tils

i discovered that i had pretty much winnowed my oh-my-zsh use down to just needing it for the spiffy git prompt updates (i.e., letting me know i had staged/unstaged changes in the current directory hierarchy. turns out eliminating this from my setup was a lot easier than i was expecting. zsh has a really nice vcs_info module that just needs to be tickled into operation. Git - Git in Zsh had just enough to get me moving in the right direction and a little bit of reading the relevant documentation got me to a slightly nicer tweak of the setup....

overview the other day duckdns was all sorts of wonky and there’s no real status update from anyone in the mailers or the google groups. which, is not cool. turns out that the cloudflare API does all of the necessary bits to do dynamic dns and it’s already been integrated into the ddns scripts available in openwrt. misc. steps required create an API key in the cloudflare dashboard that has perms for the necessarly zone....

openwrt tailscale overview some notes for getting tailscale to work on openwrt (assumes an openwrt 23.x). broadly the instructions on the openwrt wiki are accurate. however, there are a few more steps that seem to be required. of note the installation of the ip[6]tables-nft packages opkg install iptables-nft opkg install ip6tables-nft after these are installed, i found it useful to restart the tailscale service. service tailscale restart then setup the site routes....

no matter how long you think it’s going to take, double it. i migrated my neovim configuration from packer to lazy, this results in very fast load times, but it really educated me as to what i do and do not need in my editor configuration on a daily basis. the config is a lot better, but it’s going to require that i maintain some semblance of awareness as to what’s outdated, or not....