“One minute to midnight
One minute to go
One minute to say good-bye
Before we say hello
[…]
Let’s watch the old year die
With a fond good-bye
And our hopes as high
As a kite”
— Bing Crosby, Let’s Start the New Year Right
This blogpost is about some computer related things I did in 2017 and also includes some general blog related aspects:
- 2017 began very good. I registered my shiny new domain “www.parobalth.org” and managed to setup https with Let’s encrypt. I also moved this blog from github user pages to my new hosting provider nearlyfreespeech.
- I installed Debian on my new libreboot T400 laptop.
- I managed to install Debian Stretch on my NextThing C.h.i.p. There are two relevant email-threads about it. One on the arm-netbook mailing list and one on the debian-arm mailing list. I still owe a proper write up for the Debian Wiki.
- In 2016 I backed Runcible kickstarter. My reward still is not here and is heavily delayed (more than a year). I am unhappy about it.
- In 2016 I backed EOMA68 kickstarter. Production of the Computer Cards is delayed.. As there are very good reasons for the delay I am fine with it and still very excited about the project.
- I am still a mutt user and like it a lot.
- I started to use pass as my main password store. It works great and neatly fits into my command line habits.
- I still read my RSS-feeds with tiny tiny rss on a shared hosting server. With my new libreboot T400 laptop tiny tiny rss loads much faster than on my netbook so I am using newsbeuter less.
- I used VimFX heavily during 2017 and am now a convinced user. I don’t miss Pentadactyl at all.
- In 2016 I started a journal as a soup.io group for testing purposes. Then Soup.io went dead for a few weeks. All my journal data and my account data has been lost. This is a reminder to not invest to much time and energy in services you don’t control. At least you should be able to locally backup your data.
- I ordered a serial-to-usb converter cable from ThinkPenguin and a TPE-N150USB wifi adapter.
- I started to explore linux-sunxi and how to compile u-boot and the linux kernel (armhf).
- Vim: Mapped “jk” in insert mode as Escape sequence and already miss it on my other computers.
- After my GIF screencast how-to-post in 2016 I created two GIFS in 2017 for my Keyboard shortcut to hide and unhide an autohidden panel post
- In 2017 I wrote some decent blogposts (for example: Redshirts book review, Keyboard shortcut to hide and unhide an autohidden panel or Book review: Manage your day-to-day)
- I am still behind with a lot of drafts, ideas and projects. Let us hope the best for 2018! :)
Hosting¶
- I am very satisfied with nearlyfreespeech as a webhost and can recommend it! Please read their FAQ and see if it fits your skills and needs.
Traffic and Feedback¶
- Traffic was quite low.
- Feedback was almost non existent. I only got one hilarious (spam?!) message about my post Thoughts on NextThing C.h.i.p. where I quote Eric S. Raymonds “How to become a Hacker”.
Hi,
I noticed you are mentioning hacking on your page here:
parobalth.org/chip-thoughts.htmlI thought your users would benefit from learning more on the history of hacking and how it evolved. There is a great resource here below on the 20 biggest hacking attacks the world has seen:
(some random link, looking fishy so I removed it)I’m sure your users would appreciate if you share this resource as well on your page.
In hope for a more secured net.
Thanks in advance,
Caroline
Summary¶
To sum it up I believe it was a decent year hard- and software wise. Still I am quite happy what I managed to do this year. Everything else is cancelled and postponed for 2018. 2017 is over.
I still have a lot of drafts, ideas and (unfinished) projects for 2018. Stay tuned and Happy New Year!
If you have any questions, suggestions, thoughts and comments please feel free to email me.
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