---
date: '2019-10-16'
subtitle: 'Not weekly anymore, but was it ever?'
title: Status update
url: '2019-10-16'
---

I've decided to drop the "Weekly" part of the status update posts, since
they were never weekly and---let's be honest---they aren't going to be.
These posts are, henceforth, just "Status updates". The date range can
be inferred from the post date.

That said, here's what I've been up to!

Void Linux
----------

Yes, I decided to ditch Alpine in favor of Void. Alpine was great,
really. The very comfy `apk`, ultra mnml system... but having to
maintain a chroot for my glibc needs was getting way too painful. And
the package updates are so slow! Heck, they're still on kernel 4.xx on
their supposed "bleeding" `edge` repo.

So yes, Void Linux it is. Still a very clean system. I'm loving it. I
also undervolted my system using
[`undervolt`](https://github.com/georgewhewell/undervolt) (-95 mV).
Can't say for sure if there's a noticeable difference in battery life
though. I'll see if I can run some tests.

This *should* be the end of my distro hopping. Hopefully.

PyCon
-----

Yeah yeah, enough already. Read [my previous post](/blog/pycon-wrap-up).

This website
------------

I've moved out of GitHub Pages over to Netlify. This isn't my first time
using Netlify, though. I used to host my old blog which ran Hugo, there.
I was tired of doing this terrible hack to maintain a single repo for
both my source (`master`) and deploy (`gh-pages`). In essence, here's
what I did:

``` {.shell}
#!/usr/bin/env bash

git push origin master
# push contents of `build/` to the `gh-pages` branch
git subtree push --prefix build origin gh-pages
```

I can now simply push to `master`, and Netlify generates a build for me
by installing [vite](https://github.com/icyphox/vite), and running
`vite build`. Very pleasant.

`mnmlwm`'s status
-----------------

[mnmlwm](https://github.com/minimalwm/minimal), for those unaware, is my
pet project which aims to be a simple window manager written in Nim. I'd
taken a break from it for a while because Xlib is such a pain to work
with (or I'm just dense). Anyway, I'm planning on getting back to it,
with some fresh inspiration from Dylan Araps'
[sowm](https://github.com/dylanaraps/sowm).

Other
-----

I've been reading a lot of manga lately. Finished *Kekkon Yubiwa
Monogatari* (till the latest chapter) and *Another*, and I've just
started *Kakegurui*. I'll reserve my opinions for when I update the
[reading log](/reading).

That's about it, and I'll see you---definitely not next week.