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  • On WordPress and the Eleventy Experiment

    On WordPress and the Eleventy Experiment

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    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…

  • The Importance of Trying AI

    The Importance of Trying AI

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesFrom what I see the aim of AI companies is not to provide human beings with great tools to speed up work flows, to automate menial tasks, and to enhance our daily work lives. It is to replace us. For this reason I don’t like that there is so much hype about…

  • Minimalist by Plane and The Opposite by Car

    Minimalist by Plane and The Opposite by Car

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesWhen I was flying between England and Switzerland regularly I packed so that everything would fit into a bag that I could take on board. When I travel by car I pack less effectively. Today I have two tents, two different types of sleeping bag, a sleeping mat, a Bare Dry suit…

  • The NixOS learning Curve

    The NixOS learning Curve

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesWhile walking and listening to podcasts I kept hearing about [NixOS](https://nixos.org/) and how good it is for instantiating environments over and over again. What I didn’t hear about, so much, is that there is a steep learning curve, to get started with. Installing the OS is easy. Download NixOS, flash it to…

  • Shifting from Tutorials to Practical Experience

    Shifting from Tutorials to Practical Experience

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesSince getting the Raspberry Pi devices my shift has moved from following tutorial after tutorial to experimenting with setting up a number of server projects fron Home Assistant to Nextcloud to Photoprism and Immich to name a few. In the process I have instantiated and then pulled down plenty of instances before…

  • Playing with Nextcloud Continued

    Playing with Nextcloud Continued

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    Reading Time: 4 minutesSetting up a drive to be available via Samba is a relatively simple thing to do. The drawback is that you have files that are as organised as the media asset manager. It can be quite chaotic unless you have someone trained as a media asset manager, archivist, or other, to help…

  • Experimenting with Nextcloud and A Raspberry Pi 4

    Experimenting with Nextcloud and A Raspberry Pi 4

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    Reading Time: 4 minutesNextcloud is an open source file sharing solution that has iOS, MacOS, Android, Windows and Linux apps. You can install it via a docker container, natively or via a number of other solutions. For my experiment I installed via Docker on Windows but haven’t done anything with it, and with [Nextcloudpi](https://nextcloudpi.com/). The…

  • 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…

  • 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…