Anthony Martinez @ajmartinez@librem.one

It looks like I can eliminate at least one machine from the stables. I’ve already ordered both a Librem 5 and Librem 14 from @purism and these will be my primary computing devices. The remaining systems will be used as servers. One local to me, and the other a backup across the pond. This ought to be more than enough to deal with all of my workloads, and get a HiDPI laptop into the hands of someone else.

Part of my downsizing efforts will be in the hardware I keep around. Rather than buying or building new machines, I’m going to see what I can do with what I have and hopefully consolidate use cases to the point where I can do what I want with fewer physical machines. Anything I free up, I hope to gift to someone else who can use it.

Suddenly pondering putting metal in a DC. Anyone have any recommendations for privacy-minded co-location facilities in the EU?

Decided to finish some minor restoration tasks on this antique spinning wheel I picked up at the kringloopwinkel. Now I guess I’ll be spinning the rest of this wool on the new old wheel. Much different feeling to spin on this old single treadle wheels versus my new ball-bearing equipped double treadle wheel.

Fairly productive and enjoyable day today. Got in some good violin practice, spun more yarn, cleaned up a bit around the house, knocked out day 5 of Advent of Code. May give day 6 a look later, or save it for tomorrow.

Started the 2020 Advent of Code today in #Rust. Better late than never, but I've finally reached a point where I have time to think about such things.

https://gitlab.com/anthonyjmartinez/advent-of-code-2020

Updated SSH Tunnel Manager to support both nmap-ncat and legacy netcat, and fix a bug that resulted in an infinite loop in one of the connection status checkers. So far it's been performing nicely for the last few hours with several network events thrown its way from the local and remote sides of the tunnel. Not mad about it at all.

https://gitlab.com/anthonyjmartinez/ssh-tunnel-manager

And finished todays bit of spinning and plying. I still have quite a lot of wool left to go overall but I’ll get through it one step at a time.

And we’re off to a good start on the new yarn.

Just publicly released a new project: SSH Tunnel Manager as a Bash-driven solution to keep track of a persistent background SSH connection with Local, Remote, or Dynamic forwards. Additional details in the readme.

https://gitlab.com/anthonyjmartinez/ssh-tunnel-manager

Non-tech project of the new week. Spin another bobbin of yarn from this really nice BFL roving. When that’s done, I’ll ply the two together and get started on the next bunch. I’ve got some plans to probably use this in a cardigan at some point.

Renamed one of my projects today, and moved the hosting to GitLab. I'll be updating everything over the coming days but for now here's `staart`, a tail-like library/binary crate using only #rust stdlib. Staart is "tail" in Dutch, and since I wrote this while living in The Netherlands I think that's more fitting than the old project name.

https://crates.io/crates/staart