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Very Early Thanksgiving Reflection of 2020
There’s this habit I developed sometime after I moved away from Chile.
One cold October night, I was feeling a little stressed because of work, so I went for a drive. I stopped at a park overlooking Elliot Bay. It was dark enough that I couldn’t really see the water, but I could hear the waves and feel the breeze. I sat down, and I let my thoughts go wherever they wanted. What was I doing with my life? Was I really happy with my choices so far, with the sacrifices I made? Had it all been worth it?
At some point, it hit me that what I was doing much better than I was making it seem. I had made sacrifices, yes, but I grew a lot as a result. I was still feeling a little lonely, but I had a lot of support from my friends and family back home, and I was starting to build a group of friends here in Seattle. I realized that, even though I was going through hard times in that instant, I had a lot to be thankful for.
I decided to write that down and share it, and that became the very first “Very Early Thanksgiving Reflection”, and I’ve tried to keep it up every year since. Given the current circumstances, I think this year’s reflection is going to be more important than ever. I’m putting extra time and thought into it. It’s also Canadian Thanksgiving, so it’s perfect timing, in a way!
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How to take your Pi-hole anywhere using WireGuard
I’ve been using Pi-hole for several years. It’s just a fantastic way to both improve your online experience and protect your privacy… but it has one problem: you can’t bring it everywhere with you. Let’s fix that by serving it through a home VPN!
⚠️ Update on 2021/03/11: I missed some steps regarding Dynamic DNS during the original write-up. The article should be complete now.
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Running Folding@Home on Linux with CUDA support using Docker
Global outbreaks have a way to make you feel powerless. Sitting at home, waiting for the coronavirus to blow over… is there really nothing else you can do? Well, there are ways in which you can help. One such example is Folding@Home. F@H is an initiative that uses your computer’s resources to help simulate how proteins and other complex chemicals work. They have set up high-priority jobs to analyze the 2019-nCoV virus, in hopes to help find antibody targets.
If you want to help, it’s as easy as downloading and running their program. Well… except for the life of me I couldn’t get it to run in Ubuntu. So I decided to find a way to do so.
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Now I have comments!
It’s been a busy week, between going back to work and my other personal project (expect posts about it soon!). I still found some time to get some work on my blog done, and now I have comments enabled! I’m gonna go on and blabber about the process, as usual.
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First post! Woohoo! Also, how to serve Jekyll in multiple languages
Alright, it’s working! It took a bit of effort, mainly because I just don’t know a lot of web development and I wanted things to work in a very specific way… but that’s the fun of DIY. I might as well share what I learned.