Note – 2023-08-15 13:54
@John an interesting situation is developing. Personally I use an ad blocker on certain sites stuffed with Ads. Either that or I would be quite happy to walk away from those particular websites. Conve...
Tag: technology
Note – 2023-08-15 08:47
Cancelled my Spotify membership a month ago and have been searching for a self hosted music alternative. Now set up a Navidrome instance on a Pikapod server. Very easy to set up (a few mins and clicks...
Note – 2023-07-14 15:57
Just moved our company project from Github to @Codeberg. An easy migration as it turned out. Now, I don't really regard myself as a "proper" programmer, more like an enthusiastic amateur, but I am alw...
Note – 2023-07-11 16:07
One amazing thing about our walking group today was that out of a total of 11 people attending, 4 were full time committed Mastodon users. How good is that?
Note – 2023-07-11 16:01
@AdamBishop Nice to have you and your daughter along Adam. Amazing that, for us, this all started with Mastodon!
Note – 2023-07-09 09:48
As it's 35°- 40°+ here now over the next week (and possibly until mid-August), it's time for my own "summer of coding" to start. Our company website badly needs a long overdue overhaul, so I plan to i...
Note – 2023-07-02 09:36
@leedsInShetland Up to now been using Tusky on Android but recent improvement to the standard Mastodon app makes it usable again.
The deterioration of Google Search and the alternatives
A few observations about the search relevancy of Google and what I am doing to counter
Note – 2023-06-21 07:01
Just installing Crunchbang plusplus 12 on an old laptop. Crunchbang has always been one of my favourite . It's remarkably fast, even on old kit, and uses the Openbox DE. Enjoyable https://www.crunchba...
Note – 2023-06-19 19:02
@dansup that's good news. Take a break and recharge the batteries. The Fediverse needs talented developers like you.
Note – 2023-06-19 10:41
I am really enjoying my experience on the and my interest in and has been renewed. I don't expect this for free. I think it important that we continue this active development and so would encourage su...
Note – 2023-06-09 20:37
"A credible threat to (and from) commercial social network silos/1" A thought provoking (and long) read about the proposed upcoming integration of Meta's P92/Barcelona into the Fediverse By @oblomov h...
Note – 2023-06-09 07:42
I'm investigating the setting up of a small community for my local hiking group. A place we can share photos, arrange meets, discuss trips etc. Anybody got any suggestions or recommendations of what p...
Note – 2023-06-01 19:24
Using an old laptop to revisit Fedora 38 Linux desktop. Always liked this os but it seems to have come on leaps and bounds since I last used it. Very polished performer. Enjoying getting to know it ag...
Note – 2023-05-28 08:59
A profitable morning so far. Managed to implement Elasticlunr Search on my website with the help of @eleventy and https://www.belter.io/eleventy-search/ https://elperronegro.com/search/
Note – 2023-05-26 16:33
@andrewbriscoe We are very similar 😂 I'm getting too old to keep up too. I've started using Lemmy instead of Reddit. The Fediverse alternative.
Note – 2023-05-24 18:23
Had head down coding most of the day. Once you get into it it's almost meditational and robotic, so very therapeutic. Anybody else find this? And, then I get to a stage (10 hrs later) where the head j...
Note – 2023-05-23 14:28
@janmon @eleventy well done. Nice site, loads super fast but would via . Good read too. Spent many weeks exploring the hills and glens of Arran in the 80s
Note – 2023-05-13 10:46
Enjoyed reading this article by @murph explaining the very clearly https://opensource.com/article/23/3/tour-the-fediverse
Note – 2023-05-13 06:11
@dansup @pixelfed @liaizon @feditips superb attitude and why Pixelfed is good and will become even better