Recent Blog Posts

"The Unreasonable Effectiveness of the ArchWiki and Arch Linux Forums, or How I Un-Borked my Thinkpad T440 After Some Battery Troubles"

January 16, 2026

The ArchWiki stands as a testament to the dedication and care of the Arch Linux user community and has long been the envy of other distros. Although only topics germane to Arch Linux are to be documented, the level of detail and breadth of information have proven to be useful to users of other distros as well. As outlined in the following LWN article, the Debian project invited a pair of ArchWiki maintainers to DebConf25 to discuss the ArchWiki management strategy as a means to revamp the existing Debian wiki.

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"Using Guix Docker Images for Gitlab CI/CD"

January 16, 2026

Over the years I've made several changes to how this website is hosted and deployed. In its original incarnation, it was a Jekyll site hosted with GitHub Pages. Eventually I felt the need to move the repository and its deployment to GitLab for one or more reasons. GitLab offers a Jekyll project for getting started with GitLab Pages. I ended up forking the Build Jekyll with Bundler repo as a starting point, migrating my styling and markdown posts afterwards.

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"Publishing Data Online with Datasette - ETP"

July 31, 2025

Note - This post was originally published on my Etruscan Studies Blog at the following link on 2024-02-13

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"Opportunities for Digitization in the Humanities - The Etruscan Texts Project"

July 31, 2025

Note - This post was originally published on my Etruscan Studies Blog at the following link on 2024-02-10

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