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Even Newer Weight Record

Nix McRetro // 4th July 2016 // News

That’s a much clearer picture of the journey I’m on. Happy I’m heading in the right direction, hope I can continue to trend downwards! The six-month view makes the shorter-term trend much easier to see. Continue reading

SSL / TLS / HTTPS Enabled, IRC Server Running

Nix McRetro // 3rd July 2016 // News, Raspberry Pi

SSL / TLS / HTTPS Enabled, IRC Server Running

Nailed it! I knew I could work out how to get a darned IRC server up and running. Now you can spam my name into the chat and it will alert me like mad that you’re trying to chat, unless I’ve turned off the volume or remembered to type /away.... Continue reading

New Weight Record - 88kg

Nix McRetro // 22nd June 2016 // News

Mission accomplished. Today on the 22nd June 2016 I have finally reached 88.0kg. This puts me at the lowest weight in my recorded history. Records date back to October 2008, a mere eight years ago. Alright, almost eight, and maybe not that mere. Chicken and milk. That’s how it was... Continue reading

Initial Tests for a McRetroNet IRC Server

Nix McRetro // 20th June 2016 // Raspberry Pi

Initial Tests for a McRetroNet IRC Server

Well, for the most part it worked for a while, and I was able to join my own conversation with myself a few times. IRC might be a fun way of having an instant chat hosted entirely on the trusty Raspberry Pi. So far I’ve been using InspIRCd as the... Continue reading

Status Update - June 2016

Nix McRetro // 13th June 2016 // News, YouTube

That’s right, I’m still alive! So never fear, McRetro is here! Not too much happening today, just rambling and getting closer to my weight goal. I also finally configured ddclient on Raspbian to run as a daemon. Somehow I had forgotten to do that after rebuilding the server. I left... Continue reading