Posts
2024
Feeling a bit lost
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It’s been about 2 weeks since I was in hospital and things are starting to sink in. Firstly just how serious things got and secondly the trajectory my life is/was taking.
Bilateral Pulmonary Embolisms Suck
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The title pretty much sums it up, BPEs suck.
How did we get here # For most of the year I’d been feeling a bit off it, dizzy spells and being exhausted, I put this down to ME/CFS being a pain as per usual.
Notes on 17th to 22nd of October
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I’m half writing this for the people mentioned at the end and my own records since when I say the past 5 days has been crazy I really mean it. You can read a bit of back story here.
Long COVID Sucks
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This week I had some pretty crappy news, I had a chest x-ray on Saturday because my lungs feel like I’m breathing razor blades. The nice doctor said that it was most likely down to post/long COVID.
My Lemmy experiment is over
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After over a year I’m going to take down my personal Lemmy server. Running it on Hetzner has been relatively easy and with only a few hiccups along the way, for a single user instance it uses about 20-30gb of storage for it’s db and image cache.
Homelab Update August/September 2024
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August/September update on my Homelab
Moving from PaperMod to Blowfish
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Title pretty much sums it up, when you see this post the theme will have changed.
PaperMod has served me well over the years but I was getting that itch to try something different and it didn’t support having drop down menus.
Homelab Update July 2024
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June/July update on my Homelab
Spoons as a unit of energy
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The aim of this post is to try and explain what it’s like living with ME/CFS. I can’t quite remember where the idea of spoons as a unit of energy came from, I think it might have been from my friend Gem, so I’m blaming/crediting them.
Cool stuff outside of tech
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I spend all my online life in tech (I started setting up devenv.sh while I had covid ffs) so decided to branch out and find other things to read that are interesting but NOT tech related (maybe).