Author: Stefanía Reynis.

Þessi dagbók þarf að fara aftur í umferð

Það er ár og öld síðan ég notaði dagbókina reglulega síðast...

Ég var alltaf mikilvæg fyrir mig, sérstaklega þegar það kemur að því að muna eftir hvað hefur komið fyrir mig í gegnum árin. Ég á það til að gleyma flestu neikvæðu og horfa bara á hvað er að gerast núna, ef ég er heppin þá næ ég kannski að horfa lengra í framtíðina líka.

Hef varla verið að gera margt annað á netinu undan farin 6 árin en að sjá um discord server fyrir íslenska furry samfélagið, meðfram náminu og umfram. Og núna þar sem ég lauk náminu fyrir löngu virðist vera, þá hef ég staðið í stað. Ég hef varla teiknað neitt nema örstaka mynd annað slagið. Ég hef ekki gert neitt fyrir sjálfan mig. Engin framför.

Strákarnir mínir orðnir mjög sjálfstæðir, geta farið út að leika án eftirfylgdar og þannig lagað. Þessi snjallúr með GPS og síma sambandi er svakaleg bylting í því, auðveld samskipti, maður er alltaf innan handar (ef þeir eru þá með úrin á sér).

Ég vil gjarnan komast aftur inn í lífið. Að teikna, að lifa, að gera hluti, eyða tíma með vinum...

Art Fight

Ég skráði mig í svolítið sem kallast art fight sem er hreinasta snild fyrir mig. Ég hef alltaf haft gaman af því að gera myndlista-skipti eða einfaldlega gefa myndir, og þetta art fight gengur alveg út á það. Maður gerir "árás" á einhvern með því að velja persónu og teikna hana, enginn bardagi eða neitt, og viðkomandi getur ákveðið að "verja sig" með því að teikna eina af mínum persónum. Hvernig stendur á því að ég hafi ekki tekið þátt í þessu fyrr en nú? Hef vitað af þessu í nokkur ár. Þetta er árlegur viðburður sem gerist í Júlí, og gott að undirbúa sig örlítið fyrr til þess að hafa upplýsingar um persónurnar þínar tilbúnar svo aðrir geti nú teiknað þær.

Þetta fær mig til að hugsa um þá tíma sem ég var alltaf að gera svona myndlistaskipti á LiveJournal (exported allar mínar færslur þar fyrir löngu og hlóð þeim inn á þessu wordpress).

DeviantArt

Það er svo einstaklega langt síðan ég hef verið virk í myndlist, svo langt að ég tók ekki eftir því hvað uppáhalds myndagallerí síðan mín hefur farið til fjandans. Var að taka eftir tilboði fyrir Core áskrift, og það virtist allt ganga út á gróða og AI sköpuð list svo þú þurfir ekki að skoða myndlist annara listamanna.

DeviantART virðist hafa gleymt tilgangi sínum, og vill bara búa til myndlist fyrir þig með AI í staðinn... algjört rugl. Jafnvel veföryggi er premium hjá þeim, two-factor-authentication er bara fyrir Core meðlimi.

Kominn tími til að losa sig við aðganginn þarna. Ekkert endist að eilífu. Er nú þegar með einkagallerí á síðunni minni, ætti bara að fínpússa það. Eða skoða aðra valkosti. Ég hætti að hafa áhuga á að uppfæra furaffinity galleríið mitt fyrir löngu af því mér fannst sú síða innihalda svo mikið rugl. En það er margfalt betra en deviantART þessa dagana, þrátt fyrir að það hefur ekkert einkaskilaboðakerfi (ekki eins og ég hafi notað það mikið á deviantART).

Vefþróun

Kominn tími til að nota allt þetta sem ég hef lært og kunni áður, að standa ekki lengur í stað og styðjast við gagnlausar afsakanir. Imposter Syndrome er alveg svakalegt, og það verður ekkert skárra ef ég viðheld ekki þessari kunnáttu með einhverjum verkefnum. Að uppfæra galleríið mitt hérna á síðunni minni er gott verkefni til að byrja með. Gera loksins flotta síðu fyrir hópinn sem ég eyði tíma með.

Ég kann ansi margt og er einstaklega fljót að læra nýja hluti eða rifja þá upp.

Nýjir Tímar

Ég þarf að hugsa betur um sjálfan mig, hvað er gott fyrir mig á bæði líkamlega og hugrænt. Ég er strax að verða spennt við tilhugsunina að fara stunda myndlist aftur. Fékk mér þetta flotta myndlistaforrit Corel Painter 2022 fyrir skít og kanil á Humble Bundle fyrir tveimur árum og þarf virkilega að læra á það. Þetta forrit hefur svo margt upp á að bjóða ef þú hefur áhuga á einhverju sem getur virkilega hermt eftir raunverulegri myndlistatækni, eins og málingu. Það hefur jafnvel raunverulega vatnsmálingu (ef tölvan þín er nógu öflug til að vinna úr því til að herma eftir hvernig alvöru vatnsmáling hegðar sér og þornar).

Svo virðist vera að Corel Painter kemur á Humble Bundle á hverju ári, svo endilega hafa augun opin fyrir forrita pökkunum þeirra.

Tími fyrir reglulegar dagbókafærslur

ADHD

Ever since I've started looking into ADHD and Autism because of my kids, I have come to realize that I might have ADHD myself. My oldest is like a steriotypical ADHD kid, but his little brother seems to be somewhere on the spectrum, it really effects his social skills. It was confirmed when we were going through the pre-diagnosis for him, but that doesn't mean he's got a diagnosis, just that they now forward him further up the process. And it was brought to our attention that my oldest wasn't even on a waiting list for ADHD diagnosis (these things seem to need to go through the school system, like they have to agree that it should be looked into, is how it feels) and finally got to meet a behaviour counsler, who finally sent me the ADHD and Autism quiz list for him.

Apparently the 'hyperactivity' tends to be more internal in us females. Came across a youtube channel that had these ADHD shorts that all seemed to ring true for me, making me self analyse and admit that perhaps I do have ADHD after all. Always known that I struggled with attention in certain areas, how often can you leave a room without actually touching the task you intended to do when entering it, and you know you forgot to do it, but you forgot what it was, so now you are retracing your steps to remember what made you realize it was a task you needed to do. Anxiety at the simple thought of the possibility of rejection or disappointment. Absurd avoidance of doing mundane things, procrastinating until you notice that all your time is gone. Cannot clean one room, have to clean them all through little actions: that glass needs to go to the kitchen, that toy should not be in the kitchen, dust in the play area that needs sweeping, oh the trash is full... and not having finished any single area by the end of the day, making it seem like you did nothing all day. Getting overwhelmed by the list of things you have to do that it paralyzes you in inaction, and feeling guilty for not actually doing what you are supposed to, but that does not translate into 'just go do it then', and now you are suddenly "lazy", which adds to the guilt.
I never translated all that behaviour as ADHD until I watched all those videos that felt so relatable...

Apparently there are 3 main types of ADHD according to the internet

  • Inattentive type

    trouble focusing on and finishing a project, zoning out, struggles to organize, avoids or puts off 'boring' tasks, often forget where you put things or doing daily tasks

  • Hyperactive/impulsive type

    hard to stay quiet, interupts others, restless or needing to move a lot, struggles with waiting

  • Combined type

    Mix of hyperactive and inattentive

And I am certain I am the inattentive type

Having a planner seems to be a lifesaver for me, it is only when I skip using it that I tend to fall into repeating cycles of this kind of paralysis, and now all my other tasks wait for me to actually pick up my planner that I have hardly touched since summer vacation started, and the guilt of not keeping up with the diary all that time is somehow making me avoid it even more. It seems so illogical when explaining it.

I have bought so many things for my planner, made so many plans to use the planner, was absolutely obsessed about it in the beginning. And the longer I forget to use it, the more I feel like "it's too late to pick it up again now, I don't remember all the things I haven't put into it already, might as well skip it", but I really can't let myself get into that loop. Im going to power through it after posting things (or that's the plan....)

I do like to imagine that my husband is starting to become more understanding of these traits in me, since he suggested so nicely that I avoid certain things that distract me (like the blackhole of video shorts on facebook or youtube. I really dislike facebook because of all the ways it can distract you) and that I reserve certain projects for certain times of the day, because he knows I fall into them and do nothing else. But that is just a recent thing, often it's just disappointment that I didn't do the one thing he suggested I do even if I had all day to do it, even when I manage to do so many things that I had been avoiding.

I dive deep into things I find interesting, to the extent that it consumes all my time, become a well known presence while Im there, like volunteering to translate Vintage Story to Icelandic, such a fun project, and then I might seem to disappear, because I fell into a new hole when it seems I've explored it completely and find something else interesting to do, because I can't really spread my focus on multiple projects without having some plan.

The 'time timer® TWIST' that I bought has been such a wonderful thing, magnet on it lets it stick to the fridge, it's like the favorite item in the house for tasks for me and my kids. We use it to set time for reading, for screen time (which they earn by reading), when cooking, to break my time into segments so I can actually be productive. The visual representation of how much time has passed or how little is left is interesting, but not as visual as on the other time timers since it's all grayscale, and we usually hide the twister when we use it, because constantly checking it will just be distracting ("Oh, I only have that little time left on the clock, shouldn't bother doing more work") and it'll make noise when time is up.

And now that I have made wonderful plans to help me out of the paralysis....

Þegar ég á að hanna leik fyrir strákinn

Ég held að hann Ívar minn veit að ég er að læra forritun, og að það þýði að ég geti búið til leiki.

Á leiðinni heim spurði hann Ívar mig "hvað gerir þú í tölvunni þinni? ertu búin að gera leik fyrir mig?" og hélt svo áfram að lýsa leiknum sem hann vildi að ég myndi búa til.

  • Aðalpersónan er Eldgosdreki sem heitir Snúbbí.
  • Hann á heima í vatni og syndir þar ofan í vatni.
  • Hann spýr eldingum, eldgos eldingum.
  • Hann borðar kjöt úr hundum
  • nei, það á ekki að vera kjöt úr hundum, það er kjöt af dánum köllum sem eru orðnir að vélmennum.
  • Hann mun safna styttum, og dublo, og öðru flottu sem hann leikur sér með
  • Hann á 5 afskektar eyjur
  • Þessar eyjur eru næstum því allar saman, en þær eru ekki allar saman.
  • Þegar hann fer að uppskera eyjuna, þá fær hann candyfloss og alla ísana, nema kúkaísinn (sem er ís með kúki ofaná)
  • Hann elskar allan ís, nema kúkaís, sem er ís sem hefur kúk...
  • Hann þarf líka að safna lyklum
  • Það verður líka kista full af gulli sem hann þarf að finna til að fá fullt af candyfloss.

"Hvenær verður leikurinn minn tilbúinn"

New Computer!

So yeah, I've built a desktop computer two weeks ago! It's awesome. Have had it running continiously for a bit over 10 days, sort of stress test for the long term that I was told about.
My computer setup on a diningroom table

The computer has some RGB, but I have the glass side of the case facing the window because it happens to fit my setup better. Of course I set it to purple theme, it lights up the front logo of the corsair case. Picture doesn't show my current keyboard.

After two weeks, the keyboard I bought was giving issues, disconnecting after certain amont of presses (essentially every 10-20 strokes), as if it couldn't handle being in a 2.0 USB port, even if that's exectly what it was designed for, said so on the box. Got a full refund even if it was a few days past the 2 week return policy of theirs, because I was returning it because of sticky keys and disconnections.

Went and bought a machenical keyboard (logitek G413), thought I found a quite one, oh how wrong I was. I went back to the store to exchange it for a Corsair k55 RGB pro. I'm liking it way more, though it was a bit dumb at the beginning. First I had to download the software to manage the light show, iCue, but it didn't notice the keyboard, so I could not use it to update the firmware on the keyboard, which was bugging out and failing to notice input too often, so I uninstalled it after trying lots of tricks to get it to work. Downloaded it again, apparently I had gotten version 3 previously, but the version 4 worked fine.

So we got a customized rainbow light show now, no issues with the input after the firmware got updated, but the keyboard was still being a bit dumb. It was as if it would sometimes fail to communicate with the software in charge of the RGB, so it would default to something I really hated (it just gave me the impression that the color changing effects were bad, but I learned that it was better than I thought). I had to replug the keyboard whenever that happened to get it to correct the color show (thankfully the keyboard worked fine for typing in the meanwhile), and 3rd time seems to have been the charm, it has managed to stay in rainbow mode.

Léleg þjónusta sem endurtekur sig

Hef ekkert gott að segja um Tölvulistann, lágt verð er ekki einu sinni þess virði til að fara þangað. Í gegnum árin höfum við upplifað lélega þjónustu, og það virðist ekkert vera skána.

Núna virðist vefverslunin þeirra vera algjört rugl, þú getur ekki treyst ef það segjir að varan sé til í verslun eða vefverslun, jafnvel ef þú sérð að staðan breyttist. Þú borgar fyrir vöru sem er ekki til, og færð endurgreitt einhverntímann í vikunni þegar bókhaldið kemst í það.

Ég mæli engan veginn með því að vera í viðskiptum við þessa verslun, myndi borga meira annarstaðar frekar en að vera gefa þeim pening. Slysaðist til að gefa þeim pening þarna því það er erfitt að finna skjákort í dag, sé strax eftir því.

Planning my new desktop computer

I am planning to get a new desktop computer, because this laptop is really getting on in years (Lenovo Yoga 510) that I originally bought when I started school 4 years ago on my path to web development.

It still works fine actually, besides for the random "static tube tv screen" that happens sometimes, learned that it's an issue with the hardware design, the plug connecting the screen to the motherboard is unstable, usually happens when I wake the computer up from sleep, and I sometimes have to login blindly and that change from login to open computer seems to trigger that weird tube screen effect to go away, gets worse over time (harder to get the computer out of that weird tube mode).

Had to have the screen replaced once already, when that tube screen effect wouldn't go away, none of my tricks to trigger the screen to become normal worked anymore.

Shopping list

didn't know they had a price compiler like this at Vaktin, but apparently they do, so here is my build with the parts (some parts selected for equal price as I am going for, since it seems it doesn't have the exact selection of motherboards).

My build at Vaktin

Actual computer planning

let's not get lost in old computers when we're planning a new one. I got my friend grandpa Goldy to help me plan the parts, he's got alot of experience with hardware and Windows machines.

Our limitation in parts is tied to what is locally available, and the site Vaktin does a good job at keeping a good overview of the local stores that sell hardware parts, though that chart does not have the full collections, it does however link to all those stores and gives a rough overview of which stores are cheaper in general.

Often enough if you buy all the parts from the same store, they offer to put it together for you as well.

Hope you all don't mind me using localized placeholders for the part types. Parts are not decided, will probably be looking for cheaper options on some parts, but these are the candidates so far.

Örgjafi

Thermal Paste

Kæling fyrir örgjafa

Aflgjafi (Power supply)

Móðurborð (motherboard)+

M.2

What and why?
Notes: It's important to note whether you're getting a SATA-based drive or an PCIe, NVMe-based drive. Your motherboard might not have the appropriate M.2 slots for both types, because SATA and NVMe M.2 drives are often keyed slightly differently, and even if it does, you don't want to waste money on a pricier NVMe drive if the motherboard can only access data using the SATA protocol. (from video linked). The PCIe has faster data transfer speed.

Minni (Memory, RAM)

Diskur (Long term storage)

Need to browse some harddrives

Skjákort (Graphicscard)

Turn (Tower)

Lyklaborð (Keyboard)

Stýrikerfi (OS)

Netflix úrvalið

Það er allavega farið að aukast í úrvalinu sem er með íslensku tali... það er eins og þeir haldi að við séum í rauninni Damörk, því nánast allt þarna inni finnst með dönsku tali þegar það kemur að barnaefni.

Úrvalið af íslensku efni á Netflix á augnablikinu, já þetta er allt, passar allt á einn skjá.

Ef þið vissuð ekki að það væri hægt að leyta að efni eftir tungumáli, þá er hægt að finna neðst í footer hlekk sem heitir "Audio and Subtitles" á vefsíðunni þeirra, en það er auðveldara að fara fyrst á prófíl síðuna, því annars er ómögulegt að komast niður að footer (það hleður alltaf meira efni í hvert sinn sem þú kemst á botninn).

Veit ekki til þess að það sé hægt að finna slíka leit á netflix app á smart TV

Barnaefni á netflix

Mér finnst merkilegt að það er ekki hægt að velja að setja barna svæðið á Íslensku eftir allan þennan tíma, það er hægt að velja dönsku, og kannski eitthvað samstarf við þá sem þýða svo margt barnaefnið. Það er svo sorglegt að mikið þýtt efni situr og safnar bara ryki í einhverjum gagna banka, því það er ekki lengur með leyfi til að sýna það, en af hverju ekki bara selja það til netflix svo það sé hægt að hafa meira Íslenskt barnaefni þarna inni?

Got to love Journals

I've always had a journal online, ever since I discovered the internet! I have posts dating back to 2005, and I used to post alot back then, almost daily, there was always something every week, and I was mostly just writing for myself, not expecting anyone to read it. I still do not expect anyone to read what I write, but it's always amusing when someone does leave a comment.

This is essentially my diary, I sometimes like to browse over it, the posts being like little landmarks of things that happen. So I really should have been doing a better job at posting, it's like hardly anything has happened over the last 10 years, there are currently 33 published posts since I migrated from livejournal.

LiveJournal

I was very active on livejournal, had a small group of friends that had access to it. Started it when I began socializing on a site called GaiaOnline back in 2005. There was probably not a week that went by without a post, plenty of emotions and musings to pass around.

Ever heard that it's good to write things down rather than bottling it up, even if you don't intend for anyone to read it and might even discard it afterwards? It does plenty of good when you have a lot going on in your head. That is how I used my journal, I never expected people to read it.

I think it was around 2008 when that little community of mine scattered to the wind, when GaiaOnline was changing a lot and people leaving.

WordPress

It was in 2011 when I got myself a shared hosting for the first time. I had played around with GeoCities websites before, I even managed to salvage that ancient website of mine for old times sake (last updated 2006). That's probably the time when I decided to leave livejournal and set up my first wordpress installation.

I managed to export all my livejournal posts and import them to my wordpress. I've been using wordpress ever since.

Tried out Disqus for comments, it was such a neat system, that allowed people to be logged in and comment on any website that was using discourse, because people like having things connected! Never really liked the default comment system of wordpress, but I kind of regret messing around with Disqus comments, because it kind of failed of keeping my older comments connected to the right posts (yes, I could import the existing comments into Disqus), and new comments get lost with the system if things got disconnected (it wouldn't know where the comments belonged).

Nearly all the imported posts have been set to private, because there is no reason for me to exposing my awkward teenage years to the public.

New editing posts

I just have to say that I really REALLY dislike the new way you edit posts on wordpress, it might not be the reason why I haven't been doing a good job of posting into my journal, but sure as heck it plays a big role in it since it arrived. I really wish it was a optional mode, there is a thing as simplifying too much to the point of it working against you.

I have discovered that there is a way to have a markdown block for editing, I think I'm going to go for that, to make things bearable.

Posting again regularly

I am going to try to post more again, because I actually enjoy the ability to browse through my journal to see the context of things, this is primarily just a journal for myself, and in cases where I don't want things public, there is always the neat little "private" setting for the posts. 

Hopefully when I'm done with school I'll be able to give this journal a makeover, because I hardly find the time at all during school or between semesters (because they squeeze in a 3 week program between semesters, so school never really ends).

I still don't expect people to be reading this or commenting, though I have set things so I get an email if someone comments, I've decided to stop using disqus, it was a hassle and I don't quite trust it anymore to connect comments to their right posts anymore.

Going over old posts

I feel the urge to go over my old posts, because the SSL says my website isn't quite secure enough, because of the use of images from external sources. I wonder if I can use images from my gallery (which is in a sub directory of this site) and have things stay secure according to the https security.

I just realised I might have lost parts of many older posts, where I had a plugin that would just show a preview of the post, and have a link "continue reading this post". Those links are broken, not sure if I can restore that, because I can't get the custom permalinks to work since I changed from shared hosting to a VPS

GuineaPig DokuWiki!

You all should know that the purpose of my studies at Reykjavik University is to be able to make the best localized information website about guinea pigs! There is such a lack of information that has been translated and easily available, so I had alot of fun creating such a source of information because of my web related hobbies.

Have been considering trying out DokuWiki as a base for the information, since it's a wiki that does not require a database (I do have a database, but it just feels like such a small sized project to require a database to store the information, it is currently just pure html and php pages, my first attempt at playing with the modularity of php at the time, having the header as and footer as something I could import).

The formatting syntax seems to be a hybrid of what you'd expect on mediawiki and discord.

Update

I found a very handly program (provided by dokuwiki) that allows you to transform html into dokuwiki syntax, which made it a whole lot easier to convert my website into a dokuwiki.

You can also embed HTML code into the pages, but it's disabled by default (then it just shows you the code instead of rendering it).  This let me keep my more complex tables from the original, and even add a style tag. Was having bit of trouble importing javascript to use (for sortable table), so that's out for the moment.

Found a nice template (theme) that mimics the Vector theme from mediawiki, the html structure was a bit odd (I was trying to adjust the style a bit for myself), so I resorted to simply using CSS grid to put everything where I wanted in the layout, this allowed me to easily move things around to create a responsive theme. Haven't fine tuned it further.

But this update to the grisanaggar website makes it easier to add new information and change it, provides a search feature for words, and I could even let other people have accounts to edit the content to keep things updated.  The easy inter-wiki links also makes things very nice and connected, don't have to think about where the page is located in my folder structure, just link to it's name.

The website was previously my first experiment with PHP to import headers and footers, the body of the pages was just pure html. So it was a very static website.

First impression of DokuWiki

I really like the simplicity of how it just has directories as namespaces, and you just reference them in a similar manner as you would with mediawiki. All pages would be in the 'pages' directory, and any sub directories there are extra namespaces, the 'wiki' directory would be referenced 'wiki:pagename'

The headings are a bit backwards, '====== heading ======' would be h1, '== heading ==' would be h5 (the lowest you can go with the doku syntax). I see no reason why they had to be so backwards, but I guess there is no changing that now.

Making a bullet list is annoying, it wasn't until I used the html to dokuwiki converter that I figured out what I was doing wrong. You have to have exactly 2 spaces before the * in order for it to convert to a bullet point, and for sub-bullets you just add further 2 spaces and so on. Simple enough, but I really wanted it to just be more like how markdown did things.

The ability to embed html and php code directly is neat, but as I mentioned, it's disabled by default

Overall, it's a super nice little wiki that stores things as files instead of on a database, but still manages to keep track of changes done to articles through the website (if you are editing the files through ftp, then it just counts as a external update and kind of clears the history).  You might not notice that you weren't working on a mediawiki when editing content on the dokuwiki if you have the Vector theme on, heh.

I like having the control of all the content being files, it makes it simpler to backup and store the whole wiki, perfect for little projects like this translated guinea pig info site, and you can actually add plugins/extensions to add features such as the imagebox to get a nice frame and caption on the images (exactly like mediawiki), and the gallery plugin that just lets you link to a specific media folder and it just shows you the thumbnails of everything within that folder.

5/3 nám

4. önnin á tölvunnarfræði lokið í Háskólanum í Reykjavík, bara stakt námskeið sem ég þarf að endurtaka allan þennan tíma (auðvitað er það stærðfræði tengt!), svo ég held mér gangi alveg ágætlega í náminu með börnunum og lífinu þar á milli.

Er ennþá mjög ánægð með að hafa ákveðið að fara í Vefskólann á sínum tíma, þá áttaði ég mig á því hvað ég vildi læra betur, því ég hafði ekki verið með það á hreinu. En á sama tíma þá er ég frekar fúl yfir því að námið þar var talið of grunnt til að vera metið einhvers virði í Háskólanum í Reykjavík, ekki einu sinni gagnvart þeim áföngum sem voru sambærilegir og væri þá líklegast búin með mörg námskeiðin sem teljast upp í sérsvið Vefþróunnar.

Það var eins og þau sáu bara "oh, þetta er Tækniakademían, ekki þess virði að meta þetta", svo það var ekki einn einasti áfangi frá því námi talið vera jafnvirði neins áfanga í RU, ekki einu sinni fyrir nein af þessum 3ja vikna námskeiðum sem þau troða milli anna... mjög ósátt við það. Núna er ég að fara taka "Nýsköpun og stofnun fyrirtækja", sem ég er nú þegar búin með sambærilegt frá Vefskólanum...

Ef ég hefði áttað mig á þessu, þá hefði ég frekar bara átt að hætta í Vefskólanum um leið og ég áttaði mig á því hvað ég vildi gera, og fara bara beint í Háskólann í Reykjavík, þá hefði ég ekki verið að sóa tveimur heilum árum í nám sem var metið til einskis.

Á þeim tíma, þá var þetta nám að sannfæra mig að það væru einingar á háskólastigi, en við vorum einnig bekkur númer 2 að fara í gegnum þessa nýju námsbraut, svo þetta var nú ennþá að aðlagast. Í dag eru þetta feiningar (sem ég kalla fake-einingar eftir þetta) og námið bara 3 annir, í staðinn fyrir þau 2 ár sem ég fór í gegnum.

Ég er þó komin með auka diplómu og aukalega reynslu á ýmsu veftengdu fyrir allt þetta. Vefskólinn: 2ár, Háskólinn í Reykjavík: 3 ár... 

Það er alveg satt að námið í vefskólanum var mjög grunnt í samanburði, nánast allt sem ég hafði lært í javascript þar var þjappað saman í stakt námskeið í RU og lærði samt eitthvað nýtt, mögulega hefði þetta verið flóknara ef ég hafði ekki kynnst þessu fyrirfram hjá Vefskólanum, en ég er ósköp fljót að læra nýja hluti.

Þannig ef einhver hefur áhuga á veftengdu og vill læra það, þá mæli ég frekar með að hoppa bara beinnt upp í háskólann, frekar en að vera fara í gegnum eitthvað millinám, nema þú virkilega hefur tíma til að eyða og vilt taka þessu hægt.

Vefskólinn virkilega gaf manni meiri focus á hönnunar-tengdum hlutum, svo það sjálft er alveg þess virði, en restin, ekki svo mikið, ef maður ætlar sér að fara líka upp í háskólann. 

Veit ekki hvernig háskóli Íslands tekur tölvunnarfræði, en veit vara að einhver mældi alls ekki með því, og ég sá ekkert sérsvið fyrir vefþróun þegar ég var að spá í þessu, þess vegna endaði ég upp í Háskólanum í Reykjavík, og er bara mjög sátt við mig þar (fyrir utan það að upplifa svo mikla endurtekt í tilteknum áföngum tengda sérsviðinu, eins og ég hef nefnt).

First time VPS

I have had a shared hosing for many years now, but over the years I have learned how restricting it can be for a web developer that wants to try something other than static websites.

After realizing how much the hosting would cost me compared to how little I made use of all the unlimited space and limits, I figured I would try my hand at keeping a Virtual Private Server, because it was cheaper by a lot, partly because you would be on your own to manage it, the hosting provider would not assist you.

Didn't seem too intimidating anymore after learning web development and still learning Computer Science at the Reykjavik University. It's just a remote computer, right? I have played with using localhost alot for projects, setting up databases, servers... and a VPS is basically the same idea, just strictly bound to the terminal CLI. 

It was suggested that I would just buy the smallest VPS package and see how well I would manage to transfer all the contents from the shared hosting service to the VPS (still the same provider, which made this simpler). I was even told that if I then canceled my shared hosting, the remaining money I had payed to keep it up for the year could be transferred to pay for the VPS. Sounded like a good deal to me.

So that's how I got my Ubuntu server up and running! And in hindsight I think things went quite smoothly, managed to find very good guides online by DigitalOcean about VPS and various setups.

  1. Set up the Apache server
  2. Add the PHP
  3. Add the database (went with MariaDB)
  4. Get the phpMyAdmin up and running
  5. Figure out how to increase the upload limit in PHP to import the SQL files.
  6. Migrate the websites one by one, just changing the directory of the default site to the directory I was setting up each time so I could see it on the ip in browser.
  7. Create the configuration files for the VirtualHost on the Apache server via ftp, so the domains will know where to connect.
  8. Direct my domains to the new server, wait for that to connect.
  9. Using the Certbot to get SSL certificates easy (many thanks to https://letsencrypt.org/ for the free safety). Got https now!

You are now a proud webmaster of a Apache server!

I was migrating a WordPress installation, Piwigo gallery, MediaWiki and a php website I made from scratch about guineapigs! The main things I ran into was the upload limit issue when I was trying to import the SQL exports, in the end I installed the PHP-FPM, and then things finally started happening.

Now the only thing I haven't figured out yet is how to be able to use the permalink rewrites for the WordPress, because if I use anything but the plain links, then I get 404 errors. Not a big deal, but it took me a moment to realize what the issue was because I was using custom permalinks.