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~rey

@reyhan ✿18 December 2014

Whoa it's exactly a month since I last posted on here! Funny how that happened.

I set up superwifi.club to try and create my own tilde but in the end I didn't invite anybody to it. I can't remember why, exactly.

Everything was pretty rock solid from a security perspective -- I think I got tangled up in writing scripts for the onboarding process and it all fizzled out.

I already had $15 credit on DigitalOcean and the cost of running a mostly idle box has cost:

October - $2.59
November - $5.00
December (so far) - $3.04

I'm on the $5/month plan.✿18 October 2014

Since I started writing on Tilde I've been putting my `public_html` folder on GitHub.

I think it's important that folk have the knowledge to back up their 1s and 0s because nobody wants another GeoCities.

I should finish my git-101 repo.✿18 October 2014

I've really gotten a great deal out of putting together superwifi.club this weekend.

I've learnt and relearnt a great deal about putting together a Unix box. Best of all? I've never had to do it for a bunch of potential users.

Building a platform for a community, the privacy and security considerations for such a server are somewhat new to me.

I don't even know if I'll ever open superwifi.club to actual human beings but I love the idea of other folk building on it to spin up their own micro communities.✿18 October 2014

Yesterday I spent a decent amount of time putting together a relatively quick and simple guide to getting up and running with your own tilde-esque box.

As a first go I'm quite pleased, there's a script that'll install a handful of applications, Apache and postfix plus some further documentation that touches on securing your box, my own `/etc/skel` example and creating users.

I've just tested the latest version and I was up and running in 5 minutes.

Check out the repo: superwifi.club.✿12 October 2014

Generating a 6 character hash

I think I'm going to write a bash script that will generate the HTML for these blog posts and automagically fill in the correct date and permalink hash but until then...

I wanted a way to generate a 6 character hash for the permalinks. After some googling I figured this cheeky line would do it: date | md5sum | cut -c 1-6

I created an alias in my `.bash_profile` for ease: alias hash='date | md5sum | cut -c 1-6' ✿12 October 2014

Primarily for my own benefit I added a sidebar with some handy links.✿11 October 2014

This is my favourite tinned soup -- I had it for dinner this evening.

✿11 October 2014

There's so much good stuff to read on relvokcor.xyz. I find myself idly command-clicking the recently updated page.

Splendid.✿8 October 2014

As a thought experiment I thought I'd have a go at putting together some instructions of how to create your own relvokcor.xyz.

It's a work in progress.

EDIT: This has been refined and submitted as a pull request.✿7 October 2014

Interestingly, I missed relvokcor.xyz whilst it was down.

I spent the afternoon putting together some instructions for setting up something similar on an Ubuntu micro instance on Amazon EC2.

I guess the ideal scenario is to spin up a new box, run a script and it does it all for you.

That would be cool.✿6 October 2014

Many thanks to ~fitnr for this email:

I just figured this out. Fix: mv ~/.bash_profile ~/.profile
No idea why .profile beats .bash_profile

I recall that SDF does something similar but Â¯\_(ãƒ„)_/Â¯✿5 October 2014

The chicken came out delicious!✿5 October 2014

Skillet roasted spatchcock chicken

I invented this recipe as I went along:

Preheat your oven to 220 degrees celcius.
Spatchcock your chicken.
Get a decent sized bowl that you can fit your chicken in.
Crush 4/5 garlic cloves, chuck in the bowl.
Grate 3 inches of ginger, use your hands to squeeze the ginger pulp's juice into the bowl.
Add a decent glug of Worcestershire sauce.
Add a decent glug of soy sauce.
Add a decent glug of olive oil.
Add 5 dots of Tabasco.
Season with salt and pepper.
Put your chicken in the bowl of delicious things and give it a good rub so it's covered in the marinade.
Put in the fridge for an hour or so.
Play around on relvokcor.xyz
Get your preheated cast iron skillet, throw in a bunch of peeled potatoes and carrots and place your chicken on top
Give it 10/15 minutes at 220 degrees celcius then turn down to 200.
Take the leftover marinade, add to a small saucepan with a teaspoon of sugar and half a cup of water and boil it until it starts to thicken up -- use this to glaze the chicken every now and then.
Keep checking on it, glazing and basting.

EDIT: I wrote this up properly over in my cookbook repo. ✿5 October 2014

As an aside I'm quite pleased that my [.vim](https://github.com/rey/.vim) and [.tmux](https://github.com/rey/.tmux) configurations worked straight out the box.

Reminder: this isn't a Markdown file.✿5 October 2014

Now looking into why my `.bashrc` and `.bash_profile` aren't getting sourced when I log in.✿5 October 2014

How to get passwordless ssh to work on relvokcor.xyz

On your machine: cat .ssh/id_rsa.pub | ssh USER@relvokcor.xyz 'cat >> .ssh/authorized_keys'

On tilde: chmod 700 ~/.ssh && chmod 600 ~/.ssh/authorized_keys ✿5 October 2014

Trying to get passwordless login working. No luck so far.✿4 October 2014

This is my tilde. There are many like it but this one is mine.

My stuff

Tilde I read

Tilde links

Boots and cats

Whoa it's exactly a month since I last posted on here! Funny how that happened.exactly

Whoa it's exactly a month since I last posted on here! Funny how that happened.

I set up superwifi.club to try and create my own tilde but in the end I didn't invite anybody to it. I can't remember why, exactly.superwifi.club

I set up superwifi.club to try and create my own tilde but in the end I didn't invite anybody to it. I can't remember why, exactly.

Everything was pretty rock solid from a security perspective -- I think I got tangled up in writing scripts for the onboarding process and it all fizzled out.

I already had $15 credit on DigitalOcean and the cost of running a mostly idle box has cost:DigitalOcean

I already had $15 credit on DigitalOcean and the cost of running a mostly idle box has cost:

October - $2.59

November - $5.00

December (so far) - $3.04

I'm on the $5/month plan.✿

~rey | relvokcor.xyz