# Brain Junkyard

Brain Junkyard

Here will be a collection of passing, random and not at all important thoughts that enter my brain.


Mon 16 Oct 2023 16:03 BST

ill give it five more issues then im switching


Mon 16 Oct 2023 16:03 BST

and i know theres a similar thing in debian. i just cba reinstalling all my tools again


Mon 16 Oct 2023 16:02 BST

man i need to swtich off manjaro, mirrors keep messing up. maybe time for debian? i like my aur and its weird and wonderful useful packages tho


Tue 29 Aug 2023 12:38 BST

gone through the effort of using casaos on my rpi4 8gb to make a makeshift nas, its great!


Fri 04 Aug 2023 15:40 BST

fixes, fixes, fixes...


Sun 16 Jul 2023 18:39 BST

blog is back!


Sun 16 Jul 2023 18:20 BST

started using doom emacs!


Tue 13 Jun 2023 11:16 BST

fixed pub key shite, for some reason something messed it up MONTHS ago and now ONE SINGLE COMMAND fixed it ahaha


Wed 31 May 2023 13:01 BST

nope


Sat 27 May 2023 17:41 BST

imagine being a twat


Thu 09 Feb 2023 12:00 GMT

so all subdomains were broken for ages because of NO JOKE one line in EVERY config file


Sun 04 Dec 2022 12:07 GMT

nothing works anymore lmaooooo


Sat 01 Oct 2022 12:18 BST

i may have bought myself a steam deck...


Fri 30 Sep 2022 12:34 BST

phew, had a scare with all my certificates not working! Now I've got a better system. I should have set this vps up with Caddy and not nginx...


Fri 16 Sep 2022 21:08 BST

developing more tools in go!


Fri 16 Sep 2022 13:14 BST

all good now lol, will slowly add more repos back when needed


Fri 16 Sep 2022 13:06 BST

finally moved gitea to a docker container, i like the fact that go builds to one executable - but having a docker container basically means i cant mess anything up!


Fri 16 Sep 2022 12:49 BST

i broke my installation of gitea whoops


Fri 02 Sep 2022 13:37 BST

new colour scheme?


Wed 31 Aug 2022 23:07 BST

started playing mtg!


Mon 25 Jul 2022 12:07 BST

finally getting around to making my go-weather program much more readable and easier to manage


Thu 07 Jul 2022 17:35 BST

might do a blog post on my unicomp model m keyboard


Mon 27 Jun 2022 14:01 BST

the model m has arrived and i loooveee it


Sat 25 Jun 2022 23:04 BST

i finally caved and bought a unicomp model m!


Thu 09 Jun 2022 10:52 BST

one week in bordeaux was lovely!


Fri 27 May 2022 15:14 BST

oh and all the borderlands mods as well, just amazing work to keep games alive


Fri 27 May 2022 15:11 BST

the ultra mod for nuclear throne is the best example of modding a game


Thu 19 May 2022 14:02 BST

ive got a new job in stirling!


Mon 16 May 2022 10:15 BST

i think i love C!


Mon 16 May 2022 10:15 BST

learning C has really improved my abilities as a programmer!


Sun 15 May 2022 20:35 BST

having a great time visiting home!


Tue 10 May 2022 17:43 BST

somethings still seem to work though ahaha


Tue 10 May 2022 17:43 BST

newest version of portainer broke my https nginx stuff :<


Tue 10 May 2022 16:23 BST

i love timelapse footage lol


Mon 09 May 2022 18:02 BST

oh and i did write a blog post on fediverse stuff!


Mon 09 May 2022 18:01 BST

the more i do with Java, the more i dont like it. i much prefer C or Go. shame my entire course is based around java :<


Fri 06 May 2022 10:56 BST

i may write a blog post on the fediverse


Sat 30 Apr 2022 15:01 BST

i have a mastadon account over at linuxrocks.online


Tue 19 Apr 2022 17:35 BST

I have started using ComicCode and i lovee ittt


Tue 19 Apr 2022 10:14 BST

lol just found out about the freedom phone wtf lol


Thu 14 Apr 2022 20:28 BST

spag bowl is over rated


Mon 11 Apr 2022 09:29 BST

gonna micro-log more


Sun 10 Apr 2022 16:17 BST

been learning C on my course and free time, its great!


Mon 21 Mar 2022 11:19 GMT

i have dracula themed almost everything lol (gtk, kitty term, brave, dunst, i3, atom, eclipse)


Mon 21 Feb 2022 14:30 GMT

got my pinetime, its so cool!


Sun 13 Feb 2022 12:05 GMT

got back into programming with Go! making a weather cli application! follow it on my gitea!


Thu 10 Feb 2022 16:55 GMT

might give winapps a wee go at some point in the future!


Sun 30 Jan 2022 15:42 GMT

i should do some more blog writing...


Wed 26 Jan 2022 18:52 GMT

and access the shell of any container! i have one set up for ocaml dev! no need to install throw-away compilers or build env on my main pc, just docker and go!


Wed 26 Jan 2022 18:48 GMT

portainer is now up and running, can manage my docker containers via a web gui anywhere!


Wed 26 Jan 2022 16:43 GMT

getting back into messing with docker and self hosting agaiiinnnnnnn


Tue 25 Jan 2022 13:51 GMT

got wallabag running in a docker container. took like 2 minutes to set up its that easy


Sat 22 Jan 2022 08:43 GMT

back at uni!


Wed 12 Jan 2022 23:49 GMT

set up gotify on my webserver now


Sat 18 Dec 2021 10:23 GMT

thats second year first semester finished. i did horrendously :(


Sun 21 Nov 2021 20:12 GMT

i love this ultrawide set up!


Sat 20 Nov 2021 19:53 GMT

just bought my first ultrawide monitor, 25 inches!!


Sat 13 Nov 2021 15:25 GMT

I think i finally understand databases... to the most basic level...


Tue 09 Nov 2021 11:36 GMT

also pandoc is seriously the best thing ever. convert markdown to epub or slideshow? ODT?


Pandoc Demos!


Tue 09 Nov 2021 11:35 GMT

just discovered :Rg in fzf.vim, i can now text search any of my markdown notes!


Wed 03 Nov 2021 20:11 GMT

pandoc is really good for markdown to pdf conversion


Sat 23 Oct 2021 15:14 BST

replace alacritty from the arch repo with alacritty-ligatures from the AUR, they look so pretty!


Thu 21 Oct 2021 15:46 BST

having to write a python program that both generates a wordsearch and solves wordsearches... got the first part down easily, writing to solve it is really hard :<


Fri 15 Oct 2021 11:18 BST

OpenBSD 7 released!


Thu 14 Oct 2021 12:13 BST

nvim dotfiles here!


Thu 14 Oct 2021 12:12 BST

doing loads with nvim atm, check out my dotfile on the plugins i use!


Wed 13 Oct 2021 21:39 BST

also script to automatically backup to gitea!


Wed 13 Oct 2021 21:38 BST

i have since tinkered with vimwiki, its great for local notes as well as a diary, taskmanager, Markdown reader/editor, links to important files/folders


Mon 11 Oct 2021 15:47 BST

not now though, i gotta lot of work to do lmaoooo


Mon 11 Oct 2021 15:46 BST

might start getting into vimwiki for tasking, general notes and scripts


Sun 10 Oct 2021 17:10 BST

as much as I love arch, the debian community is really nice and I am wondering if its worth swapping over


Sun 10 Oct 2021 12:48 BST

install something that isnt shite


Sun 10 Oct 2021 12:47 BST

if you are still running windows, stop


Thu 07 Oct 2021 14:21 BST

another note taking app I know... buttt I have moved to nextcloud notes for my md notes simply because you cannot access your joplin notes with a client whereas these are webbased!


Wed 06 Oct 2021 19:20 BST

going to start reading The Wizard Of Earthsea!


Sun 03 Oct 2021 12:48 BST

already sold on docker, its awesome


Fri 01 Oct 2021 14:25 BST

got a wordpress docker running in like 2 mins, im liking docker... might move my gitea, jupyter and nextcloud over to them... a lot of effort i imagine


Fri 01 Oct 2021 13:58 BST

playing around with dockers and listening to sadness


Fri 01 Oct 2021 13:06 BST

going to play around with docker today I think


Thu 30 Sep 2021 16:05 BST

i want to self host MORE


Wed 29 Sep 2021 11:53 BST

not sure what the benefit is of hosting a jupyter notebook on my vps. so worried about security lol


Wed 29 Sep 2021 11:50 BST

i might try and get into docker... seems so incredibly useful for just making things. Wanna jupyter notebook? boom one command.


Tue 28 Sep 2021 11:33 BST

HAMSTER BUFFET HAMSTER BUFFET


Mon 27 Sep 2021 10:22 BST

i am 21 today, oh god that feels old


Sun 26 Sep 2021 15:56 BST

finally managed to get my nextcloud instance to use 1GB memory_limit, faster speeds!


Sun 26 Sep 2021 15:51 BST

okay i caved, blog is now accessible to everything lol


Sun 26 Sep 2021 11:16 BST

thinking of making my blogs accessible via https and not just gemini


Sun 26 Sep 2021 10:16 BST

thinking of making my blogs accessible via https and not just gemini


Fri 24 Sep 2021 11:09 BST

still buzzed about getting gitea to work finally


Fri 24 Sep 2021 11:08 BST

learning sql and php as part of my course, its suprisingly kinda fun. working with DBs and manipulating data


Thu 23 Sep 2021 10:34 BST

why did it take me this long to learn git?


Thu 23 Sep 2021 09:07 BST

3rd times a charm with gitea!


Thu 23 Sep 2021 07:29 BST

git.simonkellet.xyz worksgit push scripts.gitgit push scripts.gitgit push scripts.git


Sun 19 Sep 2021 12:30 BST

carnet was good for note taking but Joplin is amazing for uni work!


Fri 17 Sep 2021 11:52 BST

heard a lot of good things about endeavourOS


Fri 17 Sep 2021 10:56 BST

new blog about the steam deck


Thu 16 Sep 2021 20:26 BST

titan quest is free on steam atm till the 23rd! go get it!


Wed 15 Sep 2021 17:27 BST

going to do a write up on how useful nextcloud is after perhaps a week of use?


Tue 14 Sep 2021 13:44 BST

it workslflf!


Tue 14 Sep 2021 11:44 BST

seems easy enough...


Tue 14 Sep 2021 11:44 BST

might try to set up a nextcloud on this server!


Tue 07 Sep 2021 22:39 BST

I finally listened to that album and wrote up a short review + and extra album i've discovered and loved!


Tue 24 Aug 2021 20:18 BST

may do a write up on an record i've been listening to a lot, just need to get through all 2 hours of it!


Sun 15 Aug 2021 21:31 BST

im still here!


Sat 31 Jul 2021 10:57 BST

geforce now is actually really good! I may make a blog post about it!


Sun 25 Jul 2021 23:42 BST

cant seem to get gitea to work :///


Wed 21 Jul 2021 15:57 BST

lol already messed it up...


Wed 21 Jul 2021 15:08 BST

going to set up a gitea service on this website today!


Mon 19 Jul 2021 15:57 BST

bruh this weather!


Fri 16 Jul 2021 21:37 BST

sometimes it takes forever to establish an ssh or rsync connection?!


Fri 16 Jul 2021 21:33 BST

gone 5 weeks without twitter and instagram... i feel so much better


Fri 16 Jul 2021 21:21 BST

for some reason, i am struggling to get connection to my server even if its up?


Wed 14 Jul 2021 21:57 BST

i have started playing dark souls 1 again on the upside


Sun 11 Jul 2021 16:17 BST

might get around to an album review later tonight...


Sun 11 Jul 2021 16:15 BST

Felt like I didn't have enough metal t-shirts, so I bought two more! Leviathan - The Tenth Sub Level of Suicide & Darkthrone - Transilvanian Hunger! :D


Fri 09 Jul 2021 08:08 BST

Blog by E!


Mon 05 Jul 2021 23:17 BST

Audacity is dead, time to fork!


Mon 05 Jul 2021 22:19 BST

who knew that could make windows worse...


Mon 05 Jul 2021 22:19 BST

wow they do be making windows 11 actually suck


Sun 04 Jul 2021 18:18 BST

added some emojis to the website, i think i like them?


Sat 03 Jul 2021 09:01 BST

I can infact make the blog viewable in html... gonna keep some gemini only stuff to promote use for it!


Thu 01 Jul 2021 11:27 BST

also configured my amfora client today to have a dracula colour theme, looks sooo much better


Thu 01 Jul 2021 11:19 BST

omg i've just come across glasgow social's gemini page on a search index, thats actually awesome


Tue 29 Jun 2021 12:23 BST

found a interesting blog about a (mostly) free and open source E-reader, linked below! I may do something like that myself.


Tue 29 Jun 2021 12:22 BST


=> gemini://breadpunk.club/~bagel/kobo_dev.html


Sun 27 Jun 2021 13:18 BST

i've now made a Gemini-only blog! Enjoy!


Sun 27 Jun 2021 13:10 BST

been listening to loads of amazing black metal records, it really is my favourite genre!


Sun 27 Jun 2021 13:06 BST

i've now made a Gemini-only blog! Enjoy!


Sun 27 Jun 2021 11:23 BST

with little power this pi 1 has i might not be able to double it up something else


Sun 27 Jun 2021 11:21 BST

fixing/updating/rewriting a raspberry pi 1 magic mirror i made years ago today


Wed 23 Jun 2021 17:50 BST

love the idea and execution of the app TooGoodToGo, strange how only now someone has come up with the idea...


Sun 20 Jun 2021 20:56 BST

the new Panopticon release could be my top record of 2021, it's perfect!


Sun 20 Jun 2021 20:53 BST

just took a 3 hour nap??? wha???


Sun 20 Jun 2021 17:30 BST

correction: dookie


Sun 20 Jun 2021 17:30 BST

dookioe


Fri 18 Jun 2021 09:08 BST

there is always newpipe tho...


Fri 18 Jun 2021 09:08 BST

pi-hole set up! no yt adblocking however THANKS A LOT GOOGLE >:(


Thu 17 Jun 2021 09:46 BST

setting up a pi-hole at home soon


Fri 11 Jun 2021 09:41 BST

the gemini protocol is actually so amazing i love it


Wed 09 Jun 2021 23:49 BST

changed the header to simonkellet.xyz!


Wed 09 Jun 2021 23:17 BST

this is now hosted on simonkellet.xyz


Tue 08 Jun 2021 21:12 BST

i hate hayfever


Tue 08 Jun 2021 20:09 BST

aj is now a brigitte main


Mon 07 Jun 2021 23:50 BST

sped up rap vocals in jungle/hardcore are soooo good


Mon 07 Jun 2021 22:23 BST

wish i had the domain as my name, gotta explain the whole 6 h's.......


Mon 07 Jun 2021 22:23 BST

as soon as spamhaus ok's my IP, i will have an email server FINALLY


Fri 04 Jun 2021 10:23 BST

now just to recover money-wise lol


Fri 04 Jun 2021 10:07 BST

Road trip down to Bristol, Exeter, Torquay then Ilfracombe was so good that normal life feels boring


Wed 26 May 2021 07:57 BST

I love the Rust language!


Mon 24 May 2021 17:00 BST

book reading and ambient music listening


Sun 23 May 2021 16:43 BST

i am lacking in jazz, soul and 90s hiphop vinyls for someone who loves these genres


Sun 23 May 2021 16:28 BST

this should all be working


Sun 23 May 2021 16:21 BST

testing mirroring gemini files to html!


Sat 22 May 2021 20:46 BST

listening to vinyls :) missed this!


Wed 19 May 2021 09:57 BST

got my first covid vaccine yesterday, arm is a wee bit sore


Sun 16 May 2021 19:46 BST

makin green pepper and black bean sauce with rice


Fri 14 May 2021 09:54 BST

my next laptop, if for some reason this breaks, will defo be a system76 laptop (or just build my own AMD-based desktop


Fri 14 May 2021 08:03 BST

gonna leave the email service and try again later in the future... a bit too messy for me lol


Thu 13 May 2021 23:02 BST

cant even get the nginx 404 error page, no ip found... :<


Thu 13 May 2021 23:02 BST

trying to set up an email on this server, cant get certbot to recognise mail.shhhhhhboo.xyz urgh


Thu 13 May 2021 17:18 BST

Home sweet home.


Thu 13 May 2021 00:03 BST

ethan just got 20 candies omg man i cant I just cant...


Wed 12 May 2021 23:37 BST

hello ethan


Wed 12 May 2021 19:59 BST

last full day in the flat! Glad to be going home :)


Mon 10 May 2021 10:41 BST

Just finished my last exam for the year! 1st year at this time has actually sucked. But hey, next year looks to be better


Mon 10 May 2021 08:37 BST

literally how can anyone use the terminal without vim bindings...


Mon 10 May 2021 08:35 BST

the PinePhone is the perfect phone conceptually, however, still seems far away from 'everyday use' for me... I have hope!


Sun 09 May 2021 22:36 BST

imagine being so unfunny you crash dogecoin


Sun 09 May 2021 22:23 BST

Last Exam for 1st year tomorrow!


Sun 09 May 2021 22:12 BST

This should be the second one


Sun 09 May 2021 22:11 BST

hello?


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