12 years today.

I have a longer post about k8s cooking, but for now—

An hour and a half ago, I found this to-do created around 2am this morning:

I decided that, as annoying as dealing with Discord and OAuth and all kinds of things is, if I can’t make this happen and have it deployed and managed within the same sit as thinking about it, I need to know that.

The idea in that ellipsis isn’t a very new one: I look at Twitter and like to drop links to art I see there in Discord to my wife/puppygirl/bestie/whatever is going on between us that day. Twitter’s embeds aren’t very good; vxtwitter.com/fxtwitter.com make them better, and so I use them habitually by editing the links manually after pasting/before sending. Automate it with love.

In 90 minutes, I have an Elixir app, reproducibly built with Nix, reproducibly OCI-packaged, and deployed into k8s.

(The curious will find that secret created here — I bring up NixOS with any new secret definitions, vyx creating them via sops, before pushing/having Flux reconcile any new items referring to them.)

It works really well! It’s the same setup for my blog these days (— can’t believe my blog is on k8s, but oh well —), and soon nóssa too.

First heard the original in a TV ad for Elisa (short example) — for Australian readers, that’s the equivalent of an Optus commercial. Her voice caught me and I had to search for ages to find it. Discovered this live rendition yesterday and it’s just the most beautiful thing ever.

An-Marlen — on a spaceship

I don’t know what to feel without you
You and me together — that’s how it could be
Let me be in love up to my ears, flying in space
You and me together, that’s how it could be
Life is like a movie and I can’t get enough of you
And I can’t (get enough) of you

Life is like a movie and I can’t get enough of you
Let me be in love up to my ears, flying in space
You and me together, that’s how it could be
Life is like a movie and I can’t get enough of you

Maybe I need you
Every time I’m dancing among the stars
There you are
Let me be in love up to my ears, flying in space
You and me together, that’s how it could be
Life is like a movie and I can’t get enough of you

If not for those red roses
And evenings by your side
My hand in yours
On your spaceship
If not for those red roses
And evenings by your side
My hand in yours
On your spaceship
And I can’t (get enough) of you
And I can’t (get enough) of you

Life is like a movie and I can’t get enough of you
Let me be in love up to my ears, flying in space
You and me together, that’s how it could be
Life is like a movie and I can’t get enough of you
Life is like a movie and I can’t (get enough) of you
Life is like a movie and I can’t (get enough) of you
Life is like a movie and I can’t (get enough) of you
I don’t know what to feel without you
You and me together — that’s how it could be

An-Marlen — kosmoselaeval

Ma ei tea, mida sinuta tunda
Sa ja ma koos, nii võikski ju olla
Las olen kõrvuni armun’d, kosmoses lendan
Sa ja ma koos, nii võikski ju olla
Elu nagu filmis ja ma sinust ei saa küllalt
Ja ma sinust ei saa

Elu nagu filmis ja ma sinust ei saa küllalt
Las olen kõrvuni armun’d, kosmoses lendan
Sa ja ma koos, nii võikski ju olla
Elu nagu filmis ja ma sinust ei saa küllalt

Võib-olla vajangi sind
Iga kord kui tantsin tähtede keskel
Sa oled seal
Las olen kõrvuni armun’d, kosmoses lendan
Sa ja ma koos, nii võikski ju olla
Elu nagu filmis ja ma sinust ei saa küllalt

Kui poleks neid punaseid roose
Ja õhtuid su kõrval
Minu käsi su käes
Sinu kosmoselaeval
Kui poleks neid punaseid roose
Ja õhtuid su kõrval
Minu käsi su käes
Sinu kosmoselaeval
Ja ma sinust ei saa
Ja ma sinust ei saa

Elu nagu filmis ja ma sinust ei saa küllalt
Las olen kõrvuni armun’d, kosmoses lendan
Sa ja ma koos, nii võikski ju olla
Elu nagu filmis ja ma sinust ei saa küllalt
Elu nagu filmis ja ma sinust ei saa
Elu nagu filmis ja ma sinust ei saa
Elu nagu filmis ja ma sinust ei saa
Ma ei tea, mida sinuta tunda
Sa ja maa koos, nii võikski ju olla

• X11 vs Wayland
• Rust in Linux
• LLMs are/can (not) x
• Whether trans people are subhuman or not
• Whether something may or may not properly be called a “renderer”
• Copyleft is stupid, irrelevant and self-defeating/you’re aiding arms dealers if you use BSD/MIT

edit: More as I think of them.

• systemd vs OpenRC
• your mom vs my mom

Today marks 20 years since Kat de Koning’s suicide.

Missing you.