Megalomaniac's Lair

I wanted to pop Kavita on Ubuntu 22.04, with access to my books (a mix of EPUB, CBZ and PDF files) via a Samba share hosted on another server. There are multiple ways to install Kavita, but there isn’t an official package in the Ubuntu repositories. So, rather than faff around with unofficial packages I thought Docker might be the easier option to install Kavita and, most importantly, keep it up to date. This is the story of how I did it.

I’ve only gone and converted my website’s theme from Jekyll to Hugo!

Trying to get Jekyll running on macOS Catalina but hitting a brick wall and the Jekyll documentation isn’t helping? Yeah, I did too. Thankfully I managed to figure it out, so you don’t have to. The following steps are based loosely on the steps in the official guidance and assume a clean install, but they should work on any Catalina system.

Please note: I first wrote this post back in October 2019, a lot of things have happened since then, not least the release of the PS5 and Xbox Series X. Check Brook’s website for updates about new console compatibility.

This is coming a little later than I’d planned (life and a poorly cat got in the way), but welcome to Megalomaniac’s Non-Awards 2018! Last year I did Megalomaniac’s Anime Awards 2017, but for 2018 I didn’t really fancy doing awards and declaring what the “Best Anime Series 2018” or the “Best Anime Film 2018” was. Instead I simply want to highlight a few things that I found entertaining in 2018 and that are worth your time. So, to re-iterate, this is not an awards show, nor is it an exhaustive or in any way definitive list. This is simply a bunch of recommendations for good stuff that I enjoyed or found interesting in 2018. I’m not even going to limit it to things released in 2018, my only criteria are that it be something I consumed in 2018 and I’m ruling out anything that appeared in last year’s awards, in any format, so as much as I’d love to tell you to go and read the Land of the Lustrous manga (seriously, go and read it) I won’t be mentioning it below. I’ve been watching less anime, reading more manga and generally enjoying a wider variety of stuff - like the old days before I got roped into the whole writing about Anime thing. Therefore I will be branching out from anime this year and including non-anime series and film, as well as things like manga for the first time. And without further ado it’s onto the Non-Awards.

There’s (yet) another article about millennials doing the rounds, but for once it’s not a hit piece: How Millennials Became The Burnout Generation. It’s actually a well put together piece that gets a lot of things right and it gets some things very right indeed and you should definitely go read it.

SimpleMDE is an embeddable JavaScript based Markdown editor, Vue.js is a progressive JavaScript web framework, a match made in heaven you might think? Well, yes, but it takes a little know-how to get them working together and it’s not quite as simple as you might think.

Sometimes you need to identify the first and last elements of an array for use in a foreach loop. And in PHP this looks set to get a whole lot easier thanks to the new version 7.3, which is currently at Release Candidate status.

My latest review is here! This time I take a look at some manga for a change, with Volume 1 of Kodansha’s That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime.

Markdown and Jekyll are great aren’t they… but there are a few issues which crop up from time to time, like how do you add attributes to anchor tags (or other Markdown converted HTML elements for that matter) in Jekyll? Alas, it’s not something that’s actually possible in Markdown. Though thankfully Jekyll uses a superset of Markdown called Kramdown, in which it is possible to add attributes. So you can add things like a class, target or rel (relationship) attributes with ease, and it works as follows: