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This guide covers some important details to join my Minecraft server so make sure to read the “Useful Guides, Wikis, and Tips” section when you join the server! If you can’t find the server, it may be temporarily down for some reason (power outage, crappy internet, something broke, etc.). I would also recommend bookmarking this page and checking back for updates! Note If the server goes down, message me on Discord about it. I sometimes take it down to add/remove mods, update the server, change configuration, do other things, blah blah blah ...

Portal Codes This post serves as an easy way to find all of my favorite BF6 resources without having to look them up each time. Feel free to use this post or recommend some of your favorites either in the comment section of this post or Discord. It may also be helpful to bookmark this page and check back here for updates. NEW Dune of War NEW This is a new map I found on Facebook (believe it or not) and it looks amazing! It was created by someone in portal and it probably one of the most epic looking maps so far in the game. It’s absolute cinema! ...

The upcoming Plasma 6.7 is probably one of my most anticipated updates since I started using KDE about a decade ago. I use a Macbook for work, and after some time, I have gotten used to the MacOS work flow and muscle memory is something hard to shake. I don’t remember what it’s called in MacOS, but the KDE equivalent is called Overview and it’s always felt a bit limited in its capabilities…well, that’s a thing of the past now! Plasma 6.7 has brought a much request feature to the desktop after a long, looooong time that makes Overview feel more like the MacOS experience! That feature is the per-monitor virtual desktops! ...

Embedding NextJS in Hugo This post explains how we integrated NextJS interactive widgets into a Hugo static site. Architecture The site uses Hugo as the primary static site generator with the PaperMod theme. NextJS applications are embedded via a custom Hugo shortcode. The Shortcode The custom nextjs-app shortcode (layouts/shortcodes/nextjs-app.html) renders an iframe pointing to the NextJS application: {{- $path := default "/interactive-widget" (.Get "path") -}} {{- $height := default "400" (.Get "height") -}} {{- if hugo.IsServer -}} <!-- Dev: iframe to localhost:3000 --> <iframe src="http://localhost:3000{{ $path }}" ...></iframe> {{- else -}} <!-- Production: serve pre-built static files --> <iframe src="/nextjs{{ $path }}/index.html" ...></iframe> {{- end -}} Development Workflow Start Hugo: hugo server (port 1313) Start NextJS: next dev (port 3000) Hugo pages with {{< nextjs-app >}} load the NextJS widget via iframe Production Build cd nextjs-app && next build # generates out/ cp -r out ../hugo-site/static/nextjs cd ../hugo-site && hugo # final site with embedded widget Try It Yourself Visit the Interactive Demo page to see the widget in action.

What is configurator? For the OpenCHAMI project, I wrote a little tool called “configurator” to do some config file rendering magic. It ended up not being useful and I suspect a part of that is due to how complicated it is to set up and understand. Also, as handy, dynamic, and extensible the configurator’s plugin templating system might have seem, it’s use-case was not very clear. Was it a cloud-init replacement or was it meant to solve a completely different problem? ...

I recently brought two pair of XR glasses on a whim thinking that this would revolutionize how I think of productivity and the VR/XR/AR world. I was certainly right to some degree, but I wouldn’t say it’s revolutionary. Both the Viture Pro XR and XReal One glasses delivers most of the main features I’d want from glasses like these, but lack a couple of things I’d like to see in future iterations. Some of my “wants” may be unfeasible, but I think they would make the experience so much more enjoyable. ...

If you’re like me a use Arch Linux (btw), then you know that upgrading your system (sudo pacman -Syu) can sometimes be a real PITA. I certainly don’t like playing Russian roulette with upgrades that may render my system completely useless and require me to have to troubleshoot. No, poor devs like me that have work to do prefer to use quick and dirty methods to get back up and running and back to business in a matter of minutes. Enter btrfs and timeshift. ...

The artisan package is an experimental, LINQ-inspired SQL string query builder that is meant to be simple and intuitive to create SQL queries. The library leans into IDE auto-suggestions and type-checking to eliminate human-error when building queries. Removing the need to debug SQL statements increases productivity by catching common SQL errors early in the development cycle (i.e. at compile-time and not run-time). Building the Executable Clone the repository, download the dependencies, and build the binary. ...

Welcome to towk2.me! This is my personal website that I am working on to get up and running with a few handy services. Everything is integrated together using Docker Compose, but I plan to convert this deployment over to using Kubernetes and move to some dedicated hardware at some point. I’m still making changes so don’t be too surprised if something changes suddenly or just looks completely off. Why Create this Site with Services? The whole point of creating this site is to understand how to build a modern site using modern web tech. I’ve built web sites before using plain HTML, Javascript, CSS, PHP, etc. along with a couple of simple JS libraries like JQuery back in the day. I remember how tedious it was to build sites back then even for something so simple and static, but some of that pain may have just been from inexperience. Things have changed a lot since then and I’m definitely a much better developer nowadays. So, I figured it would be nice to up my game and try out using new stuff. ...