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<span class="first">T</span>he
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<span class="first">I</span>nternet
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<span class="first">V</span>agabond
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<h1 id="life-in-progress-as-of-2024-08-19">Life In Progress, as of 2024-08-19</h1>
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<ul>
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<li>Learning <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZVpvJsqTMM">Stan Rogers’
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<em>Bluenose</em></a> on mandolin and voice</li>
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<li>Building a few games in the <a href="https://tic80.com">TIC-80 fantasy console</a></li>
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<li>Deploying my own <a href="https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/pages-server/">“Pages” server</a></li>
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<li>Building a Forgejo Action for deploying game builds to Itch.io using
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<a href="https://itch.io/docs/butler/">butler</a></li>
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<li>Building a custom WordPress Docker container that uses SQLite</li>
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<li>Starting my own business</li>
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</ul>
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<h2 id="music">Music</h2>
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<p>Adam and I continue our semi-weekly jam sessions! We’ve settled on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZVpvJsqTMM">Stan Rogers’
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<em>Bluenose</em></a> for our first piece. I
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normally pick up lyrics pretty quick, but this song eludes me. We worked on the
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chord progression last week, and I’ve been actually practicing!</p>
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<h2 id="game-dev">Game Dev</h2>
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<p>Still having a blast with <a href="https://tic80.com/">TIC-80</a>. I made a small farming
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experiment game, to learn <a href="https://fennel-lang.org">Fennel</a> some more and also
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nail-down some basic design principles. Some of the ideas in that experiment,
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namely generating the map with a loop and <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">mset</code> instead of using the built-in
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map designer, gave me some insight for solving my darkness troubles in
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Nightgolf. I’m still wrapping my head around it, but I think this will be a
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solution.</p>
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<p>The farming experiment game lives on
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<a href="https://vagabondazulien.itch.io/farm-experiment-1">Itch.io</a> and the <a href="https://tic80.com/play?cart=3965">TIC-80
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Webzone</a>.</p>
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<h2 id="tech-dev">Tech Dev</h2>
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<p><a href="https://forgejo.org/">Forgejo</a> continues to be rewarding, and I’m looking
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forward to expanding my deployment of it by deploying my own <a href="https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/pages-server/">“Pages”
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server</a>. This will allow me to
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deploy my static sites on my own infrastructure. I’m also working on an “Action”
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for leveraging <a href="https://itch.io/docs/butler/">butler</a> to publish games I publish
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the source code for from my Forge to Itch.io.</p>
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<p>In preparation for both my own use, and my business use, I need to learn more
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about Nextcloud. I’m also working on building a custom WordPress Docker
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container that relies on SQLite instead of MySQL.</p>
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<p>Hovering about all this is backups and monitoring, both of which I sprinkle into
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my learning voyage. I’m looking forward to writing up some documentation about
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my implementation.</p>
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<h2 id="entrepreneurship">Entrepreneurship</h2>
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<p>I’m happy to report I was accepted into New York’s Self-Employment Assistance
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Program, <a href="https://dol.ny.gov/SEAP">SEAP</a>. I will be starting a business offering
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managed online services, such as website design and deployment, personal cloud,
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and email. I would like to offer these services to local small businesses and
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not-for-profits. I think of it as “Silicon Valley experience” at reasonable,
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local prices. I’m excited to dive into the parts I’m not very familiar with,
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namely the business side of things. I have extensive technical experience and
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mastery, but I lack any significant business experience.</p>
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<h2 id="gaming">Gaming</h2>
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<p>I’ve started a new playthrough of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darkest_Dungeon">Darkest
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Dungeon</a>. It’s mildly
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frustrating, but mostly fun. I have fun yelling at the game; it’s like stress
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relief. I’ve been generally successful, but the Crimson Court has been very
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rough to me. It is a game about challenges and loss, though, so nothing
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unexpected.</p>
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<p>I’ve continued my play-through of
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundered">Sundered</a>, though have put it down for
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a bit. I’m playing it on my Steam Deck using <a href="https://lutris.net/">Lutris</a>, and
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it works very well. Lutris continues to impress me, and I want to try writing an
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installer for a game.</p>
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Bill Niblock
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Last Updated: 2024-08-19
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inspired by <a href="https://sive.rs/" id="now">Derek Sivers</a>.
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My name is <span class="p-name">Bill Niblock</span>. <span
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