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The latest posts from every blog in the Pure Blogroll, updated hourly. Use the language filter below to narrow things down, or grab the RSS feed to subscribe.
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I've wanted my website to be the main source of truth for training data for some time. Here is a run, with OS mapping of the track, elevation and metrics timelines, and key stats, implemented on my…
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Pure Blog has a built-in post scheduler. Set a post to Scheduled status with a future date and time, and it will publish itself automatically when that time arrives - no manual intervention needed.…
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Me, 41 years old. Great hair.
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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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My note taking process has evolved a lot over the years. Originally I used my iPad with the Apple pencil, but having to charge it every few days was a pain. Then I switched to the Remarkable 2, which …
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Recently stumbled upon a couple of artists that I've been enjoying, thought I'd share. It's no surprise I've been going down the rabbit hole of protest music... Masks Off - Jesse Welles Fuck your AI…
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I've made the decision to delete any personal online presence outside of this blog. My Mastodon & Strava accounts are gone, Tildes.net account is in process, public YouTube videos are permanently…
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I thought I have probably changed enough that it was time for an updated list of things hanging from my proxmox box (which is an old desktop PC sitting in a corner of my garage). Funnily enough it is …
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Yesterday we made the decision to replace all wall sockets and light switches. I've already replaced all of them in appartment 2. It looks so much nicer! I've also installed the first light fixtures. …
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCCWjgWCI4g
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Neat couple of changes behind the scenes in my Pure Blog admin. I added a new training selector to my content menu, with the title meta preloaded ready for content. Sounds dull, but that will save…
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.art en
This week I started following someone that popped up in my feed on the fediverse. The had a few interests in common with myself; from a quick scroll of their previous posts they appear to be a normal …
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For the longest while now I have been actively turning off to marketing. I don't recall the transition from oblivious consumer to an overly aware skeptic, but here we are. I am not saying that…
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A two-weeks long week in the homestead. 🌱 This year I decided to not worry about vegetables and starting seeds in the garden; instead I was going to plant some hardy flowers and that's it. But basil…
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Did you know how extraordinary water is? This substance that we (living in privileged countries) mostly take for granted which is so ubiquitous on this planet we live on? I am not talking about the…
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The findmypolitics app slates me as a social democrat. Interesting, but no great surprises there...
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Breakerbox en
I've been fixing the electrics from a "meh" to an "OK" status. Given the absolute chaos I got with the appartment building. Replacing wiring, replacing black tape with actual wire caps and I made a…
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I really enjoyed doing macro shots last time, so I did it again! To switch things up though, I swapped my Sony aIV frame with an old Nikon D5100 (my first DSLR). It was kind of a beast to work with.…
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Is Bitwarden preparing for a sale?by Jan-Lukas ElseJan-Lukas writes about the warning signs that Bitwarden might be heading for a private equity sale. The irony is that founder built Bitwarden…
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As you might know, I recently migrated my blog from Hugo to Pure Blog. This was a nontrivial switch because Hugo is a static site generator (meaning it generates a bunch of HTML, CSS and JS that you…
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So I recently upgraded my home internet to full fibre, after which I also decided to upgrade my router as there were some things I wanted to do with my network that my ISP-provided router wasn't…
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Over the past few days I've been pulling wires and being frustrating at the stupid north american electrical standards that somehow made their way into Mexico and became the norm here too. I also…
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Just some stuff that caught my eye from Sonic Youth's past sales on Reverb.
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I've been a very happy Pure Blog user for some weeks now. There was one small thing left: migrating my old comments from WordPress to Pure Comments, another piece of minimalist quality software by…
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Updated the blog to version 3.0 and if you can read this, I managed to not break stuff. Great!
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Money en
The other day I had a conversation about money but it has also been on my mind a fair bit recently. You see, I live in one of the richest countries in the world1 but what seems to be much more…
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What a show! We started watching this in January, right after Astro died, to cope with the sadness. We are usually not into "monster of the week" types of series, but there is a very definite plot…
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v3.0.0 of Pure Blog has brought with it a tonne of changes. While there aren't any new features, it's a huge maintenance release that warranted a major version bump. However, one of the things that…
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New Rock - 2022 Remastered - YouTube I mean, obviously I’m already going to be a fan of an all female represented Japanese quartet that on the surface appears highly influenced by Can. I love all the …
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And yes!!! New Murderbot - Platform Decay just became available in my audiobook player.
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Updated my trusted T480 to Fedora 44 (Plasma) and things are running smooth. Very nice. Should maybe look into what's new at some point.
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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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Simon had always considered himself a creature of habit, finding comfort in the predictable rhythm of his days. But today, that rhythm had been disrupted by an unsettling undercurrent; a feeling that …
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I noticed one of my sites was running slow. So I logged in and saw that my server load was climbing. Being a webserver the first place to look are the serverlogs. With a quick tail -f in the…
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One thing about dynamically-generated CMSes is that one needs to keep them up to date, in case there have been any security or other issues. I logged into this blog, hit the update button, and I'm…
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Pure Comments translation system is designed so that community contributors can add new languages without any changes to the core codebase. How it works All user-facing strings are stored in language …
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This guide walks through adding server-side syntax highlighting to Pure Blog using highlight.php — a PHP port of highlight.js. Because highlighting happens on the server, no JavaScript is required.…
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After exactly six years, I conclude that Cruddiy has served its purpose. It is time to archive. A Look Back Exactly six years ago today, I put my quarantine project Cruddiy on GitHub. Cruddiy is a…
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Using the hooks provided by Pure Blog I was able to set up my blog to automatically commit and push my /content directory to a private repo to keep a backup of all of my content in the event of a…
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It almost hurts me a bit, as I’ve been deep in the Apple ecosystem since somewhere around 2010 when I started my Bachelor degree. I’ve been the guy who’s been using a Mac desktop, MacBook laptop,…
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We are officially back to the time of year where I need to pay attention to the weather so I can calculate when to mow the lawn.
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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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New blog en
I start this blog as an experiment. I’ve been doing blogs in the past, but somehow they always turned out to be a project. I.e., I’ve been trying to get it big, make never-ending lists of what I want …
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Walnut Trees en
While out on a family walk this afternoon enjoying the summer temps I started thinking about what kind of year the walnut trees will have. We have quite a few walnut trees including two medium sized…
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"I'll only ever use an SSG for my blog!", I said, unconvincingly. Sometimes I don't want to. Sometimes Kev comes along and makes something like Pure Blog and I think, "Well, that's better!" I can't…
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This was gloriously sleazy and surprisingly not bad. https://letterboxd.com/film/52-pick-up/ The review image above was made possible by Kevin's super handy Media Card Generator
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Pure Comments can send two types of email notification: Moderation notifications — sent to you when a new comment is awaiting approval. Reply notifications — sent to a commenter when someone replies…
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David made me aware of a fairly major bug where any Pure Comments instance without data-post-slug set, would fail. This is because I hadn’t moved the slug-detection function over from the hosted…