Whenever someone argues that your personal tools or servers aren’t permanent and will eventually fail with you, I reply: yes, but they’re mine. My websites are always under construction – and that’s the whole point, it is what makes them uniquely my own. Running my own Mastodon server or a Dropbox equivalent with Nextcloud is […]| @rolle / Web designer, web developer
I have been in social media for over two decades. Started MySpace back in 2003 and been excited about the development of this Internet phenomenon ever since. I liked it from the very start, because I was finally able to be actually social, as an awkward nerd that I was. I have never took any […]| @rolle / Web designer, web developer
After trying numerous note taking/PKM (Personal Knowledge Management) apps for years, I have finally settled to Obsidian. The tool itself and the reasoning behind this choice deserves its own blog post, but in this blog post I’m going to open up the syncing solution I came up with. My number one goal with Obsidian was […]| @rolle / Web designer, web developer
I have finally implemented a very simple Fediverse-commenting to my WordPress blog here at rolle.design in favor of Webmention. I have practically taken the Carl Schwan’s code and modified it a bit. Mastodon’s API is quite simple, but I wanted to get it done in ten minutes. There are other fancier ways available, which even […]| @rolle / Web designer, web developer
I wrote a blog post titled 'The day I decided to build my own “Twitter”' and I still stand behind it. Yet I returned to Twitter. What gives?| @rolle / Web designer, web developer
It’s time to revive my international WordPress blog. This blog post exists only for testing purposes. I want to see those webmentions below. A side note, I also changed “Comment on Twitter” to “Comment on Mastodon” link, as I ditched the hell site. Stay tuned.| @rolle / Web designer, web developer
I’ve been busy but there’s lots to show. For now this is all I’ve got. I recently wanted to show a different message for Finnish visitors on my Now page (for now needs refresh after you go to the page from that link). I was looking for a simple solution for that. I found all […]| @rolle / Web designer, web developer
2018-2020 MacBook Pros with Big Sur have huge hardware/software voltage optimization issues. If you bought a faulty MacBook Pro you might be out of luck. Before throwing your expensive paperweight out of the window you might want to read my experience first. EDIT 2022: The issue never really went away. It really occurs when many […]| @rolle / Web designer, web developer
In April 2021 I wrote a blog post about Native CSS variables vs. SCSS variables. As everything changes fast in front end web development world, I no longer want to encourage people to use this “hybrid” strategy. I found it cumbersome having to define things multiple times so using both SCSS variables and CSS variables […]| @rolle / Web designer, web developer
The social media and I go way back. It’s always been about the companies who run them and you, user, a product. Until now. Fediverse is here to change everything. I was one of the early adopters with social media and Twitter. The 2000s was a very exciting era on the Internet, because suddenly there […]| @rolle / Web designer, web developer
