Preface

Introduction For most people getting started with 3D printing, it usually seems like a black box; you give it a 3D model of something you want, and it spits out a real, tangible object. Don’t get me wrong, there’s nothing inherently wrong with viewing 3D printing this way. However, that’s like buying a racing bike just to use it in 1st gear all the time; gaining a little more understanding about how the machine (or bicycle, if we are to continue the analogy) works goes a long way for getting what you want done faster and better. ...

July 19, 2023 January 17, 2024 310 words 2 min

Getting Nushell to run in an Alpine Linux container

From my post about my digital setup, I wanted to quickly write a small post about getting nushell and starship working in an Alpine Linux Toolbx container. So, the problem is that Alpine Linux uses the musl C library instead of glibc. This causes a compatibility problem when running Rust programs that were compiled on the main system within the Alpine Linux container. In addition, the PATH environment variable is inherited from the host system due to how Toolbx works. ...

July 11, 2023 January 17, 2024 292 words 2 min

My Digital Setup

I really enjoy semi-obscure technologies, and I try implementing many of them into my own computer. So, I thought it would be a little fun to make a little write-up about what components my setup consists of and why they exist. Setup v1 (as of 2023-07-11) (I’ll add a diagram here later, but for now, here’s a bullet-point representation) Main desktop Running Fedora Kinoite 38 Runs 3 containers (via Toolbx) Dev container Running Fedora 38 (container version) Contains all the additional packages I need for software development Play container Running Fedora 38 (container version) Primarily for running games (on Steam) Utils container Running Alpine Linux Edge (container version) Home server (repurposed old laptop) Running Rocky Linux 9 Runs 3 containers (Podman + podman-compose) Nextcloud Penpot Forgejo All 3 containers are connected to a subdomain of mine via Cloudflare Tunnels As for some personal preferences: ...

July 11, 2023 January 17, 2024 611 words 3 min

Previous Site Attempts

If you haven’t already checked out the about site page, please read it first for some context. Attempt 1: Wordpress Link to Wordpress. When one usually looks to create a website as a complete newbie to the web development space, the first results usually tend to be either website services like Squarespace or Wix, or Wordpress (the open source web content management system, not the hosting service). Squarespace and Wix felt a little bit restrictive in terms of what type of content I could create with it, which made me attempt to work with Wordpress. ...

June 22, 2023 February 12, 2025 815 words 4 min