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+slug: end-of-may-miscellany
+title: "End of May Miscellany"
+date: "2023-06-02T20:00:00-04:00"
+---
+
+### Bookworm Upgrades
+
+I upgraded several more systems to [Bookworm][], including a [Raspberry
+Pi 4 Model B 4GB][pi4] and a [Raspberry Pi Zero W][pi0w].
+
+All of the upgrades have gone smoothly **except** for the [Pi Zero
+W][pi0w], which failed with "Illegal instruction" errors during
+`dist-upgrade` and left the system unbootable in two separate upgrade
+attempts.
+
+### PNG Compressors
+
+I tried the following [PNG][] compressors on a set of several
+dozen screenshots:
+
+* [pngcrush][]: Lossless PNG compression command-line tool.
+* [optipng][]: Lossless multi-format image compression command-line tool.
+* [pngquant][]: Lossy PNG compression command-line tool and library.
+
+[pngquant][] produced the smallest output images.  The results were also
+visually indistinguishable from the source images, at least for my use
+case.  Of the two lossless encoders, [optipng][] produced marginally
+smaller images than [pngcrush][].
+
+(The bitmap images on this site are served as lossless [WebPs][webp]
+with [PNG][] as a fallback, courtesy of the [`<picture>`
+element][picture]).
+
+### Domain Registrar
+
+I've been considering switching to another [domain registrar][] for
+a few years.  The [recent .zip TLD tizzy][zip-tizzy] seemed like a
+perfect opportunity to register a new domain through a different
+[registrar][domain registrar].  I'd heard good things about
+[Namecheap][], so I created an account and registered my shiny new
+`.zip` domain: [fdsa.zip][fdsa.zip].
+
+Thoughts on [Namecheap][] so far:
+
+- Good prices.
+- Fast and simple interface.  Account setup and domain registration
+  only took a few minutes.
+- [2FA][] prominently located and easy to enable.
+- They haven't sold, lost, or spammed my email address (yet).
+- DNS propagation only took 2 hours.
+
+My next step will be to migrate several secondary domains from
+[GoDaddy][] to [Namecheap][].
+
+[godaddy]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GoDaddy
+  "Go Daddy domain registrar."
+[repeated data breaches]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GoDaddy#Data_breaching
+  "Repeated GoDaddy data breaches."
+[domain registrar]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_name_registrar
+  "Domain name registrar."
+[zip-tizzy]: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/05/critics-say-googles-new-zip-and-mov-domains-will-be-a-boon-to-scammers/
+  "Ars Technica: Critics say new zip and mov domains will be a boon to scammers"
+[gandi]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandi
+  "Gandi domain registrar."
+[namecheap]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namecheap
+  "Namecheap domain registrar"
+[fdsa.zip]: https://fdsa.zip/
+  "I have no idea what I'm going to do with this domain..."
+[2fa]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-factor_authentication
+  "Two-factor authentication."
+[pngcrush]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pngcrush
+  "pngcrush: Lossless PNG compression command-line tool."
+[optipng]: https://optipng.sourceforge.net/
+  "optipng: Lossless image compression command-line tool."
+[pngquant]: https://pngquant.org/
+  "pngquant: lossy PNG compression command-line tool and library."
+[png]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PNG
+  "Portable Network Graphics image format"
+[webp]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebP
+  "WebP image format."
+[picture]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/picture
+  "HTML picture element."
+[bookworm]: https://www.debian.org/releases/bookworm/
+  "Debian Bookworm."
+[pi4]: https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/raspberry-pi-4-model-b/
+  "Raspberry Pi 4 Model B (4GB)"
+[pi0w]: https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/raspberry-pi-zero-w/
+  "Raspberry Pi Zero W"