Hello again, let’s take a little detour from our regular programming.
Turn back time a decade and a half, or something, and I was spellbound by the game Dark Souls from FromSoftware. Like many others, I eventually stumbled upon the EpicNameBro YouTube channel. ENB was an American living and working in Japan who frequently posted interesting gameplay videos from the Japanese edition of Dark Souls.
Artificial Intelligence is everywhere these days. It’s even sucking the last drops of blod out of the wasteland that is this blog. How arrogant of me to believe I was writing content for humans, when in fact, a battalion of AI bots are my only constant readers.
I’m already coming up on my sixth anniversary with Hugo. Wow, time really does fly. I feel like sharing some of my experiences with Hugo and how it compares to my previous long run with WordPress.
When Unstoppable Domains launched its service I was among the early adopters to pick up a .crypto NFT domain. It was a decision based on curiosity without any real expectations of usability or value. My .crypto NFT has been idle for years due to increased Ethereum fees. However, fast forward a few years until the present day, and I’m getting a warning that my password is insecure when trying to log into its service.
At the end of last year, I decided to move my email server to Contabo. This came to be after being enticed by the “too good to be true” prices and specifications of its VPS offerings. I have great faith in German businesses, but in retrospect, I should have done a bit more research before hitting the deploy button.
When I deployed my email server with DigitalOcean five years back, it delivered at a competitive price and performance. A few years later, the same server has gotten a price hike but no upgrades or resource increases. Even so, hosting your email server is not for the faint of heart, and IP reputation is a big part of the game. Therefore, I stayed with DigitalOcean until the depletion of resources finally forced my hand.
A couple of years ago Disney released a new series based on the classic Willow movie. The show had everything you’d come to expect from Disney: Strong independent women kicking ass. A beautiful young prince in distress. And a band of silly bickering men for comic relief.
It continued none of the magic from the movie, except from Warwick Davis himself. Regardless, I was planning on finishing the show, one day, eventually.
StackSocial, an online marketplace owned by StackCommerce is seemingly always running the deal of a lifetime on Windows 11 Pro. StackSocial is offering the software with a retail value of $199 with 89% off. Reputable technology websites like ZDNET, CNET, Android Police, Cult of Mac, and PCMag are running commission-based promotions on Microsoft Software from StackSocial.
After logging into my Hetzner account, I was met with a message informing me that my current cloud server plan was being deprecated. I could either choose to keep my existing server plan or rescale it. In my experience, this approach is usually a disguised upsell attempt, but thankfully not so with Hetzner.
Finding a solid and reliable Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) that you can trust is not a task to be taken lightly. For iOS, my choice has been the open-source application Raivo OTP. However, after yesterday’s automatic update, I no longer have my OTPs.