HydroponicTrash

RE: @hydroponictrash@kolektiva.social

I finally moved from Substack over to Ghost! The new blog is at: https://blog.hydroponictrash.solar/

This has been a long time coming, and I appreciate people telling me over the years that I should leave Substack. It's finally happened!

I went through ALL of my posts and fixed spelling/grammar issues, updated all of the links, and cleaned things up in general.

Finally pulled the trigger on a huge change/improvement that I've been working on for a while. I've finally found the motivation to start writing again, I don't know where it went - and why it's back, but needless to say I'm back babyyyyy!!!!

I updated my post about moving from Substack to Ghost to include my battle with Mailgun, and switching to AWS SES. Had to install a proxy that didn't have the best documentation, so I made my own.

Still waiting on AWS to give me production access so logins and subscriptions are still broken, but hoping to get them up this week.

https://blog.hydroponictrash.solar/moving-from-substack-to-ghost/

For those in the south preparing for this winter storm, it might be a good idea to get a water shut-off key if you lose power and your pipes freeze. You can buy these in stores, but if you have a 3D printer, here is a file!

https://makerworld.com/en/models/2280080-water-meter-key#profileId-2486286

I'm printing five at a time and giving them away in my free store/tiny library to anyone that needs one. If you have a 3D printer and some extra filament, I highly recommend printing off some for your neighbors, you might save someone's day!

#snowmageddon #winterstorm #texaswinter

Got subscriptions for the blog back up and running!

Mailgun banned my last account when I tried to send the new posts out to everyone.
That broke logging in as a subscriber, and broke the ability for people to subscribe.

Things should be back to normal though. Unless Mailgun decides to nuke my account lol.

@franklinlopez@kolektiva.social @axolotl@kolektiva.social yeahh life has been pretty crazy along with work taking up a ton of my time recently. But I'm trying to get back into posting and writing more. A big thing for me is taking everything and self hosting it and moving to platforms that aren't as poisoned as Substack (made it a long time ago when it first became a thing).

I for sure want to make my own versions, print and digital standalones, and zines for the smaller stuff. Maybe combine it into a physical/digital work with everything I got so far (basically a full blown book lol).

But seeing this really pushes me and gives me some motivation to do all that, so I really appreciate y'all caring about what I have to ramble on about! :)

@franklinlopez@kolektiva.social @Anarcat@kolektiva.social This is awesome, appreciate it Anarcat, that's huuugee!!!