I've switched away from Joomla to Nikola, this post details how and why| www.bentasker.co.uk
I've built an automated workflow to watch for external links in my blog posts and then preserve a copy in a private Linkwarden instance. The aim is to provide a form of insurance against link rot - wh| www.bentasker.co.uk
I've been setting up a new tropical fishtank and decided that I wanted to build some automated monitoring to help keep an eye on the state of the tank. So, as a starting point, I built a raspberry Pi| www.bentasker.co.uk
I was recently having a conversation with a colleague about a youtuber who built a home cable-tv channel. It occurred to me that having an always-on broadcast of stuff I like would greatly simply the| www.bentasker.co.uk
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Insiders tell a Panorama investigation that social media firms knowingly hook users to their apps.| BBC News
Last week, I deployed ShotShare - a php application written using Laravel. However, I started to encounter validation issues when uploading an image from my phone. Troubleshooting showed that the issu| www.bentasker.co.uk
I spent part of today figuring out how to deploy ShotShare into Kubernetes so that I can easily share screenshots and the like with others. This post details the headaches I ran into (self-inflicted a| www.bentasker.co.uk
This blog uses WebMention technology. If you write an article on your website and mention one of my blog posts, I get a notification. That notification can then be published as a comment. It usually looks something like this: This means readers of my post can see where it has been mentioned around the web. […]| Terence Eden’s Blog
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Shattering trust for fun and profit, but mostly profit.| The Verge
After reading an excellent blog post last week, followed by some news stories, I decided to have a play around with Perplexity.AI to see whether I could reproduce what was reported. However, I got a l| www.bentasker.co.uk
I'm knackered and so am taking a (belated) weekend of not doing anything around the house. That's being helped along by having seen a toot about a game earlier in the week - so in a short break from p| www.bentasker.co.uk
My note taking habits have meant that I've long needed a self-hosted search engine to help with finding old stuff. However, because my searches were generally quite specific, I started to find that fu| www.bentasker.co.uk
Perplexity AI claims it sends a user agent and respects robots.txt but it absolutely does not| rknight.me
We temporarily plugged a heater into a switched extension lead. It ultimately killed part of the lead, so I've taken it apart to see what went wrong.| www.bentasker.co.uk
I was recently lucky enough to be invited along on a trip to Sizewell Bs operations training centre to see and try their control room simulator.| www.bentasker.co.uk
At the beginning of February, we agreed to give a border collie a new home. As the 2 month point approaches, I wanted to publish a post to mark the progress that's already been made.| www.bentasker.co.uk
About 6 months ago, I added support for webmentions to my site - displaying comments and interactions posted elsewhere. However, I've not been comfortable with some parts of this - something brought b| www.bentasker.co.uk
Developer interactions sometimes contain their own kind of poison| www.theregister.com
This winter, we've been using electricity to provide additional heating in the living room. This post looks at how our usage differed to the prior year where we relied on bottled gas for additional he| www.bentasker.co.uk
Dress your windows beautifully. This is what you should know about valances vs pelmets vs swags vs cornices| homesandgardens.com
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Publish, interact, and view information about statuses.| docs.joinmastodon.org
POSSE is an abbreviation for Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere, the practice of posting content on your own site first, then publishing copies or sharing links to third parties (like social media silos) with original post links to provide viewers a path to directly interacting with your content.| IndieWeb
Having now fixed a reporting bug, I wanted to revisit charging our solar battery in the morning to see whether further savings can be unlocked. I also look at why lower (and negative) savings seem to| www.bentasker.co.uk
Defend yourself against tracking and surveillance. Circumvent censorship. | Onion-Location| community.torproject.org
Use Amazon ECS to deploy, manage, and scale containerized applications.| docs.aws.amazon.com
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I recently tried charging our battery from the grid in order to reduce our exposure to the morning peak in prices. In this post I briefly share the results| www.bentasker.co.uk
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Cellebrite makes software to automate physically extracting and indexing data from mobile devices. They exist within the grey – where enterprise branding joins together with the larcenous to be called “digital intelligence.” Their customer list has included authoritarian regimes in Belarus, Russi...| Signal Messenger
Explore OpenWeather's vast range of weather APIs including the versatile One Call API 3.0. Ideal for both beginners and professionals, our APIs offer current weather, minute-by-minute forecasts, historical data archives, and future predictions. Access weather data starting from 01-01-1979, global weather maps, solar irradiance predictions, air pollution data, and more. Our APIs support various formats like JSON, XML, and are ideal for middle-sized projects to enterprise-level solutions.| openweathermap.org
Instructional guide on creating your own Mastodon-powered website.| docs.joinmastodon.org
Despite considering myself a cryptographer, I have not found myself particularly drawn to “crypto.” I don’t think I’ve ever actually said the words “get off my lawn,” but I’m much more likely to click on Pepperidge Farm Remembers flavored memes about how “crypto” used to mean “cryptography” than ...| Moxie Marlinspike
