Gone underground – This day’s portion
On putting the blog in hibernation mode.| www.thisdaysportion.com
This is a note to record a problem I’m having with Codeberg (which I think originates in forgejo, the software Codeberg is built on). I recently installed elementary, an Ubuntu based operating system, on an old Mac Mini, the idea being to use it as a file server. That went pretty smoothly. I could have just stopped at installing the file server with Samba, but I wanted to give elementary a proper work out. Part of that involved seeing if I could edit and publish my website using its default...| This day’s portion – Posts
On putting the blog in hibernation mode.| www.thisdaysportion.com
Yesterday I entered a mildly manic state. This is not uncommon at the weekend, and manifests online – through reading a bunch of articles, posting links, commentary and notes to social media, tweaking this website’s typography and even publishing a blog article – rather than in completing IRL tasks, which would probably be a lot more useful. The blog post will often begin as an attempt to unify the disparate ideas the reading and posting generate, and, thankfully perhaps, that will ofte...| This day’s portion – Posts
There are degrees of self-hosting, but the more elements you control, the more resilient your site and freedom to express yourself.| www.thisdaysportion.com
The open web exposes us to bad faith, increasingly dangerous actors. We can mitigate our social media presence, but what of the most open, barebones medium of all, the blog?| www.thisdaysportion.com
Blogging is informal, amorphous and inconsistent, but it still has an ethics.| www.thisdaysportion.com
There are lots of reasons to self-host, but as ever there are technical and cultural hurdles.| www.thisdaysportion.com
Because blogging is based on techno-individualism it can be hard to set up your own website. We need more co-operation.| www.thisdaysportion.com
