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  • Charging A Garmin Instinct With an External Solar Panel

    Charging A Garmin Instinct With an External Solar Panel

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteYesterday, out of curiousity I experimented. I charged both the Garmin Instinct Solar and the Garmin 45s with a solar panel. The first thing I noticed is that they were using 0.1 amps to charge, rather than 1, 2 or more amps of power. Until this experiment I had never considered…

  • Learning by Trial And Error

    Learning by Trial And Error

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    Reading Time: 4 minutesEvery day or two I see people post about how the Fediverse should be simplified to welcome new people. It’s a shame. Signing up for a fediverse server is easy. It’s the same process as for every site. The biggest difference is that you’re signing up for a privately owned, crowd sourced…

  • The Pure Freedom of Meindl Shoes For Cycling

    The Pure Freedom of Meindl Shoes For Cycling

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesWithin the last month I considered updating my cycling shoes, until I saw the price of cycling shoes, even in Decathlon. I saw how expensive they are so I lost interest in them. Barefoot shoes are great because they’re light and easy to transport. The problem that I find with ‘barefoot’ shoes…

  • 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…

  • ClassicPress and the Fediverse – Not Quite Ready

    ClassicPress and the Fediverse – Not Quite Ready

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesYesterday I experimented with migrating my blog from WordPress to ClassicPress to see whether ClassicPress plays nicely with the fediverse. It does but there is room for improvement. If you want instructions on how to migrate from wordpress you can find the instructions here. Summarised, you download the switch to ClassicPress plugin,…

  • A Little Too Experimental

    A Little Too Experimental

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesThe Fediverse is great because people are experimenting and trying new idea. It’s also great because we can be there through every step of the process. This is also why things could be better. I am now writing my blog in Hugo first, and then moving the content over to WordPress at…

  • Transitioning from WordPress to Hugo

    Transitioning from WordPress to Hugo

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesTransitioning from WordPress to Hugo is tempting because I don’t need an entire CMS for what I’m doing. What I need is a centralised system that checks for tags, titles and the theme, and updates the navigation as I add new pages. You don’t need a CMS for that. The Good Old…

  • Converting This Blog To Hugo

    Converting This Blog To Hugo

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesOn Saturday I converted my blog from WordPress to Hugo as an experiment and it went quite well. I downloaded the xml file and then I converted that xml with blog2md to go from xml to md pages. A page was created for every single blog post. This took a while. I…

  • Cold Brew – A 24 Hour experiment

    Cold Brew – A 24 Hour experiment

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesI have been reading and watching videos about coffee brewing. In the process I kept seeing cold brew coffee come up again and again and it made me curious to try.  When listening to podcasts about thru-hiking I heard people speak about cold soaking food, rather than cooking it. The idea is…