Wet the clay and place it down,Get to work on the shapeless mound,Excitement grows from first touch,Pictures in mind, manifest as such,For the jar is yet to begin its form,You’ve started again, as is the norm, The shape rises from delicate attention,Sides expand from lack of contention,Honest touches to create […]
An ageing fisherman sat on the shore,A moment to reflect on the times before,The pride in his vessel, the love he forgot,What he would do and what he would not, With the crumple of pages, an idea rejected,Hunched over his book, he knew he deflected,That leak in the raft was […]
For the last 38 days (more than a month, yes, but it doesn’t make the title pop, okay) I’ve been taking Japanese lessons on Duolingo. I’ve always had an interest in the language and culture in Japan and inspiration hit to finally try and learn something. Here, I’m going to […]
Call me love and just steal my breathe,I’ll give it all ’til there’s nothing left,But an open hole inside my soul,The things I try to forget, Say my name and just keep my heart,Laser focused on a fresh start,Go lay to bed within my head,The things I try to forget, […]
After spending the last week bashing my head against a desk trying to locate the various settings and “gotchas” of AWS for network address translation and IP forwarding from within a VPC, I’ve finally written down concise enough notes to publish something here so I never have to remember how […]
Basic Setup Create new rails app (note: the nokogiri line is usually needed on MacOS to properly build the dependency) Launch server (check it’s running by going to http://localhost:3000) Add some gems to Gemfile Install gem dependencies Bootstrap support Rename app/assets/stylesheets/application.css to app/assets/stylesheets/application.scss and remove require lines Static Page Support […]
Some Background Websites are awesome, everyone should have one, especially those in the IT world. I bought my first domain name (stufranks.systems… ew) at 17 because I wanted to host some of the guides I’d written as I learned Linux first-hand at my first job. I wrote up a bunch […]
You’ve seen it on videos, at concerts. Sweaty, tattooed youths bashing into each other, spinning around, bodies moving like a violent sea. Gaps in the adoring fans being filled desperately with flesh and energy. The Moshers. I am a mosher, and I would like you to join me on a […]
I heard that you’re alone again,I hope you’ll be okay,It takes every bit of discipline,To not reach out and say,That I have raging thoughts within,For you to not suffer and to pay, The hypocrisy inside of me,Is fueled by different shards,All of which I calmly see,But disregarding them is hard, […]
The lonely fisherman sat idle on his raft,Comfort and composure engaging in his craft,Reeling in occasional fruits from the water-bodied God,He wrangled down inside himself and felt something odd, For where there was passion there was also a loss,For where his raft was strong there was also growing moss,And this […]