I’ve not been heavily focused on my digital life lately. But with the season change, comes a shift in focus. The colder weather and disrupted work schedule leads me to spend more time at home in front of a the computer. While I’m still riding the bike (see my 360 project videos on my YouTube channel or Instagram), I’ve come to the conclusion that I should ditch the traditional forms of social media, for an even more traditional social platform: just having a website.

While I really enjoy being spoonfed dopamine hits in the form of short, bite sized video clips and I fall victim regularly to flamewars in the comments section (and I really do enjoy the flamewars, especially against illiterate morons who can’t compete with actual sentences and salient points), it’s not good for my mental health. So while I’m not ditching algorithmic brain rot entirely, I’m cutting down on my Facebook/Insta/YouTube consumption to focus more on creative outlets.

First thing’s first, though. I have a mountain of side projects, half finished code, abandoned git repositories, and computer parts laying around that need to be sifted through, organized, and probably most of it needs to be trashed.

Starting off, clean up BitBucket repos. I have TONS of old repos laying around doing nothing. Time to let go.

• blog - This used to be a Jekyll site, but I have no love for Ruby. I’ve transplated the posts here.
• ansible - Too confusing. I have another one I use for work that I don’t want to mix up. I’ve moved it to the aptly named Gentoo repo.
• aur - I’ve ditched Archlinux (maybe one day I’ll get around to writing about it) so this one can go. It’s all old crap anyway.
• circuit - OK, this one can stay, but only because it was fun to write. This is a python script that generates a random circuit workout based on some parameters you pass via yaml file. I like it, but my workouts are a lot simpler and more effective these days.
• p3n15bot - I’m keeping this one for posterity too, lol. This was for an old Reddit gag where I wrote a bot that monitored the Cycling sub reddits and shitposted about my numb penis whenever someone mentioned the words “numb”, “penis”, “perineum”, or some other keywords. They really can’t shut up about their numb taints over there.
• gojo - Failed project where you could put together your own SGF files from your Go games for later evaluation. Too many things already do this. Also, I’m hopelessly lost trying to do GUI work. I’ll let the experts do this one. I did have some good ideas I would like to see implemented elsewhere, like “Game memorization (play out X moves, then have user repeat, increase X dynamically)”. I like this idea.
• ecr-proxy-node - I should save this one. I used this as a way to proxy connections to AWS ECR without using access keys. As it turns out, they support public repos now so this is obsolete.
• puppet - Eww, I hate Puppet. As far as configuration management goes, it’s really great, but way too complicated for the vast majority of users. I’d say unless you’re managing a fleet of thousands of machines, you can easily get away with Ansible for the majority of daily tasks at a tenth of the effort. rm -rf
• openshift-dev - Wow, I almost forgot about this one. Apparently a Vagrantfile that configured an OpenShift Origin cluster. What a nightmare that software is. Not that it isn’t good, but you have to be dedicated to maintaining it or you’ll get bitten for sure. Also, the Ansible playbooks used to install this software is scary to use. Keeping for the Vagrantfile code.
• fp101x - Keeping this one. At one point I took a MOOC on EDx about functional programming with Haskell. Highly recommend. I can’t write Haskell anymore, by the way, but it is a really neat language.
• scripts - Wow, I remember this one. I have since replaced it with “snippets” which more accurately describes the purpose. I’m looking at the shell script I used back in 2015 to check on the status of various services at work and report back. I think this from when we upgraded the core routers to the Nexus series. Lazy me didn’t want to do all of the verifications by hand, so I wrote a script. This one’s a keeper.
• computer_systems - This one went with a book I have collecting dust on my shelf. Maybe one day I’ll get to it, but it only has one bit of C code in it. Toss.