July 2021 update: Well that didn’t last long. Turns out I really miss having a convenient interface to write posts. But I’ve learned enough to implement my site design as a WordPress theme, and I’m tired of using tiny low-to-no-support projects, so WordPress it is!

April 2021 update: After a few months, I decided I wanted my blog integrated, and I wanted to do it with Elixir, so I’m no longer using the static webpack-built website, but the style is basically the same. So anyway, the below is outdated but it was fun learning.

My initial problem: I have an elixir project I’m building primarily on linux, but I want it to work on Windows, too, and I’m using bcrypt, which needs nmake to compile on Windows.

One must install Visual Studio (VS), but that’s not enough.

As a personal note, since I’ve done it for family a few times now, here are steps one can use to create a gif from a longer video.

April 2021 update: while the pi-hole is a very cool project, I eventually grew tired of maintaining a separate DNS service. I still use unbound on my edgerouter but now my raspberry pi just runs some local web services.

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