Category: Swiss walks
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On Quitting Whatsapp Chatrooms
Reading Time: 3 minutesWhen I worked as a deicer I was working such unsociable hours that my personal life took a hit. Friends would often discuss going to climb at 19:00 or so but I couldn’t. I had to be up at 02:00 to be at work by 04:00 ready to deice planes. After a…
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A Simpler WordPress Federation Process
Reading Time: 2 minutesYesterday I spent some time looking into why my WordPress blog was de-federated. My suspicion is that when I switched from FTP to rsync, to upload the latest changes, it modified the .htaaccess file or the .well-known/webfinger file. That’s why my blog stopped posting to the Fediverse. I blamed Jetpack because I…
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On Valuing Social Networks Over Social Media
Reading Time: 3 minutesI believe that is wrong for a society dependent on cars to ban children from mobile phones and related tech. I believe that it is wrong because you create two problems. The first is that in a car centric society, where we go to school, is not where we live, so if…
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MyAI Written Tests for Eleventy JavaScript Files
Reading Time: 2 minutesI followed several JavaScript courses. They taught my about the process, and how to think about functions, but they rarely touched upon writing tests to ensure that the functionality remains when you refactor or make changes. While experimenting with Eleventy and refactoring I tidied up some code whilst in the process removing…
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Refactoring Eleventy with Swisscom MyAI
Reading Time: 3 minutesYesterday afternoon I decided to experiment with MyAI and Eleventy because I was getting an error message. The issue is that when I refactored my Eleventy files with Gemini it removed code that broke the build process. I asked MyAI for help and it went beyond what I asked of it. Specifically,…
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Experimenting With Eleventy
Reading Time: 3 minutesOne nice thing about switching from WordPress to Eleventy is that I start with a blank slate. By this I don’t mean that I start with nothing, because Eleventy does a lot. What I mean by this is that I can use APIs and other tools with greater ease than if I…
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On WordPress and the Eleventy Experiment
Reading Time: 3 minutesWhilst I have found WordPress to be a useful tool since around 2005 or so, recent changes have encouraged me to dump the platform. The first of these changes was when WordPress moved to react because this made the site slower, and heavier to use. React also has links to Facebook, and…
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A Physical Bike Ride and Simplification
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis Saturday was a great day for group rides for one key reason. The temperatures were pleasant, but more importantly, there was no wind to blow us around. The result is that despite riding with Group 2 I felt energetic until almost the end. Usually I’m exhausted much sooner, with this group.…
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On the Euphoria of Setting Up Activitypub With Gemini – Irony
Reading Time: 3 minutesI have spent many hours, and got Gemini to hallucinate multiple times, through multiple chats, attempting to get my Eleventy blogging experiment to talk with Activitypub and the Fediverse with limited help.Setting p a webfinger was easy, but getting follows to be accepted, and for posts to show up has been a…