I've been essentially inactive publicly for a couple of years. I'll
have more information in time, but the past couple of years have given
me a lot of time to reflect and redefine parts of myself.
This is step toward surfacing.
Mastodon was far too much load on my server. And while the sever is
just a dinky like 1-vCPU VPS, it shouldn't _need_ any more than that; I
barely use Mastodon and I will not upgrade my server (and incur greater
costs for it).
Pleroma is compatible with Mastodon (based on ActivityPub) and much more
efficient. We'll see how I like it. My account transfer is happening
right now; the fediverse is a wonderful thing. :)
For some more context: Mastodon was fine for years, but after Musk's
takeover of Twitter and increased adoption of Mastodon, my sever became
burdened by all these new instances, despite _my_ use of it being
effectively nothing.
This better describes my experience and responsibilities, though I have
never been particularly comfortable with the term. My manager describes me
as an engineer in my current position anyway.
This website honors the user's default font settings (both to be kind and
for accessibility reasons). Consequently, the responsive layout is based on
character units (ch) rather than pixels.
I didn't originally intend for all of this to be in a single commit. But
here we are. I don't have the time to split these up more cleanly; this
project is taking more time than I originally hoped that it would.
This is a new static site generator. More information to follow in the
near future (hopefully in the form of an article), but repo2html is now
removed. See code comments for additional information; I tried to make it
suitable as a learning resource for others. It is essentially a set of
shell scripts with a fairly robust build for incremental generation.
The site has changed drastically, reflecting that its purpose has changed
over the years: it is now intended for publishing quality works (or at least
I hope), not just a braindump.
This retains most of the text of the original pages verbatim, with the
exception of the About page. Other pages may have their text modified in
commits that follow.
Enhancements to follow in future commits.
Mike Gerwitz