Goals + Recap

  • Play with and configure Kitty as another option for my terminal
  • Work on ZNC

2026-02-03 11:00

  • While I got the basics working the other day, I finished the rest of the work and got Kitty working just the way I want it. I can now launch kitty via ulauncher or gnome-terminal and get a Kitty layout for writing just like I used to1, with Tmux and Zellij. And now I can copy and paste text as well! Blessed relief!
  • Now on to getting my ZNC up and running!
  • 2026-02-03 11:34: Note to self: I am calling ZNC images in two places in my deployment. Make sure their versions always stay in sync via flux updations
  • 2026-02-03 12:12: Ok, figured out the reason for my znc misery. ZNC can accept both irc as well as http traffic on the same port. And if I want traefik to be able to route both sorts of traffic to znc then I cannot terminate tls at traefik. Which I really, really want. Because I don’t want the headache of keeping track of which applications can maintain their own certs and which don’t. Simplest thing (which ZNC supports) is to add another listener port to ZNC. IRC traffic goes to one port, web traffic to another and hopefully all will be well. That’s the idea, in theory at least. Now to go try it out.
  • 2026-02-03 12:22: Ok. Change znc config to accept web connections on another port and redeployed the pod. Now to get web traffic working first
  • 2026-02-03 12:29: It works! My ZNC website is up! Now to go figure out how to route IRC traffic.
  • 2026-02-03 12:47: Lunch!

2026-02-03 13:10

  • Back
  • 2026-02-03 13:32: Ok sorta kinda wrote the ingressRouteTCP rule. Now to deploy and test
  • 2026-02-03 14:38: It works! ZNC is alive! Will know tomorrow if my history buffers hold :)
  • 2026-02-03 14:49: Tried a reboot. Still lost history. Need to configure ZNC probably. Checking that now.
  • 2026-02-03 15:30: Tea time
  • 2026-02-03 16:00: Walk

2026-02-03 17:40

  • Back
  • Trying to quickly see if there’s any Lightroom alternative out there in Linux land, that is not Darktable.
  • 2026-02-03 18:00: Found one. It’s Darktable! But I found that it now has a Sigmoid workflow, that gives me a very Lightroom-esque workflow. Or maybe it’s just that the interface has changed to where I find it familiar. Anyhoo, this makes me so happy! Finally, I can now invest the time in a new tool :)
  • Now to some NMC work.
  • 2026-02-03 18:48: Done. Now to get ZNC to update itself. 19:15: Done!
  • 2026-02-03 19:25: Schedule, shutdown complete!

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  1. 3 paned layout.
    Large pane on the right. For me. For writing or commands or whatever.
    Top left pane to run Hugo Liveserver; bottom left pane to run a script that watches today’s daily note and keeps committing to it to the code repo to auto publish ↩︎