Richard's blog

Category: Switzerland

  • 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.

  • Playing With Hugo – Continued

    Playing With Hugo – Continued

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesYesterday I decided to write a blog post using Hugo and HTML rather than markdown and it worked fine. I was able to write the post, checked that everything was displaying properly, and then noticed that with HTML the theme I am using does not detect section headings. Markdown Behaviour With Markdown…

  • Luxurious Indifference – Watching Twitter Fail, as a Passerby

    Luxurious Indifference – Watching Twitter Fail, as a Passerby

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesSince 2006 I have been using Twitter every single day for several hours a day, reading up to ten thousand posts per day. Every time it failed I would know about it. Weeks ago I decided to stop using Twitter, so when it fails I read about it in articles. I am…

  • The WordPress Fediverse Instance. 

    The WordPress Fediverse Instance. 

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesFor weeks, or even months, I have had the activitypub plugin installed on my blog and after the creator of that plugin asked us to check how many friends we had I noticed that my wordpress blog was working as a Fediverse instance.  What This Means When I noticed that my blog…

  • Flawed Thinking and Cleaning

    Flawed Thinking and Cleaning

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    Reading Time: 4 minutesThe Unilateral Solution I stopped making a mess because I came up with unillateral solutions, until I found the ideal one. I experimented with skewers to remove the mud from shoes, I experimented with rubber boots that I could rinse under a tap. I tried with spare shoes in the letter box. …

  • On The Any Distance – Workout Tracker

    On The Any Distance – Workout Tracker

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesI watched the Apple keynote and thought “This is demonstrating a dystopia, with the Pure Vision Goggles, rather than a eutopia. A dystopia where everyone is alone, working in VR, rather than surrounded by people. The dystopia continued on with an app. In the age of two factor authentication they want to authenticate…

  • Driving the Microlino OnThe Outskirts of Geneva

    Driving the Microlino OnThe Outskirts of Geneva

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Microlino is made by the same people that made the trottinette that I loved getting around with when I was unable to drive for a month due to overtaking a slow moving vehicle where I had plenty of visibility.  The beauty of the Microlino is that it’s a small light weight…

  • The Noise Pollution of Caribana and Other Music Festivals

    The Noise Pollution of Caribana and Other Music Festivals

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesSummary In the 21st century technology exists that could make music festivals sound good for festival goers, whist not ruing the night of sleep for neighbours of the festival. I would like EPFL and other academic groups to work towards finding a way to make music festivals more considerate of neighbouring humans,…

  • Time Spent being Social

    Time Spent being Social

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesWho do you spend the most time with? Before the pandemic, it would have been the climbing, hiking and diving friends. I would meet them every week, year round. it was a strong group of peopla and I liked to see them.  Adventure Groups It is with this group of people that…