Jamie Thingelstad

Vegetarian cooking class tonight at Kitchen Window! Instructors name is Anna Dvorak. Wonder if she is related to that Dvorak.

Chimay is so good. Drink good beer.

Very good and informative.

I recently decided to prune some websites that I was hosting, mostly ideas that I set up and then never took anywhere. Tammy had also decided to take her blog, Smaller Than a Redwood, down. I could have just deleted them but I wanted to be a good “net.citizen” and not give people “404 Page not found” errors but instead the more appropriate “410 Gone” message. Here is a simple way to do this with nginx.

First, I catch the websites main configuration which I keep in a file for each site in /opt/etc/nginx/sites-available. I try to keep these configurations really simple, just handling the URLs, ports and then doing the application configuration in an include.

# Redirect to non-www hostname
server {
  listen 80;
  listen [::]:80;
  server_name www.roadsignwordplay.com;
  rewrite ^ [roadsignwordplay.com](http://roadsignwordplay.com)$request_uri? permanent;
}

server {
  listen   80;
  listen   [::]:80;
  server_name roadsignwordplay.com;
  include /opt/etc/nginx/site-gone;
}

The include line then pulls in this configuration. I pointed this at a new directory in /srv/www so that any files that the site used to have could be left wherever they are. I also turn on an access log so I can easily see how many people are still going to the website. I still do a try_files because I have a robots.txt to help search engines know to go away. The important part is returning a 410 status and not a 404. The 410 is then handled by the @site-gone rule.

# this config is loaded into sites that are dead
root /srv/www/site-gone/public_html;
access_log /srv/www/site-gone/logs/$host-access.log;
error_log /srv/www/site-gone/logs/error.log ;

location / {
  try_files $uri =410;
}

error_page 410 @site-gone;
location @site-gone {
  rewrite ^(.*)$ /site-gone.html break;
}

Voila! Site is now “gone”. I whipped up a simple HTML page to serve so people would know that the site was no longer available. And with that I wish Smaller Than a Redwood, Road Sign Wordplay, Road Sign Bingo, MediaWiki Cookbook, Sandbox Wiki and thinglesBot farewell!

Huh, vim was originally written for the Amiga? Had no idea.

This is awesome!

@wikiworks MediaWiki devs choose Lua as the future scripting language for templates

Double event day!

8thBridge team and family ice skating this afternoon at The Depot Minneapolis.

CaringBridge annual event tonight.

We’ve had the Vitamix for about three months now and a morning smoothie has become part of our routine now. We use the Vitamix for many other things as well, but most mornings it will be stacked like this.

We’ve learned that for us we like our smoothies to start with a base. Similar to soups starting with a Mirepoix (onions, carrots and celery), we start every smoothie with a banana, apple and carrot. After that, it’s always a good idea to heap a couple of cups of spinach. It’s great to start the day with a healthy helping of greens. The smoothie above was had a number of frozen berries added on top; blackberries, strawberries, blueberries and raspberries. I also love to put a bunch of peaches with other stuff.

I will typically splash a little almond milk in and pour a teaspoon or so of chia seeds. Sometimes a small dollop of honey as well, but avoid the honey to keep it vegan.

A few seconds later and I’ve got a delicious smoothie!

The only thing not great is that the green spinach and colorful berries tend to make a brown smoothie. But it tastes awesome!