I've been cleaning up an antique treadle sewing machine (a White rotary shuttle machine; still unsure of the exact manufacturing date but it seems to be a Family Rotary). This is my second treadle machine (the other one is a 1909 Singer 15K) and my first non-Singer machine, so it's been super fun to work on. The bobbin mechanism in particular is interesting in comparison to the Singer Model 15 because the hook rotates around the bobbin continuously instead of oscillating. It was in great condition when I got it -- other than a new treadle belt, which I put in yesterday, it only wanted some oil and light cleanup in the ultrasonic cleaner of removable parts like the presser foot and bobbin mechanism, and now it sews beautifully. I also did a first pass on touching up the gold decals on the treadle table with oil paint. Hoping to try out some quilting on it this week, although my cutting table is currently occupied by a bookbinding project so I might need to finish that first.
Separately I've been dipping my toes in to hosting things on the Scary Public Internet with an IRC server (as a backup/replacement for a personal Discord server) and a static Hugo website (for hosting fanfiction; there've been a few AO3 outages lately and I thought it would be fun to experiment with things like audio embeds). I'm a roboticist so my experience with webdev is pretty minimal, but I managed to figure out nginx eventually. I'm actually kind of frustrated with Hugo as an SSG because it really doesn't want you to run pandoc with custom arguments for markdown -> html conversion, and pandoc doesn't want to generate ToC on my markdown files, but the default markdown converter (goldmark) doesn't correctly process markdown italics inside of html tags (e.g. `<center>`), so my current compromise is to use pandoc on almost everything and goldmark anywhere I care about having a ToC.
Separately I've been dipping my toes in to hosting things on the Scary Public Internet with an IRC server (as a backup/replacement for a personal Discord server) and a static Hugo website (for hosting fanfiction; there've been a few AO3 outages lately and I thought it would be fun to experiment with things like audio embeds). I'm a roboticist so my experience with webdev is pretty minimal, but I managed to figure out nginx eventually. I'm actually kind of frustrated with Hugo as an SSG because it really doesn't want you to run pandoc with custom arguments for markdown -> html conversion, and pandoc doesn't want to generate ToC on my markdown files, but the default markdown converter (goldmark) doesn't correctly process markdown italics inside of html tags (e.g. `<center>`), so my current compromise is to use pandoc on almost everything and goldmark anywhere I care about having a ToC.