When I installed Fedora on my new machine about a month ago, I chose the GNOME desktop environment to go with it. I’m no GNOME hater and I actually quite enjoy a lot of its design choices, but the more I used it the more I tried to turn it into something it’s not. Ultimately, I don’t think GNOME is compatible with...

Finally got myself a new laptop: a second-hand ThinkPad T470 that I bought for a really good price. It’s in excellent shape and the seller sent it with a RAM upgrade and a 256GB NVMe SSD that I replaced with a 1TB stick. Not bad at all. Of course I’ve heard a million people wax poetic about the build quality and...

Tem algo profundamente malicioso neste filme que permeia toda e qualquer cena no que parece ser um exercício de 117 minutos em metaforização exagerada. “Este apartamento fede,” diz a adolescente mais caricata da história. Bom, considerando que o Darren Aronofsky cagou nele todo, com certeza tem algo de ruim no ar....

I am fairly certain absolutely no one is subscribed to my RSS but just in case there is such a person in this world: I apologize for the recent influx of posts on your feed. Something I’ve been mulling over is the fact that I take making blog posts way too seriously. That’s half the reason why I created a space...

This is an extremely short post and more of a PSA than anything but: I have decided to migrate from Neocities to Codeberg Pages. I setup a simple redirection system within Hugo before deploying my website there one last time and will be deleting my account in a couple weeks. The reason? Well, it’s a bit silly but...

I had previously mentioned the script I use to build and deploy my Hugo website. Among other things, it checked if a public folder existed in a determined path and proceeded to delete it with rm -rf. That works fine and it’s not much of a hassle but I just found out that Hugo already has an option that does that....

Listen, I swear I meant to post this months ago. This has stayed as a draft for ages and I kept putting it off until its unfinished state did nothing but mock me. But here we are regardless, and this is another blog post where I reminisce about the things that have kept me good company over the months. § Repetition...

Despite my saying I was too lazy to get into Bash scripting I actually moved away from Batch and rewrote the script I use to build and deploy this website: #!/bin/bash workDir="/path/to/working/directory" hugoDir="/path/to/working/directory/hugo" publicDir="/path/to/working/directory/public" checkFail() { if [ $?...

Yes, yes, I know. I spend more time writing about the behind-the-scenes of this website than anything else. I did say this was a personal project but I’m also aware I’m far too invested in tweaking and redesigning things, thinking and rethinking them without moderation. At the end of the day I’m having fun with...

My phone has been struggling lately. It’s a 5+ year old device from an obscure manufacturer that was already classed as low-end when I bought it. And that’s fine by me! It serves me well and, save for its disappointing battery life, does everything I need it to. But it’s been sluggish for a while now, to the point...

Update (Jan 17, 2023): I no longer use JavaScript on this website. For a while I had a “now listening” widget on the homepage that displayed the song I last listened/was currently listening to by fetching data from my Last.fm account. The script I was using worked just fine but relied on jQuery, meaning I had to...

I’ve been looking into this site’s CSS and thinking of ways of improving its efficiency; I’m especially struggling with making it DRY. It’s not like I have some super complex and professional styling going on here but the behind the scenes of this thing is as much a personal project as the actual content on it. What...