights
79have increased since, or the number of reps × sets have. If you know of
80a better way to quantify progress, let me know! I'm pretty new to this.