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📆 2 Dec 2021 | ⏱️ 2 minute read | 🏷️ journal updates

Journal Update 017

What's New

IPv6 support is back! I don't plan on removing it again. This site needs to be present on the modern internet.
Migrate from Gitea to Cgit[1] + Gitolite3. Gitea is much more than I need. Cgit is lightweight and it loads faster.
Change top-level domain from .com to .ch. Operation Not in Your Sites.[2] See the War on Sharing[3]. Nicksphere.com will redirect for about a year until it expires. So readers have a year to update their bookmarks/links.
New self-hosted email[4]. Posteo is great and I've no complaints about it. I still recommend Posteo to others. I just wanted more control over my email and it seemed silly not to self-host where I could. My PGP key has also been updated to reflect my new email.
Remove corrections page. I have no motivation to write corrections. I don't think anybody would read them anyway and it's probably best to just make new entries to self-correct.
Remove hosted services on the about page[5]. My new VPS doesn't have the resources for them. I still have the old VPS and domain name rented out for a year in advance. If anybody reading this needs a hosted service for a use case, just let me know. Otherwise I'll dedicate those resources elsewhere.
Website redesign! I changed the font to sans-serif which is much easier and more enjoyable to read than monospace. I also squashed the text to 780 pixels so less horizontal eye scanning is required. This is irrelevant to readers coming from Gemini and Atom/RSS.
Remove dead links. I wrote a Python script to crawl the journal and detect all the dead links[6]. Running this periodically should be sufficient to prevent link rot on Nicksphere. I may automate the process in the future.
Remove articles and books from the promoted page[7]. I've struggled with how to promote others' work for a while. For now I've settled on promoting more general links on the promoted page, while writing individual entries to promote more specific things.

Future Plans

Everything in the TODO[8].

Final Note

A while back I said I don't wish for my entries related to spirituality to be interpreted as truth-apt. I've complained about the difficulty in explaining spiritual concepts. But I think I've finally reached a point where I can explain myself better. So I'm retracting my previous stance. Please do interpret future entries related to spirituality as literally true.

Links

🔗 1: Cgit

🔗 2: Operation Not in Your Sites.

🔗 3: War on Sharing

🔗 4: self-hosted email

🔗 5: about page

🔗 6: Python script to crawl the journal and detect all the dead links

🔗 7: promoted page

🔗 8: TODO