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📆 December 2, 2021 | ⏱️ 2 minute read | 🏷️ journal updates



Journal Update 017



What's New

IPv6 support is back! I don't plan on removing it again. This site needs to be present on the modern internet.

Migrate from Gitea to Cgit¹ + Gitolite3. Gitea is much more than I need. Cgit is lightweight and it loads faster.

Change top-level domain from .com to .ch. Operation Not in Your Sites.² See the War on Sharing³. Nicksphere.com will redirect for about a year until it expires. So readers have a year to update their bookmarks/links.

New self-hosted email⁴. Posteo is great and I've no complaints about it. I still recommend Posteo to others. I just wanted more control over my email and it seemed silly not to self-host where I could. My PGP key has also been updated to reflect my new email.

Remove corrections page. I have no motivation to write corrections. I don't think anybody would read them anyway and it's probably best to just make new entries to self-correct.

Remove hosted services on the about page⁵. My new VPS doesn't have the resources for them. I still have the old VPS and domain name rented out for a year in advance. If anybody reading this needs a hosted service for a use case, just let me know. Otherwise I'll dedicate those resources elsewhere.

Website redesign! I changed the font to sans-serif which is much easier and more enjoyable to read than monospace. I also squashed the text to 780 pixels so less horizontal eye scanning is required. This is irrelevant to readers coming from Gemini and Atom/RSS.

Remove dead links. I wrote a Python script to crawl the journal and detect all the dead links⁶. Running this periodically should be sufficient to prevent link rot on Nicksphere. I may automate the process in the future.

Remove articles and books from the promoted page⁷. I've struggled with how to promote others' work for a while. For now I've settled on promoting more general links on the promoted page, while writing individual entries to promote more specific things.


Future Plans

Everything in the TODO⁸.


Final Note

A while back I said I don't wish for my entries related to spirituality to be interpreted as truth-apt. I've complained about the difficulty in explaining spiritual concepts. But I think I've finally reached a point where I can explain myself better. So I'm retracting my previous stance. Please do interpret future entries related to spirituality as literally true.



References


🔗 [1]: Cgit

🔗 [2]: Operation Not in Your Sites.

🔗 [3]: War on Sharing

🔗 [4]: self-hosted email

🔗 [5]: about page

🔗 [6]: Python script to crawl the journal and detect all the dead links

🔗 [7]: promoted page

🔗 [8]: TODO



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