Notices by Gergely Nagy 🐁 (algernon@trunk.mad-scientist.club), page 17

I *think* I moved everything, backed up the things that do not need moving. Now going through the server once more, before turning the lights off.

@saper @meena The main reason I'm going for hardcore config management, is because this is the ~5th time I'm migrating services in the past four years, and doing it by hand is a pain in the backside. I want something where I can tweak a few settings and deploy part of it to a new host. ~90% of my stuff is static, so migration is as easy as copying elsewhere and setting up virtual hosts.

The other 10%^W90% I already migrated by hand, so.. will add that to the mix later.

@meena hetzner.com

One more server to go: beleg.madhouse-project.org. This still has a bunch of stuff I need to migrate, but most of that should be reasonably easy.

Figured I can postpone migrating my docker things, because those already run on the new host, so migration is not super-urgent.

Migrated all services off of one of my #DigitalOcean hosts, morgoth.madhouse-project.org shutting down after four years. Strangely, it feels sad to shut it down, like if I was decommissioning a real, bare metal server. 😭

You served me well, old friend.

LetsEncrypt stuff done for that one static site too.

So far so good. A DNS server and one static site (complete with building locally and syncing up) is done. LetsEncrypt certificate stuff still left to do.

Going with #Ansible now. A bit... overwhelming at first, still trying to figure out how to organise my stuff. I want to completely automate my deployments, which includes building some static sites (locally, then synced), docker images (remotely built), and so on.

I'm also in a bit of a loop, because some of these depend on being able to git clone from my server. But I need to deploy that first.

When the bottom two teeth of my son came out, we thought teething is brutal. Top two on the front are on the way out. In hindsight, we had no idea.

#parenting

Debugging keyboards is hard. Especially when you are trying to debug something very close to the hardware. Even more so when you know nothing of that particular component.

I think this is not a comfortable hole I dug myself into.

@kopsi Yes, it should!

@cjh Spacemacs is a very good way to get started. It combines the - in my opinion - best features of Emacs and VIM.

@amastodonuser eink-theme, writeroom-mode, and a few faces customised. My Spacemacs setup is on GitHub at https://github.com/algernon/emacs.d. The most recent changes aren't there yet, because I have to integrate them, but they'll be up in a few days.

...except that argc should be black. Forgot to turn off color-identifiers-mode.

With a few tweaks, I think I'm happy with how things turned out.

#Emacs #minimalism

As of a few minutes ago, all of my keyboards run the #Kaleidoscope #firmware.

At home: my Model01, my ErgoDox EZ, and my Shortcut prototype.
At work: ErgoDox EZ.

So far so good, but there is room for improvement here and there.

@merlin I spent maybe an hour or two with it, but already got bitten by a few things I did not expect. I bought a used mac mini, and wanted to wipe it clean first. I figured reinstall will do that for me. It didn't. Turns out I need to erase first. Then, I wanted to change the hostname (wtf doesn't it ask it during initial setup?), and had to change it in two places. My scroll wheel also works backwards by default.

So... uhh. I'll fix BootKeyboard on this thing, but not gonna be a fan =)

@merlin Most of the things I run (Emacs included) have a white background, so that's the least of my worries =)