Daily Journal 📓 October 2023

Short dated entries, links, and microblog-style notes.

30Oct 20231:00am

I’d like to see if I can get Indie Kit packaged for #Cloudron
- For starters, that means following the Cloudron/Packaging Tutorial
- I’m following the #NodeJS instructions, but really that means working with #Docker
- brew install docker
  - docker login gives me
  - ```
  WARNING! Your password will be stored unencrypted in ~/.docker/config.json.
  Configure a credential helper to remove this warning. See
  https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/commandline/login/#credentials-store
```
- OK, I’ll look at that later
- Running the one liner docker build -t username/nodejs-app:1.0.0 .
  - ```
  DEPRECATED: The legacy builder is deprecated and will be removed in a future release.
              Install the buildx component to build images with BuildKit:
              https://docs.docker.com/go/buildx/
```
- Let’s see if brew has this, yep brew install docker-buildx
- With some advice about linking it into ~/.docker/cli-plugins
- New error: ERROR: Cannot connect to the Docker daemon at unix:///var/run/docker.sock. Is the docker daemon running?
- Ugh. I guess I actually do have to install Docker on this Apple/Macbook Air M1 2020 https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44084846/cannot-connect-to-the-docker-daemon-on-macos

25Oct 20231:00am

I was asked for a personal bio for the Stolon Mesh project, and asked if it was OK to use the content on LinkedIn
- Which meant I had to go look up what it even says there! Boris Mann/LinkedIn
- It’s… fine. Decided to write up a little custom snippet Boris Mann/Bio
Thinking once again about the sprawling nature of my many websites and places to put things
- I could run a Ghost website on Cloudron, but that doesn’t reduce the places to post
- The arguments

22Oct 20231:00am

Cleaned up Tools for Thought Rocks #Obsidian site some more https://notes.toolsforthought.rocks
- Mainly converting from the old #LogSeq format — I did add quite a few pages to the old site
More Commons Computer #Cloudron setup collapsed:: true
- Here’s all the stuff I have running:
- I added Google/Calendar support to Cal.com collapsed:: true
  - Google Cloud and OAuth apps are just… extremely complicated https://cal.com/docs/introduction/quick-start/self-hosting/install-apps/google
  - I can add up to 100 users in test mode, which seems like lots if anyone else wants to share a Cal.com instance
  - I like that Cal.com can in fact setup weekly limits for bookings
  - My remaining wishlist item for this is to be able to select daily / weekly limits across all event types!
- Installed Vaultwarden the Rust implementation of Bitwarden
- I also added a #Jitsi server at https://jitsi.commonscomputer.com collapsed:: true
  - These Jitsi servers are pretty basic, unclear how much load there actually is?
- General observation: #Mastodon eats storage collapsed:: true
  - Looking at storage usage on #Cloudron, Tools for Thought Rocks/Mastodon is at 8GB
    - This will be mostly cached media attachments
    - For reference, #CoSocial goes through 2TB of cached media attachments per month, with about 100 users
Principles for sharing on the Internet, by Sari Azout
- 1. Do the work required to have an opinion
- 1. Allow yourself the uncomfortable luxury of changing your mind
- 1. Cultivate intellectual humility
- 1. Choose your words carefully
- 1. Be kind, even if you are right
One more Commons Computer #Cloudron install, n8n

20Oct 20231:00am

I’m deleting DMARC entries from my DNS
- ```
"v=DMARC1; p=reject; pct=100"
```
- Which apparently fixed things? I gave Commons Computer #Cloudron a couple of domains that have Google email attached
- It sets up a bunch of SPF and DKIM settings automatically and I needed to go back in and edit SPF settings so Google could send
- I don’t think DMARC not being there will hurt anything

19Oct 20231:00am

A new not-open-source license, Functional Source License, via Gordon Brander
- Made by Sentry
- It talks about being better and more standard than BSL

16Oct 20231:00am

My Cloudron work in moving over a bunch of domains that I also use with Gmail nuked some of the settings
- Gmail Set up SPF, DKIM & DMARC for your organization #email #Gmail #DKIM #DMARC
- SPF "v=spf1 a:my.commonscomputer.com include:_spf.google.com ~all"
- Looks like my bmannconsulting.com domain had my old cloudron attached so that kept working. Fixed this quickly in DNS
- DKIM had never been setup for bmann.ca, so adding the Google details (Cloudron sets this up as well, on it’s own subdomain)
Installed Nextcloud on Commons Computer
- It really does have a ton of features
- I could see running an entire organization off this … but I’m also having like a visceral reaction to the entire interface; would I want to be part of an org that gets work done using this?
I want to turn off some other services like the long running Venture Scouts Discourse
- It’s on a really old version and I could upgrade it and then migrate it to Commons Computer
- Or, archive it. I found this recent Discourse Archive tool written in #Python https://github.com/jamesob/discourse-archive
  - Got an error, filed a bug
- Maybe this works with wget
  - ```
  wget --adjust-extension --mirror --page-requisites --convert-links   --recursive  --user-agent "Googlebot" https://venturescouts.ca
```

15Oct 20231:00am

I ended up buying a Hostinger VPS for a year after a bunch of looking around, prompted by Boris Anthony
- It’s $12.99USD/month paid for 1 year
I also bought a Cloudron license for a year
- It’s $15USD/month, or $180USD
- Of course, I had to buy a domain for it, so I bought commonscomputer.com
- Bought it at Cloudflare — my first domain purchased there
  - Google Domains has been sold to Squarespace so I need to migrate away from there, as a future to do
  - Not really that comfortable with Namecheap any more
- I setup Cal.com, which I’ve been wanting to experiment with forever!
  - It’s got quite a lot of setup steps, I’ll have to go back and see about getting Google integration going
Met with Jess Martin who is going to start monthly meetups for Tools for Thought Rocks again
- The Tools for Thought Rocks/Mastodon is at Spacebear/Federation
- I just bought toolsforthought.social on Cloudflare
- I can set it up and have people move over to that server, and then cancel Spacebear
- Can we host something at the root domain of Tools for Thought Rocks that is easy like SquareSpace?
- I suggested that we actually DO use Obsidian and Quartz, sharing via git — we do this for DWebYVR
- I do think that the web page for TFT should be a TFT :)
Moved BMC/bmann.ca to a Surfer static site on Cloudron
- https://bmann.ca has an updated Colophon

02Oct 20231:00am

Caught up with LikeCoin today
- It’s a Cosmos “app chain” focused on storing metadata around content — journalism, books, etc.
- All of the conte

01Oct 20231:00am

Created Email forwarding services to research this category to replace Namecheap email forwarding
Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names by Patrick McKenzie came across my reading again today. Important to have at hand for #naming
- Related Awesome Falsehoods Programmers Believe
Supernote, an #e-ink tablet
- Made in #France, 420EU for the A5 size
- Can’t really find details on software that it runs
Robin Berjon
- Community is a resource. Maybe we should stop mining it. One reason I’m here is because I believe that well-architected, user-centric social media can be regenerative of community instead of extractive.
- Comment on this article Americans are choosing to be alone. Here’s why we should reverse that. Washington Post on BlueSky #community
- Robin Sloan, on the singer Lorde’s unique email newsletter
  - When a message arrives, it feels like (and this requires real precision and control) you have just received a long rambly email from a (very smart, hugely successful) friend.
    
    Lorde’s messages do not belong to the internet of Twitter or Instagram; they don’t belong to the internet of Substack, either. You can’t link to them! So they aren’t even part of the World Wide Web — not really. They constitute their own special thing.
  - I won’t quote Sloan quoting Lorde, but it’s excellent
Yanko Design Onyx BOOX Palma EReader Review #BOOX #e-ink
- Smartphone shaped and sized ereader from BOOX that runs Android, but Wi-Fi / Bluetooth only. Currently $280USD.
- BOOX Palma