So I wanted to write this post as a record of my troubleshooting process for a set of very strange problems with a Dell Wyse 5070. It’s as long and rambling as the troubleshooting process was, but if you’re into this sort of thing I hope you’ll find some value in the process of talking through it all. This is my second time dealing with UEFI issues, and I feel like I learned a lot and found some cool new tools along the way.
On several occasions during my brief stint with Gnome, I went to look up how to accomplish some seemingly basic task only to find threads going back six years saying things like “Gnome really needs a way to adjust touchpad scroll speed!” followed by threads from every subsequent year asking “How is there still no way to adjust touchpad scroll speed?!”
Warp Riders was probably my album of the year in - I don’t know - 2018? It’s good!
The Sword’s particular mythical metal style from their prior albums is on full display here, though you can hear hints of their future turn to more bluesy Appalachian rock blowing in on the wind.
With the album art calling back to AD&D book covers (and maybe a touch of Roger Dean), there’s just enough world hinted at in this album to really fascinate me. Dragonfly mounts, a tidally locked planet, space pirates, orbs, a time loop. What’s not to love?
| Recommended BGM: | Shape Memory Alloys |
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Inspiration struck me the other day and I created a mockup of what I think I want this site to look like eventually. That’ll be the subject of a later post, but for now I’ve got a lot of learning to do if I ever want to reach that goal.
That led to me doing a bit of poking around for a good tutorial on how to make Hugo themes, and I ended up spending maybe an hour today following this tutorial on how to make a Hugo theme from scratch by Keith Peters. It’s been extremely helpful in understanding exactly how themes get put together. I’ve completed two out of the four parts so far, and the tutorial recommended that was a good point to take a break at, so I heeded that and called it good for the day.
So I went to update the site the other day and Neocities threw a “file name too long” error on one of the CSS files generated by my Hugo theme. Had something to do with the CSS being digitally signed. I was annoyed, because I really didn’t think it seemed necessary, but Justin reminded me it was probably to prevent cross-site CSS injection attacks, so fair game.
Anyway, after fumbling around inside the theme directory for an hour and a half trying to figure out how to influence that output in any way, I gave up and posted an issue on the theme’s Github page. I didn’t have high hopes, but I’ll be damned the author was both really nice and patched the problem out within twelve hours.
| Game (Year) | Metal Storm (1990) |
| Platform | NES |
| Developer | Tamtex |
| Publisher | Irem |
| Time to beat | An hour or two |
| Cheats | Infinite lives, savestates in the boss rush |
| Fun Factor | Clever and a little cute |
I recently beat Metal Storm, a little run and gun platformer on the NES.
You’re in a cute little mech, you run to the right. You shoot robots. There’s a cool gravity flip mechanic. What more could you need?
Up and running with Hugo. it’s a little less streamlined than I expected, but it makes enough sense to get me up and running. Did a little test with 11ty as well, but it just didn’t click with me as smoothly. Mostly because Hugo seems to make it relatively easy to install and change themes.
I also got an NGINX container somewhat up and running. It’s reverse proxying which is about all I want to do for the time being. For now I’m just going to copy the site manually to neocities until I get a proper workflow going some time in the next few weeks.
Up and running with Hugo. it’s a little less streamlined than I expected, but it makes enough sense to get me up and running. Did a little test with 11ty as well, but it just didn’t click with me as smoothly. Mostly because Hugo seems to make it relatively easy to install and change themes.
Hello, World!