I’ve been trying to force myself to learn about zsh since Apple switched the default shell (why, Apple, why?!). One of my biggest annoyances has been the unexpected munging of the Meta-Backspace combination.

So my basil is still growing strong, as you can see. And that’s after I added the additional light arm to the Click & Grow, and also trimmed a number of branches off to give to my Mom for her cooking needs.

I’ve mentioned a few times now that I have an issue with growing plants that my cats shouldn’t have access to. This weekend I finally got around to doing something about it.

Yeah, they’re starting to get big. I think I’m going to have to trim them down; maybe give some to my Mom since I have far more than I need. I don’t have anything to cook with it at the moment, unfortunately.

It’s coming up on a year since I switched to Hugo. During that time, the most annoying thing about it has been waiting for builds. Sure, I have it all neatly packaged and automated via GitLab Auto DevOps, but it’s just …

Still growing! Yesterday I snipped off half a dozen leaves, tore them up, and put them in my favorite soup instead of the usual dried stuff. The taste is markedly different; it was really good!

Here we are, on day 27. I still haven’t added any water. It looks like it’s about half empty now; when I remember to go to the store and buy some bottled water, I’ll fill it back up.

Every once in a while I like to do a round of maintenance on my homelab. This generally includes cleaning everything up, modernizing where I can, and so on. The beginning of 2024 seemed like an excellent time, but also a bit more …

Day 24. Three and a half weeks, and still looking good! Only a few more before I should have some fresh basil for my kitchen… My cats have become… interested…

I’ve been making a number of changes in my local environment (more on that in a few days I think), and I ran across a problem that is, as far as I can tell, fairly undocumented.

I finally got around to finishing up the sharing stuff; look for the little sharing icons on the upper right of a post header or a project page. Note that I haven’t tested LinkedIn or Twitter; I use neither service and …

I’ve always been vaguely interested in growing my own food; for some reason, it’s really appealing. Outdoor gardening, however, is generally messy and a huge amount of work. Historically, that has kept me away.