it's kat. she/her
i wrote (citation needed) a PHP script thing that does a check for on demand TLS purposes and it works but like only partly? like there's records in the DB that it 404s on even though. they are very much there. so idk what's up with that but i've worked at this all day i'll leave it at this for now
task tracking in obsidian with the tasks plugin has gone pretty well today. i've completed all but one tasks i had set for today. that makes me really happy
rough day today T__T therapy was hard. i'm trying yet again to establish a routine and stick to it. or at least a way of tracking my tasks and making a routine out of that over time. i really hope it sticks
good morning everyone. before going to bed last night i accidentally password protected the entirety of my biggest site superlove because i botched a refactor of my caddyfile config. lmao
good morning friends. i don't know what i'm gonna do today. perhaps work on my patreon and login wall more personal sites behind authelia that i could offer access to via patreon tier
i am writing a quick little guide on deploying soju/gamja all in docker. because i am bored
is it like... ethical to offer access to certain self hosted services as patreon exclusives. like i wanna offer the IRC client/bouncer i hosted which seems ok i think because i've seen pico.sh offer their instances of that as paid services. but the other ones i have in mind are alt web frontends for stuff like imgur and pinterest. and i just feel weird about it for some reason. idk i'm trying to think of ways to support my server stuff but every time i come up with something it feels weird
guys i may be stupid. i confused IRC bouncer with IRC server
my friend is actually getting into one of my fave shows (kamen rider gotchard) i'm so happy omg
hey everyone i've spent my whole day trying to set up soju + gamja in docker and now i am down a rabbit hole of building caddy with layer4 support and trying to get TLS for my IRC server and NOTHING IS WORKING
CAN MY FEDI INSTANCE STOP CRASHING
(it is running gotosocial which is like one of the lightest fedi servers out there. the machine it runs on is as old as a high schooler. guess the root problem)
i feel so powerful i wrote a 3 line script that takes an inputted markdown filename from the current working directory and then spits out a nicely formatted html page. pandoc does all the work i did nothing
so i had the idea of adding a page to my otherwise single page girl on the moon personal site that featured my more notable projects, but it's been hours and i CAN'T THINK OF ANYTHING TO ADD THAT I HAVEN'T ALREADY MENTIONED. i just host other people's stuff!!!
i must stop ghosting all my social media except discord and fedi when i am depressed. ghosting is the mind killer
7k words of docs on deploying a livejournal folk. you absolutely want to read 7 thousand words of me forcing dreamwidth into production shape in docker https://stash.4-walls.net/selfhostdw/
oh out of boredom yesterday i made my blog available via markdown files too so you can use charmbracelet/glow to read them in your terminal :)
basically i just set up a file directory on a path of my blog, organized the MD files by year, and so in theory you can navigate to that path and choose a folder, then copy a link to a markdown post and run this:
glow -p https://bubblegum.girlonthemoon.xyz/md/2025/2025-03-31%20premature%20reflections%20on%20sudden%20responsibility.md
and then as long as you have glow installed, you can read my posts from the terminal :D it's so cool
guys omg the people behind pico.sh are so nice ;_; one of the people running it emailed me to let me know i had what was likely a malfunctioning (or well, not working as intended) script that was spawning the same SSH tunnel over and over and they wanted to give me a heads up.
and i felt SO BAD because i worried i was straining their service or something so i disabled my 4 tunnels (they were serving little SSH games and services) and got back to them.
but i just woke up to THE NICEST EMAIL EVER reassuring me that i was actually using it as intended, it was just my script that was having problems, and they even said that if it was intended to work that way it was fine and they just wanted to let me know!
so i restarted the tunnels but have since added lockfiles as safeguards so that when the script is run it'll check if it's already running :D
hello friends i spent a couple hours today using a random string generator by charm CLI called hotdiva2000 to make a script that 1) generates a static index.html page 2) the page is a prompt generator where all the prompts are from hotdiva2000!!!!!
this makes more sense if you look at it check it out
guys help how do i unmute a twt i accidentally hit the wrong button
i wonder why my replies to people and sometimes myself come out as @@example.com where the first
hey does anyone know of yarn pods with open registrations besides mine? quite literally asking for a friend who i told about yarn but can't use my site for personal reasons sadly otherwise i'd gladly invite her
good morning friends i have therapy today and my hair is greasy af so i'm about to show up to this zoom session with coffee mug in hand and thoughts about new kitty on the brain while looking absolutely disgusting
GUYS WE GOT A NEW CAT SHE DOESN'T HAVE A NAME YET BUT SHE'S SUPER CUTE AND SUPER SHY AND WARMING UP TO US I'M IN LOVE
i feel so powerful deleting records via rails console
uuuugh been so inactive because of stupid site moderation it's SO EXHAUSTING
hey friends guess who had tiktok teens flood a mostly abandoned site of hers that was meant for a small group of friends? and went from 15 to ~60 users in 20 minutes? ya girl
i really wanna learn golang it looks fun and capable and i can read it kind of but every time i try it i'm immediately stuck on basic concepts like "what the fuck is a pointer" (this has been explained to me and i still don't get it). i did have types explained to me as like notes on code which makes sense a bit but i'm mostly lost on basic code concepts
i tried deploying anubis (https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis) to protect my site superlove but yall i got so stuck with getting it behind caddy that i felt super dumb and gave up for now T_T
my biggest fear of starting to work with servers professionally is realizing that no one uses servers anymore and having to do some cloud bullshit instead
anyway. do u like pretty covers of pretty songs. well check out this pretty cover of coldplay viva la vida by a k-pop girl who's got PIPES i love her so much https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmk0-dXSYPI
hello fellow yarn-ers. post cancelled we should call each other cats because we're all playing with yarn
TL is dead af right now where IS EVERYONEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
i wonder if i could make a little yarn widget for my site to show my last post. that'd be fun. sadly i do not know javascript
i have got to try the jenny yarn client it looks so fun and old school........
anyway re: girl doxxing for wonyoung. this is real wonyoungism. i can only dream of being that iconic. for context wonyoung gets so much hate and she is literally my age and has been doing this idol shit since she was 13 and has gotten called all sorts of horrible things since then because people are jealous of her. so imo doxxing in her name is OK and justified i DON'T CARE there are youtubers in south korea who have made a career out of hating on her and are now getting sued by her for defamation
you know i'm posting from CLI right now and i still haven't figured out how to reply to my own post via yarnc
i could do anything for wonyoung but nothing will ever be as cool and iconic as the 13 year old daughter of the baidu vice president who doxxed over 100 people during an argument for hating on wonyoung. Absolute icon
i love everything pico.sh i wish i had more of a use for their services but the paste service is SUPER handy omg i finally had a reason to use it (to send a friend my unfinished failed marvel API bash program lol) and it's epic. i love SSH i love TUI apps they are the best
thinking about deploying anubis (https://xeiaso.net/blog/2025/anubis/) for superlove bc i doubt robots.txt is doing anything lmao
good morning (it is 1pm) (i woke up at 3am with a nosebleed then didn't fall asleep for another hour so i slept in to now)
i'm going to k-pop-ify the yarn verse. everyone look at miyawaki sakura or i will uh do server magic to make your CPU run worse or something
the thing about me is that if i'm gonna do some nerd shit i'm gonna make it girly. all my servers have k-pop and hello kitty stickers on them
also friends i started a patreon to support my one woman website stuff :) i'm nervous about it so i only have a single $3 tier but i might add more if i can think of more stuff to offer
wahhh i wanna work towards my dream of offering pay as you can web hosting (static & dynamic) but i don't know how!!!!! i keep drifting towards hosting panels but i don't exactly have fresh linux servers for those nor do i like the level of access they require. so i'm like ok i can do the static site part with SFTP chroot jails and a front-end like filebrowser or something.... but then what about the dynamic sites!!!!!!! UGH
granted i doubt i'd get much interest in dynamic sites but i'd like to do this old school where i can offer people isolated mySQL databases or something for some project (i'm thinking PHP based fanlistings), which means i could do it the old school way of... people ask me to run it and i do it for them. but i kind of want to let people have access to be able to do it themselves just short of giving them SSH access which isn't happening
SO COME OVER AND DANCE 🎵 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brHDs7BDZ5Y
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