René's old blog
Whatever I feel like posting, whenever
This site goes back some twenty-five years, so it is bound to be full of stale links and irrelevant information. It is, at best, updated irregularly.
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Trying to wrap my head around how to manage and create themes with the new full site editing framework in Wordpress.
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Simple Cookie Recipe
This is a very simple recipe for home made cookies – just a few ingredients – with many possible variations.
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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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Simple cake recipe with variations
Very easy to make basic cake recipe with lots of possible variations – simple and versatile whatever your taste
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Home made chickpea flour pasta
An easy way of making fresh home made pasta of chickpea flour
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Mail-in-a-box
When Google shut down the free Google Workspace I’ve used for over ten years, I moved to Mail-in-a-box.
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Paddling Planet overhaul
The Paddling Planet sure has been totally redone, and it is now a WordPress blog that automatically imports posts from the feeds
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WordPress image sizes
Figuring out proper values for WordPress image sizes takes a bit of effort, but it’s not rocket science. Whenever you upload an image to a WordPress site, the software generates several scaled copies of the image. Some are built-in to…
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Goodbye Gondola
We have said goodbye to our old gondola. It has become impossible to keep it well, so we have donated it to the museum on the Lazzaretto Nuovo
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Nextcloud on Synology NAS
Installing Nextcloud on a Synology NAS
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Closing the Venice Kayak chapter
My company Venice Kayak is finally being closed after years of bureaucratic issues – another Venice Kayak still remains
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Synology DS720+ and NVME drives
Setting up two NVME drives as a volume on a Synology DS720+ NAS