Installing GoToSocial on Coolify 🔗
For various reasons I had occasion this evening to give GoToSocial a try so I installed it on my server that's running Coolify but hit a couple of iss [...]
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Stopping Mastodon From Fetching Metadata for My Notes 🔗
I'm trying to move towards POSSE for my short/micro posts and one thing I wasn't sure about was if those short posts should link back to the source or [...]
Useful Bluesky Tools 🔗
I've been helping getting MacStories setup on Bluesky this weekend and I came across a few handy sites. There are loads of interesting Bluesky-related [...]
I Was a Guest On AppStories This Week 🔗
The past few weeks AppStories has had a different MacStories host as a guest and this week was my turn. In the AppStories+ pre-show we talk about the [...]
Buffalo Sauce Recipe 🔗
I don't know where I got this recipe but it's buffalo sauce so I suspect it's mostly the same from everyone but here we are, final day of recipe week. [...]
Leek and Bacon Jacket Potatoes Recipe 🔗
Day six of Recipe Week. This is certainly not healthy in any way at all but god damn is it tasty. Leek and Bacon Jacket Potatoe [...]
Naming My Computers 🔗
Alex has an excellent post about how they name their computers which is, as they mention, a very important part of setting up a new device. Unlike Ale [...]
Toad in the Hole Recipe 🔗
Right folks, this is the laziest "recipe" ever but it's great so here we are: toad in the hole. I will take a better photo next time I make it, I had [...]
More Unorganised Thoughts about Bluesky 🔗
I got a lot of feedback from my last post which fell into two categories: either about the technical implementations or why someone is using Bluesky o [...]
Unorganised Thoughts about Bluesky 🔗
These thoughts about Bluesky are unorganised and mostly off-the-cuff so make of that what you will. The API, even just for posting, strikes me as very [...]
Flatiron Mac and Cheese Recipe 🔗
This recipe came to me via my friend Ali, who had it at The Flatiron Room when he was living in New York. He's made it for us a bunch of times, includ [...]
Cheesy Chicken and Bacon Pasta Recipe 🔗
Recipe week day three is a cheesy chicken and bacon pasta that I tried for the first time last week and it was banging. You should try it. [...]
Candied Jalapenos Recipe 🔗
Day two of recipe week is this recipe for candied jalopenos that I like to make a batch of at the start of the summer for pizzas on my Ooni. [...]
Mango Chicken Curry Recipe 🔗
As promised last week, this week is recipe week. This is one we batch cook for Baby Knight every few weeks and she can't get enough of it. The last ba [...]
Adding Cooklang Support to Eleventy Three Ways 🔗
Note I had already built most of this before I saw Mat had already done this including making a plugin available. Lesson learned, maybe Google it firs [...]
Why Is No One Using the Recipe Schema? 🔗
While working on my recipe handling for this site as outlined in my previous post I realised that there are many recipe-related browser extensions ava [...]
Thinking About Recipe Formats More Than Anyone Should 🔗
I've had a note in my todo list for quite a while to get my (admittedly small) collection of recipes on my website. The note mentioned to look into Co [...]
We Got Family Season Two 🔗
We Got Family is a podcast I do with David Darnes about the Fast and Furious movies. In season one we did the first four movies, plus a bonus episode [...]
WeblogPoMo AMA 🔗
Annie has set a WeblogPoMo challenge for this month, Ask Me Anything: I'm calling this challenge WeblogPoMo AMA (Ask Me Anything). For this challenge [...]
Using Setapp 🔗
I've had my eye on Setapp since it launched in 2017 but it's never been the right time for me to jump in...until this week. I really wanted to use God [...]
Copy SSH Keys to a Server 🔗
Every time I've setup a server in the past decade the SSH keys have been set for me, most hosts I've used do this (DigitalOcean, Hetzner, etc). This w [...]
Using Miniflux with Reeder and NetNewsWire 🔗
Trying to find the answer to how to use Miniflux with Reeder (app) and the Google Reader API proved to be a bit difficult due to the similarly of the [...]
Mark One Enigma Edition Pen Review 🔗
During September I donated to Enigma Stationery's campaign and was entered into a raffle to win the Mark One Enigma Edition and...I actually won! I've [...]
Obsidian Tasks and Godspeed 🔗
Two weeks ago I tooted: Lord help me I'm back on Obsidian Tasks again I came up with a nice solution for what I wanted. Show the first todo item in ea [...]
Moving my DNS Records with DNSControl 🔗
After setting up DNSControl I wanted to use it to move away from DigitalOcean[1] to Bunny DNS. I'd already moved my servers to Hetzner but the DNS was [...]
Fix Crackly Audio When Using Bluetooth Headphones on MacOS 🔗
Every now and again I start listening to music on MacOS through my headphones and the audio is tinny and crackly. After some dicking around with quitt [...]
Setting Up DNSControl 🔗
When I linked to this post about DNS, Dave replied and mentioned he uses DNSControl for managing this kind of stuff. I'd heard of it before but never [...]
Things I Like: 8BitDo Keycaps 🔗
When 8BitDo announced they were selling a new keycap set that matched my keyboard I got from them I ordered immediately. I didn't need new keycaps for [...]
Our Wedding Photographer Was Terrible 🔗
This was going to be a scathing review of our wedding photographer I planned on posting because I was furious having waited 6 months to get the photos [...]
Setting Up Mastodon Author Tags 🔗
Mastodon 4.3 released today with a bunch of features but the one most people, including me, are excited about is author tags - this isn't the name of [...]
Never Send me a TikTok Video 🔗
Today a friend shared a video on TikTok with me that I promptly sent to my wife because I knew she would find it funny. It is funny (this is a non-tra [...]
I Finally Saw, and Used, an App Clip 🔗
Update A previous version of this post said app clips were introduced seven years ago because AI summaries are dumb and Google is all the more stupid [...]
The Sticker Book 🔗
Me every time I open a drawer at my desk: Wow I have a lot of stickers in this drawer that I've never used because I'm paralysed with choice about whe [...]
St Jude 2024 Recap 🔗
Relay's St Jude campaign for 2024 is (mostly) over and they raised over one million dollars, which is incredible. This year for our campaign, me and A [...]
Alternatives to Wordpress 🔗
After all the Wordpress drama this week I tooted the following: We really need a new, easy to use, CMS written in PHP to compete with Wordpress. Why P [...]
The Robb Jobb 🔗
While watching this video about making wine from Monster[1] this morning and thinking about how I want nothing more than to try it, I wondered how thi [...]
MagSafe Miscellania 🔗
Last week I asked if anyone had suggestions for a MagSafe car mount and I got a ton of recommendations. Loads of love for Peak Design but I'm not payi [...]
My First Car Lasted Less Time Than Liz Truss Did as Prime Minister 🔗
Ten days ago, I passed my driving test and my dad was kind enough to give me my mum's old car: a 2011 Smart Fortwo. The plan was I would drive this fo [...]
St Jude 2024 🔗
tl;dr: Donate to our campaign here at stjude.omg.lol. It's basically September which means it's childhood cancer awareness month and time for Relay's [...]
Building a Seating Plan for Relay 10 🔗
Within a few hours of tickets going on sale for Relay's 10th anniversary live show last year there was a discussion in the Discord about ways to say w [...]
Everybody's Free (to Make Websites) 🔗
A couple of days ago Sara tooted, then wrote a post, with re-worked words of the Wear Sunscreen essay made famous by Baz Luhrmann. Keenan then recorde [...]
Fetching Achievements and Trophies for my Game Collection Page 🔗
Chris was inpired to make his game library page by me. Then he went and added PSN trophy details so I became inspired to do the same - and also do Xbo [...]
Highlighting Journalism with the Fediverse Creator Tag 🔗
Mastodon 4.3 adds support for a newly proposed OpenGraph tag to identify the creator of the link, which looks like this: <meta name="fediverse:creator [...]
As If Perplexity Didn’t Suck Enough They’re Also Hotlinking Images 🔗
Ben has an excellent post expanding on my findings about Perplexity ignoring robots.txt. He also digs into the various ways prompt injection does and [...]
Perplexity AI, Robots.txt, and Other Questions 🔗
Since I wrote about Perplexity it has been reported on by Wired, Wired again, Fast Company, the Verge, and others. And there's more coming so keep you [...]
Adding Github-Style Markdown Alerts to Eleventy 🔗
I often have occasion to come back to a blog post and add some kind of update. Maybe I changed my mind or someone offered some new information I hadn' [...]
Perplexity AI Is Lying about Their User Agent 🔗
Update 2024-06-19 WIRED confirmed my findings I wrote yesterday about blocking AI bots on the server and today I have been doing the same for MacStori [...]
Blocking Bots with Nginx 🔗
In April Ethan wrote this post about blocking AI bots with Apache and .htaccess. I've already done this for my robots.txt file but quite frankly I don [...]
This is My /Next 🔗
This week I added /where and /someday to the Slashpages site. I started making my own someday page, which is still in progress, but it got me thinking [...]
A WeblogPoMo Retrospective 🔗
WeblogPoMo is over. You can read all my posts here. I followed the hashtag all month and also followed the @pomo account. I was flooded with excellent [...]