2018 March
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(Image credit: r/ProgrammerHumor) I've been meaning to add SSL to this blog ever since I first heard of Let's Encrypt last year. Unfortunately, support on my otherwise awesome webhost was not yet first-class and seemed complicated at the time, so I kept putting it off. But recently I was testing something unrelated and found out that I needed to have SSL on my server in order for OAuth2 to work, so I grudgingly got to it. Luckily I found out about a handy utility written in Ruby that does most of the stuff for me: letsencrypt-webfaction. It was surprisingly easy
2018 February
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I decided to try learning some 3d modeling. For the past couple of weeks I've been following this beginner Blender tutorial where I had to make donuts. (Link to the tutorial series on Youtube.) Here's my output! This image took around 40 minutes to render. I had to do 2000 samples per tile which is why it was so slow. I was getting too much noise/graininess at lower sampling rates. I didn't follow the tutorial exactly. My plate is square and made of glass for one thing. The chocobutternut donut wasn't part of the tutorial, I just wanted to try