Hello everyone, felt like posting and here I am. Posting.
I wanted to talk a little to reflect on recent happenings. Normally I'd shove this in my diaryfile but I felt it'd be better to put these into the world instead.
Recently I contributed to chawan, which was a
good learning experience. Not only did I learn a little of nim, which I'm
growing to like, but I also learned how to submit patches via email using git.
I'm still a novice at it, but I generally liked the workflow. I'm unsure if it's
good practice to include the git diff stuff in the mail as I feel it crowds it
a little, but I didn't get any complaints. This was actually the first time I've
contributed to a project that wasn't my own. It felt good, generally speaking.
Speaking of that project, I'm actually leaning towards using it for most of my
browsing activities. Don't get me wrong, lynx is still a favorite of mine, and
a good backup browser if the CSS layout capabilities of chawan lead it astray.
Sometimes with packed <table>s it can get pretty hairy with chawan, so I find
myself going back to lynx with it's less-than-stellar table rendering. At
least I can read it there tough ;).
Also recently, I've fixed an issue I've been meaning to do forever, and that's fix the email for wiki.tailsgetstrolled.org. Previously we had SMTP and the like set up on the machine for TGT, but had some issues with spammers because I don't know my way around Postfix that much. So I decided to nuke Postfix from orbit, and haven't had a competent fix since. Over the weekend I decided to fix this issue, so delved into the wonderful world of TXT DNS records.
Currently, if you look at the TXT records for tailsgetstrolled.org, you'll find:
tailsgetstrolled.org. 300 IN TXT "v=spf1 include:commodorian.org -all"
Likewise, if you look at commodorian.org:
commodorian.org. 300 IN TXT "v=spf1 mx -all"
All this magic makes it so I can send emails from wiki@tailsgetstrolled.org out of the OpenSMTPD daemon on this website. Took me a minute to figure that one out.
Anyway, that's about it for the moment. I'm slowly working towards a more object-based way of handling the backend code for TGT, which I hope to make polished enough to release. Hopefully by that point I can offer hosting for other webcomics, as I find it a gross landscape to navigate at the moment. The current hosting sites don't impress me.
Best,
Commodorian
P.S. Email me! I'm always available.