The Universe of Joshua Blais
The Universe of Joshua Blais
Joshua Blais
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The human being is the fabled “perpetual motion machine”. For he takes in food and water, and even when this is lacking - turns his love, his passion and his vision into world changing endeavor, art, and an unceasing praise of God....
While we were away last month, I felt better than I had in probably a year’s time. It probably had something to do with the continual walking, being outside all the time, and eating food that wasn’t sprayed with glyphosate. But, one of...
I have been looking for a way to get my notes synced across all devices to create a portable knowledge base. There are many closed source methods of doing so, but I wanted something that is future proof, open, and can be portable. While...
Over the past month, I have paired down substantially the things that I own. My closet now only holds the essential clothing, anything that was old, didn’t fit, or I didn’t enjoy wearing got donated. My office, once holding an 18u server...
In this second installation of my Ultimate Zen Workstation Series, we will start from a fresh installation of Fedora Workstation 40 and configure everything in an optimal way so as to get us up and running. I have also written a script...
Updated September 20, 2024 You can watch a broad overview of my system in this video: You can get my dotfiles here This will be the first post in an ongoing series on setting up the Ultimate Zen Workstation and as a reference point for...
The definition of genius is taking the complex and making it simple.― Albert Einstein If you want a life that is far less stressful, taking the meaningless things away will help you to find the inner peace you are seeking. In doing so,...
The modern view on feelings is leading millions of people astray from the Truth. Modern psychology would have us all validate the feelings that we experience, and if they are thus valid, then they are correct. Not so. This is detrimental...
The more that I use a computer, the more that I realize that using a computer all of the time is one of the worst things you can possibly do for your body. Consequently, the more that your body deteriorates from using a computer, the...
Money isn’t real. Value is. Although most of humanity is obsessed with “getting that bag” - the truth is that money is a construct on which we have agreed. And, the “value” of money is not consistent. Those that have sold their soul to...
A friend of mine sent me a .pages file the other day. Upon receiving the email I said out loud “what in tarnation is a .pages file?” Apparently that is Apple’s notes app file format. The fact that these companies don’t export to .txt...
Decluttering is a meme in a society with so much abundance. The average American owns something like 300,000 things. What if we focused on owning that which is essential and purposeful? I invite you to take a look at your life and...
Instead of using actions or some other way of CI/CD’ing my apps, I simply work with a deploy script that will build a Docker Container, push it to my registry, SSH into the remote, pull the container, make sure it runs, then apply NGINX...
I have a bit of an unconventional way to deploy docker containers - I saw that Docker Hub wanted to charge montly fees when I am simply pushing and pulling images infrequently, so I decided to do this via my Gitea instance. Create your...
As of today, this blog and all of my projects are Google analytics free. I do still allow login with Google on some of my apps as it is an easy way for those that don’t care to use their email to sign up, but it is the final Google...