Diego Vicente @dvicente@mastodon.sdf.org

I finally migrated my blog (https://diego.codes) to Hetzner, a German green hosting provider (...and away from GitHub). It was quite smooth overall: I placed the order, migrated the contents from GH Pages to the SFTP server and configured the certificates and DNS all while watching a football match - roughly an hour.

For my fellow data scientist out there, I am using Optuna to perform hyperparameter search in a project and it's giving great results so far, in case you want to check it out https://optuna.readthedocs.io/en/stable/index.html #datascience #machinelearning

Turns out that @darktable has now a Mastodon account! One of the most ambitious open source projects I use regularly

I am building for the first time a PC and I am coming to the realization that if I want to game, I have sometimes no other choice than to buy gaming parts to get the desired performance. Which makes me think: aren't like, a lot of adults into gaming? Why does everything feel so childish? Everything has colorful flashy lights, tribal decals a la 2002, military-related names (Ballistix, Predator, Tomahawk)... It feel just that, childish.

Also, if you have any interest at all in the evolution, there is this great video by The Internet Historian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5BJVO3PDeQ

I have been playing No Man's Sky for a week now and I think it is a pretty good game. I love exploration games, and even though it was a bumpy ride for Hello Games I think they have redeemed themselves. It is great to be able to roam a huge universe with a sutpidly wide range of activities to do: a main campaign, secondary missions, base building, mining (at all scales), biology... even archaelogy, and who knows what else that I have yet to discover!

I am making some advances in my Nix/NixOS configuration. Currently testing if my current setup works seamlessly both in NixOS and non-NixOS systems (I still feel more comfortable using Debian for work just in case some stupid app only provides .deb/.rpm)

You should probably be listening to Idles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLcM3fq6Quk #NowPlaying

The only good thing that Hacktoberfest is going to yield this year is the coinage of the term "nontribution"

After all I'm reading regarding the Hacktoberfest spam, I guess that is going to be a tough choice to wear that t-shirt in public. I'm sorry for all the folks that are doing it fair and square, submitting useful and honest PRs; looks like they are just getting new pajamas

I am really polishing my Aeropress technique. Also starting to understand coffee-water ratios: how to control extraction, acidity, etc 👌

(yes I know, it is possible to brew an ok cup with dirt and an Aeropress, but this is getting *good*).