I nearly did not notice the day, but it has now been one year since I moved into my new apartment.
For the first year I was in Fukuoka, I was in an apartment provided via a contract with my Japanese school. After my school year was up, I needed to find new accommodations. A classmate was moving out around the same time and recommend their old place which worked out great since it was the same management company as my initial apartment which made all the paperwork easy.
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One of the things that has been nice about the recent interest in Mastodon, is the idea that each account has a built in RSS feed. RSS is great for subscribing to one type of information, but what about more software adding more calendar feeds?
My day typically involves too much context switching, but being able to put various bits of information in my calendar helps when I attempt to make a plan for the day.
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I’ve been using hugo for my blog for a while, and while I appreciate being able to write posts in anything that supports Markdown, I’ve never enjoyed making sense of their template system. My site curently uses a fork of hugo-bootstrap (to fix minor bugs) with some other customizations from hugo-worklog that I wrote.
Ideally I would like a system where I can use django for the site, but maintain the same editing flow I have for my current site.
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Eight Years As of the end of last month, I’ve been in Japan for 8 years. Depending on my mood at the time, that sometimes seems like a short time and sometimes seems like a long time. I was only in San Francisco for a bit over 7 years so Japan is now where I’ve lived the longest outside of my family home.
The biggest changes from last year involve moving into a new place and adopting two cats.
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After experimenting the other day, I continued thinking about better ways to solve my analytics problem. I did not really want to run a separate fluentd instance in a container just to use out_exec but I wanted to use same functionality. I decided to take an afternoon and see how difficult it would be to create a go output plugin and built fluent-bit-exec_out .
graph LR nginx ---> |ltsv.*| fluent-bit fluent-bit --> |sematext.
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I’ve been using the self-hosted version plausible with my blog and development site. It generally works well, but there are times I’d like to have a little bit more customization on the reports. I’m already collecting nginx logs using ltsv and fluent-bit’s tail plugin. Since I have extra time to tinker over my winter break, I’ve been experimenting a bit.
graph LR javascript ----> plausible nginx -->|ltsv| fluent-bit fluent-bit -->|forward| processing processing -.
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Through middle and high school I was in the Boy Scouts. Each Boy Scout Troop is broken up into patrols of several boys. Each patrol has a name, which was often something pretty generic when I was in scouts. Common examples would be animals or creatures like fox patrol, bat patrol, dragon patrol, etc. While sitting around a campfire one evening, a friend commented on how generic some of the names were.
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Quite a long time ago (long enough ago I do not remember the original source) I read a blog post or poll about various folder names on the computer. I recently remembered it and thought about writing it down.
Projects I believe when I was in university, they had us using Eclipse as an IDE to write Java code. By default, Eclipse defaulted to a ~/Projects folder, so for many years that has been my default directory for my own projects.
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Many sites are designed to snare your attention and keep you scrolling for as long as possible. This is often not particularly compatible with taking just a short break. Because so many sites are designed with patterns to hijack your brain, often we need to be proactive about not letting them get the initial hook.
For a while now, I’ve been using DNS to help me out. A few months ago, I started using NextDNS to help me with that.
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I’ve used Namecheap for many years for hosting my DNS. It’s nothing particularly special but it works well enough for my needs. When managing DNS entries it can sometimes be a little annoying doing everything on their web page. I’d rather be able to script something. After thinking about it for a while, I finally created something.
Namecheap’s API is implemented in XML which makes parts of it feel a bit old, but our use case is fairly simple.
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Apartment Year One