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Update: fixed Github link The little script I wrote in 2020, to get me my daily poetry fix, died a couple of months ago. Life got in the way of me, figuring out what was wrong. I finally got around to it today. A little bit of peeking under the hood revealed that Cloudflare did not like me using the Python Requests library to check the Poetry Foundation page. Or maybe it just did not like the useragent string that Requests gave it. I was in no mood to go down that rabbit hole, so I just went looking for modern alternatives to Requests. Found HTTPX.1 and switched over to it.2 And then while I was at it, replaced PyRSS2Gen with FeedGenerator. ...

I finally got done, moving the blog from Nikola to Hugo today. I already wrote about why I did it. These are a few more thoughts about what went into the endeavour; and some colophonesque details. One, really small hope, is that it will help me learn Go. The DevOps world that I now seek to enter, speaks Go. I also, now run two Go programs that are indispensible to me, Hugo and Miniflux. And being the control freak, that I am, I’d love to tweak them to just how I like it. Nikola did help learn me Python, after all. ...

Update: 28/12/2021 The solution? Move off the 64 bit Raspberry Pi OS and install Ubuntu. Everything below is now just for history and context :) Every time I update my Pi, whether it be an kernel update or due to something goofy I do, it refuses to be accessible via ssh after it boots back up. And everytime I bring it back to my desk, it just works. And when I put it back into its niche, by the door, it continues to work. But inevitably, sooner or later, comes a reboot, and we’re back to being inaccessible. No ssh, no plex, no network. ...

This post was first sent to my newsletter on December 19th, 2021. You really ought to subscribe :) image, courtesy The Toymaker’s Journal Lots of links in this letter, because there won’t be a work letter later, this month :) This one is all about, drum roll … Reading :) ...

Don’t quite know when it began, but probably a sign of getting old 😂 I get nasty burps every time I take my codliver oil capsules now. Solution1 Buy capsules with what they call, an enteric coating on them. (Expensive! Not for me!) or Put your existing bottle in the freezer and pop one an hour before lunch. The combination of cold capsule ingestion, followed by its smothering by food an hour later, has fixed the burps for me! Not a doctor. This ain’t medical advice. Try at your own risk! ↩︎ ...

Stuff for future Jason to take note, when he tries to redo his Huginn instance … I wanted a quick and easy way to install it, without messing up my base system much, so I chose the Docker route. Now, I don’t know the A or D of Docker, so these quick notes for me to remember in the future. I need to install Docker rootless, and bring it up as a systemd service. If I want persistent data, I should create a Docker volume. Create an env file to hold all the secrets that I want to pass to the container I need to run and create my huggins instance first, give it a name, pass the env file and also remembering to mount the volume at the place I need I can then start and stop the image with the name I assigned it. I need to then tag the image with a policy to restart automatically So everytime Docker comes up, it will start the container automatically. P.S. Subscribe to my mailing list! Forward these posts and letters to your friends and get them to subscribe! P.P.S. Feed my insatiable reading habit. ...