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an open source web crawler
Being a web developer, it’s often handy to crawl one of your sites and see if any links are broken, or are given plain 500 errors because something is broken. A classic tool to do this with, is Xenu’s...
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highlight.js on WordPress without plugins
When you frequently post code in your blog posts, it’s nice to have that code syntax highlighted for readability. On WordPress, there was this plugin to do just that, using the JavaScript library...
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why join mastodon
Mastodon, the federated social messaging platform so many people migrated to when things started to go sour on Twitter. If you haven’t joined yet, or you’re thinking about going to Bluesky, why should...
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run docker on an old android phone
Raspberry Pi’s are great to tinker with and run various Docker projects on. But they are not easy to come by these days, and even though they are quite inexpensive, they aren’t free either. What if...
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using git for journaling
I was looking for an easy way to get some kind of work journal. What I wanted was a quick way to log small entries, with a timestamp.I thought about simply using a text file, but then I still had to...
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find all wordpress posts with a featured image
Recently, I was playing with the new featured image functionality on my blog, only to find out later that all posts with a featured image were showing the image twice… Oops. Once in the post, and...
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the best typical android launcher
I’ve switched between a number of Android launchers in the past. I have used Zeam, SmartLauncher 2 and the stock OnePlus launcher for a long time. The OnePlus launcher was excellent. It was close to...
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nextcloud as a dropbox replacement
Getting tired of the constant nagging to upgrade because your free 2 GB storage is almost half full? Do you want to use more devices than just 3 to synchronize your Dropbox files to? Do you dislike...
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my default apps for 2023
I saw these default app posts go around on the fedi, so I thought I’d chip in and list what I typically use for various tasks. A lot of people contributing are on Macs, so I’ll weigh in with my...
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run Faircamp on Windows with Docker
Faircamp is like a DIY Bandcamp for artists wanting to put their music online, independently. With Faircamp you can generate a static website, and host it anywhere. No need for a SQL database or PHP...
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vim: switching from vundle to the minpac plugin manager
Let’s geek out over Vim once more. So Vundle, the package manager I was using until now, suddenly broke on me. It hasn’t been updated for a long time, so it was bound to happen I guess. Vim now has a...
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blocking AI crawlers with robots.txt
You probably heard about those big nasty tech companies that crawl the internet and use anyone’s content to train their Large Language Models. They might be crawling your blog or website, without...
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how to upgrade to .NET framework 4.8
A while ago, I had to migrate a large legacy .NET Framework website to the latest 4.8 version. Recently, I had to do this again for a number of smaller projects, so I had to look up my notes again on...
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using git for journaling, part 2
In a previous post, I explained how you can use Git for journaling, or keeping a work log. I’ve been using this for a while, and of course I’ve been writing a bit of a PowerShell script to make this...
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bulk renaming files with powershell
I bet you’ve run into situations where you have a ton of files that should be partially renamed, but Windows can’t help you with the bulk renaming because it can only do “Your new name (1).jpg” to...
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how to delete your tweets in 2024/2025
Don’t want to stick around on Twitter and don’t want your old tweets being used to feed Musk’s AI plans? Damn right. Here are 2 projects to delete your old tweets with, now that the Twitter/X API’s to...
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build a static website using Pandoc
Static websites are all the rage these days, and I get it. They are fast, secure, low maintenance and future-proof. I know the free and open source tool Pandoc can generate HTML files from Markdown,...
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