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<h1 class="post-title"><a href="https://paulwilde.uk/ponderings/norg/">Norg Backup Utility</a></h1>
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2024-08-18
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<h1 id="norg">Norg</h1>
<p>A simple, portable, wrapper for the <a href="https://www.borgbackup.org">borg backup</a> and <a href="https://restic.net">restic</a> utilities written in Nim.</p>
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<h1 class="post-title"><a href="https://paulwilde.uk/ponderings/batmon/">BatMon</a></h1>
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2024-07-29
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<p>A simple battery monitor tool that can notify you on battery status changes for FreeBSD.<br />
Inspired by but in no way similar to <a href="https://github.com/electrickite/batsignal">batsignal</a> - inspiring the basic function only.
Written in pure <a href="https://paulwilde.uk/ponderings/batmon/https/nim-lang.org">Nim</a>.</p>
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<h1 class="post-title"><a href="https://paulwilde.uk/ponderings/tootinstall-concept/">TootInstall</a></h1>
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<a class="post-tag" href="https://paulwilde.uk/tags/humour/">#humour</a>&nbsp;
<a class="post-tag" href="https://paulwilde.uk/tags/parody/">#parody</a>&nbsp;
<a class="post-tag" href="https://paulwilde.uk/tags/protocols/">#protocols</a>&nbsp;
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<h2 id="tootinstall-concept">TootInstall Concept</h2>
<h3 id="status-of-this-memo">Status of this Memo</h3>
<p>This memo defines a conceptual protocol for software build and install scripts
for varying platforms published via Fediverse (ActivityPub i.e Mastodon, et al) posts.</p>
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<h1 class="post-title"><a href="https://paulwilde.uk/ponderings/errors/">Wholesome Errors</a></h1>
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2024-02-02
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<p>Your Friendly Error Code Index
Inspirational instructions for dealing with unhelpful error codes</p>
<pre data-lang="sh" style="background-color:#212121;color:#eeffff;" class="language-sh "><code class="language-sh" data-lang="sh"><span style="color:#82aaff;">ERROR</span><span style="color:#89ddff;"> -</span><span style="color:#f78c6c;">41</span><span style="color:#82aaff;">: Failure!
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<p>Wouldnt it be great if there was something to tell you what to do about this error?!
Wouldnt it be great if it said</p>
<pre data-lang="sh" style="background-color:#212121;color:#eeffff;" class="language-sh "><code class="language-sh" data-lang="sh"><span style="color:#82aaff;">ERROR</span><span style="color:#89ddff;"> -</span><span style="color:#f78c6c;">41</span><span style="color:#82aaff;">: Sit by a lake
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<p>instead?</p>
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<h1 class="post-title"><a href="https://paulwilde.uk/ponderings/geminicss/">Gemini.css</a></h1>
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2023-02-22
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<p>Gemini.css is an <em>almost</em> classless CSS style for making Gemini-like HTML pages.</p>
<p>For a Gemini.css demonstration, go to <a href="https://geminicss.paulwilde.uk">geminicss.paulwilde.uk</a>.</p>
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<h1 class="post-title"><a href="https://paulwilde.uk/ponderings/nemini/">Nemini</a></h1>
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2023-02-20
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<p>'/nɛmɪnaɪ/' Nem-in-eye</p>
<h3 id="a-simple-gemini-server">A simple Gemini server</h3>
<p>Nemini is a simple Gemini server with static file serving, virtual host and alias support.
"Simple" in the way it is, hopefully, simple to configure and use with minimal knowledge of web servers in general.</p>
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<h1 class="post-title"><a href="https://paulwilde.uk/ponderings/freshgpt/">AI Search</a></h1>
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2023-02-16
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<p>This is a story all about how<br />
Your query got twist-turned upside down<br />
And I'd like to show an answer just sit right there<br />
It might not be fully accurate but I don't care</p>
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<h1 class="post-title"><a href="https://paulwilde.uk/ponderings/turning-off-birdsitelive/">Why I have turned off my BirdsiteLIVE instance</a></h1>
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2022-12-21
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<p>Hello. How are you? I am fine.<br />
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You may know me from a few places, but likely on the Fediverse as the person that
maintains a BirdsiteLIVE instance with the url <a href="https://birdsite.wilde.cloud">birdsite.wilde.cloud</a>.</p>
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<h1 class="post-title"><a href="https://paulwilde.uk/ponderings/sql-haiku/">SQL Haiku</a></h1>
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<pre data-lang="sql" style="background-color:#212121;color:#eeffff;" class="language-sql "><code class="language-sql" data-lang="sql"><span style="color:#c792ea;">SELECT</span><span> haiku </span><span style="color:#c792ea;">FROM
</span><span>tableHaikus </span><span style="color:#c792ea;">WHERE</span><span> LEFT(name,
</span><span style="color:#f78c6c;">3</span><span>) </span><span style="color:#89ddff;">LIKE &#39;</span><span style="color:#c3e88d;">SQL</span><span style="color:#89ddff;">&#39;</span><span>;
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<h1 class="post-title"><a href="https://paulwilde.uk/ponderings/fortieth/">Fortieth</a></h1>
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2022-09-24
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<p>'Twas the morning after the fortieth<br />
And all through the house<br />
Not a creature was stirring<br />
Except the one making the coffee and Alkaseltzer</p>
<p>'Twas the morning after the morning after the fortieth<br />
And all through the house<br />
The creatures were starting to stir but generally still uncomfortable and underperforming</p>
<p>'Twas the morning after the morning after the morning after the fortieth<br />
And all through the house<br />
The creatures were stirring<br />
Even the mouse!<br />
It scurried up the staircase<br />
Squeaking the old well known phrase<br />
"Warning! Duration of hangover is proportionate to age!"</p>
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