About · Chameth.com

Name:: Chris Smith
Class:: Programmer
Type:: Human
HP:: 929

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Chameth.com

Hello :)

Hello! I'm Chris, a software developer from the UK. Welcome to my personal website.

The site is mostly organised around a bunch of slash pages:

/posts is where all my blog posts live
/projects lists my various side projects
/interests is a big ol' list of things I'm into
/films logs films I've seen and my reviews of them
/uses has an overview of the software, hardware, services, and so on, that I use
/contact provides a way to drop me an e-mail
/colophon details a bit about how the site is made
/snippets has little bits of code or other info I find useful
/sitemap is a more exhaustive list of contents

If you're just here for the blog posts, the latest ones are:

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Monthly Meanderings: April 2026

It’s apparently been a whole month since the last edition of Monthly Meanderings. Not sure when that happened. This month I’ve been to a LAN party, had an MRI, and have been trying unsuccessfully to get my doctor to change a prescription. The latter two are not doing much to help shake that middle-aged feeling I mentioned last month… Website updates Another pair of blog posts for thi...

A screenshot of the GitHub error page, featuring an angry-looking Unicorn.

Migrating from GitHub to Forgejo

When Microsoft bought GitHub in 2018 my kneejerk reaction — like so many others — was to start looking for alternatives. For a while I self hosted a Gitea instance but I never totally bought into it: some repositories I still pushed to GitHub, some I pushed to Gitea and they got mirrored, and I ended up causing myself problems when I got the two confused. Part of the problem was that the GitHu...

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The Case of the Unchanging Config

Last week I was attempting to make it so I could share pictures on IRC directly from my client. This sounds simple, but it involves a bouncer that proxies the request to a standalone image hosting service that I had to modify to be compatible. At one point my testing loop was: