2012-05-02T00:31:11Z Photos, electronics, cnc, and more Jeff Eplerjepler@unpythonic.net 2012-05-02T00:31:11Z 2012-05-02T00:31:11Z http://emergent.unpythonic.net/01335918671 My shared hosting server apparently burned down, fell over, and <strong>then</strong> sank into the swamp. It looks like my main blog is back, but images and css are still missing. Ugh. Hopefully in another day or two everything will be back to normal. 2012-01-16T13:36:34Z 2012-01-16T13:36:34Z http://emergent.unpythonic.net/01326720994 <div style="float:right;clear:right"><!-- img_0076.jpg--><div class=albumouter style=width:306px id=><div class=albumimage style="width:306px;margin-left:0px;"><a href="http://media.unpythonic.net/emergent-files/01326720994/img_0076-medium.jpg" class="thickbox" rel="album" title="50mm f/1.8 bokeh"><img src="http://media.unpythonic.net/emergent-files/01326720994/img_0076-small.jpg" width=300 height=200></a><div ><div style="float: right" ><a href="http://media.unpythonic.net/emergent-files/01326720994/img_0076-medium.jpg">(M)</a><a href="http://media.unpythonic.net/emergent-files/01326720994/img_0076.jpg">(L)</a></div><a href="http://media.unpythonic.net/emergent-files/01326720994/img_0076.jpg">50mm f/1.8 bokeh</a></div></div></div> </div> I'm in the process of moving my blog hosting from my basement to dreamhost. If you're seeing this article, then you're looking at the new site. I think it's time to throw the switch. 2011-12-11T02:40:37Z 2011-12-11T02:40:37Z http://emergent.unpythonic.net/01323571237 I recently decided it was time for a new look on my website. The new design is based on <a href="http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/">twitter bootstrap</a> for css and a bit of javascript. I hope the result is a new look which is still light and simple but which also fits better with the sensibilities of today's web. 2011-09-13T12:53:00Z 2011-09-13T12:53:00Z http://emergent.unpythonic.net/01315918380 Here are the changes necessary in the aether blog to enable filesystem-based caching: 2011-09-09T12:04:12Z 2011-09-09T12:04:12Z http://emergent.unpythonic.net/01315569852 The caching that I recently enabled seems to have caused trouble with my RSS feed. I think the cause was this: Historically, I've hosted my website at two URLs: emergent.unpy.net and emergent.unpythonic.net. When fetching the feed, all the URLs would be relative to that host. So occasionally, when the feed was judged to be out-of-date by the cache, it woulde be regenerated using the other hostname, making all the items look new to common RSS readers like Google Reader. <p>So from now on, the canonical hostname for my blog is <a href="http://emergent.unpythonic.net">http://emergent.unpythonic.net</a>, and emergent.unpy.net will just be a redirect in order to get the canonical hostname. <p>One more flip-flop may be coming up for my intrepid readers, but after that hopefully things settle down. 2011-08-28T22:49:33Z 2011-08-28T22:49:33Z http://emergent.unpythonic.net/01314571773 A long time ago, I wrote but never deployed a filesystem-based cache for my aether blog. This weekend, I cleaned it up and it's now running live on my blog. I hope nothing weird pops up as a result. <p>The ultimate goal of this is to try to get the websites that are running on my home system onto a web hosting provider, where CPU and disk I/O are at much more of a premium. So far, it improves the time loading the front page of my blog by about a factor of 360 (yes—not 360%, 360 times) on the local network when a cached respones can be used , which should make it quite fast enough to run even on a shared hosting system like dreamhost. <p>URLs with query parts (&quot;?…&quot;) are never cached, so if you read me via rss, may I suggest to use the URL <a href="http://emergent.unpythonic.net/_atom">http://emergent.unpythonic.net/_atom</a> if you are not already. <p>If you spot any problems, drop me an e-mail. 2009-07-24T02:42:37Z 2009-07-24T02:42:37Z http://emergent.unpythonic.net/01248403357 It's now possible to view my photos in several new ways: <a href="/_photostream">My latest 25 photos</a> <a href="/_photostream/atom=">(as an Atom feed)</a> <a href="/_photostream/random=/count=10">Ten random photos</a> <a href="/_photostream/random=/count=10/atom=">(as an Atom feed)</a> 2009-03-20T23:42:38Z 2009-03-20T23:42:38Z http://emergent.unpythonic.net/01237592558 I'm merging this blog with my old AXIS/EMC2 blog. Look forward to more posts about cnc and related topics. <p><b> Update</b>: I've merged old AXIS blog entries into this one, so you can read the old stuff here as well. Copied entries are marked &quot;<font size=-2>(originally posted on the AXIS blog)</font>&quot;.