I made some Apple Cider today and it is delicious! Below is the recipe. Ingredients 6 Red Apples 6 Green Apples 2 Oranges 4 Cinnamon Sticks 1 Tablespoon Cloves 1 Teaspoon Allspice 3/4 Cup of Brown Sugar Bunch of water Instructions I love my crock-pot so I used it. Quarter the apples and oranges Add apples, oranges, cinnamon sticks, cloves, and allspice to the pot Add water, leaving about 2" space before the top of the pot Cook on high for 4 hours, or on low for 8 hours MASH EVERYTHING Put crock-pot on “keep-warm” and let it simmer for 30 minutes Use a strainer to get all of the stuff out Add the brown sugar and STIR Serve warm and enjoy

I recently tried “kickstart.nvim”, which I like. It gives me a nice setup while learning how everything works. I’ve got the following plugins. I built Neovim from the source. I use it to write Go, Rust, Lua, and bash scripts. NVIM v0.10.0-dev-1236+g28ffd96c9 Build type: RelWithDebInfo LuaJIT 2.1.1695653777

I’ve been considering switching from VSCode to Neovim. Some distributions package several plugins together. A few people say you should refrain from using the distros and should configure your environment from scratch. It doesn’t matter; you should use what you’re comfortable with. Recently, I tried the Neovim distribution NVChad. It works well, is very pretty, and has many features. Some of the packages included have been abandoned; this concerned me. Read more...

I recently won an auction for a Dell PowerEdge T320 from eBay. It has an Xeon E5 processor with six cores, 8 GB RAM, 4x500 GB HDDs, and a RAID controller card that supports up to 16 HDDs. It has a lot of potential. Newegg had a good deal on 64GB of RAM, so I went ahead and got some. It has two 32GB sticks and should arrive around the same time as the server. Read more...

This is probably my 7th attempt at making a dovetail joint. I’ve got the process down pretty good, but I still need to improve a few things. Having better tools definitely helps. I wonder if having an actual workbench would help too. I’d love to get me a Rob Cosman Dovetail Saw one day.

Vaultwarden is an excellent service that manages your passwords. It is compatible with Bitwarden, which uses TypeScript and C#. Vaultwarden is written in Rust and uses fewer system resources. I decided to try Vaultwarden since it is popular on r/selfhosted. My instance of Vaultwarden runs in a container on a server I host from home. It is easy to set up, use, and compatible with Bitwarden clients. My instance is behind a Cloudflare tunnel, but I might reconsider this. Read more...

I’m not sure why distros don’t include brotli with their nginx binaries, but they seem to enable every other feature with nginx configure options. So, after installing nginx on this Debian server I decided I wanted to compile nginx from source. First, I had to install some packages. apt-get install build-essential libpcre3 libpcre3-dev zlib1g zlib1g-dev \ libssl-dev libgd-dev libxml2 libxml2-dev uuid-dev libxslt-dev git Then I downloaded the latest stable version of nginx and extracted it. Read more...

I recently started woodworking as a hobby. There are lots of tools, and the quality ones can be expensive. Instead of diving in and spending a lot of money, I’m dipping my toe in the proverbial wooden box. My first projects have been building simple wooden boxes. The first two were terrible, but the third box looked good. The picture of the third box is below. I used cedar for the box and a common board for the lid. Read more...

It seems like Google will no longer be in the domain business. Google is selling all domain registrations and customer accounts to Squarespace. Why would Google do this? Did they want out of the domain business? Squarespace is paying $180 million for Google Domains. Google Domains will shut down next month. I had quite a few domains registered with Google. It was an easy-to-use website, and they had competitive prices. I’m not a fan of Squarespace, so today, I initiated the transfer of all my domains to Namecheap. Read more...

I have used levi.lol as my primary domain for a few years, but now I will start using lmd.sh. My previous blog was always about tech stuff, but I do more than computers. I’ll keep levi.lol, but stop writing new posts. This new blog will have posts about my other hobbies. My other hobbies include woodworking and shooting my guns at the range. I will post pictures and videos to this new blog. Read more...