Another month (well, two...) another phlog post. Despite my best intentions
I managed to do a bunch of stuff besides working on my gopher site. Among
the timesinks I found myself fiddling with was pump.io, the node.js-based
replacement for status.net. Since I'd clobbered my SN instance a while back
(due to RAM requirements) I went ahead and gave it a whirl. As expected,
pump uses more RAM than my 128MB vps can spare, so I tried installing it
on my 2G vps alongside kiddo's minecraft server. That worked okay, after
some fiddling about, and one pretty good "derp" moment when I remembered
I had yet to open a hole in iptables for SSL. When one pays proper
attention to detail, pump.io is a friggin breeze to get running. I think
Evan's got a winner on his hands here. Just like my statusnet, and twitter,
and facebook, and G+, and countless other social thingies, there is little
to no chance I'd ever actually use it for anything though, so I ended up
shutting it back down. At least I can say I once got a node.js app up and
running though. I'll just wait until Identi.ca migrates over to pump.io
and then I'll continue to not be social on that account as well. No reason
to horn in on the minecraft resources. Ha.
As of a couple days ago I am now the proud owner of a genuine android phone!
Yes, I was one of the dumbphone holdouts (hey, I liked only having to
charge my phone twice a week at worst). But the Sprint contract was up for
a re-sign, and the best dumbphone available was a refurb of the POS I've
had for the last two years. After calculating that sprint was still our
most cost-effective choice we upgraded to a smartphone capable family
plan, and I got me a shiny new LG Optimus G (the wife and my mom chose
the iphone 4s). Turns out the optimus G is almost a clone of the Nexus 4,
which is what I thought I wanted. Cool beans.
The new phone reminded me that I had been wanting some way to update my
phlog from a mobile device. I have Overbite for Android on the tablet,
and can now have it on the phone, but would still have to rely on the
itty bitty screen of connectbot to do any writing. Besides, trying to
use vim or nano through connectbot is still quite difficult to me. So
I think it's time I go back to the idea of writing some kind of backend
(in python, probably) to make it easier to mobile-ley post phlog entries.
Which leads me to remember that SDF doesn't seem to allow moles to run
still/anymore, which is something I rather want in my gopher hole. So
I think I'm going to install bucktooth on my little vps again and move
my hole back over there. I kinda feel bad, like I'm abandoning SDF or
something. Even though I've had an SDF account for years, and only had
a gopher site on it for a couple months. How odd...
