Notes & Miscellanea

I need some place to blather and this section of the site is it!
Shower thoughts, refining thoughts, work in progress, unfinished wor…
Stuff in here is prone to deletion.

Computer Architecture

I have begun reading Bryant, Halloran & Tahiliani’s, Computer Systems, A Programmer’s Perspective. Notes and thoughts as i follow the book … 2024-12-30 17:04 Learnt about the origins of the word “context”. The original domain was the os (kernel) context-switching between tasks and saving the context it needed (register state, contents of memory) before it made the actual switch Boolean logic. Blech. I thought I was done with boolean stuff. I think I can handle most of the operators mentally. It’s just xor that always trips me up

Hugo Post from a phone

Will this work in a pinch?

Hugo and Forgejo Experiments

Need to find a way to get Forgejo to build Hugo on my self hosted Forgejo instance and then deploy it with rsync to my remote vm I want to do live deploys from anywhere. so just adding an md to source control and it should automatically deploy. That was thing one. Thing two, is to avoid what I am currently doing. Running hugo build and then rsyncing the output every 30s. I don’t want to stress my vm’s storage like that. But I also want these stream of consciousness notes to get published as I keep typing them. (very micro pub like …) ...

Trying to Get Hugo Deploy Automatically

Work and progress on the day before the day, your vacation begins

From Derb to ReDerb, 2024-11-20

2024-11-20 10:23 Getting to work Idea: I need to get my Hugo to Gitea to website chain up and running I’m tired of remote tmux panes to write these posts Ok, checked org agenda. seem to have done everything. let’s start with Derb to ReDerb once i have my tmux reference handy, tmux doesn’t seem so hard. 2024-11-20 10:41 ok got lost in reddit now i will really work reading https://12factor.net/ now back to Goland 2024-11-20 11:53 got distracted. just noting the time. caught myself viper returns things as type any. if i want a string, i should do viper.GetString instead of plain ole viper.Get 2024-11-20 16:26 Back from lunch and a nap and tea. I should be more intentional about when i stop though. I was pencils down at 1p me thinks break. 2024-11-20 17:32 made quite a bit of progress learned how to get a base folder leearned that slices are what lists are in python very slowly getting the hang of putting in types

From Derb to ReDerb, 2024-11-19

Notes as I work on moving my audiobook feed creation script from Python to Go