Earnest Ma

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Moved to Ghost!

I thought it was about time to switch things up, and I've migrated from Hugo to Ghost. It was quite easy to install and set up, although I ended slightly modifying the Casper theme. This included things like being able to have content on the home page, resizing

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Drafting blog posts in Obsidian

So I've had this website for a few years now, and since most of that time I've been using Hugo, Doom Emacs was my choice to write and edit. But recently it's been really weird and crashy on my macbook, so I've

Games

I finished(*) Gemcraft Labyrinth

So, for a very long time now, on various devices I have been playing this old Flash game called Gemcraft Labyrinth. First through Armor Games, then a sketchy program that had the swf and flash player embedded so I could play it offline, but now you can download the game

Personal

Minor Website and Personal Updates

Greetings all! 5 months into the year and this is my first post 😂 Exams were done, I passed all but one course, and I've been on summer break for about a month now. Much more time for working and learning fun stuff (like writing more blog posts!). We&

Livestreams

Advent Of Code 2022 Livestreams

Hi everyone! Last year, I did a few days of Advent of Code in Java (because that's what I was learning at the time). It was quite fun, so I am planning on trying again this year - in Python this time - and livestreaming it! A caveat

Status Update

Status Update, November 2022

Hello again! Midterms and reading week are all over, so now it is less than a month until finals and Winter Break. I have 3 major assignments due by the end of this month alone and then another group one. 😅 On the roadmap -- if I procratinate enough, are a

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Status Update, October 2022

Hey everyone! This is October's status update post (happy Autumn 🍂). Midterms for me are coming up soon, which is way sooner than I expected 😬. In terms of personal stuff I've been up to, reading is keeping me sane (almost to my goal of 150 books read

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Status Update, September 2022

Hello everyone! There's not much to say in this one, so it'll be a bit shorter. As I'm writing this, it's my first full week of classes, and at the moment I am running laundry. As mentioned in the last post, I

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Status Update, Sept 2, 2022

Hey everyone. I wasn't expecting to do a status update post so early, but here one is! So, earlier this week (Wednesday), I unexpectedly got a residence offer from New College (my college at U of T), which I accepted. They had originally sent an offer in June

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Status Update, August 2022

Hello all! It's close to mid-August, which means that my first day of university is now less than a month away 😧 I was able to get my wisdom teeth extracted (all pain-free now), did my ARCT exam as mentioned (no results yet), and I finally got driver'

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2 Years of this website!

Just a few days ago, my website/ personal web presence turned 2 years old! 🎉 It all started on a GitHub Pages/ Netlify + Hugo setup, which was my first experience with using HTML/CSS + git - I had just finished the grade 11 computer science course for school. Eventually, I bought

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Status Update, July 2022

Welcome to my 6th status update! Crazy to think that I've been keeping this up for half a year. It's been quite a month for me, so let's start off with probably the most interesting things: * I graduated grade 12! (here's a

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Status Update, June 2022

Hello everyone! I hope that your June so far has been good :) Here's my (shorter-than-usual) status update. Site There have been no new blog posts, and I've discontinued notes.earnestma.com. After trying out Obsidian Publish and Quartz, I'm just going to leave my

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Status Update, May 2022

Here's another status update for you all! The weather has been warming up the past few days in Toronto, which has not been very fun for me, as our house's AC doesn't really reach my room 😢🤬 Luckily as I'm writing this, because

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1 Month on my MacBook

I've only had my own laptop since 2018. While the first one ran Windows and had Microsoft Family Safety, almost for a good half of that time I knew of or was using Linux in some way. In fact, I made it almost an entire year using only

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Status Update, April 2022

Here's the status update for the month, sorry it's late! Also, happy Easter Monday and Nonbinary Parents Day. 💛🤍💜🖤 Before we start, here are some links: * Here's a good Twitter thread on why "just staying home" for chronically ill/ disabled people doesn'

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Status Update, March 2022

Welcome back to another one of these update posts! March has been quite an eventful month so far, and I've just started 2 weeks of March break :) Site and social activities No major changes to my website. The recipes page was updated to provide some public recipe links

Tutorial

Adjust KDE Plasma scale without restarting (X)

My main machine is currently a 15.6" laptop. As such, for things to not be too tiny, I have set the global scale to be a bit higher. There are a few situations where it shouldn't be, though, for example when i plug in an external

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Status Update, February 2022

Hello! It's been an Interesting Month. Here's what i've been up to. Site activities I have moved this site from WordPress back to Hugo, although i've started a fresh repo. My first domain (earnestma.xyz) started off as a Hugo site, and

Uses

Uses, 2021 Edition

As 2021 wraps up, I thought I’d do an update on the various things I’ve been using. This year has been more heavy as I continue online learning and programming more. Oh, I also moved off Windows and did a tiny amount of distro-hopping during the summer! (Happy

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New domain earnestma.com

Hi all! A short note that I am moving this site over to the https://earnestma.com domain (and any subdomains). Please update your feed/ links accordingly. I will likely keep earnestma.xyz redirecting here until the domain expires in August of 2022.

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Switching to WordPress

Update 2022-01: Moved back to Hugo! This site now uses WordPress! A few days ago, I migrated all of my blog posts and pages over from Hugo. It’s pretty weird to be going in what seems to be the opposite direction (more “bloat”), but I’m quite happy so

Tutorial

Migrate Email with mbsync

Migrating mail between IMAP servers using mbsyncMy university recently announced a switch from Zimbra to Microsoft Exchange server. The thought didn’t sit well with me, so I decided to migrate the mails to my own mail server instead. A generalised account of what I used to achieve this, can

Tutorial

Mic Push-to-talk With AutoHotkey and SoundVolumeView

This is an AutoHotkey script I set up to use with NirSoft's SoundVolumeView. It uses the command-line from that to send mute/ unmute the microphone (through the system) whenever a key is held down. It's not perfect and there is a small delay, so improvements are

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My Email Workflow and Programs

This is an old post, I now no longer selfhost my email, and use either Thunderbird, the iOS/ iPadOS Mail app, or in some cases the RoundCube webmail Emails! This has become more important since COVID-19 became a thing and I started working with more accounts. These are some of