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365Project - Day 48

And good news, comments are back. I took them off to give commento another try, but their docs are offline and I would like to understand PHP a bit better. It has evolved a lot as a programming language since I worked with it.

So I'm using Hashover 2.0 …

Autumn Backyard Birdfeeders

We didn't have a birdfeeder this year, there was just too many warnings from provincial natural resources about the amount of bird flu in the wild population, so instead we grew flowers.

During the summer there were a few birds, but mostly pollenators, now that autumn is in full swing …

We made it through Hurricane Fiona

We made it through Hurricane Fiona, the largest storm ever in Canada, with minimal damage and the power was only out for ~40h. I have a lot of thoughts, but no time to put them down, so that will have to wait for a bit.

In the meantime, this little …

Self-Hosting this site at home

While I was trying to figure out the commenting for this site I was using the FTP a lot. I have a daily batchfile that runs to update this site and created a local mirror, but the CLI FTP portion kept breaking.

Because of those two things I decided to …

Lots of berries in the woods

It was too warm this summer, and I don't know if its a sign of age in me, or that something else. Probably has a little to do with the raging pandemic that is killing people that we have decided to ignore. Stiff upper lip and all that.

Anyway, the …