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Secret Project 🇬🇧 en
I'm working on something and it's too cool not to post about. If you get it, and it sounds interesting, let me know.
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BlackBerry Dev Alpha C 🇬🇧 en
I was digging through a drawer and remembered I had this guy from college, the BlackBerry Dev Alpha C! It's a cool little device that was handed out to developers during the early days of BlackBerry…
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Hooman. I believe it is dinner time. Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, and so are you. ❤️ You can reply to this post by email, or leave a comment.
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I’ve been using Pure Blog for a while now and I absolutely love its simplicity and speed. However, for the longest time, I had no idea that Pure Blog supports hooks! Which in turn you can use to do…
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I recently wrote about Privacy and Webmentions to make the case — mostly to myself — for adding Fediverse integration to Pure Comments. A few people pushed back in the comments, but my position could …
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A storm lantern at night, where my livingroom will be.
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I've never really tracked my #100DaysToOffload effort very well, so I decided to create a page to help me track it. Turns out I've completed the challenge 7 times! https://kevquirk.com/100 Thanks for …
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No one likes smartasses 🇬🇧 en
Trust me, I would know. People have pointed this out to me for years and years, but I just can't help it: I like being right. And quite often I am, or so I think. What I also have is the inescapable…
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If you're running a blog that is built on PHP (for example, Pure Blog), you need to update your PHP installation right now. Critical vulnerabilities have been discovered in PHP, putting any PHP…
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How a small Linux handheld device may integrate into my Tailnet and self hosting, possibly allowing me to replace my daily smartphone I'm sure that the holy grail of a fully working Linux Phone will…
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My Linux gaming PC 🇬🇧 en
A couple of days ago my Power Supply finally arrived so I could install the upgrade parts. That is - An Asus Nvidia Phoenix GTX 1660 Super. Yep, that's 2nd hand, just like the basic PC I bought. Both …
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My Current book pile... 🇬🇧 en
This is my current book pile... I've just started The Finest Hotel in Kabul. I just seem to keep adding more books. No wonder it takes me so long to finish a book! Oh well, winter is coming...
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Author: Elizebeth Day Category: Fiction Format: ePub Finished: Yes Rating: 7/10 This is the first book from Ms Day that I have read. It did take me a while to get into it, but I decided that I'd…
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The roof came off 🇬🇧 en
Earlier this week we finally started building my house. Or re-building I should say. The original plan was to renovate. Then we figured the roof was too low, so it needs to be raised. Then the floor…
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This is the title of a song by Herbert Grönemeyer, a German musician and it means: "What makes a man a man?". I've been thinking about this lately. In a way this question has been in my head for many …
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Northern Lights 🇬🇧 en
Last weekend we performed with the Oulu All Stars Big Band way up in the north in the city of Sodankylä. After the second day's concert there had been, as on the previous day, quite the nice northern …
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RE: https://www.searchengine.show/vladimir-putins-forkiverse So I had seen the #forkiverse hashtag a while back and didn't really pay attention, then didn't notice it disappear. I had zero clue what…
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Drinks by the pool 🇬🇧 en
Drinks by the pool at Carneiros beach resort. We had caipirinha de cajá, caipiroska de cajú, and some insanely delicious deep fried tempura shrimps filled with cream cheese!
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Recife Food 🇬🇧 en
Between working/studying, visiting relatives, going out, beach, countryside, and bureaucracies I had to fight, there's not much time left to sketch during this trip to Brazil. Before coming, I…
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Fediverse Integration 🇬🇧 en
Since this website is running Pure Blog, I get access to new features as they come along. Somewhat recently, Kev added support for webmentions and Mastodon (and probably GoToSocial) integration for…
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Sea Turtle 🇬🇧 en
On our first weekend in Brazil we went to our family flat at Praia dos Carneiros. The beach is wonderful, still a bit wild, and we saw a ton of sea stars and even sea turtles! It was incredible to…
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There’s a special breed of internet weirdo who spends so much time staring at a screen that their brain has completely turned to mush. To them, the entire world is on fire 24x7. There is no middle…
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Netsuite is a total pain for version control. One can edit Suitescript directly in the browser, or write script locally and then upload en masse. You can also develop code in sandbox instances and…
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I've reworked my Obsidian folder structure again, aiming to get it down to a more flat flat-file system. The two latest things I've done are: Changed how I save web content to my vault. I've got an…
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Boredom is important 🇬🇧 en
Tangled earphones were a feature, not a bug, Akshay Chugh I came across this post from Akshay Chugh the other day, which resonated. He talks about the small inconveniences we used to face when we…
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England 'Til I Die 🇬🇧 en
I watched a documentary on Channel 4 recently called England 'Til I Die (embedded below from YouTube). It follows a group of racist thugs and how they want all the "rapist Muslims" out. Horrible,…
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I noticed some co-workers weren't aware of the existence of gdu. But they should, because gdu is amazing. Indispensable even. From the manpage: gdu - Pretty fast disk usage analyzer written in Go…
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Show and Tell 🇬🇧 en
Jonah Vale carried his find to school wrapped in his winter shirt, which meant he arrived bare-armed in weather cold enough to silver the puddles. Miss Bell saw him through the schoolhouse window and …
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Thrifted USB keyboard + junk shop connector cable + spare phone + the humble elastic band = vast improvement on current situation. It doesn't take up much space and it has a stand on the back so you…
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We don’t stand a chance. 🇬🇧 en
If we don’t understand ourselves as humans, what will AI make of us?
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Fairphone Repair 🇬🇧 en
I've had my Fairphone4 for about four and a half years. Recently, it was having trouble with rapid charging and cables staying in. It also seemed like phone calls were having trouble connecting. So I …
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The organisation I work for has a staff member whose role is to make sure everything we do considers both the climate and our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion. This role is not a…
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For about a year now I’ve owned not one, but two Macs. This is a first for me. Ever. I own a Mac Mini and a MacBook Air. Both have the M4 with 24GB RAM. I’ve already written about both of them. Mac…
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Open Channel 🇬🇧 en
The alarm in the potato room began at 2:13 in the morning, and Lena Voss reached the leaking valve before the first tray lost pressure. She shut the feed, fitted a new gasket, wiped the nutrient…
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Guitar Amp Bother 🇬🇧 en
I've been playing guitar for about 25 years. I spent a lot of that messing about, learning a few songs, amd strumming a few chords. That all changed just over two years ago, when I press-ganged a…
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Use Johnny Decimal, set up a Zettelkasten, implement the PARA method, buy a Bullet Journal... none of it matters if you never do the work. I often read about people setting up these elaborate systems …
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Digital Hoarders 🇬🇧 en
I see this question a fair bit: Can I migrate my account? WHY IS THIS EVEN AN EXPECTATION?!? Everything you sign up for is it's own thing, run by it's own org, right? Ohhhhh, wait - people expect to…
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The Stocktaker 🇬🇧 en
Mara Quill scratched a small cross beneath the label of a stewed-beef tin while her mother argued with Tern at the issue counter. The scratch sat low enough to escape a casual look, though Mara could …
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Delta Life - Oulu 26 🇬🇧 en
I work on my reputation for being the fastest blogger around and almost do live-blogging here. This event took place two soon two three weeks ago and it had been quite the fun one. The first half of…
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Plant Or Animal 🇬🇧 en
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It’s new pen day again. I routinely change my preferred pen (because why would I decide on anything) and now, after a couple of months sticking to the Uni Zento I switched back to a Jetstream pen.…
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Moat Walking Twiske 🇬🇧 en
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Wait For Me 🇬🇧 en
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xmpp.nz 🇬🇧 en
I was sitting in the Server Operators MUC recently and someone was asking about NZ based public servers they could have friends join, or anyone asking, as they were only planning on keeping their…
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Today (August 17, 2026) marks my first complete year using Last.fm. It's a shame I didn't discover this great service earlier, knowing it has existed for more than 20 years, and that I've been…
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https://mirlo.space/blywallentine/release/mazerati-bankrupt "Everything Takes Me For Granted" is a nice track. That title really is the feeling of being alive in this modern age. If the dystopian…
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For future reference, here's how I get the Obsidian Templater plugin to properly format my posts for Real Deserts so I can upload them directly to the /content/ folder in PureBlog. --- title: <%…
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Electricity 101 🇬🇧 en
Recently, I took a training course to learn about electricity. On paper, at the end of the training, the student is expected to be able to set up a single-phase home electrical installation, and to…
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When southern Spain hits 40°C+, you either go high or go low. We chose low — an unmaintained river walk through the Sierra de Almijara that turned into a five-hour, 8km battle through brambles,…
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Books in 2026 so far 🇬🇧 en
I know the literal middle of a year is at the moment when June ends and July begins (a six-month mark over the twelve months within a year). But I’ve always been feeling like the middle of the year…
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Exploring that potentially dangerous but gloriously confusing grey zone where scrambling and rock climbing overlap Note: These notes are not meant to be an instructional guide. They are the result of …
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Ich gehe schon wieder zu spät ins Bett. Nicht 4–5 Stunden zu spät, wie häufiger in den vergangenen Wochen, aber doch deutlich zu spät. Seit ich weiß, dass mein Nervensystem erst zur Ruhe kommt, wenn…
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Wo AI wirklich Sinn ergibt? Zur persönlichen Entlastung. Claude Cowork hat gerade meinen kompletten Notion-Workspace katalogisiert, sich eine Migrationsstrategie überlegt (inklusive der Unterschiede…
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Wie wir in einem einzigen Schuljahr durch die deutsche Diagnostik-Mühle gegangen sind, an einer Fehldiagnose gezweifelt haben und am Ende zu zweit bei der richtigen Diagnose ankamen: ADHS. Heute…
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To begin with, there was so much noise when starting out. Whenever I would mention learning Chinese most people would try to deter me, tell me its too difficult, it's not worth my time, and that AI…
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We now have a tiny Town Square at the bottom of the page. It's got birds, trees, benches, and a lamp or two. This is a lovely wee (free, open source) project from Cauê Napier. It's ephemeral, anon,…
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Lots of progress on my to-do list has been made. Email notifications for comments are sorted. Notes page is up and running. Updated to the latest version of Pure Blog with no drama. I did break two…
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Commercial models refuse a lot of legitimate requests. Here's why "uncensoring" an open-weight model is useful and how I achieved it. ⚠️ A note before we start. An uncensored model will answer almost …
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I now run a Wireguard VPN-server inside an Incus container. The container has two interfaces. One on my LAN and one only shared with the host via Incus. The host runs a ssh-server that only binds to…
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Flight of the Bumblebee 🇬🇧 en
The morning sun had barely begun to burn the dew from the lavender when the visitor arrived. He was a fuzzy, golden-belted bumblebee. From my vantage point at my table in the garden, I watched him…
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The coffee shop on the corner of Fleet Street was Julie and Morven's sanctuary from the relentless grind of criminal law. Mid-morning lattes were non-negotiable, even on the busiest days. "Did you…
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Contents Preface What purple used to mean The Adam Wathan moment The flattening Other casualties Reclamation Coda Preface Since the dawn of time, every sorcerer wore robes of it. Every threshold…
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Writing Prompt: Cauldron 🇬🇧 en
Beneath the gnarled roots of the ancient hawthorn, where moonlight dares not tread, the cauldron rests. Its iron sides etched with runes long forgotten, pulsing faintly with a rhythm like a slow,…
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My solution for syncing KeePass between Linux with KeePassXC and Android with KeePassDX using Nextcloud. (Works with KeePassium / Strongbox on iPhone too). My Linux desktop computer is also acting as …
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I couple of years ago, I did a post about my 'default' apps, and since it's been a little while I thought an update might be fun. I've pasted in my answers from the first round, and I'll update where …
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I've always been fascinated with the weather. I can still remember the daily routine of charting the weather in kindergarten with meticulous scientific rigor: Each morning one pupil, on a rotation,…
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Ok - So, take one of this project didn't go as planned. I don't regret the choices I made, and while I'm very happy with how everything is working today. it's not the setup I had hoped for. So, where …