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Deleting my DEV and Pixelfed accounts.

Why I have left DEV and deactivated my Pixelfed account.

Published February 23, 2021
Categorized as Article Tagged 100daystooffload, dev.to, draft, pixelfed

Markdown appreciation post, because it ages like wine.

I’ve used a ton of blogging software over the years. The one thing that’s given me very little pain: file-based storage, or more specifically, Markdown files.

Published February 12, 2021
Categorized as Article Tagged 100daystooffload, draft, markdown, sql, xml

Cutting down: say hello to ES modules on this site!

I’m pretty happy with all the background work that’s been happening in getting this site to depend on fewer and fewer moving parts and external dependencies. I detail some more of the recent work done.

Published February 6, 2021
Categorized as Article Tagged 100daystooffload, bem, css, draft, esm, tailwindcss

More thoughts on and progress with Gitea.

My progress on… making sense of Gitea, and continuing to move out of the GitHub ecosystem.

Published February 4, 2021
Categorized as Article Tagged 100daystooffload, decentralization, draft, git, gitea, github, microsoft

A wild bash script appeared! Or, in other words, I no longer use Forestry.

Kev Quirk recently tried Forestry.io and decided it was not for him. This reminded me it’s been a while I used it at all. Here’s the little bash script I use instead.

Published February 2, 2021
Categorized as Article Tagged 100daystooffload, bash, draft, forestry

Why aren’t four-day work weeks normal yet?

Looking back on how much I enjoyed four-day work weeks and wondering why they aren’t the norm yet.

Published January 31, 2021
Categorized as Article Tagged 100daystooffload, celestial, draft, exhaustion, side-project, workplace

Mozilla has given me one reason to use Chrome on mobile.

With its v85 release, Mozilla has announced they are removing support for PWAs.

Published January 30, 2021
Categorized as Article Tagged 100daystooffload, firefox, mozilla, pwa

Docker outside of Docker (DooD)

While I get my fair share of Docker learning done via self-hosting, I’ve also been acquiring new knowledge at work recently. One of these new bits is Docker-outside-of-Docker (DooD).

Published January 29, 2021
Categorized as Article Tagged 100daystooffload, docker, draft, sysadmin, til

GitHub to Codeberg to… Gitea?

Quick thoughts on why I set up a Gitea server of my own and if it’s time to look to more open/standards-based collaboration tools.

Published January 26, 2021
Categorized as Article Tagged codeberg, decentralization, git, gitea, github, self-hosting

Simplifying my site.

Been spending some time doing some New-Year-cleanup on my site. The end-goal is to keep the codebase lean and maintainable. Here’s the lowdown…

Published December 31, 2020
Categorized as Article Tagged draft, indieweb, preact, tailwindcss, webmentions

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