content/blog/2025-01-14-what-s-new-in-2024.md

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-+++
-title = "What’s new in 2024"
-date = "2025-01-14"
-updated = "2025-01-14"
-[extra]
-authors = ["Ydreniv"]
-+++
-
-We have a finite amount of time to do so many things.
-Life can become full very fast, from domestic labour,
-paid work, hobbies, taking part in social events…
-Finding the right balance between all these activities may be one of my biggest
-challenge.
-Looking at my [basic information](@/_index.md#basic-stuff-about-me), one can
-see that among my interests, I’d like to take time discovering geology,
-listening and writing about music, ornithology,
-[miniatures](https://minis.kestrels-and-roses.rocks) and much more.
-How much time did I dedicate to each of these in 2024 ?
-Well, it’s mostly been miniatures.
-
-I have painted dozens of models, for varieus settings (the grimdark
-science-fiction of Warhammer 30k, the undead world of Necropolis28), in two
-different scales : 8mm and 28/32mm.
-This has been a fun experience, and I’ve played with many great people.
-I know I’ll continue doing this in 2025.
-I’ve already played at a Necropolis event in January.
-However while the painting process is generally soothing, this can also lead
-to some anxiety.
-I’m not concerned too much about the social factor of meeting and playing with
-people.
-However, my growing amount of unfinished miniatures is becoming stressful.
-I haven’t put myself in any kind of financial danger (I’m not that impulsive),
-but I find my amount of free space currently very limited.
-This means that cleaning up my room gets harder, as a couple boxes simply
-don’t fit on the shelves.
-This is a significant source of anxiety, as I don’t want to live
-in a constant mess.
-I haven’t found a perfect answer to that though, besides limiting my new
-purchases to a minimum.
-Moreover, there’s the environmental impact of this hobby.
-Miniatures are either produced from various kinds of plastic, or white metal.
-Acrylic paints are plastic-based.
-While preparing or converting a model, I produce plastic waste, whether
-shavings or bigger chunks.
-Although all of these are relatively small quantities compared to a lot of
-other activities, it is still currently unsustainable.
-So far, the easiest solution is as always to reduce consumption, and I intend
-to limit mine.
-I would also like to research sustainable miniature painting and modelism.
-
-Related to this hobby, I have brought many changes to my
-[Minis](https://minis.kestrels-and-roses.rocks) website.
-I have ditched DotClear 2, as I felt the blogging engine was too big and
-cumbersome.
-Instead, I have built a static site using [Zola](https://www.getzola.org/).
-It’s now much lighter, and I prefer this workflow where I edit Markdown files.
-The website could use some improvements, but it’s overall fine.
-
-I have pretty much been inactive on Tilde Town.
-I have started coming back more in December, even publishing an [article about
-ddrescue](@/blog/2024-12-11-ddrescue.md).
-I’d like to be more present here.
-Realistically though, while I think I’ll still visit in 2025, I doubt I’ll do
-that much given all the other life stuff.

content/blog/2025-02-26-bash-count-firefox-tabs.md

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-title = "Count your opened Firefox tabs with bash"
-date = "2025-02-26"
-updated = "2025-02-26"
-[extra]
-authors = ["Ydreniv"]
-+++
-
-At any point in time, I have many Firefox tabs opened.
-I might even have reached a thousand.
-This feels like an issue I should address at some point, and I have already
-tried.
-But today, my goal is easier : count the number of currently opened tabs.
-In truth, it’s fairly easy : many extensions provide this information, in more
-or less granular details (number of windows, number of tabs in a specific
-window…).
-However neat this is, I want to get my total number of opened tabs printed in
-a Unix shell.
-Indeed, I ultimately would like to automatically graph this number over time.
-
-Before I started, I figured I’d need to find a session file, list the tabs,
-and get the count.
-Sounds fairly easy right ?
-Well it was not too hard in the end, but there were a couple bumps.
-The first is the format used to store the sessions.
-It’s compressed using LZ4, but with headers set by Mozilla, before LZ4 was
-fully standardized.
-[This StackOverflow](https://superuser.com/a/1363751) answer gives a bunch of
-tools to decompress the file.
-I’ve chosen to use [andikleen’s tool](https://github.com/andikleen/lz4json.git)
-as it worked out of the box easily.
-Once in possession of the extracted JSON, I’ve used `jq` to get the tabs’ IDs, and
-`wc` to count them.
-
-So with `./lz4jsoncat /home/<user>/snap/firefox/common/.mozilla/firefox/<profile-id>.default-release/sessionstore-backups/recovery.jsonlz4 | jq '.windows[].tabs[].index' | wc -l`,
-I’ve gotten my answer in a shell : 138 (yikes !).
-I’m using only one Firefox profile, but I suppose you could adapt this shell
-pipe to support more.
-Anyway, I’ll need to work on a cronjob to do it regularly, and an agent to
-collect these data (probably Prometheus).
-This would be one of the first metrics I’d collect for my "local computer
-monitoring center".
-

content/the-zone.md

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-+++
-title = "The Zone"
-template = "the-zone.html"
-date = "2025-06-12"
-updated = "2025-06-12"
-+++
-
-## Broken Gate
-
-The gravel road passes along a rusty fence, charged with preventing passage
-into the large stretch of land, with dry grass and thorny bushes.
-Neither are very good at their jobs though.
-The road isn’t maintained, and one couldn’t pass there comfortably with a road
-bike.
-A gravel bike, or a mountain bike would be a much better choice.
-As for the fence, there are numerous holes at the bottom, letting foxes and
-deers pass freely.
-Besides, the lock on the gate has been cut done for a long time, and it is now
-wide open.
-Under the blue sky, with the faintest traces of clouds, it is quite an
-invitation to step out of the road, and go exploring.
-
-## Brown Shack
-
-A couple hundred meters from the [broken gate](#broken-gate) stands a small
-wooden cabin.
-The paint isn’t fresh, but the colour hasn’t entirely disappeared yet.
-It’s a rusty brown and it pairs nicely with the greyish wood seen below.
-Speaking of, there’s also an apple tree, growing a couple meters from the
-shack.
-The apples are not yet ripe.
-They could be a nice snack in autumn.
-
-## Fendrex Center
-
-North of Avenville, in the industrial park near the [Great Ridge
-supermarket](#great-ridge-supermarket) is where Fendrex had once established a
-minor plastic injection factory.
-It was once used to produce various designs, from beach toys to car
-accessories.
-Business has stopped decades ago, and after sitting unused for a while, a few
-families have finally moved in.
-They’ve repurposed the office rooms as bedrooms, and the large area, which
-once housed the production lines, has been partitioned into several communal
-spaces with sheets of fabric.
-Liam Ashfalls is the latest to have come upon this place.
-He’s a traveller, a ranger who roams the Zone, bringing the latest news and
-tales to those he meets.
-In exchange for food and a place to live, he’s participating in the daily
-labour here.
-There’s meals to cook, laundry to make, floors to sweep and a roof garden to
-tend.
-This suits Liam well.
-While doing these chores, he gets to talk to the inhabitants, both sharing his
-knowledge and learning more.
-Auntie Carol, who’s lived in the city all her life, tells him a lot about the
-history of the neighbourhood.
-She has always known it as an industrial place.
-However, when she was young, it was mostly a patchwork of small tenements and
-factories.
-However, during the rise of the conglomerates, as many companies merged or
-absorbed smaller ones, the factories grew, and bought the tenements to
-demolish them and make space for their business.
-Carol had to move elsewhere, but she found her way back as a Human Resource
-Manager, first for Globalia, then for a few others.
-She developed a bad cough then.
-Datacenter grew in computing power, straining the aging power grid.
-The council did several overhaul, but never fast enough for the tech giants.
-In the end, they installed gas turbines, mostly illegally without due permit.
-These operated in the cheapest way possible, with no filter, and no air
-quality control.
-Stable bribes ensured they were never investigated.
-Fortunately, one too many crises had seen the era of monopolies come to an
-end, and with it, the slow rewilding of the area.
-
-## Great Ridge Supermarket
-
-Once in a while, the Supermarket in Great Ridge had been a place teeming with
-people during the day, and utterly desert at night.
-Now, it’s always deserted.
-It’s not without reason, as it is one of the most dangerous place of Fendrex.
-An <abbr title="Autonomous Medium Breacher">AMB</abbr>-48b, a robot equipped with a small fusion reactor is still following
-orders to clear the area.
-While it’s contractor, Qualis, has long since ceased existing, due to a
-technical glitch, the orders couldn’t be cancelled.
-The AMB had killed every insurgent in the building in a matter of hours, but
-Qualis couldn’t get it to stop.
-While Qualis operators should have been classified as friends, and allowed to
-manually intervene, it seemed like a localized <abbr title="ElectroMagnetic
-Pulse">EMP</abbr> had damaged its fine electronics, and it appears than AMB
-now consider any human as being a foe.
-
-## A Lengthy Tree
-
-Below the horizon, where ends meet beets, lie the greatest of all.
-He Who Is Yet To Be Named, Hero of the Alpharion, Megalus Altimor Exemplar.
-Yet he lives, and few have seen a sight more bitter and strange.
-Therefore we should focus on earning the right to wear earings made of glass.
-Indeed large machine language models have been developed to be not of sort,
-but of matter.
-What if we could have it with fun ?
-It would certainly be an interesting choice of words.
-Nobody knows whether the half time of length has any pike installed in the
-poster.
-

requirements.txt

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-Pushl~=0.4.0

sass/the-zone.scss

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-html {
-  background-color: #010101;
-  color: #ffeedd;
-}

templates/includes/list-pages.html

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     <li><a href="{{ config.base_url }}/buttons">Buttons</a></li>
     <li><a href="{{ config.base_url }}/ideas">Ideas</a></li>
     <li><a href="{{ config.base_url }}/project-spg">PROJECT SPG</a></li>
-    <li><a href="{{ config.base_url }}/the-zone">The Zone</a></li>
   </ul>

templates/the-zone.html

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-{% import "macros/opengraph.html" as opengraph_macros %}
-
-{% extends "base.html" %}
-
-{% block stylesheet %}
-<link rel="stylesheet" href="{{ config.base_url }}/the-zone.css">
-{% endblock %}
-
-{% block head_extra %}
-{{ opengraph_macros::opengraph(title=page.title, url=page.permalink, content=page.content, type="website", image=config.base_url ~ "/img/project-spg/%5BMCS-003%5D%20Window%20to%20the%20Fire.png") }}
-{% endblock %}
-
-{% block content %}
-
-<header>
-  <h1>{{ page.title }}</h1>
-  <nav>
-    {% include "includes/list-pages.html" %}
-  </nav>
-</header>
-
-<div id="main">
-
-  {{ page.content |safe }}
-
-</div>
-
-{% include "includes/footer.html" %}
-{% endblock content %}