apparently I do this about every 4.5 years
4.5 years ago, I switched hosts (though not providers (that had happened 4.5 years prior to that)) for my “big” server. Now I’m about to do it again.
Category: news
dorss
After years of thinking about it, I finally got around to it. I’ve rewritten my RSS feed driven website https://datente.com to run on Python from PHP. I’m sure there is much room for improvement in the approach – and would appreciate any constructive feedback you may have. Here’s the GitHub repo: https://github.com/volcimaster/dorss.
sweetree.ga – the newest mastodon instance
After months years of threatening, I’ve finally removed one item from my round tuit plate: https://sweetree.ga is the latest Mastodon instance in the fediverse. There are still a few bugs to iron-out of this instance, but it’s live, and I’m – once-again – tooting. Come follow me – @warrenmyers@sweetree.ga In the coming days, fully-automated registrations…
volvo moving towards waze-like functionality
Shared a TechCrunch story recently in a G+ group I’m in on Volvo debuting a new service to upload live traffic data from its vehicles to be sent to other Volvos so they can avoid problem areas. Or…a self-built and -hosted Waze. You may recall that I wrote some about these kinds of things starting back…
simple ip address check – ipv4.cf
I’ve published another super-simple tool. A la whatismyip.com, but with no extra cruft (and no queer formatting of the IP address under the hood), welcome IPv4.cf to the world with me!
i wrote a thing – paragraph, a simple plugin for wordpress
Along with becoming more active on Mastodon, Â I’ve been thinking more about concision recently. One of the big selling points for Mastodon is that the character limit per post is 500 instead of Twitter’s 140. And I was thinking, “what if there was a way to force you to write better by writing less /…
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tech news channel on telegram
I have started a Tech News channel on Telegram. Follow it at @datente.