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Update to the Ghost theme that powers this site I added a few modifications to the OSS Ghost theme that powers this site. You can get it here: https://gitlab.com/matdevdug/minimal-ghost-theme * Added better image caption support. * Added the cool Mastodon feature outlined here to attribute posts from your site back to your Mastodon username by following the
10.03.2026 09:26 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Boy I was wrong about the Fediverse I have never been an "online community first" person. The internet is how I stay in touch with people I met in real life. I'm not a "tweet comments at celebrities" guy. I was never funny enough to be the funniest person on Twitter.
06.03.2026 12:21 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I Sold Out for $20 a Month and All I Got Was This Perfectly Generated Terraform Until recently the LLM tools I’ve tried have been, to be frank, worthless. Copilot was best at writing extremely verbose comments. Gemini would turn a 200 line script into a 700 line collection of gibberish. It was easy for me to, more or less, ignore LLMs for being
16.02.2026 12:05 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Small Web is Tricky to Find One of the most common requests I've gotten from users of my little Firefox extension(https://timewasterpro.xyz) has been more options around the categories of websites that you get returned. This required me to go through and parse the website information to attempt to put them into
13.02.2026 12:50 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
GitButler CLI Is Really Good My workflow has remained mostly the same for over a decade. I write everything in Vim using the configuration found here. I run Vim from inside of tmux with a configuration found here. I write things on a git branch, made with the `git` CLI, then I add them with
09.02.2026 12:33 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Year of the 3D Printed Miniature (And Other Lies We Tell Ourselves) 3D printing and miniatures as a case study in how tech misses what users actually want
29.12.2025 11:19 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
SQLite for a REST API Database? Spoiler: it worked fine.
12.12.2025 14:19 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Making RSS More Fun I wrote a browser extension to try and make finding random, independent websites more fun.
02.12.2025 09:14 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I broke and fixed my Ghost blog In case you find this post after hours of google searching
16.10.2025 12:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Greenland is a beautiful nightmare Greenland is a complicated topic here in Denmark. The former colony that is still treated a bit like a colony is something that inspires a lot of emotions. Greenland has been subjected to a lot of unethical experiments by Denmark, from taking their kids to wild experiments in criminal justice.
27.09.2025 08:56 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
FYI: Broadcom is ruining Bitnami containers You'll need to switch off ASAP.
28.08.2025 07:44 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
What Does a Post-Google Internet Look Like Google is moving to quickly kill internet search and replace it with a closed ecosystem of LLM-generated answers. This will change the entire economics of how the internet works.
30.06.2025 11:42 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
What Would a Kubernetes 2.0 Look Like As we approach the 10 year anniversary of the 1.0 release of Kubernetes, let's take stock of the successes and failures of the project in the wild. Also what would be on a wish list for a Kubernetes 2.0 release.
19.06.2025 11:57 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Simple Python Script for FTP Uploads I have a AX3000 wireless router that I slapped a cheap USB drive on that I wanted to automate the upload of files to. I ended up writing a simple python script to do the process for me that should work for any of these routers that expose a local FTP port.
12.06.2025 10:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Write your own Ghost Theme I struggled to make a Ghost CMS theme that worked the way I wanted, so I made my own. Turned out to be a surprisingly easy experience.
05.06.2025 08:52 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
TIL Simple Merge of two CSVs with Python An easy script to merge two CSVs with Python and Pandas
06.05.2025 10:55 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
GitHub Copilot for Vim Review My review of GitHub Copilot for Vim
01.05.2025 09:15 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Slack: The Art of Being Busy Without Getting Anything Done Why I think Slack and Slack-clones are actually a net negative for most organizations that use them.
17.03.2025 13:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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How to get a DID on iOS easily How to quickly and cheaply get a US phone number set up from abroad for not a lot of money or hassle
10.03.2025 14:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Help Me Help You, Maintainers My plea with OSS maintainers on how they can help me help them.
07.03.2025 12:55 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
My Very Own Rival I’ve always marveled at people who are motivated purely by the love of what they’re doing. There’s something so wholesome about that approach to life—where winning and losing don’t matter. They’re simply there to revel in the experience
12.02.2025 20:14 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
TIL How To Make Brown Noise in Python Simple script to make brown noise MP3 in Python
29.01.2025 12:52 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The AI Bubble Is Bursting My surprisingly frustrating experience with Google force enabling Gemini AI on Workspaces.
20.01.2025 13:24 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Stop Trying To Schedule A Call With Me - The harassment by SaaS
10.01.2025 13:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Review of Orbit by Mozilla A review and technical tear-down of the Orbit by Mozilla AI summary add-on for Firefox.
06.01.2025 14:40 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Kubernetes as a Distro My reaction to the good piece by Timur Tukaev on dealing with the increased complexity of Kubernetes.
05.01.2025 21:16 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Career Advice for New Tech Workers in 2025 My career advice for people looking to enter tech in 2025
20.12.2024 13:49 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Making Fun Flask Apps for No Reason Let's make a fun Python Flask app for absolutely no reason.
04.12.2024 13:44 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Self-Hosting Isn't a Solution; It's A Patch Self-hosting is an acceptable temporary solution to a lack of privacy regulations but not a sustainable long-term one.
22.11.2024 09:05 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Post-Quantum Cryptography Basics Every few years I will be on a team and the topic of quantum computing will come up. Inevitably the question will get asked "well is there something we are supposed to be doing about that or is it just a looming threat?" We will all collectively stare
04.10.2024 12:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0