blog // ~ben

a blog about tildes and other things

networking nonsense

February 11, 2019 — ~ben

i've recently been working on setting up drone ci on the tilde.team machine. however, there's been something strange going on with the networking on there.

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thought of the day

November 27, 2017 — ben

why do they tell us to use the stairs in case of fire? shouldn't we be using a fire extinguisher?

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thought of the day

December 03, 2017 — ben

everything in the universe either is or isn't a potato.

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Thought of the Day

November 27, 2017 — ben

“Arguing with religious people – It’s like playing chess with a pigeon; no matter how good I am at chess, the pigeon is just going to knock over the pieces, crap on the board and strut around victorious” – Anonymous

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thought of the day

November 27, 2017 — ben

wherever you go, there you are

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Thought of the day

November 27, 2017 — ben

things are not what they appear to be. nor are they otherwise.

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tilde.team news

June 13, 2018 — ~ben

hey hi hello!

it seems that i haven't written anything on my blog in quite a while...

time to fix that! i've been quite busy in the last month or so with a lot of new ideas an energy for tilde.team.

after rediscovering my account on tilde.town, i hopped in the irc there and my enthusiasm translated into a couple new members over here on the ~team.

our irc has been somewhat more active recently which is awesome:)

some of the new updates in the last month:

i'd like to make use of our new mailserver, so shoot me some mail. i never get enough personal mail. it's all still privacy policy update notices. :(

see you soon!

tags: tilde, sysadmin

tildeverse.org

July 15, 2018 — ~ben

since the last time i wrote a post here, i've registered the tildeverse.org domain and started moving some services over that were already intended for tildeverse use.

among those are gitea and the new link aggregator (which runs the same source as lobste.rs).

i've also started a phlog in my gopherhole with ~tomasino's new burrow gopherhole tool!

i'll try to post a bit more often too with updates from the tildeverse!

Tags: tilde, internet, links, git

upsides of new dns nameservers

August 14, 2018 — ~ben
  • no more google
  • no more google
  • automated certbot validation for letsencrypt wildcard certs!! no more manual TXT records every three months!

tags: dns, linux, tilde

utterances

September 05, 2018 — ~ben

i somehow stumbled upon utterances today at lunch. (i think someone had it forked on their github page).

no matter how i found it, i still decided to add it to my blog here with bashblog. utterances is a commenting system that leverages github issues. so, for example a comment on a post shows up on github like this.

now we just need to figure out if it can be pointed at a gitea instance like tildegit. might be time for a PR!

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