# description = Recent 25 posts only; Full feed below; More info: https://mckinley.cc/twtxt/ # url = https://mckinley.cc/twtxt.txt # nick = mckinley 2024-01-11T23:46:47-08:00 A word of advice: Never swing and grind at the same time. 2024-01-15T16:02:10-08:00 Zoom (2001) is Jeff Lynne's ELO before ELO was "Jeff Lynne's". There are some great songs on there. It's a shame the sound is so awful. 2024-01-31T17:16:30-08:00 Canada + Cryptocurrency = Ehthereum: https://neal.fun/infinite-craft/ 2024-02-04T23:44:50-08:00 Pro tip: Don't run out of space on Btrfs. 2024-02-09T14:45:45-08:00 Trying out Flexo, a caching proxy for Pacman: https://github.com/nroi/flexo 2024-02-11T20:20:12-08:00 KTeaTime: A customizable tea steeping timer application from the KDE project: https://apps.kde.org/kteatime/ 2024-02-14T13:12:06-08:00 Spring cleaning came early at McKinley Labs. I just removed 475 unnecessary packages from my laptop totaling ~3GiB. Not bad. 2024-02-15T19:03:17-08:00 TRIM on Btrfs on LUKS on a sparse disk image served with NBD actually works. I love free software. 2024-02-20T00:00:37-08:00 Since install, Flexo has saved ~417 MiB of bandwidth, or 21.7% of my total package downloads in that time. 2024-02-20T13:39:04-08:00 My hacky shell pipeline was flawed. Flexo actually saved ~689 MiB of bandwidth, or 35.7% of my total package downloads. 2024-02-23T14:08:41-08:00 Why Monero: https://benkaiser.dev/why-monero/ 2024-02-24T12:38:38-08:00 Playing with Wireguard and network namespaces today. Resisting the urge to redo my server. 2024-03-01T17:19:53-08:00 BunsenLabs is just a delightful distribution. 2024-03-07T14:51:41-08:00 Finally broke down and installed Pipewire. Bare ALSA is only good if you only use one physical sound card ever. Don't even try Bluetooth. 2024-03-14T10:42:47-07:00 https://github.com/lwthiker/curl-impersonate added support for Edge and Safari a while ago and I didn't realize. Very cool! 2024-03-24T11:15:02-07:00 Come on guys, can't we just do IPv6 already? 2024-04-19T20:02:09-07:00 The mystery airship phenomenon of the late 1890s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery_airship 2024-05-01T20:03:29-07:00 Come on guys, can't we just do Btrfs RAID5/6 already? 2024-05-04T13:14:03-07:00 I'm starting to embrace containers on my PC for software I want to use once without littering my home folder with junk files. It's nice. 2024-05-07T14:00:04-07:00 Viddy, a modern watch(1) alternative with paging, visual diffs, and history: https://github.com/sachaos/viddy 2024-05-11T14:42:02-07:00 Garage, an "open-source distributed object storage service tailored for self-hosting": https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr/ 2024-05-11T15:21:03-07:00 The IBM PC110 (486 palmtop) hosting this website reached 3 years of uptime a couple weeks ago. Impressive! http://pc110.yyzkevin.com/ 2024-05-14T21:48:55-07:00 RIP LocalMonero. You will be missed. 2024-05-20T10:51:09-07:00 Today's project: Put 2 failing hard drives in RAID 0 and boot from it. What could go wrong? 2024-07-01T10:18:22-07:00 Another minor inconvenience could have been avoided by reading the Arch Linux news feed before upgrading.