well, this sucks!

cohost will become read-only on Tuesday, October 1st. At this time, we will make best-effort attempts to keep the servers online through the end of 2024.

“cohost to shut down at end of 2024”, from the staff blog (archive.org link)

damn. i was using cohost a fair bit, even if only as a read-only “i enjoy looking at these people’s posts!” thing.

i guess that means i need to post the things i’m doing here instead, instead of letting them just sit in my cohost drafts?

irys.cc

the rewrite of those tools is now on the main irys.cc domain, instead of being relegated to beta.irys.cc. which is good, because the old site was hosted on neocities, which meant i had the ability to just edit the things without any version control. it’s all in a github repo now.

CatKB

i wrote an “inventory management system” for my boxes and boxes of computer parts. it also does other things (like parcel tracking for a couple NZ courier companies) but those aren’t as important.

the backend is Ruby (using Sinatra for the REST API; and some Rust thrown in for barcode generation), and the frontend is SvelteKit.

it looks terrible, but it damn well works!

speaking of IBM Power gear…

i got an IBM Power 710 and an IBM Power 720 recently.

haven’t got to play with them much yet, but that’ll be fun!

yeah

i do actually want to try using this damn blog more, but who knows if that’ll happen. there’s not much interesting stuff for me to blog about!