Daily-Programming

This is a rewrite of a young budding blogger friend’s post. Mainly to give him something to reach for. Also, testing live previews in Nikola. It’s witching hour as I write this. I’m done with my day and I thought, for once, let me just jot down and reflect on my day. It’s very common amongst us students to spend our whole day working on this and that and feel like we’re doing really well and are very busy and then somehow find that the whole day was fruitless and yielded nothing....

Crashed and burned a bit. So on a weeks break. Be back. Python on the backburner for now. Ansible first.

Busy day. Couldn’t do much. Had a ton of fun, talking writing and blogging, over at DGPLUG though :) P.S. Also figured out what a reverse proxy is, how to terminate an ssl connection at NGINX for the proxy and how to add a subdomain to a Let’s Encrypt certificate.

Setup a couple of personal nginx sites for practice. Will see if I can do something more with them soon.

Alright, Regex done. Python, here I come!

Done learning Regex. Practice for a few hours tomorrow to be good enough.

–> Figured out NGINX syntax. While no means an expert now, I can at least make sense of what’s written and slowly write my own blocks. Which leads me to a bit of yak shaving.  If I need any flexibility, NGINX defaults to using regular expressions. So, that’s the next step for a few days.

One of the assignments in the DGPLUG summer training is to watch “The Internet’s Own Boy”. I keep telling the youth in the channel, I lived through Aaron Swartz’s life and followed him throughout. And then I began to wonder how I did it. I’ve never followed him personally; not his blog, or any mailing list. Early on, I only knew him, through Google and Dave Winer & John Gruber’s posts....

Redid the linux pc. Just because.

Sick yesterday. So read lots of NGINX articles on the web. Feel like I need to be conversant with its directives, considering all the web server slinging I’ve been doing