Richard's blog

Category: tech related

  • On Being Moral

    On Being Moral

    —

    by

    richard
    in ,

    Reading Time: 2 minutesHeavier than Expected I ordered something online two days ago. I received a package today and I was surprised by how heavy it was. I opened the package. It contained over a hundred francs of things I did not order. More Waiting It’s frustrating not to get what I ordered. To be…

  • On Not Contributing Money to Fediverse Instances

    —

    by

    richard
    in

    Reading Time: 3 minutesTwitter, Facebook, Instagram and Fediverse instances want you to pay them to use their services. This could be fantastic. It isn’t, for one simple reason. We are helping someone else grow their projects enough for them, eventually to get IPOs and sell off the company, and our contribution to the highest bidder…

  • The Skipped Walk Due to Air Pollution

    The Skipped Walk Due to Air Pollution

    —

    by

    richard
    in , , ,

    Reading Time: 2 minutesToday is an unusual day. Originally I had planed to walk over one thousand meters up the Jura, before realising that I had too little sleep, so I decided to sleep a little more, do laundry, write a blog post and then eat lunch. Lazy After lunch I didn’t feel like going…

  • The Eleventy Learning Curve

    The Eleventy Learning Curve

    —

    by

    richard
    in

    Reading Time: 3 minutesI have spent several days playing with Eleventy and trying to get it to behave as I would like to and over the last day or two I succeeded, to some degree. Eleventy, like Hugo, is a static website generator. Whereas Hugo is built on Go Eleventy is built on Javascript. In…

  • The Suunto 5 Peak and Suunto App

    The Suunto 5 Peak and Suunto App

    —

    by

    richard
    in ,

    Reading Time: 4 minutesA few weeks, or even months ago, I noticed that the Suunto and Sports Tracker apps play very nicely with the Apple watch, especially Sports Tracker. For this reason I spent quite a bit of time playing with the sports tracker app with the iphone. In fact it almost convinced me that…

  • The Apathetic Mastodon

    The Apathetic Mastodon

    —

    by

    richard
    in , ,

    Reading Time: 3 minutesOn at least three occasions toots that were written as a cry for empathy, or at least venting, were interacted with by apathetic people. For this simple reason I deleted two Fediverse accounts. I deleted my Mastodon.social account, and my FireFish.social accounts. I have a precise desire, when using social media. That…

  • Threads and the Fediverse

    Threads and the Fediverse

    —

    by

    richard
    in ,

    Reading Time: 3 minutesA few weeks ago I was completely opposed to Threads being connected and accepted by the Fediverse because I hated the idea of 100 million users flooding a social network with 10 million users. Now that threads has imploded I feel differently. Now that Threads is the same size as the Frediverse,…

  • Git-FTP and Web Development

    Git-FTP and Web Development

    —

    by

    richard
    in ,

    Reading Time: 3 minutesFrom the way people write about Github you would believe that everything has to pass through it, for anything to work but after some trial and error I found this to be a misconception. I found that with GIT-FTP on Github I could upload and download files to a website after each…

  • The Unquantified Self and the Garmin Etrex SE

    The Unquantified Self and the Garmin Etrex SE

    —

    by

    richard
    in ,

    Reading Time: 4 minutesSince boyhood I have liked watches. There was a period when I wore none, but eventually I got the habit back and now I regularly wear two watches. I don’t wear two watches because I like to wear two watches. I wear two watches because Apple sends to one database and Garmin…

  • Hugo and Upload Time

    Hugo and Upload Time

    —

    by

    richard
    in

    Reading Time: 2 minutesI like blogging with Hugo. I like writing my daily article in VIM and then exporting it to WordPress, before publishing it both with Hugo and WordPress. The build time for this build was 14 seconds but it can take up to 20 seconds. Although this i slow this isn’t the bottle…