Just Some Place

As per the title of this post, I've got this feeling that there is just way too much noise going on my head currently.

It's getting difficult to try and filter some of the extra details out that I would like to de-prioritize. I used to be better at this sort of thing.

I've got a site that I would like to re-launch. Oddly enough, it's the very one that I'm writing on at this point in time - one of the handful of domains that I have. One of the issues that I've got to get worked out on my own is trying to talk myself into downsizing a few of these. I don't need them. But then, for some reason when I'm on my work machine, using the work provided vpn, the domain name that I'd really like to use for my personal blog is unable to be resolved. It's been that way since they upgraded the vpn app, and it's very annoying. That does put a bit of a damper on being able to easily update things.

My main personal blog will now, once again, be published by way of emacs and org-mode, using a fork of a fork of org-static-blog. Template modifications have been made, org-social integration has been added (from the mainline org-static-blog, into my forked version), along with a small handful of other changes related to how the indexes are built. I'm actually kind of happy with how it's turned out. I'll probably never write an actual colophon, nor write up one of the "how I built this blog" posts. Just not something I feel is necessary.

I have been able to utilize my not-quite-self-hosted forgejo instance and docker-in-docker for a runner, so I can at least have a fresh emacs instance build the site and push it out to where it lives. Where does it live? Well, currently it's on uberspace and works really well. Besides the previously mentioned inability for the dns name resolution from the work vpn. Sigh. The only thing that I've yet to get sorted out is having the workflow properly use the imagemagick convert binary to build the open graph images. But that's not a huge problem. The old "it works on my machine", but not "their machine" issue.

There are some professional development things that I need to do. For one, I would like to continue my journey into common lisp. I've gotten quite a ways into one of the books and really need to move on.

I know there is more, and heck knows that my list of opened tabs spread throughout all of my browser sessions can attest to that. But right now, it's tough to keep track and my memory just is not what it used to be.

Oh, on a side note tangent kind of deal, this will also be an excellent test for feedecho from the new blog.