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In the past I’ve written about the em dash and how people associate it with text written by AI. My conclusion was that I’ve been using it for ages before AI was a thing and the joke at the end was that I should stop using it, so AI might stop using it, so I can use it again. Well, turns out I have not always been using it. See, there’s different dashes and due to my personal inconsistency and a plethora of text editors, different dashes have appeared in my writing over the years. The one I used most is the hyphen (-). This mark should actually be used (among other things) to connect compound words, like open-source, or for prefixes and suffixes, like co-founder and secretary-general. ...

The Jorisvandijk.com domain goes back quite a while. Using any whois tool, you can discover it’s been registered 17 years, 3 months and 26 days ago on January 31st 2009. It first appears in the Wayback Machine1 on the 13th of July 2003. Have a look at it in all its glory. July 13th 2003 As you can see it’s not completely cached. The iframe on the left got lost. If you read the text you’ll notice this is not the first iteration of this site either. I upgraded from using tables for the UI, to using div elements. Cool. 2003 is six years older than 2009. But looking at the footer of the site in the image, you can see the real date it was once registered. 1997. That’s 29 years ago! This address is ancient. It predates the likes of YouTube and even Google (by a year, give or take). ...

It’s been a while since I wrote one, but the other day I finally finished my tutorial on setting up Proxmox Backup Server. It’s a detailed account of what I did. I mainly write these to clean up the notes I take while working on things. If I left the notes as-is, in a few months I’d have no idea what I actually did. The notes simply don’t contain everything, so while it’s still fresh in my mind, I turn them into a tutorial. I do so mostly for myself, but hopefully its useful to others as well. ...

I used to have cover images for some posts on my blog. I felt they added some needed pizzazz to the site. Turns out I was wrong. It added a splash of color to the index page, sure, but it also brought some issues. First was that some images were too big, spacing out blog posts on the index page, forcing users to scroll way too much to go through the posts list. I tried to remedy this by cropping the images and making them all the same height. This, I found, works for some images, but ruins others. No bueno. ...

📝 NOTE This post is not up to date anymore. All slash pages have been dropped. I didn’t feel like keeping them updated. I am debating slash pages. This website is a blog, or at least it aims to be. This time around, I didn’t just start blogging. No. I also got into reading other people’s blogs. I have a blogroll page where I list some of the ones I enjoy reading. This particular page, the blogroll, is was located under my domain, Jorisvandijk.com, then a forward slash / and then the name blogroll. Pages like this, pages under the main domain name right after the slash, these are called slash pages. At least they are in the blogosphere1 (what a word). ...

I love my new blog website. I like to share useful things I found or did. I prefer to post content that’s educational, but not dry. A more personal take-you-by-the-hand-and-pull-you-along kind of educational. I like to think that’s pretty much the style I have. There’s an issue, though, I also want to yap about other things that may not have any educational value. Just thoughts or experiences or ideas. Straight from my head to this website. ...

Hugo As I wrote in my Hello World post, I have switched to Hugo. And so far, I am loving it. It’s fast, it works great and I have not had to hack together solutions for things I wanted the site to do, but that were not included in the platform (looking at you, Eleventy!). I like how the backend of it works and I like the way you make new posts or run the site locally for testing. I like how you can use a pre-built theme, but then override it so you can make it your own, without having to touch the actual theme files—this also makes updating the theme later possible. ...

And once again a new Hello World post is born. This is the umpteenth iteration of this website, as I cannot seem to stop wanting to change things up. I like trying out new ideas. Sometimes they lead somewhere, mostly they don’t. The last version of this site placed the content into a more documentation-like website format. I thought I’d like that more than a blog—mainly for organizational purposes. A bit more structured than the throw it at a wall and see what sticks blog approach. ...