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Asking for help with small things is a great way to build up the confidence to ask for help with bigger things, too!

I talked to my friend. I am not fond of this.

— Libash Tangathadil, Woodcutter

Bought an old camera a few months back, discovered the previous owner had forgotten a roll of film in there. Got it developed and scanned, and it looks like these pics were taken in the 70s, then forgotten in the desert heat and super degraded. They're vaporwave as fuck.

my website that i've barely done anything with uses, uh, nginx, i guess? to serve the pages

i'm thinking of trying out writing a little Rocket server instead, to have a bit more flexibility (and also because i wanna Do Cool Stuff with my site at some point)

if she's ur jackdaw how come she's on my big sphinx of quartz

the context is a discord bot written in python with some hot-reload functionality so i don't have to ssh in to stop and restart the bot whenever i make changes. this way when i push an update all i have to do is send the bot a reload command

... but i imagine you could put more things in that hook to make it e.g. compile and/or (re)start a service automatically

...... but really, at that point you should be using a proper pipeline, maybe with CI and testing

caveat programmor

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if you're curious, this is what i put in the post-update hook:

cd ..
env -i git reset --hard

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of all the bad things i've done as a software developer, perhaps my favorite is using a non-bare remote git repo with a hook to make it automatically reset the working tree on each new push. who needs a proper deployment pipeline, right

@typhlosion just once I want to see a real-life cemetery with a horror game layout, all twisting passages and interior fences. Sparse gravestones and they all have riddles on them

just once i want to see a horror game with a cemetery that has a sensible layout and, like, a directory

Holy shit, never considered that, but this is likely accurate.

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