Zach Oglesby

Fri, 13 Dec 2024 02:31:37 -0400

Finished reading: Wind and Truth by Brandon Sanderson 📚

A good end to the first half of the series. I had guessed a few of the developments that took place, but other parts turned out to be a huge surprise.

Harmony

Sun, 01 Dec 2024 14:43:09 -0400

As I was prepare for a work trip last week, I found myself cleaning out my travel bag and stumbled upon a pleasant surprise—notes from my travel notebook. One note, in particular, caught my attention: a reflection from my trip to Japan earlier this year.

During that visit, I had the privilege of exploring Sojiji Temple, one of Japan’s two main Zen Buddhist temples. While there, I witnessed a fascinating ceremony involving a woman doing calligraphy on a large sign. Intrigued but not fully understanding the significance of the event, I stood quietly, observing and listening.

After the ceremony, the event’s MC approached me, likely noticing I was the only foreigner in attendance. She kindly asked if I understood what was happening and then took the time to explain everything in English. To my surprise, she handed me a printed English translation of her script.

One part of it particularly stood out:

Harmony is to be valued, and an avoidance of wanton opposition to be honored. All men are influenced by partisanship, and there are few who are intelligent. Hence there are some who disobey their lords and fathers, or who maintain feuds with the neighboring villages. But when those above are harmonious and those below are friendly, and there is concord in the discussion of business, right views of things spontaneously gain acceptance. Then what is there which cannot be accomplished?

This passage, part of the first article of Prince Shotoku’s 17-Article Constitution, underscores the importance of harmony. The ceremony I witnessed was a commemoration of Prince Shotoku and his dedication to this principle—a value deeply influenced by Buddhism and enshrined in his vision for society.

What struck me then—and resonates even more now—is how deeply the idea of harmony is woven into Japanese culture. Having lived in Japan for three years, I experienced firsthand the kindness, politeness, and respect that permeate daily life. Even when people disagree or dislike one another, they prioritize civility and cooperation. Society functions smoothly because people take their roles seriously, no matter how big or small, understanding that everyone’s efforts are interconnected.

Of course, this cultural emphasis on harmony isn’t without challenges. The pressure to maintain outward politeness can sometimes suppress negative emotions, leading to mental health issues. Still, the overall atmosphere of mutual respect creates a unique and admirable social fabric—one that stands in stark contrast to many places I’ve been.

It’s hard not to reflect on how much the United States could benefit from embracing a similar sense of harmony. We often lose sight of the fact that we function best as a collective, working together with mutual respect. Disagreements—whether political, religious, or otherwise—don’t need to devolve into constant conflict.

To be clear, I’m not advocating for silence in the face of hate or injustice. Those must always be confronted. But as a society, we should strive to make respect and civility our default. Harmony doesn’t mean suppressing our individuality or ignoring our differences. Instead, it’s about finding ways to coexist, recognizing our shared humanity, and working together toward a greater good.

If there’s one lesson I took away from that day at Sojiji Temple, it’s that harmony is not just a lofty ideal—it’s a practical path to a better, more connected world.

Thu, 29 Aug 2024 14:54:57 -0400

Finished reading: Prequel by Rachel Maddow 📚

All of this has happened before. All of this will happen again.

The above quote is not from this book, but it’s what I kept thinking the whole time I was reading it. I learned a lot of history I was unaware of and obviously Maddow was pointing out the similarities to today’s political landscape

Fri, 02 Aug 2024 11:33:36 -0400

Took Thursday and Friday off last week, went to 4 baseball games, enjoyed watching the Padres play the Nationals and Orioles. Dylan Cease tossed a no-hitter to start my long weekend and the Padres took 3 out of 4. If I am lucky the Padres will be back in October to play the O’s in the World Series!

Sat, 29 Jun 2024 21:33:45 -0400

On CNN

A second longtime adviser said the only way Biden would even consider stepping aside — a move that is still very much an open question — is if he was presented serious data showing that he would not only likely lose his reelection bid, but also endanger down-ballot candidates in House, Senate and competitive local races across the country.

Ego.

Mon, 24 Jun 2024 15:02:30 -0400

Its been a few years since I have been backpacking so I’m going car camping soon to make sure all my gear is still functional and safe. I can tell i am out of practice because I can’t manage to fit everything in my pack like I could have before.

Thu, 04 Apr 2024 19:41:42 -0400

The worst part about going to Japan is having to leave. It will always be my favorite country and I look forward to the next time.

Tue, 02 Apr 2024 23:12:36 -0400

Even though I am not afraid of heights, my little brain was telling me to walk softly.

Mon, 01 Apr 2024 10:55:10 -0400

I’m not sure how else to say this but a spa/hot tub/bath filled with herbs and tea is amazing. I am so relaxed now.

Mon, 01 Apr 2024 01:53:19 -0400

Beach!

Sat, 30 Mar 2024 22:30:54 -0400

Can’t wait to get inside!

Sat, 30 Mar 2024 02:59:31 -0400

Beautiful park near my hotel in Tokyo.

Mon, 18 Mar 2024 10:36:22 -0400

I am going to Japan next week and will be posting most of my pictures on https://zachstravels.com so that I don’t flood my normal site with posts. I will still post a few here, but that site will be the home for my travel pictures from now on.

Wed, 13 Mar 2024 00:40:25 -0400

I can never sleep when I need to and am always tired when I can’t. What punishment!

Sat, 09 Mar 2024 16:01:28 -0400

I was talking to a coworker the other day and mentioned the digital camera I had that used 3.5 inch floppy disks. He thought I was joking. I was not.

Sat, 02 Mar 2024 20:26:09 -0400

Took my boys to the game store to play the prerelease of the new Star Wars TGC. They had lots of fun and everyone was so nice to them.

Fri, 23 Feb 2024 10:14:42 -0400

I track the books I read on my blog and have loose goals of how many books I want to read a year, but I have been rereading the Stormlight Archive books this year in preparation for the release of book 5. Questioning if I should count them or not.

NixOS Grafana Tailscale Auth

Thu, 08 Feb 2024 19:11:35 -0400

It took me a while to figure out how to configure an auth proxy on Grafana in a NixOS config, turns out it was really easy. I was doing everything right except wrapping auth.proxy in quotes.

services.grafana = {
      ...
      "auth.proxy" = {
        enabled = true;
        header_name = "Tailscale-User-Login";
        header_property = "username";
        auto_sign_up = true;
        sync_ttl = 60;
        whitelist = "127.0.0.1";
        headers = "Email:Tailscale-User-Login Name:Tailscale-User-Name";
        enable_login_token = true;
      };
    };
  };

Year in books for 2023

Sun, 31 Dec 2023 17:23:41 -0400

Here are the books I finished reading in 2023.

Wed, 27 Dec 2023 14:47:28 -0400

Had a goal to read 24 books this year, going to fall four short as I have not read anything cover-to-cover since the beginning of the month. Hard to read for fun when I am trying to write a non-fiction book at the same time.

Tue, 05 Dec 2023 01:46:10 -0400

Finished reading: No Time Like The Past by Jodi Taylor 📚

Halfway through the series, still enjoying it.

Sat, 25 Nov 2023 21:45:29 -0400

Finished reading: A Trail Through Time by Jodi Taylor 📚

Sun, 19 Nov 2023 19:36:55 -0400

Finished reading: A Second Chance by Jodi Taylor 📚

Book #3 was action packed, I was surprised to find how much of the book was left when I thought it was nearly done (an ebook problem), but the story was great and the ending was worth it. Really pulling out all the stops in the time travel genre.

Linux Finerprint Reader and Lid State

Mon, 13 Nov 2023 13:15:54 -0400

I recently setup fprintd on my laptop so that I could use the fingerprint reader for login and unlocking 1Password. It worked well until I plugged my laptop into the dock and closed the lid. It was unfortunately still prompting me for a fingerprint, even when I did not have access to the reader.

After a search I found an article about how someone disabled the usb device on lid close so that it would stop this from happening. I only needed to find the correct device to disable. It was not listed in lsusb as a fingerprint reader, but the Archwiki had the information I needed. After that I just needed to find where it was in the device tree.

$ grep 06cb /sys/bus/usb/devices/*/idVendor
/sys/bus/usb/devices/3-3/idVendor:06cb

After adding the the following NixOS config everything worked just how it should.

services.acpid = {
    enable = true;
   lidEventCommands = ''
    grep -q close /proc/acpi/button/lid/LID/state
if [ $? = 0 ]; then
    echo 0 > /sys/bus/usb/devices/3-3/authorized
fi

grep -q open /proc/acpi/button/lid/LID/state
if [ $? = 0 ]; then
    echo 1 > /sys/bus/usb/devices/3-3/authorized
fi

exit 0
    '';
  };

Sat, 04 Nov 2023 19:39:11 -0400

My daughter’s soccer season ended today, the team came in first place in their division. My youngest season end tomorrow and a win guarantee the same. I had to fill in for his coach for a lot of the season so I was coaching both groups and am extremely proud of everyone.

Thu, 02 Nov 2023 23:30:20 -0400

Finished reading: A Symphony of Echoes by Jodi Taylor 📚

The Chronicles of St Mary’s Book 2

This one was not as fun as book one but that maybe because I was more aware of where it was going. This suspense and mystery of the first added to the fun. I still enjoyed it and look forward to reading the rest of the series.

Mon, 23 Oct 2023 23:36:09 -0400

Finished reading: Just One Damned Thing After Another by Jodi Taylor 📚

A friend recommended this series as something light and fun to read. First book delivered on that promise. Several more to go.

Fri, 13 Oct 2023 21:56:58 -0400

Finished reading: The Internet Con by Cory Doctorow 📚

The topic was interesting, but I assumed the “fix” would be more grassroots than it was. I also did not really find the suggested solutions to be feasible or realistic. It’s a bummer because the internet really is broken but this book didn’t help solve it to my mind.

Sat, 07 Oct 2023 00:16:56 -0400

Finished reading: The Sunlit Man by Brandon Sanderson 📚

Great way to end the Kickstarter set. The whole Cosmere is great, but the world of Roshar and Way of Kings will always be my favorite. Reading a story about the struggles of one of these heros was wonderful.

Thu, 05 Oct 2023 20:47:33 -0400

Oh, no! YouTube TV has multiview for news now. Fox, MSNBC, CNN, and BBC News. This is not going to be good for the news junkie in me.

Tue, 26 Sep 2023 00:06:08 -0400

Finished reading: Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro 📚

I’m not sure how I feel about this book. Interesting story, but I feel like so many things were left unanswered. I’m not sure yet if that was the intention or not. It will definitely be on my mind a bit longer and may require a reread again one day.

Tue, 12 Sep 2023 06:44:15 -0400

Finished reading: Yumi and the Nightmare Painter by Brandon Sanderson

I really enjoyed this story and for the second time in the Secret Projects again the narrative form as told by everyone’s favorite Cosmere character.

📚

Mon, 21 Aug 2023 21:03:00 -0400

Finished reading: The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England by Brandon Sanderson 📚

This was a fun story, I would love to read more of this world.

Tue, 13 Jun 2023 23:41:46 -0400

Finished reading: Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson 📚

Short and Fun. Tyson has a great way of educating people on the topic which is always interesting.

Sun, 11 Jun 2023 13:23:16 -0400

Finished reading: Waking Up to What You Do by Diane Eshin Rizzetto 📚

So when we witness some of the atrocities in the world that we have of late, it seems to me that what we are witnessing, in part, is what happens when an individual’s fear, hopelessness, powerlessness, and so forth, get recognition within a larger group. The individual’s reactions to those experiences are generalized and legitimized, at least within the group, and any hope of self-inquiry is lost.

Sun, 04 Jun 2023 20:14:14 -0400

If its not clear by my posts, I have not done a single technical thing after work hours as of late. I get done working, do soccer stuff for the kids if the day requires it, and then I read a book. Not sure how long this will keep up, but I do feel better this way.

Sat, 03 Jun 2023 12:19:50 -0400

Finished reading: On the Origin of Time by Thomas Hertog 📚

This was light on actual science and heavy on storytelling but still had some interesting ideas and thing to think about.

Fri, 02 Jun 2023 15:11:58 -0400

Finished reading: Chip War by Chris Miller 📚

This neat book tied together a lot of the history I knew about and things I was not aware of, providing a clear history of the chip industry and how we got to where we are today.

Thu, 01 Jun 2023 17:51:54 -0400

Finished reading: Ordinary Wonder by Charlotte Joko Beck 📚

We have to work with the truth or we miss an opportunity.

Thu, 25 May 2023 23:26:07 -0400

Finished reading: Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari 📚

Fri, 19 May 2023 12:37:57 -0400

I finally found a use case for ChatGPT. Ask it a question that I am interested in. After it gives its answer ask it for book on the topic. It provides me a list of books and a synopsis of each.

Way faster than trying to google for books on a topic where I have to read multiple people’s articles.

Thu, 18 May 2023 12:32:26 -0400

I am not sure what people are upset about in San Diego. This is on brand for the Padres. Even with a loaded team they are unable to find a way to win. We are a cursed fan base.

Yes, the season is still new and there is lots of time to turn it around. My point is that we should be use to this by now.

Sat, 13 May 2023 01:00:05 -0400

Finished reading: The Lost Metal: A Mistborn Novel by Brandon Sanderson 📚

Great ending to this part of the story, looking forward to what comes next.

Fri, 28 Apr 2023 01:00:50 -0400

Finished reading: Clear and Present Danger by Tom Clancy 📚

Sat, 22 Apr 2023 02:14:23 -0400

Finished reading: Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson 📚

I was not sure in the first few pages if I would like this based on the narrative structure, but it was a fun book and the story being told by a well known character did not hurt.

Tue, 18 Apr 2023 00:42:26 -0400

Finished reading: The Complete Malazan Book of the Fallen by Steven Erikson 📚

It took a long while to read this 10 books, but well worth it. Was I lost and confused at time, yes. In the end it paid off and I am glad that I took the time.

Sat, 18 Mar 2023 22:46:07 -0400

I have an iPad that I use as my computer away from home, but it’s not really what I want. I have looked for a good device small that can run Emacs on the good a few times. I installed Linux on a Surface Go 2 but it was not great. I am really hoping that the MNT Pocket Reform fills my needs.

Wed, 15 Feb 2023 00:47:31 -0400

Finally took the time to fix my micro.blog theme to actually support parameters, and other microblog features. I think I still have some work to do, but it’s getting better.

Fri, 04 Nov 2022 21:03:04 -0400

My daughter scored her first ever goal in the first half of her last game of the season and a clean sheet in goal in the second. Parenting is so fun sometimes.

Sat, 08 Oct 2022 20:58:39 -0400

Commercial during Wildcard games on ESPN “Did you know Google makes a phone?” Yikes. That says a lot out their brand recognition in the phone market.

Thu, 18 Aug 2022 14:22:16 -0400

Pro tip: Make sure you are not scaling a picture of your family on your desktop background. Avoid being asked “Do I really look like that?”

For my X11 friends…

[✓] feh --bg-fill good

[✗] feh --bg-scale bad

Sat, 13 Aug 2022 22:51:18 -0400

Padres lost, but we had a good time.

Sat, 13 Aug 2022 11:49:50 -0400

The thermometer says 77 but I am sweating bullets cutting the grass. East Coast humidity is awful.

Fri, 12 Aug 2022 22:35:39 -0400

Had a great vacation in the Dominica Republic. We really enjoyed getting away as a family and spending time relaxing. Such a beautiful country and wounderful people!

Thu, 04 Aug 2022 10:36:41 -0400

It seems like Microsoft is killing it with the Surface lineup. I am on vacation and I have seen more Surface products than MacBooks or Dell laptops combined. This is obviously not backed up by sales data, but the experience is real if not puzzling.

Sat, 16 Jul 2022 10:56:53 -0400

Doing a complete reinstall of Nixos is so easy. Configure drives, run two commands and I am off to the races with everything just the way I want it. 🥰

Fri, 15 Jul 2022 09:03:36 -0400

Nothing wrong with this…😥🤑🙄. Health care should not be a cash cow. People are literally dying while other get rich off it. apple.news

UnitedHealth Raises Earnings Outlook as Quarterly Revenue Up 13% - The Wall Street Journal

Mon, 11 Jul 2022 21:04:21 -0400

Finished reading: Leviathan Falls by James S. A. Corey 📚

I am sad that we will not see this play out on TV, but a good end to the series. I almost cried a few times in the final 10 or so chapters.

Tue, 28 Jun 2022 14:03:25 -0400

Who doesn’t throw plates at the wall in a dining room and clear tables. I know I did that all the time when I was in the military. 🫣

Mon, 27 Jun 2022 14:58:01 -0400

I am starting to worry that if the Padres make it to the World Series this year it’s going to be a flash back to 1998 with a behemoth of a Yankees team.

Sat, 11 Jun 2022 16:23:28 -0400

A local book store sent me a package. It went from Washington DC (20 miles away) to Memphis TN. Not sure how that is effective.

Tue, 07 Jun 2022 16:25:02 -0400

Mon, 06 Jun 2022 21:02:43 -0400

I assume Apple did not announce anything to let me run Emacs natively on an iPad.

Tue, 31 May 2022 17:39:49 -0400

Can someone tell me if a law was broken leaking the draft Supreme Court ruling? I have not seen that question answered. I really want to understand what level of repercussions are involved, not if it was the right thing to do or not.

Mon, 30 May 2022 12:22:19 -0400

Recently found out about Libro.fm. I have hundreds of audiobooks on Audible, but I am canceling my membership. I don’t want to support Amazon. Libro.fm provides DRM free downloads and will give a portion of the sales to a local independent book seller.

Sun, 29 May 2022 22:45:40 -0400

I would really love a micropub plugin for obsidian.

Sun, 29 May 2022 22:19:23 -0400

Finished reading: The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia by Ursula K. Le Guin 📚

I had never head of this book before, but it was a great read and I think more relivant today than when it was written.

Nix & Emacs

Sun, 10 Apr 2022 00:05:00 -0400

Last week I posted about now I moved to Nix and the ways that it is different from the typical Linux distribution. One of the things that changed for my installations was the way that I manage Emacs packages.

ELPA and MELPA packages as available as part of the distribution. Thanks to that effort, I can install Emacs and ensure that I have all of the additional tools that I want installed at the same time.

{
  programs.emacs = {
    enable = true;
    extraPackages = epkgs : [
      epkgs.magit
      epkgs.nix-mode
      ...
    ];
  };
}

Installing additional packages this way means that I do not need to rely on use-package to download them when Emacs starts up. I can however still take advantage of use-package on in my configuration that way when I use another machine, like my work computer, everything will still work. Since the package is installed, and loaded into Emacs ensure: t will do nothing on Nix.

(use-package vertico
  :ensure t
  :bind (:map vertico-map
	 ("C-j" . vertico-next)
	 ("C-k" . vertico-previous)
	 ("C-f" . vertico-exit)
	 :map minibuffer-local-map
	 ("M-h" . backward-kill-word))
  :custom
  (vertico-cycle t)
  :init
  (vertico-mode))

Nix

Mon, 04 Apr 2022 23:35:00 -0400

I have been using Linux since 2001, most of the time using Red Hat Linux and Fedora. With a short spell of Arch around 2005-2006. Recently I learned about Guix and played with it for a bit, I thought it was cool, but it had a few issues so I moved on to Nix. Both Guix and Nix are very different from traditional Linux distributions. They are both based around expression languages that enable the OS to be configured as code. For example, if I want to install and configure Xmonad I could use the following or at it to my configuration. (This is code for another tool, home-manager, but the idea is the same)

{
xsession = {
 enable = true;
windowManager.xmonad = {
 enable = true;
 enableContribAndExtras = true;
 extraPackages = hp: [
hp.dbus
hp.monad-logger
hp.xmonad-contrib
 ];
 config = /home/zoglesby/s/dot/xmonad/xmonad.hs;
 };
 };
}

This type of configuration allows for a workflow similar to Ansible, Puppet, or Chef. The difference is that the package manager and the operating system are aware of the state. Role backs, for instance, are supported, even at the boot menu level. If you change your configuration and break the start-up process, you can simply boot into the previous configuration and fix it. This feature is built-in functionality that the OS is aware of, not something bolted on like many of the ZFS/package manager solutions that are popular now. Nix is also not dependent on the traditional file system structure for binaries that most Linux distributions use. While you typically find Python at /usr/bin/python or something similar, Nix uses a hash such as /nix/store/hb1lzaisgx2m9n29hqhh6yp6hasplq1v-python3-3.9.10/bin/python. This hashed path enables several cool features, but the first is that you can use more than one version of Python or any other tool. Nix-shell also allows you to have dependencies that are not in your $PATH for specific projects or folders. So you can cd into a directory where all of your dev tools will show up, but they will not be there while you are doing random things on your computer. It can also be helpful if you just need to run a program once but don’t want to keep it installed as it can be cleaned up automatically later without you having to do anything.

[zoglesby@trill:~]$ which python
which: no python in (/run/wrappers/bin:/home/zoglesby/.nix-profile/bin:/etc/profiles/per-user/zoglesby/bin:/nix/var/nix/profiles/default/bin:/run/current-system/sw/bin)
[zoglesby@trill:~]$ nix-shell -p python3
[nix-shell:~]$ which python
/nix/store/hb1lzaisgx2m9n29hqhh6yp6hasplq1v-python3-3.9.10/bin/python

I want to cover more about Nix in more depth in the coming weeks. For instance, how I have moved all of my servers to it, or the Surface Go 2 I am using Nix and Gnome on for a Linux-based tablet.

Wed, 15 Sep 2021 14:33:11 -0400

I should really uninstall Slack from my phone when I go on vacation.

Sat, 06 Mar 2021 20:39:57 -0400

Had to bust out the old DVD drive for my computer tonight. Good thing I kept it around. Tomorrow maybe I’ll find a ZIP disk I need to read.

Fri, 05 Mar 2021 18:27:50 -0400

Currently reading: The Complete Malazan Book of the Fallen by Erikson, Steven 📚

Fri, 12 Feb 2021 21:28:44 -0400

The end of an era. One of my children has finally beat me in a Mario Kart circuit.

Sun, 07 Feb 2021 13:25:47 -0400

1 Year Old

Mon, 01 Feb 2021 13:26:54 -0400

Finally got around to testing the Dig Uno and WLED. Next step is replace the lights on the back deck. Then MEGA HOLIDAY lights.

Tue, 10 Nov 2020 13:57:33 -0400

Never posted any pics of the new pup. 🐶

Sun, 08 Nov 2020 20:14:28 -0400

Going to get this custom theme to work at some point…only an hour in.

Thu, 17 Sep 2020 00:04:46 -0400

Just got around to watching the last two episodes of Clone Wars. There can be no doubt that Asoka is the real hero of the whole “Skywalker” story arc, and maybe more.

Thu, 10 Sep 2020 20:11:03 -0400

Tried to use neovim for 3 months, can’t do it, going back to Emacs.

Tue, 18 Aug 2020 12:06:52 -0400

Arguing about a professional baseball player hitting a home run on a 3-0 pitch when the team has a big lead is crazy. Play to win, don’t hold back.

Assateague Island

Mon, 01 Jul 2019 10:21:47 -0400

Sun, 30 Jun 2019 20:14:00 -0400

I’ve been without internet all weekend, but got home tonight in time to catch the IndieWeb Summit demos. Fun stuff that has me excited to hack some stuff this summer.

Tue, 25 Jun 2019 14:13:18 -0400

Checked in at Hersheypark

Sat, 22 Jun 2019 20:59:40 -0400

I did not grow up in a region that had fireflies. Now every year they come out in the early summer and I sit on my porch enjoying simply watching them light up. It’s amazing!

Baseball In Baltimore

Thu, 13 Jun 2019 21:35:51 -0400

Baseball game with the boys.

Thu, 13 Jun 2019 19:17:23 -0400

Checked in at Oriole Park at Camden Yards for Toronto Blue Jays vs Baltimore Orioles. Baseball with the boys.

Wed, 12 Jun 2019 12:51:43 -0400

Checked in at &pizza

Sat, 25 May 2019 17:39:56 -0400

Tue, 21 May 2019 09:11:19 -0400

Currently reading: The Cardinal of the Kremlin by Tom Clancy 📚

Tue, 14 May 2019 14:40:32 -0400

Currently reading: The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy 📚

Padres Game In DC

Sat, 27 Apr 2019 20:44:07 -0400

Sat, 27 Apr 2019 14:55:02 -0400

Baseball time

Fri, 19 Apr 2019 15:03:19 -0400

Currently reading: Report On The Investigation Into Russian Interference In The 2016 Presidential Election by Robert S. Mueller, III 📚

Mon, 08 Apr 2019 17:41:07 -0400

Spring

Mon, 01 Apr 2019 11:45:58 -0400

That was the best opening series in such a long time for the #Padres. This is going to be a fun season of baseball.

Thu, 28 Mar 2019 10:30:30 -0400

Fine Woodworking, the one magazine I still get a physical copy mailed to me every month is not on Apple News+, bummer.

Tue, 26 Mar 2019 10:29:18 -0400

I really enjoed that book about Tony Gywnn. I put off reading it for a long time, but I am so happy that I finally read it, such great stories about a someone who had such a big impact on me, and the city of San Diego. 📚

Tue, 26 Mar 2019 09:41:31 -0400

Currently reading: Tiamat’s Wrath by James S. A. Corey 📚

Sun, 17 Mar 2019 18:44:50 -0400

Currently reading: Tony Gwynn 📚

Thu, 30 Aug 2018 19:27:36 -0400

Currently reading: Patriot Games by Tom Clancy 📚

Thu, 30 Aug 2018 19:26:49 -0400

Finished reading: Without Remorse by Tom Clancy 📚

Wed, 29 Aug 2018 18:38:26 -0400

Currently reading: Without Remorse by Tom Clancy 📚

Mon, 20 Aug 2018 20:47:11 -0400

First shock of being a home owner today. Trimming 40 foot oak trees is not cheap.

Bushkill Falls

Sat, 04 Aug 2018 21:34:05 -0400

We stopped at Bushkill Falls on our way home from vacation today. It was very beautiful, even if I don’t really support the idea of someone charging so much money to hike and see waterfalls.

Mon, 16 Jul 2018 17:27:29 -0400

It would be nice to have the ability to move feeds from one category to another. Currently as far as I can tell you must delete them and add them to another category manually

Mon, 16 Jul 2018 09:57:09 -0400

Yeah. I went looking and noticed your pull request and merge after I asked. I already had it just did not pay attention when I updated. Thanks!

Sun, 15 Jul 2018 21:01:43 -0400

This the code you spoke about in this episode for visibility in Known available? I have also been thinking about ways to store private information on my site but the lack of private post support stopped that for me.

SBS

Fri, 13 Jul 2018 17:38:37 -0400

2009-03-14

2011-07-07

2011-11-11

2015-09-06

2017-05-15

2017-08-23

2017-09-04

2018-07-12

Scottie B. Scotson.

Thu, 12 Jul 2018 18:22:11 -0400

We got this guy when he was three and it’s been a great 10 years. We are going to miss him .

Smoking for 8 hours

Fri, 29 Jun 2018 16:50:55 -0400

Tue, 19 Jun 2018 19:58:30 -0400

Today (the last day of school) I found out that my kids can drink chocolate milk for free if they buy lunch, but must pay an extra dollar for water. That is just crazy.

Tue, 12 Jun 2018 18:22:09 -0400

Really love the work that @cleverdevil is doing on Known, in fact I like it so much that I am using his overview page as my homepage now.

Sat, 19 May 2018 09:31:15 -0400

If you want to use emacsclient with the flatpak use “flatpak run –command=emacsclient org.gnu.emacs” or make that an alias in your shell profile.

Thu, 10 May 2018 20:16:13 -0400

With all the talk about tanking in professional sports in the US I think it's time to take a hit from Soccer/Football and add the idea of relegation for the worst performing teams. It would remove the lack of consequences for tanking and add more competition, and teams at a new or reconfigured second level.

Thu, 10 May 2018 08:28:23 -0400

As of today I have been married to Beth, my wonderful wife, for a decade.

Thu, 10 May 2018 00:29:45 -0400

I have started working on a GTK IndieWeb reader that would support posting to Micro.blog and could also act as a client, but my time is limited until this summer so it is far off.

Breakfast

Sat, 21 Apr 2018 08:36:35 -0400

Sun, 15 Apr 2018 19:53:01 -0400

Looking into adding dbus HostCommand support via init file or some other means.

Sun, 15 Apr 2018 08:13:24 -0400

@gnomealex I will definitely look into that. I don't like the idea of having my own copies of things like openssh and gnupg inside the flatpak, but they are critical for my workflow. Thanks!

Fri, 13 Apr 2018 23:06:11 -0400

The fact that it’s 2018 and I am seeing more spam on IRC than I have ever before seems crazy to me.

Fri, 13 Apr 2018 19:57:13 -0400

Finally a nice night to sit out and enjoy the weather.

Fri, 13 Apr 2018 16:43:56 -0400

Using org-pdfview from repos adds pdftools from the same repo and that brakes the local system build. It is easier to add this then to package make, autogen, etc that would be needed to rebuild the server to support pdf-tools from melpa.

Fri, 13 Apr 2018 16:41:51 -0400

Need to add org-pdfview to pdftools

Fri, 13 Apr 2018 11:04:47 -0400

I put my emacs flatpak in a repo on my site. I will put a stripped down version on flathub at some point, but I am still fine tuning it for what I want, then I need to work on removing the extra stuff from the package that is not needed. https://zach.oglesby.co/pages/flatpak-repo

Sat, 07 Apr 2018 10:25:20 -0400

Thinking about making an IndieWeb Reader for Linux. Its been a while since I played with GTK.

Not spring weather

Wed, 21 Mar 2018 15:09:55 -0400

Wed, 21 Mar 2018 12:25:56 -0400

@ChrisAldrich Yeah, I am still going to write it. I am just not going to spend much time thinking about things I am not interested in for the first pass.

Tue, 20 Mar 2018 14:11:31 -0400

Is there any interest in a @WithKnown exercise plugin? https://indieweb.org/exercise

Mon, 19 Mar 2018 13:23:11 -0400

It is indeed based on Jonathan's Food plugin, but I did forget to put a link to his plugin in the readme, thanks!

Thu, 15 Mar 2018 20:13:26 -0400

I put my new reading plugin for Known on github. Track your book reading IndieWeb style. I still have some work to do on it, but the basic parts work. https://github.com/zoglesby/Known-Read

Wed, 14 Mar 2018 00:16:48 -0400

It’s hurts that I have spent my career as a DBA and yet I spent an hour trying to get Aperture installed only to realize the docs said I needed a newer version of MariaDB. Always read the docs!

Patapsco State Park

Mon, 12 Mar 2018 16:47:37 -0400

Thu, 24 Aug 2017 20:14:26 -0400

4 Years after hearing @mojavelinux talk about asciidoc at FUDCon Lawrence @Fedora docs has finally moved away from Docbook. Big step forward in reducing the contributor learning curve.

Thu, 24 Aug 2017 19:10:09 -0400

Great work by @bexelbie and everyone who helped. The new @Fedora docs website is live. https://docs.fedoraproject.org/index.html

Tue, 25 Jul 2017 21:48:31 -0400

Funny, well done Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/this-column-brought-to-you-by-the-amazon-washington-post/201…

Mon, 24 Jul 2017 21:32:56 -0400

I should not have purchased that fountain pen, it is so nice to write with… hide my wallet.

Tue, 18 Jul 2017 22:28:58 -0400

.@matrixdotorg is moving forward but needs community help. Every dollar counts. https://matrix.org/blog/2017/07/19/status-update/

Mon, 10 Jul 2017 21:45:38 -0400

If you use or like the idea of @matrixdotorg think about supporting the project on Patreon.

Mon, 10 Jul 2017 19:41:42 -0400

Got my new shipment of pens today. So happy JetPens exists. Having lived in Japan during high school makes it hard to use supermarket pens.

Sun, 02 Jul 2017 17:59:43 -0400

@matrixdotorg the log is kinda large, any other way I can send it to get an extra set of eyes?

Sat, 01 Jul 2017 23:14:26 -0400

Went on vacation and my @matrixdotorg synapse service is using #ALLTHERAMS upgraded digitalocean droplet all the way up to 8GB and still the same, changed SYNAPSE_CACHE_FACTOR and still have issues. Offline until I figure this out.

Gone Fishin

Thu, 29 Jun 2017 06:44:10 -0400

Thu, 29 Jun 2017 04:46:54 -0400

Just watched the rocket launch at Wallops. Very cool to see in person.

Fri, 23 Jun 2017 22:30:03 -0400

Parks and Recreation may have predicted the Cubs winning the 2016 WS but all of the Windows Phones are a funny joke.

Good way to start the day

Fri, 09 Jun 2017 10:28:49 -0400

Working Outside

Wed, 31 May 2017 12:21:03 -0400

Memorial Day project

Tue, 30 May 2017 10:08:48 -0400

Wed, 24 May 2017 18:36:56 -0400

If you are complaining about the quality of documentation for an open source project, maybe try and help fix it.