This site is some twenty-five years old, and it contains lots of ancient stuff, much of it utterly dated and useless.
Sorry about that.
If anything, I post very unevenly, and about whatever occupies me.
Some featured posts
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De-googling
I have tried for ages to de-google. Not just from Google itself, but all the big ones — Google, Apple, Meta, Amazon. However, de-googling is not easy.
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Koha Library Software
Setting up a library management system like Koha is not easy, but once it’s done, registering and cataloguing your books is very easy.
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Across the river, into the trees
I spent a good deal of January and February 2021 on a movie set, but it wasn’t a very positive experience
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Most recent posts
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StarLite tablet and Debian Testing
I’ve installed Debian testing (Trixie) on a StarLite tablet from Starlaps Systems, and everything just worked.
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Changing owner of a calendar in Nextcloud
How to move a Nextcloud calendar from one user to another.
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A WordPress-Nextcloud writing workflow
My writing workflow is half WordPress, half Nextcloud, half Markdown, half HTML.
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Paste with two-finger tap in Wayland [solved]
Wayland once didn’t have the option to paste using a two-finger tap, but it does now, albeit a bit hidden.
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Post length with ActivityPub
The ActivtyPub plugin is great, but too often sends way too long posts to the Fediverse
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synogear install
The command “synogear install” will install a hidden DiagnosticTools package on a Synology NAS.
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Hyphens and dashes in WordPress
One or more hyphens in WordPress can produce a single hyphen (-), an en dash (–) or an em dash (—), but it’s not entirely straightforward.