Legibility
Recently, Vie made a post, asking users to reply and she'd respond with what they needed to be "-maxxing". I asked, and was told I should be legibility-maxxing. After thinking about this for a couple days, I looked back on some of my old tweets. I couldn't interpret ones I made the night before, let alone ones from even longer ago that I know were trying to mean something, but couldn't interpret for the life of me.
The goal of this blog will be to get my ideas, opinions, and thoughts out there in a more coherent fashion. This is a longer-form place to explore ideas and why I believe the things I do. Twitter is great for having interesting conversations and learning about all sorts of new things, but the suboptimal interface* and 280 character limit makes writing annoying and limits how accurately I can express myself.
In my quest for legibility, I want to start including visual aids and annotated photographs (especially once I start carposting), and I don't want to be afraid to go a little beyond what I'd normally do to make sure I get my point across. I will not shy away from the "I don't know" and the "I need to learn about this further". This blog is accountability.
*The app? Barely functional. The website? Breaks all the freaking time. Notifications are unreliable, refreshing is unreliable, crucial components of the interface, like the post button, don't even work for me sometimes... and it may never improve lol
Next up: carpost no. 1
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First post!
Hello world! I finally got this got-dang system fully working.
With the help of Claude Sonnet 4, multiple stack exchange threads, lots of Googling, many manpages, and much stress (ow, my neck), my server is pretty much exactly where I want it.
- Reboots are handled gracefully, with all services that need it (the Minecraft server, mainly) closed before shutdown.
- The DUC for No-IP, which is what I'm currently using, as of August 12th, 2025 for my domain, is started automatically on startup.
- The Minecraft server is also started automatically on startup.
- Both the MC server and the DUC are started in detached Screen sessions, so I can access them at any time (learning about Screen has been absolutely fantastic, I love this tool).
- The tool I will be using for this blog (and used for this page) is set up! As you can (hopefully) see below, this blog was generated with bashblog.
Site plans for the (near) future:
- Find more permanent domain solution.
- Work on the formatting and figure out what kind of vibe I'm going for. Right now I'm copying my main page.
- Explore the configuration settings of bashblog and possibly modify the script to match my needs.
I think that's all for now, but expect to see this page edited as I experiment with CSS and bashblog's configuration options.
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