experiment: jekyll static website engine

this is a technical note that will not interest most folks ——– When I moved virtual servers a few months ago I opted not to move over my existing domain and personal websites. Most of what I was writing was on the blog anyhow. I got involved in a backchannel conversation about static websites (sites

SSD upgrade

The Dell came with a 128gb SSD, which was business sexy several years ago when it was new. I’m dual booting win7 and Debian Linux on it. Enough room for that but I want to use it as a mythtv back end. It’s already running most the time lately, controlling a small cryptocoin miner ASIC.

tiny tiny rss, php7, mariadb

I had a virtual server instance that I hadn’t yet upgraded to the latest Debian stable (9/stretch).  There was a reason for this but I don’t remember what it was. When I upgraded it made the switch from MySQL to MariaDB, which is said to be a drop-in replacement.  I was skeptical.