2026-05-08T17:41:35Z gemini://d.moonfire.us/tags/fedran/ D. Moonfire Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International 2026-04-04T05:00:00Z gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2026/04/04/leicmin/

I spent six months working on a flight or fight response and created a self-hosted web application to calm it down.

2024-09-27T05:00:00Z gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2024/09/27/bakfu-and-oci-containers/

Thoughts on scope creep, OCI containers, and why I still need Bakfu for package management.

2024-02-24T06:00:00Z gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2024/02/24/new-site-colors/

I decided to rework the colors of my websites, both for d.moonfire.us and future work on fedran.com. Along the way, I made a library to package the theme work and got to play with CSS variables.

2023-06-27T05:00:00Z gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2023/06/27/fedran-infrastructure-2/

Just a follow up on a few things I had to do to get my Fedran infrastructure behaving better and not chewing up time and bandwidth once a day.

2023-06-24T05:00:00Z gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2023/06/24/fedran-infrastructure/

In the last month, I've been doing a lot of writing and programming. I also finished a good-sized around of "fun coding" with Fedran.

2023-01-29T06:00:00Z gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2023/01/29/a-week-of-dependicies/

To write a chapter in *Nor Curse Be Found*, I ended up spending three days working on projects and tasks that needed to be done to provide the tools I use while writing.

2023-01-21T06:00:00Z gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2023/01/21/faking-time-magic-with-nitride/

Just a little summary of how to handle time while generating sites with Nitride.

2022-09-06T05:00:00Z gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2022/09/06/migrating-to-take-away-the-pain/

I had surgery last Friday. It was and continues to be painful, so I needed to distract myself so I decided to finish up the process of migrating my C# projects from GitLab over to my Gitea instance.

2022-08-07T05:00:00Z gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2022/08/07/semantic-release-and-woodpecker-ci/

In my migration from GitLab to Gitea, I've started moving my CI/CD server over to Woodpecker. Here is some of the struggles I've done through in the process of getting it to work.

2022-01-16T06:00:00Z gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2022/01/16/fedran-cli/

I started working on a small tool, `fedran-cli`, to help me manage and work with the growing cluster of stories and novel Git repositories and automated processes.

2021-03-17T05:00:00Z gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2021/03/17/three-hundred-weeks/

Six years ago, I started posting weekly chapters. As of this week, I have been doing that for three hundred consecutive weeks. It is also time for me to stop.

2020-01-29T06:00:00Z gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2020/01/29/tarsan/

Tarsan is one of the most significant countries in Fedran, as both the oldest established country at the time of the Mechanical War and its influence on the rest of society.

2019-12-31T06:00:00Z gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2019/12/31/lexember/

On Lexember 31, 2019, I present "relif" as "to celebrate surviving a difficulty."

2019-12-30T06:00:00Z gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2019/12/30/lexember/

On Lexember 30, 2019, I present "egys" as "to celebrate families coming together."

2019-12-29T06:00:00Z gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2019/12/29/lexember/

On Lexember 29, 2019, I present "astar" as "to tap the energy of the land for a ritual."

2019-12-28T06:00:00Z gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2019/12/28/lexember/

On Lexember 28, 2019, I present "tunas" as "to tap a land for magic to build things."

2019-12-27T06:00:00Z gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2019/12/27/lexember/

On Lexember 27, 2019, I present "foosga" as "to tap a land for defensive magic."

2019-12-26T06:00:00Z gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2019/12/26/lexember/

On Lexember 26, 2019, I present "lorkku" as "lands that border against another country."

2019-12-25T06:00:00Z gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2019/12/25/lexember/

On Lexember 25, 2019, I present "bloom" as "a blood or lineage claim."

2019-12-24T06:00:00Z gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2019/12/24/lexember/

On Lexember 24, 2019, I present "gyusplas" as "to make a claim on a land."

2019-12-23T06:00:00Z gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2019/12/23/lexember/

On Lexember 23, 2019, I present "gubbaba" as "a moot baby."

2019-12-22T06:00:00Z gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2019/12/22/lexember/

On Lexember 22, 2019, I present "ogumma" as "to leave a mother's clan."

2019-12-21T06:00:00Z gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2019/12/21/lexember/

On Lexember 21, 2019, I present "pilmsunnad" as "to negotiate a land claim."

2019-12-20T06:00:00Z gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2019/12/20/lexember/

On Lexember 20, 2019, I present "eestor" as "someone who taps a land's energy without consent."

2019-12-19T06:00:00Z gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2019/12/19/lexember/

On Lexember 19, 2019, I present "meraslan" as "a tragedy that splits a tribe apart."

2019-12-18T06:00:00Z gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2019/12/18/lexember/

On Lexember 18, 2019, I present "dissago" as "an argument that splits a tribe apart."

2019-12-17T06:00:00Z gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2019/12/17/lexember/

On Lexember 17, 2019, I present "aborlas" as "to split a family away from a tribe."

2019-12-16T06:00:00Z gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2019/12/16/lexember/

On Lexember 16, 2019, I present "clitici" as "to have a family join a tribe."

2019-12-15T06:00:00Z gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2019/12/15/lexember/

On Lexember 15, 2019, I present "ookna" as "to perform a ritual."

2019-12-14T06:00:00Z gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2019/12/14/lexember/

On Lexember 14, 2019, I present "gyolas" as "a tradition or convention that has been obseved for multiple generations."

2019-12-13T06:00:00Z gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2019/12/13/lexember/

On Lexember 13, 2019, I present "toysa" as "to clean up the land before leaving."

2019-12-12T06:00:00Z gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2019/12/12/lexember/

On Lexember 12, 2019, I present "ca" as "to travel by walking."

2019-12-11T06:00:00Z gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2019/12/11/lexember/

On Lexember 11, 2019, I present "as" as "to move air by exhalation, to blow."

2019-12-10T06:00:00Z gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2019/12/10/lexember/

On Lexember 10, 2019, I present "boosly" as "to walk away from a fight to calm down."

2019-12-09T06:00:00Z gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2019/12/09/lexember/

On Lexember 9, 2019, I present "flinork" as "the violent reaction of disharmonious magical energies."

2019-12-08T06:00:00Z gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2019/12/08/lexember/

On Lexember 8, 2019, I present "adysin" as "to accept the vows of marriage."

2019-12-07T06:00:00Z gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2019/12/07/lexember/

On Lexember 7, 2019, I present "oplin" as "to change the frequency of magic to match another."

2019-12-06T06:00:00Z gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2019/12/06/lexember/

On Lexember 6, 2019, I present "gsach" as "the resonance of magical energies interacting."

2019-12-05T06:00:00Z gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2019/12/05/lexember/

On Lexember 5, 2019, I present "gsubi" as "a marriage between two people."

2019-12-04T06:00:00Z gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2019/12/04/lexember/

On Lexember 4, 2019, I present "shik" as "a supernatural force that affects the world."

2019-12-03T06:00:00Z gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2019/12/03/lexember/

On Lexember 3, 2019, I present "kasi" as "a tract of land."

2019-12-02T06:00:00Z gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2019/12/02/lexember/

On Lexember 2, 2019, I present "misa" as "a strong wind."

2019-12-01T06:00:00Z gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2019/12/01/lexember/

On Lexember 1, 2019, I present "soli" as "the aggregate of solid mineral formations that makes up bedrock or the earth's crust."

2019-07-24T05:00:00Z gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2019/07/24/future-plans/

An update on near- and long-term plans for my writing and updates on this site. Also status on my Pride Month challenge stories, various novels, and financial plans.

2019-06-01T05:00:00Z gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2019/06/01/pride-month/

Over the last few months, I've been berating myself about representation of queer characters in my world. Last year, I made a [list on Twitter](https://twitter.com/dmoonfire/status/1012520274695213061) about some of the queers that I've already introduced. Those haven't changed but I realized that I'm had not made any of those characters obvious that they were queer despite the fact they are and have been from the beginning.

2019-05-02T05:00:00Z gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2019/05/02/author-intrusion/

This week I submitted chapters three and four of [Raging Alone](https://fedran.com/raging-alone/) to the writing group. There were some good points made but one of the ones that the entire table brought up was the names. I figured that I could use the tool I just wrote to find out how bad it was.

2019-04-30T05:00:00Z gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2019/04/30/author-intrusion/

When it comes to projects that I probably will never finish, Author Intrusion is probably right up there. Most of the time, it is because I keep restarting because I learned significant lessons. This last week was one of those cases.

2019-04-30T05:00:00Z gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2019/04/30/poem-2/

For the final day of National Poetry Month, I present a poem about the Internet culture and unwanted discouragement.

2019-04-30T05:00:00Z gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2019/04/30/poem/

On the thirthieth day of National Poetry Month, I present a poem about battle and fighting for a cause.

2019-04-29T05:00:00Z gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2019/04/29/poem/

For the twenty-ninth day of National Poetry Month, I wrote about poem about my son's first breath.

2019-04-28T05:00:00Z gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2019/04/28/poem/

For the twenty-eight day of National Poetry Month, the theme is forbidden lesbian lovers.

2019-04-27T05:00:00Z gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2019/04/27/poem/

On the twenty-seventh day of National Poetry Month, I wrote a poem about my marriage.

2019-04-26T05:00:00Z gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2019/04/26/poem/

On the twenty-sixth day of National Poetry Month, I have a little poem about losing a child.

2019-04-25T05:00:00Z gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2019/04/25/poem/

For the twenty-fifth day of National Poetry Month, I have a little poem about slavery and racism.

2019-04-24T05:00:00Z gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2019/04/24/poem/

For the twenty-fourth day of National Poetry Month, I have a little spoiler for a novel I'm planning on writing.

2019-04-23T05:00:00Z gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2019/04/23/poem/

**Content Warning for Suicide and Murder** For the twenty-third day of National Poetry Month, I have a poem about the horrors of growing up.

2019-04-22T05:00:00Z gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2019/04/22/poem/

For the twenty-second day of National Poetry Month, I have a poem about steam engines.

2019-04-21T05:00:00Z gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2019/04/21/poem/

For the first and twenty day of National Poetry Month, I wrote a poem about attuning oneself to rock.

2019-04-20T05:00:00Z gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2019/04/20/poem/

For the twentieth day of National Poetry Month, I have a little poem about flying. There is something about fliers I love, both the joy of losing oneself in the clouds but also the freedom to move.