People And Websites #7 - Hyde
Next up on People and Websites, recommended by our previous guest R.L Dane is Hyde!
Hey! Can you introduce yourself to the readers?
I'm Hyde, an old bear with Serbian roots that likes Dvorak, mechanical keyboards, and photography to list only some hobbies I have.
Also, I spend most of my time in terminals when I'm not watching the NBA, or cooking, or training, or ... Well too many things to list them all in this small introduction.
What's the story behind your website? What made you want to start it? Run me through the whole history!
I used to blog 20+ years ago.
I started with Drupal, and WordPress then.
I used to translate the Debian Weekly News from English to French. I used to post that on the blog/website I had.
I contributed to the translation of the "Securing Debian manual", and the advanced Bash scripting guide too.
And, then slowly, the priority wasn't the same. I started to work, and I used to play basketball at semi-pro level with training every day, plus the games on the weekend. I still had the website, but I wasn't updating it anymore.
And, one day, during a summer holidays when I completely disconnected, I forgot to renew the domain name... And, some "genius" cyber squatted it, and asked for a hilarious sum of money for it. I told him to keep it (not exactly in those terms)😅.
Then years passed, and one day, a new job, a new team.
One of the colleagues there asked me if I did conferences, or if I had a blog. And no I didn't have anything of that. I had some social networks accounts like everyone. That coincided with the time I wanted to leave them too. I didn't enjoyed them anymore. Ads were polluting my timeline more than anything else. I left them all, switched to Signal.
But, I wanted to share my photographs, and my thoughts somewhere.
That's when I decided to start lazybear.io.
Now it's lazybea.rs because the .io TLD is going away. And, the .rs is a Serbian one, so it made sense to me.
What's your tech stack?
I selfhost everything. I have been using Linux since '96. Over the years, I tried many flavours of Linux. But, I always came back to Debian.
Today, my terminal is wezterm, but I used xterm, rxvt, kitty, alacritty, and others.
With that, I ditched a couple of years ago screen for tmux. And, I can't live without it anymore. But, this week, I started to use wezterm sessions, I'll see if I can switch from tmux to its multiplexer.
My current shell is zsh, after using ksh, and bash for years.
For my blog, I use Hugo with a custom template I made.
My laptop is one from tuxedocomputers.com.
How do you manage writing blog posts so often?
I have a zettelkasten, a directory with many notes. Every day, I start my day with a note that a script picks up randomly. If it inspires me, I'll try to write something about that.
I also have a small shell trick to get me a random blog post to find inspiration, comment, or reply to them:
librewolf $( wget -O /dev/null https://indieblog.page/random 2>&1 | grep -w 'Location' | sed 's/Location: (.)?utm./\1/' )
You can add a shortcut for this in your dotfiles.
It uses the indieblog.page website where many bloggers are referenced.
Recently, I started some challenges too:
- The100pics challenge where the goal is to post 100 pics on your own blog
- 100DaysToOffload for the sixth year in a row.
Also, I don't sleep a lot.
Usulally, I get up at 5AM.
I get my coffee, journal, schedule my tasks, go through my RSS feeds, and try to find ideas for the blog.
Those quiet moments are my favorite.
Recommend more people I should annoy with these questions!!
@Zerok@chaos.social
@wez@fosstodon.org
@mjomdal@fosstodon.org
@ctietze@mastodon.social