Let me be on the record that I hate working on a CI pipeline. It brings me back to a time when we made a single line change and waited ten minutes for C++ templates to compile. I really did not enjoy that. This will serve as documentation so I never have to figure this out again.
It has been 13 years since I removed a comment functionality from this blog. I have to admit I do not regret it. The amount of low quality, borderline spam comments was comparable to a YouTube comment section under a slightly controversial video with someone claiming ArchLinux is not the best distribution ever. But there is an email address below each post and an invitation to email me. It might not be as prominent as it should be, but let me tell you, the comments I get are well thought out, valuable to read and often a starting point for a nice conversation.
One thing I wanted to add to this blog for a long time was full text search. Content is steadily increasing and sometimes I have a hard time finding the exact right post to link to when writing a new post. My wife was also complaining that she could never find the post about backups for artists when she wanted to link it. So what a better way to spend a few hours of my vacation than to add full text search functionality.
I have been blogging for a very long time, in a few years it will be three decades. I registered my first domain in the late 90s. Back then it was meant to become a knowledge base for WiFi. It might be hard to imagine for some of you, but back then getting a wireless network setup that covered more than a single room was not that simple, nor available except in the most nerdy homes. Somehow it slowly turned into a blog. A bit later I added a second one talking about work. One day I decided to write a static site generator, left fintech and started a blog in English.
It has been some time since I preordered the SteamDeck. Looking back at what I thought about it back then, there are many things I was right about. What surprised me the most is the amount of games I played on the Deck that I could have played on my computer instead. There is something about sitting in the garden or on the couch and playing a Metroidvania that is oddly relaxing. Given that I do enjoy my little handheld and it has served me well for a few years now, I thought it was time for some small upgrades.