El Perro Negro

Grumpy old mountain man living in Spain

Tag: technology

Note – 2023-04-21 13:28

I've never got into "Reddit". For some reason it never appealed and I left well alone. But, once I saw that there was an alternative called Lemmy, I dived right in. Got to say, I'm enjoying the experi...

Technology

Note – 2023-04-02 21:30

@Steveb Good stuff. In these days of corporate dominance, privacy issues and chat AI etc it's nice to see and encourage personal websites

Technology

Note – 2023-04-02 13:51

@AdamBishop I used Hugo many years ago but find Eleventy a bit easier for us non professionals to use and understand.

Technology

Note – 2023-04-02 13:45

Note – 2023-04-02 13:45

No mountains for me this weekend, sadly. I'm putting my amateur developer head on & rebuilding my local walking club website. Originally was a Ghost site, I converted it to MD files & imported to @ele...

Technology, Hiking

Note – 2023-03-27 08:39

@Steveb a very good description, exactly how I feel. It still has a hold, albeit toxic, for certain things. Mastodon a much nicer environment though

Technology

Note – 2023-03-19 10:26

@anniemo71 @[email protected] I am also de-Googling my life. I have used OsmAnd on my de-Googled Android mobile, which is a free download and works quite well for driving and hiking

Hiking, Technology

Note – 2023-03-17 02:23

Redoing my so it can be pinned to profile. Here goes ... Hi I'm Richard, retired adventurer/author living in with his . Made in , part Scot. Love the especially the , & Hobbies include and playing aro...

Technology, Patagonia, Photography

Note – 2023-03-12 09:14

Note – 2023-03-12 09:14

Oh what a beautiful morning. Have a great Sunday you Mastodon tooters! Image of the Andalucian town of Lanjarón y the prominent cliffs opposite, called the Tajos Colorao

Photography, Andalucia, Technology

Note – 2023-03-06 09:02

Note – 2023-03-06 09:02

Delighted to finally have our Solar Hot Water system installed. Together with our solar panels we can now produce about 95% of our annual electricity needs.

Garden, Photography, Technology

Note – 2023-03-04 08:24

Big thanks to @[email protected] for providing the solution to my long term problem of cache-busting using @eleventy and Tailwind CSS using PostCSS. Been racking my tiny brain for ages trying...

Technology

Note – 2023-02-02 11:45

@bufordk @volla not at the moment, just the Volla Android Interface

Technology

Note – 2023-01-28 08:45

Today's mega task is to try and get some old PDF files (in iBooks) off a 15 year old iPad! I know why I changed to Linux/Android. Almost impossible

Technology

Note – 2023-01-27 11:27

The de-Googled Volla Phone 22 from @volla has now become in daily use with me. I'm enjoying the different experience, the clean user interface and best of all is ... I haven't really missed Google at...

Technology

Note – 2023-01-23 08:46

Must say that I am enjoying my experience and interaction on Mastodon much more than on the birdsite. Thanks to all involved.

Technology

Note – 2023-01-18 12:53

Been enjoying putting together a simple project with , a very quick, small, classless CSS framework that makes semantic HTML look good. https://simplecss.org/ https://www.11ty.dev/

Technology

Note – 2023-01-15 16:31

@HansvR thats's exactly what happened to me 15 years ago. Haven't looked back since! Free of the dreaded windows, good foss alternatives, helpful online support. Long live operating systems!

Technology

Note – 2023-01-12 20:27

@uoou "The federated timeline shows all public posts from all users who are “known” to your instance. That is, it includes every user on your instance, but it also includes everyone that users on your...

Technology

Note – 2023-01-09 12:34

Having a lot of fun this morning having a first look at . It's still at testing stage but you can try it at https://chat.openai.com/ As a lover of all related things, I find it an exciting glimpse int...

Technology

Note – 2023-01-08 11:31

This morning I set up a basic website using my favorite SSG , together with Tailwind CSS and Alpine js. Used https://css-tricks.com/eleventy-starter-with-tailwind-css-alpine-js/ as a guide. Whole thin...

Technology

Note – 2023-01-05 14:49

@eleventy done it. Sorry, missed that. Website is markdown with some very simple CSS, images hosted on Cloudinary. Eleventy made it so easy to throw the whole thing together.

Technology