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Switching from pages.sr.ht to nginx on a VPS

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2025-01-28


On the 12th of December 24 I’ve written about switching from hugo to zola and github pages to zola. Now around 1.5 months later I’ve done a further step and changed from having the website hosted on sr.ht pages to hosting it myself on a hetzner server with nginx in a more traditional matter. In the following I’ll outline why and very shortly some words around it.


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2024 in review

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2024-12-31


I never thought to much about years and them ending or starting, but for the first time I retrospectively thought of it having been a good year.

So I might as well start documenting it for myself such that I can reconstruct a timeline of what I did in years and at what points I was later.


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Backup Considerations

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2024-12-30


preface

The last few days I’ve been working and battling with my backups and other recovery devices due to wanting to switch the main nvme drive on my thinkpad t470 that I use daily.

It was a nice way to ensure recoverability of my whole system on imaginable incidents that could happen, such as:

In the following I go through thoughts and the process of what I’ll change now to streamline the system to make it a faster recoverable and more reliant.


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little efforts that make life easier, eventually

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2024-12-29


There were some efforts I’ve done the last years that have repaid multiple times by now, want to mention them here individually and talk some sentences about them.

Order is as follows:

  1. vim
  2. tiling window managers
  3. split keyboards
  4. keyboard layouts
  5. declarative operating systems (nixos)

One last comment before starting, the order is taken from the order in which I stumbeled upon them.


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rewriting the website from hugo to zola

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2024-12-06


Hey, haven’t heard from me in a bit?

Was busy with rewriting this website, living life and taking care of another website project that will probably slowly be merged into this blog.

But in the meantime I spent some time on figuring out zola and using that instead of hugo.

I’ve gotten it recommended and not really getting hugo I thought there is not too much that can go wrong with trying to figure it out, so I did. In the following are some thoughts I had along the way, not just with hugo but also hosting the site.


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Changing the Domain

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2024-04-13


You probably already noticed if you’re here, the domain has changed from https://d-rens.site to https://d-rens.xyz on the 13th april 2024.

Why switching the domain?

I have changed the domain for simple reasons.

  1. Had the domain on namecheap and transfer to porkbun would’ve cost ~$20.
  2. The domain renewal (with .site) also cost $23, after the first year cost $1.96.

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Handwritten Notes

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2024-04-01


preamble

The last few weeks I’ve had to do a lot of learning for mathematics, that means just solving and trying to understand tasks around six hours day (afterwards the brain stops working). But that has brought me to an issue of the notes I’ve taken by hand. So time has come to rethink another part of my workflow.


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Keyboard Layout

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2024-01-23


Step One – Realisation

Having typed all my life on qwerty or qwertz I got used to it. I got into practising typing to gain speed and accuracy, towards the end I averaged around 90 words per minute (wpm) and had a accuracy of >95%.

But at some point I got fed up with it, why did I still use the normal layout? That has no reason for existing any more and that after I have switched to a tiling-window-manager, vim and countless other things, just to get the last seconds off the clock and have the computer do whatever I want it to do as fast as possible.


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Dactyl

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2023-10-10


The Dactyl Experience

A picture taken from above of the finished split keyboard, being on the desk.
figure 1: picture of the finished keyboard

Preface

During the last days and weeks I’ve spend some of my time soldering, configuring and figuring about a dactyl keyboard. Now it is done and I can now type much more ergonimic and better than I could before, in the following I will talk about the process and maybe you can get something out of it :).


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Workflow (2023)

1081 words

2023-07-26


About the setup

The goal of the workflow is to be ever evolving to be more efficient and useful. The main application of it is to write LaTeX documents, manage references, figures, etc. So that one does not need to think about it anymore but has a good experience using it and the optimal output.


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Rss

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2023-07-18


In times of constant notifications, information and news it is hard to keep up with your actual interest.


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