Me laying in bed: I should write up some book reviews, and work on my SPL fansite, and....

Me in front of a computer: What if I just played Babataire and stressed about cat adoption inquiries instead though.

Getting into bookbinding has had the unfortunate side effect of 1) making me actually notice book design and 2) making me a snobby bitch about it. I have been underwhelmed to varying degrees about every physical danmei edition with the exception of Golden Terrace (for which I would describe myself as merely whelmed), and the Taiwanese print of Sha Po Lang, which is some of the nicest, most thoughtful design I've seen in a while.

Sigh so it turns out my server CPU spikes are actually a RAM issue as kswapd0 frantically runs around shuffling stuff in and out of swap, and that in turn is because this little app is at any given point using up 20-30% of my RAM.

Admittedly this is because I only have 1GB of RAM, but 0.5-1GB is where pretty much all the cheap hosting starts. And CPU/disk/bandwidth is not generally a problem, just RAM (which is why I actually moved up from my original plan in the first place). So - anyone got any favorite budget hosting companies for unmanaged Linux VPSes?

Torn between 'A BookWyrm instance for webnovel fans would be cool' and the knowledge that I absolutely do not want to mod anything ever, and also would probably not be able to stop myself from being cranky about other people's bad (in my view) opinions.

Hello new friends (and old friends, too)! I have a request - what are your favorite freezer recipes? Stuff that can be cooked in a big batch, portioned out, and then reheated (ideally in a microwave, I'm impatient). Stuff meant to go on rice or pasta is also fine. I'm a fairly adventurous eater, and have no dietary restrictions (and while I am weirdly picky about some stuff, that's sort of hard to pin down in a short post, and who knows, maybe someone else will find their new favorite recipe in one that isn't for me).

Here's one in return - Creamy Chicken Enchiladas. They're great fresh, but they also freeze and reheat super-well.

I do really like ActivityPub as a general concept, but having it work by sending full copies of activity data for other servers to cache really makes it seem like it was written by incredibly idealistic engineers.

Like I could see the social and technological flaws in that from the get-go even if it took some nudging to realize the legal flaws.

(and I can also see the technological considerations that led to making that decision, though I don't think they outweigh the flaws that result from it, personally)

Weirdly, the Twitter implosion has served to shake me out of my personal coding rut (which I think has happened because dayjob work has been really tedious and boring the last year or so). Some of it has been on Microblog.pub stuff, but I also started working on a Sha Po Lang fansite, and this weekend I sat down and started on a big clean-up of Dreamwidth API stuff, which has been languishing in a branch for like two years now.

Change is scary, but change can also be exciting, and I do have an advantage in that I was not deeply vested in Twitter as a platform to begin with.

For everyone who shared my note with a like to rah's Twitter thread, she wrote up a longer, more complete version on her business-y Dreamwidth journal: https://denise.dreamwidth.org/91757.html

That one is probably better to boost, as it's more readable and has links and stuff, and also is less likely to vanish into the ravages of server failure.

Problem with CSS: always having to check if I have typed CSS or CCS Problem with SCSS: somehow always typing SCSSS by mistake???

Crosslinking this thread on legal obligations for US folk running Mastodon instances for greater visibility: https://nitter.net/rahaeli/status/1593819064161665024

Rah's been doing this shit for literal decades now and knows what she's talking about.

My 'I am afraid to touch anything at all' to 'YOLO let's shell into the prod database' timeline is perhaps shorter than it should be.

(in my defense 1) there are some systems I categorically will not touch, 2) I have not ever seriously broken anything, and 3) someone's gonna break shit occasionally, it might as well be me)

Oh, worth throwing this out there, if anyone else following me uses Duolingo and wants to be Duolingo friends, my username is momijizukamori there! I've been slooooowly working my way through Japanese.

So ~1.5 weeks into using microblog.pub I am finally starting to get a feel for where some of the rough edges are (and stuff that isn't rough edges but rather tweaks I want for myself). Stuff for me to look into that probably belongs in upstream:

• fixing whatever has caused systemd to kill the service for OOM reasons twice now
• splitting the SCSS for custom themeing up so that it's easier to do overrides
• possibly a few more container elements to make themeing easier?
• more options for session management ('remember me' and multiple concurrent sessions specifically)

Stuff that is Just For Me:

• AJAXify some of the post interactions
• auto-expand CWs

...and it could probably use better install/setup options but that will take research to do properly.