Kind: Articles
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My Default Apps at the End of 2023
All the cool kids are sharing their "lifestack" as we approach the end of 2023. Here's mine.
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Gemini and Spartan without a browser
Half a dozen different ways of downloading content from Gemini (and Spartan) servers from the command-line using everyday tools.
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Making WordPress Fast (The Hard Way)
Lots of guides explain how to improve WordPress performance easily. This guide is different. I'd like to share the hard ways in which you might squeeze even more speed out of your WordPress site.
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Incredible Doom
I just read a comic book full of early-Internet nostalgia that delighted me, and wanted to share it with you.
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Reading Rolled Papyri
Researchers using x-ray tomography have for the first time managed to read an entire word from one of the carbonised Herculaneum scrolls, and that's awesome.
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Absence/Presents
Unless you're a child, I won't be buying you a Christmas present. And you shouldn't feel like you have to get me one, either.
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Easy FoundryVTT Cloud Hosting
People keep asking for a quick-and-easy guide to setting up a cloud hosted FoundryVTT server. So I wrote one.
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CapsulePress - Gemini / Spartan / Gopher to WordPress bridge
My WordPress blog posts are accessible via Gemini, Spartan, and Gopher. And now I've open-sourced the code that makes it possible. I give you: CapsulePress!
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Stopping WordPress Emoji 'Images' in Feeds
By default, WordPress's RSS feeds replace emoji with externally-hosted images of emoji. Let's see if we can turn that off.
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Debian + DKIM for Dummies
I migrated my email subscription list from Gandi's SMTP server to my own... for which I first needed to teach myself OpenDKIM. Here's what I learned.
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Watch Together with WhatsApp on the side
For a Virtual Fringe Festival party, I hooked up OBS Studio and Owncast with WhatsApp Web on the side. Here's how I did it.
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Are Geocache Logs Getting Shorter?
Are geocaching log entries getting shorter? Let's extract a sample of 134,000 of them and make Excel cry. With graphs!
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RSS Zero isn't the path to RSS Joy
There’s nothing special about reaching Inbox Zero in your feed reader.
It’s not noble nor enlightened to get to the bottom of your “unread” list.
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Better WordPress RSS Feeds
I've been adding bonus features to my blog's RSS feeds for a while now. Wanna hear about them?
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Not the Isle of Man
Ruth and I celebrated our anniversary this week by going to the Isle of Man. Except we never got there and instead Ruth lost her job and I got sick.