Trying Searx as search engine
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StartPage recently sold a majority stake in it’s company to the “Privacy One Group”, “a separate operating unit of System1”. You can read more about it here.
2019-11
Email domain names
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Do you know how difficult it is to tell someone your email address with your custom domain name?
The Value in Go’s Simplicity
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Benjaming Congdon shares in an article, why he appreciates Go’s simplicity. To summarize: Its great forward / backward compatibility, dependencies (stable, fewer dependencies needed), included functionality (testing, http, …) and formatting (because Go has an integrated formatter, although every project has its own way to do things, all code follows the same formatting conventions).
The best way to blog in 2020
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It’s not 2020 yet, but Ben Werdmüller shares great advice of how to blog in 2020. It’s a great article for everyone thinking about starting a blog. He tells which platform to use and how to get into writing.
Longest talk show in the world?
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A livestream on YouTube (German) shows two moderators trying to break the Guinness World Record of the longest talk show. They have to moderate for at least 70 hours and 5 minutes (their goal is 72 hours) and only get 5 minutes per hour, which they can use for other activities (like sleeping or going to the toilet).
WordPress gets a payment feature
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Similar to Ghost 3.0, WordPress (WordPress.com + Jetpack sites) now supports payments too. As with Ghost, this is also based on Stripe, but with a few more options (because WordPress in general has more options).
Walking
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This year, I did way less sports than last year. I’ve only done bodyweight training, but currently do it very irregular. I do running less regular too.
Blogging workflow
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Manton Reece, the creator of micro.blog, writes about his blogging workflow. He uses many different ways to post to his blog depending on what he wants to publish.
Little improvements to my Micropub endpoint
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The great thing about my custom Micropub endpoint for Hugo is, that I can add all the features I need.
Mount NTFS partition images on Linux
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Today I started sorting out a couple of old computers from the flat. To save the data from those, I took the hard drives, connected them via adapters to my PC and cloned each partition to a huge external hard drive. Now I have a bunch of NTFS partition image files. One also with Windows 2000. 😅