NB! I am _not_ critical of the project or the functionality or even the documentation on a whole. It’s mostly great! Now, back to the story. I had an assignment at work that consisted of finding a viable database backup solution for a Laravel project. One of the suggestions was to use laravel-backup from Spatie.… Continue reading Laravel backup documentation unclarity
Excluding categories from Worpdress home page
I wanted to exclude a category from my home page, as to not clutter the feed(?) with every single post I do. I was contemplating between making an inclusion or exclusion type of filtering, but I couldn’t really find the former, so exclusion it was. Having googled a little, I made a choice between two… Continue reading Excluding categories from Worpdress home page
Rootless Podman on ZFS
Ugh. Today I had to spend 30 minutes figuring out how to get rootless podman to run on zfs. The gist of it is to configure podman to use /usr/bin/fuse-overlayfs as its “mount_program”. This is what I found on Reddit that worked out for me on Ubuntu 22.04 with ZFS disk encryption enabled Now, I… Continue reading Rootless Podman on ZFS
Bangle.js 2 + Docker = ok
I’ve had a sorta kinda Pebble alternative on my arm for some months now and thoroughly enjoy the refound love for developing on a wrist watch that doesn’t need to recharge three times a day. It’s been a bit of a roller coaster to get started developing for it (wth is “Web Bluetooth?… oooooh, interesting.… Continue reading Bangle.js 2 + Docker = ok
Self hosted mail server
Last updated on 2021-10-14, read the summary I have had enough. It’s bad enough that social media has become the scourge of the Internet, but that doesn’t mean key services such as email should have to be stronghold(ed?) by Big Corp such as Google, Microsoft, and other massive vendors. The Internet was built on a… Continue reading Self hosted mail server
WordPress to Fe-di…verse…?
This is another post in the series about WordPress discoverability for the people wanting to not put all their eggs in one basket by handing over all their content creations to walled gardens such as Google+, Facebook, Twitter, etc. The problem about discoverability is one of the toughest challenges to overcome; with walled gardens, everyone… Continue reading WordPress to Fe-di…verse…?
Leaving Google+ – a multi part story about “the how to what”…?
Being a long time, albeit sporadic, user of Google+, it’s with some resentment sadness surprise rage sense of meh I’m now trying to find a new place in the Wide World of Memes. I’m going to ramble a bit about the problem space, where I’m at, and what I’ve been faced with in terms of… Continue reading Leaving Google+ – a multi part story about “the how to what”…?
WP permissions
Installing WordPress and keeping some sanity for the inevitable Upgrade Plugin modification Theme modification needs this link and excerpts: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18352682/correct-file-permissions-for-wordpress Excerpt one: When you setup WP you (the webserver) may need write access to the files. So the access rights may need to be loose. chown www-data:www-data -R * # Let Apache be owner find… Continue reading WP permissions
Port forwarding over SSH to an Android Thing(s)
I was a bit frustrated on this one, because even if the commands are fairly easy, the results are hard to debug when they show up. I wanted to be able to connect to my Android Things RPi3 device over SSH. This is pretty much simple port forwarding shenanigans but I got stuck for it… Continue reading Port forwarding over SSH to an Android Thing(s)
I’ve Framed! my hosts
And it feels great! For a couple of days I’ve been poking around with a small tool to ease the burdens of keeping track of different web development environments. The problem Nowadays a lot of developers have a number of different environments set up to improve the way they work. It’s often safe to tinker… Continue reading I’ve Framed! my hosts