The internet is for cats

I really like Neocities. I love that I can use a command-line tool to automate building my site with Hugo and pushing it to the web.

Recently there was a kerfluffle with Neocities where a bug broke iframes for non-supporter accounts. I’m a supporter so I can upload mp3 files and because in general I want Neocities to live and work out, so I wasn’t affected. But it did make me think that it would be good to try not to keep all my eggs in one basket and mirror my site to Nekoweb as well. However, I have no experience with directly accessing the API, and the command-line utilities that people wrote for Nekoweb (NekoUp and nekoweb-deploy are the two that I tried) give me errors that are difficult to debug. In general, it’s a big headache that I don’t enjoy. So I might actually mirror my site to Nekoweb once a month or so and do it manually instead of trying to automate it. But I’ll still keep trying…!

I guess one of the issues is that I’m not putting my site on Github so I can’t use some of the Github actions people wrote. Alas…

In other news, finals season is now upon me. I spent the morning crying and missed several of my classes. Thankfully, it looks like a lot of my classes will do a final project instead of a final exam, so I don’t have to worry about getting sick on exam day and missing the final. So far it looks like:

• Foundations of epidemiology and public health: Final exam
• Health policy and healthcare systems: Final project (essay)
• Advanced regression models: Final project (mock research paper)
• Advanced statistical programming in SAS and R: Final assignment (code)
• Seminar in biostatistics: No final (but I have to make up all the missed reflection mini-essays)
• Professional skills series: No final (but I have to make sure that I did enough online quizzes)

I also have to enroll in the spring semester as I’m operating under the assumption that I will be well enough to complete the next semester. It’s really awful feeling like a leech and a failure all the time¹; these two years were supposed to be focused on achieving my success and happiness but instead I get sick all the time with a mystery illness and can’t do anything. At least the classes are pass-fail.

In happier news, speaking of my mystery illness, the side effects of taking colchicine have subsided and I was able to increase my daily dose to 2 half-pills a day. So far I have not had another attack of fever, which makes me suspicious that I indeed have PFAPA, as it can strike in adulthood and colchicine increases the interval between fever attacks for sufferers of PFAPA. The other treatment that exists is taking a lot of prednisone as soon as the fever begins, but I haven’t tried that yet. It also gets better on its own after 3-6 years… Well, I don’t really want to wait that long to see if I get better or not, but I guess there is not much choice. I’m a little worried if I get an infection for real that my immune response will be dampened because I’m not sure how colchicine differentiates between a fever for legitimate reasons or a fever for illegitimate reasons, but I hope that the rest of my immune system can cope with an invading virus or bacterium during this cold, flu, and covid season.