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+# agares, a multi armed demon
+well, originally i don't think the multi armed part was mentioned in the "list of demons" i found on the internet. now, though, agares is absolutely multi armed because I keep adding so much bullshit to this project.
+
+* sync my dot files. .emacs, bash, powershell, etc.
+* configure windows devices. install software, some minor software configuration, remove windows bullshit.
+* sync my keyboard config; this involves updating a .png as well as a folder of .json an .kll files to apply firmware to ergodox.
+* house deployments for home projects
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+Up next is configuring an Mac device, and then whatever else I get to throw at it.
+
+## dot file sync
+I think I'm doing this poorly. So far all i'm really doing is configuring all devices *actual* dot files to load these `agares/` dotfiles. 
+
+* powershell: make sure you don't have powershell, vscode /ise, and pwsh.exe all looking for the same profile. you'll hate yourself. split them up.
+* .emacs: this is pretty straightforward unless you use more emacs features than me (easy to do). I leave in just a single .emacs file. 
+* .bashrc: there's a complicated set of rules that determines, at least on mac, when different .bash* files get loaded. be careful that yours only loads when you want it
+* .tmux: straight forward. 
+* conemu: i don't have an elegant solve for this. I just import this file whenever I set up a new machine. there is likely a better way.
+
+### further .bashrc info
+I found [this](http://hayne.net/MacDev/Notes/unixFAQ.html#shellStartup) link very useful, quoted below:  
+When a "login shell" starts up, it reads the file "/etc/profile" and then "~/.bash_profile" or "~/.bash_login" or "~/.profile" (whichever one exists - it only reads one of these, checking for them in the order mentioned).
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+When a "non-login shell" starts up, it reads the file "/etc/bashrc" and then the file "~/.bashrc".
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+Note that when bash is invoked with the name "sh", it tries to mimic the startup sequence of the Bourne shell ("sh"). In particular, a non-login shell invoked as "sh" does not read any dot files by default. See the bash man page for details. 
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+What this means is that you don't want to link or load the agares .bashrc file from .bashrc *necessarily*. It depends on your usage. you'll likely wanna call it from .bash_profile instead, if you're on a mac.
+
+## configure windows devices
+3rd party app install is all handled through chocolatey. this is a great / terrible tool for this. great because it actually exists (wonderful!). Terrible because of certain usability problems. some packages install very weirdly through. emacs, for instance; do you want emacs? or emacs64? Those are not just optimized for different cpus, but are actually different versions of emacs (24 vs 25) that have different features shipped natively. 
+
+### removing windows kruft
+windows, particularly windows10, now ships with a bunch of bullshit that no sane person wants on their fucking computer. fucking 3rd party games are my favorite. thanks msft, get the fuck out. I stole a bunch of functions from [this](https://gist.github.com/alirobe/7f3b34ad89a159e6daa1) gist (which stole them from another). I definitely recommend perusing powershell module file i made before running the functions therein. Some are easy wins, or simple "get started" features, like removing a game or unpinning stuff from the start menu. Some are more hit or miss, like disabling the windows store; great 90% of the time IME, but if you didn't have WSL you *must* have the windows store or you can't install it.
+
+### a note on hypervisors
+i do a lot of work on hyper-v, especially recently, because there's a great suite of automation tools that work natively on that platform. hyperv is a fine tool for many things, particularly home labbing, but far less useful as a "need to run second OS without dual boot" utility. If you need that you'll likely need something like vmware workstation or virtualbox. the bad news is *you cannot have hyperv and another hypervisor active on the same machine at the same time*. hyperv blocks other hypervisors from working because its petty and rude (something about the way it operates does this. for more information on this check out [this superuser answer](https://superuser.com/questions/1208850/why-vitualbox-or-vmware-can-not-run-with-hyper-v-enabled-windows-10)).
+
+## keyboard firmware sync
+i use an [infinity ergodox](https://www.massdrop.com/buy/infinity-ergodox) at home. this is a fun entry level diy project that taught me to solder (badly) and introduced me to QMK and TMK. I avoid having to dive very deep into those and instead use input.club's online [configurator tool](https://input.club/configurator-ergodox/). i download the output and put them into the keyboard dir of `agares`, along with a screenshot of the configurator tool, so that I know how everything is *currently* configured. this helps especially early on when you're tweaking the keymap every few days trying to remember "where the fuck did i put the _ sign??". 
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+Once that's downloaded you still have to flash your ergodox. do yourself a favor and keep a "flash" keybinding easily accessible on both sides of your keyboard or you will hate yourself.
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+Some guides say you only need to flash one side of the keyboard as long as they are plugged into each other. That has never worked for me and I *must* flash both sides or the keymap will be incorrect.
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+### flashing the keyboard on windows
+i absolutely can not get this to work unless i'm running a linux guest in virtualbox. instead, I flash from a mac or other *nix computer because its just hilariously easy and I don't have to fuck with loading a new driver first. sorry for this terrible answer, but for the infinity ergodox this is literally the easiest way. if anyone knows one for the love of god please [email me](me@jowj.net).
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+### flashing the keyboard on *nix
+[read this here poast](https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/comments/5bjtt8/guide_infinity_ergodox_linux_guide_modifying/)
+
+## deployments for home projects
+right now this is really just a spot for my deployment of `mojojojo-bot`, my slackbot. you can read more about it (in an out of date blog post) [here](/blogposts/mojojojo-bot.md).
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+I deploy it using ansible targeting one of my few docker hosts. right now those are all local. eventually, i hope to build out a spot, or a deployment mechanism, for pushing it to Azure or AWS. I call `mojo.yml` with ansible-playbook, referencing a custom inventory file of `hosts.yml`, with `--ask-vault-pass` to prompt for password to decrypt `mojo-vault-vars.yml`, containing the slack-bot API token. this allows me to sync the actual API token via github, encrypted, without worrying about everyone and their dog fucking with my slack server.

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-jowj
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 you can read some of the bullshit i'm working on:
 
 * [hosting static sites on s3](/blogposts/hostingStaticSitesOnS3.md)
-* [building a slack bot](/blogposts/mojojojo-bot.md)
+* [building a slack bot](/blogposts/mojojojo-bot.md)
+* [agares, the multi-armed demon](/blogposts/agares.md)