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Houston had a snow day. Most I’ve seen here in my life I think. Oh hey I’ve been getting at least a post a year here. It’s always a new years resolution to write more about my life, although it seems like I don’t make the time for it, even though I’m on the computer 50+ hours a week. Blog Updates Decided to refresh the layout again. Realized all the post images were mostly gone. Lots of refactoring, still using Hugo. Switched all the headers to YAML instead of TOML for readability and my own sanity. Fixed a lot of markdown warnings in the backend and removed some old posts I don’t like, there’s probably more too. ...

Well, the site was down for most of the day today due to what I assume is a DOS attack. It’s still going on, but has slown down a bit. There are about 6000 unique hosts that are hitting the site, all requesting a certain url that doesn’t exist. Possibly this is a mass email with a link to the site? Maybe someone has control of 6000 virus laden boxes. I’m not sure. Only about 3% of all requests for that page actually have referrers. ...