–> 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. And then it struck me today. ...
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
Moved the home PC to Bionic Beaver. Set it up so I can ssh into it from outside. I’m so happy, I now have a powerful machine to actually process work on, instead of my dinky little iPad. ![ipad accessing server][2]
Brushing up old Python for an hour