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<h1 class="post-title"><a href="https://paulwilde.uk/ponderings/norg/">Norg Backup Utility</a></h1>
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<h1 id="norg">Norg</h1>
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<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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<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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<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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<p>Your Friendly Error Code Index
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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?!
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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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<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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<p>'/nɛmɪnaɪ/' Nem-in-eye</p>
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<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.
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"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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<p>This is a story all about how<br />
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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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<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
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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
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</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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<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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