Its been a little while since my last post, but thats because I've been busy (shocker!).

I have pretty much been preoccupied with figuring out the details of my upcoming business trip to central Europe and making arrangements related to that. I'm not really good with planning stuff ahead, so it just ended up like everything else I ever plan in advance, just an ominous date hanging somewhere far in the future reminding me of the inevitability of some event and distracting me from functioning normally lmao. I heard its a neurodivergent people thing.

Now that its spring, and the weather is no longer cold the locals have been waking up from hibernation and making more orders. That means that I'm back to running my business more actively than not, and that also has to be attended to. On the bright side I resolved the pending question with the tax authority and I don't owe anybody any money, so thats bretty good, 10/10 ebin :D 🇫🇮

I've also been trying to organize my piles of junk that accumulated during winter and sort out some IRL and hardware projects that have been left to rot while it was too dark and cold to work on them. There are some pretty cool things that are on the operating table so to say, but all of them are pretty labor intensive so I can't really breeze through them but I'll hopefully be working on them regularly once I am back from Europe.

In regards to software most of my time that I allocate to coding has been taken up by ze.wtf. The site has initially been lying dormant after the rewrite but now that the powers that be picked up on teh fact that its back online I've been trying to filter over 2k visits a day and keep the site secure and online. Thankfully most the users are tech savvy and happy to report the bugs they find (big ups). I have been mucking around with static hosting just for fun, and mostly figured out how to let people host their own websites on subdomains from within the site. When I have more time I wanna add custom domains and all that extra fancy junk, but for now I am just keeping an eye on the logs since I've made the site's code public on GitHub. If you're interested in using the site, just ask a registered member for an invite or contact me on Discord.

I have also been thinking a bit more about my personal site (this one), prompted by a few discussions I had with friends. While it works, its kinda bare, and adding any new feature requires a bit more extra effort than you would typically expect because the codebase is based heavily off my original Neocities-Flask implementation and is therefore crummy because I made that thing back when I knew zilch about Python. Now that I have cut my teeth with a real production service I want to explore my options and rewrite the site from the ground up in a different language. I considered Rust, Zig, Hare and Go for this task since I'd rather learn a few more things than just Python and JS and ultimately I think Go wins. Its nice and simple and hosting it on my server is trivial compared to Python for example.

Speaking of servers, hosting a few active websites that people visit has given me an idea to upgrade the hardware. While my old Poweredge T420 works just fine, I'd like to move to a more modern platform because then I get a lot more upgrade options, as well as extra performance (duh). I am picking up a Threadripper system this Friday, and after I am back from the trip I will be integrating the system into one of the fullheight server racks I have wasting space at home. I have some nice enterprise hardware that I plan to leverage for extra security and reliability, so that will be exciting to set up and get working. I also hope to revive the NAS machine I parted last year to build a system for a client and use it again since that will give me a LOT of extra disk space to play around with.

I have also been messing around with video and photography again, since I finally got the parts and mounting hardware I needed for my GoPro and Canon cameras so I may look into sharing some cool stuff I make. Not quite sure how that will be setup. I have a booru for my art, but that feels a bit awkward to use for photos and videos, so maybe I'll just make a YT channel or something, I dont know yet. We'll see.

Theres probably a bunch more random stuff I have missed, since it has been quite an eventful few weeks but I'll get to those when and if they need to be discussed lmao. For now just wait and hang around to see if I come up with something cool.

Deuces.

PS: thanks for shouting at me, its engaging