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This is my personal site where I note down my thoughts. Enjoy!
Intolerance Paralax
I've often thought about this problem: how do tolerant people tolerate the intolerant people. It was clear to me that the tolerant would always, in the long run, lose to the intolerant, unless they themselves become intolerant to the intolerant. If you get what I'm trying to say!
And if you don't there's actually a term for this: Paradox of tolerance, first described by Karl Popper and explained much more clearly on WikiPedia.
Drinking Guinness
My very first visit to Ireland, on a day trip from London to visit the University of Limerick Open Day of all things, was topped off by my first Guinness in Ireland, at Shannon airport waiting for me flight back.
They made me wait 3 minutes at the bar for the beer to settle before topping it off...
...and then I waited another 2 minutes at the table for that last bit to settle.
Cheers! 🍀
Back on GitHub Pages
A couple of days ago I wrote about how I had migrated my SSG from Eleventy to my own custom PHP script and switched to hosting the site on NearlyFreeSpeech.Net.
I now managed to get my PHP script running with GitHub Actions, which meant I can again publish to GitHub Pages. As much as like supporting smaller hosts, the convenience of publishing to GitHub Pages using an automated GitHub Action is hard to beat. It saves me having to connect to the NFS servers and run a build script there. Sure I could have a cron job running there or something like that, but it seemed a bit pointless to build without changes to the content.
Now if only there was a good editor or even CMS for GitHub. I miss forestry.io, which really did exactly what I wanted, but unfortunately its replacement, tina.io does not. I will keep looking.