What a time to be alive! The web is truly, utterly broken.
To be entirely clear, I’m not doing anything. It just refreshes a million times, DoSing itself in the process, until, after a while, it actually loads “perfectly” fine. All I run is uBlock and NextDNS to get rid of (a portion of) the trackers and ads.
Can’t believe it’s been so many years… But the time has come to say farewell to WordPress.
It’s been on my mind for years, but never really put in the effort to export so many years worth of posts, media, etc to a better solution… It felt like a Herculean job and everytime I thought about it for more than 3 minutes, I dreaded the idea.
But since the future’s (finally) here, thanks to AI, I was able to export it all without fiddling with broken or paid addons and get everything in Hugo within a few hours worth of work. The site lives (for now) on Cloudflare, with the media in R2. The deploy via Gitlab-ci is (or should, let’s find out after this post 🥲) be fully automated and media should sync up in R2.
It’s my firm conviction, now more than ever, that the degree to which we are able and willing to struggle for ownership of our attention is the degree to which we are free.
– James Williams
From Dense Discovery:
Here’s a familiar story we tell ourselves about our new inability to focus: screens bad, books good, civilisation circling the drain. It’s a seductive diagnosis – and also, probably, a lazy one.
I vibe coded a quick tool that lets you sign up, and get emails when a new post is posted (based on the RSS feed) on this blog, as well as my uncle's.
I have quite a few sites where some Unifi U6+ Access Points fail to upgrade with a generic update failed message.
Marquis WiFi Vergaderruimte 4 update failed.
I've tried everything, from ssh'ing, factory resetting with set-default, to manually upgrading with upgrade, etc.
Nothing worked. I thought I had a bunch of bad APs (and many had their warranty expire by a few weeks or months).
As a last resort, I decide to reach out to Ubiquiti's support. First line wasn't very helpful, but as the case was escalated, I've managed to recover and properly update the APs.
