lewis.engineering

The Raw Brain Feed

  • Gone fishing

    At the pier

    Decided to get out and go fishing with a coworker spontaneously. We picked up a pair of simple spin casting rods and some bait from the store and went to the license free fishing spot at the end of the pier. Caught nothing but grass but enjoyed the fresh air and talking to our fellow angler John who we chatted with the whole time and let us try our one of his spinner baits. After, packed up and went and saw Thamma. 8/10, I would have probably gotten the jokes better if I spoke Hindi and enjoyed it more if they didn’t have the volume cranked sky high. Finally went home and tried editing mobile text width to make it wider. I have figured out how to do selective CSS code based off resolution width to target mobile devices but am struggling to make the text box resize and align properly. This post I did from the mobile app, so no guarantees.

  • Configuration Machinations

    After much struggling and assistance I finally got WordPress live on the sever and was able to login and configure. It seems the main holdup was that the server was running proxy for traffic and as a result the login page was blocking most of it as mixed insecure traffic, preventing any access. Some configuration changes managed by Daniel fixed the problem and got the ball rolling. We then had to play with the file structure and the .htaccess as well as index.php files to make the visitor page the root instead of the standard wordpress sub directory. It looks like most of what I created offline moved over, I had to reinstall the dark mode plugin and edit a few random fields. I’ll keep the studio software for now but it was irritating enough moving the files over that I may just edit the live web page directly in the future. Pardon the dust.

  • Strava Updates

    I pretty religiously log my exercise for calorie counting purposes, but it’s also fun to be a little toxic once in a while.
    Here’s an attempt to have a post with Strava widgets.

    https://www.strava.com/athletes/72077661/latest-rides/0a8046b9385515f2b90a6ff0ae964592874e91a8
    https://www.strava.com/athletes/72077661/activity-summary/0a8046b9385515f2b90a6ff0ae964592874e91a8

  • systemstart

    I've considered getting a domain on and off for a few years now, after playing around with my classmate's degrasse.com and finding it pretty fun. After successfully carrying another classmate through her Wharton EMBA Application through relentless and occasionally borderline psychopathic motivation, she bought me a one year domain license. Since I had nothing better to do during the (as of this writing) continual government shutdown besides wait around for permitting (see the Solar Project), I figured I should give it a try.

    Daniel, of degrasse.com, kindly gave me the rundown and helped me setup dynamic DNS for remote access of a spare server he had, which we then loaded Apache on for initial configuration. We then landed on WordPress for future work. Now, despite being capable, I very much prefer to stay in the world of hardware if at all possible. Relays and logic gates are my love language, machine code is preferable, assembly and VHDL is acceptable, anything higher level provides unnecessary abstraction and complication.
    Needless to say, HTML and PHP are about as far away as you could possibly get, but WordPress Studio seemed like a good IDE so I'm giving it a shot. When, not if, I figure out WebAssembly it will be featured as much as possible.

    For now, I will be working on making the skeleton of the website and then attempting to make it live asynchronously. Next I'll attempt to make it so I can make new posts without having to recompile the whole website. At some point I'll also try hosting an email server, but apparently sending out email from a self hosted server is difficult. It sounds like the solution is a SMTP relay with a free tier, because Google deprecated their free tier of email with Workspace.