Ta-ta
Having nothing to write about but "I made soup!" is something of a dampener on things (I didn't make soup).
Part of the point of this log is to capture some of that upcoming leave of absence I'm taking from work - I'm taking all of July and August off, and …
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Excuse the Dust
Still fiddling with Pelican -- it's got a reasonably nice codebase, but the devs don't appear to be all that responsive. I've had to patch a few of their outstanding
pull requests already to get things working just-so, this one most notably. Also some fiddling with setting up a lightbox for …
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Tap tap tap
So here's another attempt at keeping a log of some kind. the last one died because I stopped having (what I saw as) interesting things on it, blogger's editor bugged the fuck out of me, and general forgetting.
Part of my problem with having a web log is in the …
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Using GMail as a relay with Postfix
I fiddled a bit with this, so I thought I'd do a no-nonsense guide to
doing this. There are other guides, but a lot of them are incomplete and
will leave you with queueing issues or annoyances.
The science bit:
:::python
smtp_use_tls = yes
smtp_sasl_auth_enable=yes
smtp_sasl_password_maps=hash:/etc/postfix/sasl_passwd …
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Alive and Thinkin'
I am alive. Apologies to folks who were following the electronics stuff
-- the short version is that it worked, although I didn't get to use it
'in anger' as such. The other thing I learned is that when traveling
through UK customs on the week of a royal wedding, having …
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