Recent twtxt posts: (Latest first)

• Love was changing the minds of pretenders...
• Play the sounds of a buckling spring keyboard as you type: https://github.com/zevv/bucklespring
• First try!
• If you're reading this, this is my first automated twt. I added a line to twtxt.txt, typed 'make', and everything else was automatic.
• The Ladybird XHTML bug is fixed. index.xhtml and blog/index.xhtml are now generated with a Makefile, XSLT, and a bit of Python. Feels good!

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Aventon May Have Slowed Down Your Electric Bike With an App Update - August 15th, 2023

A couple years ago, I purchased an Aventon Level e-bike. It's been excellent and I can't recommend electric bikes enough. They're a great way to get around town and get a little exercise as you do. However, I learned a couple of things about Aventon today that I would like to share.

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XML: The Future (of mckinley.cc) - June 3rd, 2023

My entire website is now valid XHTML 1.1. Why? More on that later. I've been wanting to do it for a while, but Ladybird crashed if you tried to feed it XHTML. Yesterday, I realized that's no longer the case, and began work on the migration. It took 13 Git commits, a push to live, some fiddling around with .htaccess on the live server after I broke everything, another commit, and one final push before I realized that Ladybird was no longer applying my CSS.

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Rebooting a LUKS Encrypted System Without Typing The Passphrase - May 26th, 2023

I like to encrypt everything. Since almost all modern processors have hardware support for AES, there's almost no downside to encrypting every storage device you own. One potential downside on a headless system, however, is having to type in a passphrase on boot. Today, we're going to mitigate this without compromising our root partition.

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