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  • Git-FTP and Web Development

    Git-FTP and Web Development

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    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

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    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

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    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…

  • The Site Has Migrated

    The Site Has Migrated

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesAlthough it is absurd i decided to migrate the blog from https://www.main-vision.com/richard/blog/ to https://blog.main-vision.com/. It is absurd because the website has been at the same URL since 2004 or so, and to move it is to lose years of hyperlinks. At the same time the updated URL should be preferred by search…

  • Asking for Permission on Instagram

    Asking for Permission on Instagram

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesIf you want to see how unhealthy social media is just look at this story about DMs on Instagram. Now if you want to DM someone that you don’t follow they can send just one text message. Imagine, you’re a user of Instagram. You’re following friends, family and colleagues. Now consider that…

  • The Post Social Media Age

    The Post Social Media Age

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesSomeone asked Is decentralization the future of social media? and I’d take an extra leap. I believe that the Fediverse, made possible by ActivityPub, and the other one, made possible by the Authenticated Transfer Protocol both point to a different future Playing With WordPress, ClassicPress and Firefish As we play with the…

  • Quick Image Test

    Quick Image Test

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteTesting to see if image loads.

  • Jumping On and Off Twitter

    Jumping On and Off Twitter

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesThere are two types of Twitter users. Those that are still using it daily, and angry with what Musk is doing, and those that quit weeks ago, and come back every now and then to see how things have changed, or stayed the same. I am surprised that to some degree the…

  • ClassicPress and the Fediverse part deux

    ClassicPress and the Fediverse part deux

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesAfter my first post about playing with ClassicPress and the Fediverse it was suggested that I try the nightly build of ClassicPress so I did. The result can be seen here. Mastodon and Firefish I have tested integration with the fediverse via Mastodon.social but also firefish.social and mastodon.social is faster, but mastodon.social…

  • More Experimenting with ClassicPress

    More Experimenting with ClassicPress

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesAlthough I didn’t achieve what I set out to achieve I have been experimenting with ClassicPress and the Fediverse, but rather than do it from my main blog I have decided to experiment within a subdomain and so far I have achieved much. I see that activitypub and webfinger can be installed…