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Last year I was introduced to the idea of “Dopplr colours” in the IndieWeb community. This refers to an accent colour assigned to cities on the now-defunct travel website Dopplr. You can see examples by clicking through different Dopplr ...
Read morethis is super cool and definitely gives me ideas for things I'm building!
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Smaller and dumber - daverupert.com February 24th, 2026 The principle of least power expressed nicely: Smaller, dumber things have more applications, go more places, and require less maintenance.
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Happy to see someone diving in the indiekit blackhole :) if you need any help, feel free to ask !
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My response-to / thoughts-on Neil’s write up, ‘Self-host it’ is not the answer. 👹 Strapping on my devils advocate horns hat… Neil is right, self-hosting isn’t a panacea for the ills of big tech, and barriers absolutely exist, some insurm...
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When I set out to make writing my full-time career in October nearly half a year ago now, I had no idea that it would actually end up being successful. I've set up a lot of ways for people to support me. Ko-fi, BuyMeACoffee, Patreon, I'v...
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Finally fixed my green check rel=me link !
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I'll let you know! I've used FreeBSD and OpenBSD in the past — FreeBSD for a web/mail server and OpenBSD for a router/firewall and personal laptop (!), but this was back in the very early 2000s. Currently I happily run Guix on my persona...
Read moreI'm definitely a Debian based distro guy these days. Much more so than BSD for sure. But I've been wanting to try Arch for quite a while. That may be my next distro destination! haha
Diane, 11:30am, February 24th. I'm entering the town of Twin Peaks. Today is Twin Peaks day. The show originally aired in 1990, but is meant to have taken place in 1989. February 24th 1989 is the day Special Agent Dale Cooper arrives in Twin Peaks. In real life, February 24th 1989 is the day I was born. Today is my birthday! Weird cooincidence? Or does it explain a lot? These are the questions I'll be pondering today, along with many others. How did I get to be 37 years old? There's anothe...
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I'm thinking about installing FreeBSD on an old ThinkPad T480 I have and see how well it works for music production.
Read moreI'd be curious to know! FreeBSD was the first open-source operating system I ever tried (way back in the early 2000's).