Richard's blog

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  • This blog has been migrated to Classic Press

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    Reading Time: < 1 minutePlaying with ClassicPress now, in production, because I am silly.

  • YQ, FrontMatter and Jekyll

    YQ, FrontMatter and Jekyll

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    Reading Time: 4 minutesFor two days I have been trying to understand how to use Jekyll, a Ruby version of Hugo. It is a Static website generator that is similar to Hugo but rather than being written in Go, it is written in Ruby. I find that it renders sites faster than Hugo, but that…

  • Twitter X-Roads – Twitter Crossroad

    Twitter X-Roads – Twitter Crossroad

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesWith the change in name from Twitter to X, and with the destruction of a recognisable brand mentioned in tens of thousands of podcasts, podcasts, episodes and millions of web pages I was curious to see how Twitter was, with the new logo. It took more than 24 hours to change the…

  • Disinformation and Education – Social Media and AI

    Disinformation and Education – Social Media and AI

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    Reading Time: 4 minutesDisinformation and misinformation work for a very simple reason. People who did not study history, and do not follow current affairs do not have the background information to spot what is true from what is untrue. They are unable to use history’s lessons to see the warning signs and act accordingly. Algorithms…

  • Cycling With Different Levels of Fitness

    Cycling With Different Levels of Fitness

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesOriginally I wanted to write about following route 50 from one village to Romainmôtier. I changed my mind as I created the title for this post. Yesterday I cycled with two people on electric bikes on my normal bike. I didn’t feel that I was making that great an effort, especially since…

  • Youth 😉

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhat do you think gets better with age? The older you get the more appreciate that you were once young.

  • Social Networks

    Social Networks

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    Reading Time: 5 minutesBefore 2006 we talked about social networks. it’s only with Twitter, Facebook and Instagram that the idea of social media emerged. With it came a golden age of online communities where Facebook was for Uni students to keep in contact with each other, Twitter was to microblog about project progress and more,…

  • Threads And Europe

    Threads And Europe

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesYesterday Facebook, discguised as meta, and Meta, diguised as Instagram launched Threads. Threads is meant to be a twitter competitor. The paradox is that Facebook has always been a twitter competitor, and this has become more evident with every iteration of both social networks. It is paradoxical that Facebook would need threads,…

  • The Second Test

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteI am an excerpt. I think I will appear as text in the post, below the heading.

  • The Mastodon Post Test

    The Mastodon Post Test

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis is a test to see whether I can write a blog post that appears on mastodon.social.