I’m not an expert on any of the stuff I write about, so please take everything with a cellar of salt. If you notice anything wrong or misleading, please send me an email.
I discovered Pushover while working on my home server, and trying to find a way to send myself notifications about its status on my phone. It’s awesome.
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I’m a self admitted data hoarder. If it’s useless, hidden behind a confusing mess of directories, and will take an age to sort through, I’m storing it on a giant hard drive. I was inspired by Luke Smith’s video on neomutt to take my mail offline, which lead into a deep dark rabbit hole that I never really returned from.
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IPv4 address exhaustion is coming for all of us. If you live in a block of flats, terraced housing, anarchist commune, or any type of high-density accommodation you might find that you share a public IPv4 with your neighbours. This can make hosting your own server difficult, but not impossible.
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Years ago I simulated a pendulum for the site that was originally at this domain. I, not knowing better, used Newtonian mechanics; modelling all the forces applied to the bob, and then a very primitive forward-difference method to propagate the system in time. This worked better than you would think, in the end the pendulum looked pretty good. The code was messy, though. I had to constantly bump the bob back into a fixed radius of the anchor, since errors (floating point, forward-difference approximation) would cause the bar connecting them to telescope outwards.
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Pretty self explanatory. Here’s a long list of some of the coolest places online. I really wish I’d known about a lot of these earlier. I’ve tried to focus on sites that might be a bit more obscure, leaving out the really obvious ones that we all use often. It’s a bit of an eclectic, self-indulgent set, but I think all these sites are worth knowing about so… in no particular order:
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The last post completely ignored the actual animation my homepage is running… mostly because I wanted to focus on the general idea rather than my implementation. However, boids are pretty interesting, and maybe simpler than they look, so I thought I’d write about how I set them up.
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While designing this site, I thought it would look cool to create an animated background for the homepage, and maybe some other pages (pending). I always felt that Processing was a nice way to write graphics, and was pretty excited to find a JavaScript library, p5js, that seemed to function in practically the same way.
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Hi. I was a Physics student in London, now unemployed and travelling around New Zealand. I’m interested in Unix/Linux, terminal-centric workflows, vim and FOSS in general. Mainly, I write in Python, but I’m interested in Rust, functional languages like Haskell, and shellscript. Take a look at my Github, or email me if you want to get in contact: