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2024

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. It’s kinda a good thing to know because that explains why I’ve been feeling so grim since I last had COVID. The x-ray shows I have scarring and dark spots on my lungs which is what’s causing all the discomfort. I’ve got a blue inhaler in case which helps a bit but for the most part it just sucks.

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.

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. Having the ability to have drop down menus is quite important now, I want to keep my menu clean but still have room for pages like slashpages (I’ll be adding more soon) and pages that don’t fit into my blog but are still important like my watch collection.

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).

The worst 24 hours

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Back in 2023 I had the worst 24 hours for a long time. It feels weird writing about this since when I look back it’s just so completely insane that everything happened like it did. I’m trying to be as eloquent as possible but it’s hard for reasons you’ll read.