Terraforming my Droplet

No more manual config I want to run my droplet with my blog and all my games and silly one-off web apps without ever touching it manually. This would allow me to destroy and rebuild it on a whim, using config as code, CI/CD, etc.. I recently messed around with user access and locked myself out of my droplet. Around the same time, my draft blog stopped updating properly. The update failure is likely a file ownership problem....

January 18, 2020

Installing Linux on a Flash Drive

Linux in my pocket I have a Windows 10 laptop that I can’t install Linux on. It’s a decent laptop with a nice form factor. It weighs half what my workhorse laptop does, and I want to take it on a trip where I’ll need to do many Linuxy things. (WSL has too many unknowns and potential blockers for me to be OK relying on). Short version: install the installer to a small flash drive, then boot into that and select the other flash drive as ext4 to install to....

December 7, 2018