There's a lot of articles about supply based usage vs demand based energy production on that website. The idea that it turns off every now and then is sort of part of the authors' intention of showing "we can live with some outages".
Interesting read. Even though you had only medium amount of trouble, it was enough to once again convince me my earlier decision to not do this is the right one. My Hetzner instance had an extended outage for the first time in its livetime this year, and after that I considered moving to CDN. However, due to the little things you list here and your bottom line of " For a blog my size it’s most likely overkill", I decided to just run a Hetzner instance without CDN.
Reading https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/about/ made me reconsider if 24/7 uptime with 99.9999% SLA is really that important. It's a poster on the internet. What does it matter if the poster occasionally falls off?
Gekko here. I encountered Ur-Quan Masters in 2008 or so when I attended a DDR (Dance Dance Revolution) event in Oulu, Finland. One of the side programs was an UQM tournament, and it was love at first sight. After that I got the game, played through the main story (only Earth survived...), then joined the PVP community on #uqm-arena (now on the IRC network Libera, although almost everyone is in the Free Stars Discord).
That began the terror that people now know as Gekko as I slowly defeated tougher and tougher opponents until eventually I somehow ended up running the UQM PVP arena for some 10 years. During that time I organized many a tournament and even the forum campaign game. Recently I was invited to test the melee on the new game as the devs were looking for PVP experts. Even more recently I organized the 2026 summer tournament https://plantmonster.net/uqm-league-2026/
FFMPEG is nice when you do something like ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -vcodec copy -acodec copy -ss 00:01:00 -t 00:03:00 out.mp4 and the result is almost instant as there's no re-encoding.
Very pleasing light and color here. Good job!
How do you get the black background? That doesn't look drawn. If it is, insanely even result.
Darkwood. https://www.gog.com/en/game/darkwood
Ah, sorry for the confusion - that server's been out of commission for a few years already.
There's a lot of articles about supply based usage vs demand based energy production on that website. The idea that it turns off every now and then is sort of part of the authors' intention of showing "we can live with some outages".
This article in particular is a good one: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2017/09/how-not-to-run-a-modern-society-on-solar-and-wind-power-alone/
I know this is a typo, but I'm sad Guthub isn't a food delivery company.
I'm sorry. Have this picture of a lime hawk-moth caterpillar I saw the other day.
https://plantmonster.net/pictures/phone/PXL_20260813_122831209.jpg
I honestly don't remember now as this was over 10 years ago.
I used this, among other things, for my personal Blender renderfarm. Cooling was a must.
To be fair, those things are really tiny!
Interesting read. Even though you had only medium amount of trouble, it was enough to once again convince me my earlier decision to not do this is the right one. My Hetzner instance had an extended outage for the first time in its livetime this year, and after that I considered moving to CDN. However, due to the little things you list here and your bottom line of " For a blog my size it’s most likely overkill", I decided to just run a Hetzner instance without CDN.
Reading https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/about/ made me reconsider if 24/7 uptime with 99.9999% SLA is really that important. It's a poster on the internet. What does it matter if the poster occasionally falls off?
If you don't mind a somewhat old game, The Void by Icepick Lodge https://www.gog.com/en/game/void_the
Similarly, if you don't mind an actually old game, Thief 1 + 2 have probably the best ambiance I've ever seen: https://www.gog.com/en/game/thief_2_the_metal_age
Could you add the balance mod to the list? https://github.com/uqm-arena/balance-mod/
Gekko here. I encountered Ur-Quan Masters in 2008 or so when I attended a DDR (Dance Dance Revolution) event in Oulu, Finland. One of the side programs was an UQM tournament, and it was love at first sight. After that I got the game, played through the main story (only Earth survived...), then joined the PVP community on #uqm-arena (now on the IRC network Libera, although almost everyone is in the Free Stars Discord).
That began the terror that people now know as Gekko as I slowly defeated tougher and tougher opponents until eventually I somehow ended up running the UQM PVP arena for some 10 years. During that time I organized many a tournament and even the forum campaign game. Recently I was invited to test the melee on the new game as the devs were looking for PVP experts. Even more recently I organized the 2026 summer tournament https://plantmonster.net/uqm-league-2026/
My website is https://jessekaukonen.net/
Don't learn C++ before C. C++ is a massively more complex language whereas C, once you understand the fundamentals, is quite simple.
If you want to work with projects that use C++, then by all means.
FFMPEG is nice when you do something like
ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -vcodec copy -acodec copy -ss 00:01:00 -t 00:03:00 out.mp4and the result is almost instant as there's no re-encoding.This looks interesting. Thanks for the link!
Honestly not a bad idea. It would be possible to automate with some API too...
Hah, I checked if this has a Godot support, but it was built -in- Godot.
Cool! What software is this?