The EPIC first post
So here is my first post. the end … Ok, so maybe I’ll make it a little longer than that. Sometimes I get too used to limiting my words to 140 characters (i.e. identica). Beware of the impending...
View Article…Now with Muppy
OK I’m just like anyone else, I don’t have alot of time to do much of the things I want to do. There’s always something that needs and/or has to be done. (actually, it’d probably be more truthful to...
View ArticleExtremely Long Post Asking for !Whird Design Feedback
I’ve been spending some free time lately, playing with the design of my blog here. As stated in my about page, this is my playground and play I will do as I learn more about webpage design. Of course,...
View ArticleUpcoming Changes for jpope dot org
I’ve recently been playing around with different blogging/website platforms to see what other options are out there for me to use. Currently, jpope dot org is mostly a combination of Whird, Gallery3...
View ArticleThe End is The Beginning
EDIT: If you are reading this now then, the transition was successful. This is the last blog post from my Whird install, I’m deploying my Drupal base later today. I’ve got all my previous posts (and...
View ArticleThe EPIC first post – Revisited
Many, many moons ago, I wrote my first blog post on my newly installed Whird powered blog with no real idea of why I wanted a blog in the first place. I think that I mostly just wanted a place to...
View ArticlePhone Stand
I was sitting here at my desk earlier, my phone was sitting on it's wireless charger and I got a text. While it's on the wireless charger, it's parallel to the desktop which makes it somewhat a pain in...
View ArticleRegions
I recently tried playing a DVD on my somewhat new laptop to no avail. Was the first time since I got this laptop that I even tried. Hell, the shitdows8 install that was on here when I bought the laptop...
View ArticleScript for mysql backups
Here is my quick mysql backup script that I have used for a couple of years. Posting it here for reference sake... #!/bin/bash ## if run daily (say, via cron) you will end up with a tar file that...
View ArticleNow with Bitmessage
I'm (just now) checking out bitmessage. Seems pretty cool and really damn easy to use. As usual when installing new things, I consulted the Arch wiki first and installed the pybitmessage-git package...
View ArticleSo does everyone else
I ran to the grocery store after work to grab a couple of things. My wife wanted a bag of ice so, that was on the list. I get the few items that I needed and paid for my stuff, ice included. Once I got...
View ArticleStartSSL SHA256 Certs
This is mostly a FYI (and for myself to remember) post. If you use StartSSL to provide your certs (the free certs, class1), you may want (at least eventually) to update your StartSSL intermediate certs...
View ArticleI rock
A couple of nights ago, after having a couple of beers, I found myself messing around on namecheap.com. I came across a domain that I just had to get. "Damn you namecheap." As I didn't have a plan for...
View ArticleFastmail Roundcube connection settings
Years ago, when I first started using Fastmail for my email provider, I had set up Roundcube to access the account. At the time, I had used Postfix for the actual connection. Sometime between then and...
View ArticleDiaspora* Too many open files
For a little while, I have occasionally noticed that my pod will not send emails out when it's supposed to. If I navigated to the Sidekiq monitor in the admin area, and reprocessed all of the Dead jobs...
View ArticlePosting to Diaspora* via API
In the land if Diaspora*, the news of the work being done on the API yesterday was huge. The lack of a proper API has been a thorn in the side of many people. But, it's finally happening, the API is on...
View ArticlePodwrapper v1.5.1 (...errr make that v1.5.2)
EDIT: I found a bug and fixed it with v1.5.2, the links below have been changed to point to the new version. I released v1.5.1 v1.5.2 of my podwrapper script and until the WIP D* API is further along,...
View ArticlePlugging the pumps - BashScriptVille Part III
Crossposted from my soon-not-to-be-existing pump: link I think the time has just about come for me to shut my personal pump down (io.jpope.org). I'll likely migrate back to my pump.jpope.org account...
View ArticleCork
The pumps have been plugged. If you were a user of pump.jpope.org and you'd like to have your data, let me know. I have all the data in an archive but, will be sending it to /dev/null in the near...
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