Now
July 2025
I just returned from a month-long stay in the PRC and am polishing up some texts on it that I wrote while I was there. I studied Chinese1 intensively and have managed to get almost to a HSK 2 level already. I want to continue since I find it a very interesting language and I want to be able to read Emacs China (and classic Chinese literature too I guess, but that’s less important).
The server had almost a full month of downtime since it decided to crash as soon as I got on the plane, and I had practically no way of fixing it while I was away. These sorts of extended downtimes are quite unacceptable to me, and I am risking them every time I am away from home. Therefore I have decided to move the blog from my own hardware to netlify.
I really liked the idea of hosting on my own hardware, but it just isn’t possible when my home internet is as unreliable as it is. I will still be running personal services from the server however.
After getting home I went down almost immediately to the house down in Scania, where I will be staying for most of the summer. My mother is moving to Berlin in late August, and so I’ll be helping her move as well. Looking forward to starting my studies in political science this fall at FHS. I had somewhat of an early start during my “gap year” and so it will probably work out well.
Footnotes:
I had a sort of “Knowledge bell-curve” moment about the name for Chinese, with people who know nothing calling it Chinese, people who know a bit correcting them about it being called mandarin, and people who actually know calling it “standard Chinese”. I feel bad about smugly correcting people as a child, even more so knowing I was wrong.