So You Want To Make It On The Fediverse?
Yarmo recently wrote this inspiring post about Twitter migrants coming into the fediverse, or specifically, . In the post he says: Twitter is a metropole. Its users all share the same playing field. I...
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Why I Have A Blog
This was an interesting post by Jan Lukas, and some of the comments on Hacker News were very interesting (he mentions specifics in his post, but you can ). I thought I would turn this on its head an a...
Removing Mastodon Webmention From My IndieWeb
Unfortunately, I've had to remove the Mastodon Webmention integration into this site.
Why I Don’t Use A Static Site Generator
I often receive inquisitive looks when I tell people I'm running WordPress on my website. Especially when I'm talking to other people in the InfoSec community where getting responses like, “WordPress,...
Why Having A Full Post RSS Feed Is A Good Idea
It frustrates me when I subscribe to a new RSS feed, only to find that the feed contains an excerpt of each post instead of the full content. This post talks about why I think that's a problem.
Decentralised SMTP Is For The Greater Good
If found this post on today and thought it was an excellent piece, so worth sharing. The writer talks about how the big mail corporations, like Gmail and Office 365, are so popular that they’re centra...
Why Lobste.rs Is Better Than Hacker News
Lobste.rs is WAY better than Hacker News (in my opinion). Here's why...
Privacy On Mainstream Media
I’ve just been having a flick through Hacker News and I came across this post from the BBC:
Migrate From Windows 7 To Linux
I have read so many posts about this recently, it's making my head hurt. I get the sentiment - a popular OS is going end of life, so it's a good opportunity to coax new people over to Linux.
Excerpt vs Full Content?
When discovering a new blog, I like to have a look through at least a few pages of blog archives before adding them to my RSS feeds.
Categorise Or Compartmentalise?
Regular readers of this blog will know that it's very much a tech focussed site. However, I have three main passions in my life, which are tech (obviously), fish-keeping and motorbikes.
Oh Freedom How I've Missed Thee!
Over the past 6 months or so, my blog, RefuGeeks has been growing and growing, and growing. That’s a really great thing, however it’s meant that a hell of a lot of my time has been taken up with serve...