that cms guy @cms@mastodon.social
- Keybase
- cms
- Human Name
- Colin M. Strickland
- Internet Name
- cms
- Secret Name
- Website
- https://beatworm.co.uk/
I built the IMDb message boards. I ran the last.fm databases. I rendered the picturebooks at Wonderbly. I survived Makeshift. Good at naming things.
Joined Apr 2017
I blogged about masks. Masks are cool. I can't be the only person who enjoys the excuse to hide their face.
https://www.beatworm.co.uk/blog/me/masked-man-of-mystery
Stewart Wee name checking Green on Red in the guardian warms an old mans heart
still quite a lot of work to do on the mobile layout, but as a hacked up simplification of what went before, it's a good base point.
New blog post, loosely about how I moved my blog to my own hand-rolled virtual hosting service. Actually about just emitting some words to make sure they can render, and to point out any obvious bugs. More of a list of buzzwords than a recipe, perhaps.
https://www.beatworm.co.uk/blog/me/new-server .
Transfer process was pretty ache-free and slick. Admittedly I have been doing this sort of thing for a long time now.
Thinking of throwing up a self-hosted mastodon next.
I killed my #coffee grinder and have been existing on lockdown instant coffee. I just had an aeropress made with a replacement grinder and it was so good that I think my aeropress runbook now includes a step 0.
'First, drink instant coffee for a month. Next, prepare scales...'
my free, largely ignored, keybase lumens seem to be 'worth' 120 quid this morning.
Come to a bit of an impasse with #webhosting. Have been running most things off #scaleway C1 instances for _years_, but I'm getting frustrated building 32 bit #ARM binaries for their old debian releases. Not sure where's a decent alternative for cheap #baremetal in 2020. I'd prefer not to use a vps, for mostly romantic reasons.
Provoked by a twitter poll to showing up here again. I haven't been very good at being online lately. Does anyone know a good mastodon client for desktop linux? IKR.
I have not posted here in a while, I nearly forgot it was a thing. I had such plans, once.
It is proven! I am cms on Keybase: https://keybase.io/cms/sigchain#fdebf5b166d6fbb3fd69d186dd64bd6a167e94c333d2a0ef407b313405995c9e0f
Debian docker looks like it's draining my batteries even when I'm not running it. https://www.beatworm.co.uk/blog/thinkpad/docker-ate-my-battery
When you use a cranky forty year old UNIX text editor with no namespaces for extensions and you spend a whole day debugging an input lockup because of an internal API changing but it's perfectly free and made of lisp so you have the means and the tools to fix it yourself 
Happy new year to all mastodons
Geugh, here is the holiday season cold. *sneeze*
Mostly twisted ankle, this weeks Outlander
No, that's what *you* call music. Volume I!
BLOG: Age before beauty - https://www.beatworm.co.uk/blog/myself/blinkered
- Keybase
- cms
- Human Name
- Colin M. Strickland
- Internet Name
- cms
- Secret Name
- Website
- https://beatworm.co.uk/
I built the IMDb message boards. I ran the last.fm databases. I rendered the picturebooks at Wonderbly. I survived Makeshift. Good at naming things.
Joined Apr 2017
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