āCasio fx-9750GII Webserverā
I donāt know much about the technical background, but itās kind of cool to see that a website can be hosted on a calculator (archive link).
Tech, life and everything else
This is a collection of links I stumbled across and found worth sharing. Also see the blogroll for links to blogs I regularly read.
I donāt know much about the technical background, but itās kind of cool to see that a website can be hosted on a calculator (archive link).
Zan in his recent article with tips on blogging:
Jeffrey Zeldmanās daughter Ava wrote this really powerful essay called āThe Shameā.
Matthias Ott wrote this article called āMake it Personalā on CSS-Tricks.
In April, I wrote:
Someone reminded me about reveal.js and I just took a look at the project site. It seems like reveal.js got a completely new website and a major update to version 4. I already used reveal.js for a few slides and liked it. However I didnāt consider it for my recent university presentations, because there I needed a PDF version of my slides (and the PDF export somehow didnāt work quite well with my past slides) and I didnāt really had the time to experiment. Next time I will try reveal.js again.
Itās not that uncommon to come across a link to Twitter. But when opening the link in the browser, I am often told that the tweet has failed to load. This may be due to my Firefox settings, uBlock Origin or something else, but it was so annoying to have to click on ātry againā that I installed an add-on that automatically redirects me from Twitter to Nitter. (See all my installed add-ons here.)
Iām currently browsing the docs of the static site generator Eleventy (also known as 11ty). Although I prefer Go and Iām not a big JavaScript (and npm) fan for various reasons, I now consider Eleventy as an alternative to Hugo for my blog. Iām reaching the limits of Hugo more often and have to find complicated workarounds, because itās almost impossible to add custom functionalities to Hugo. Eleventy is apparently very flexible and can be easily extended.
According to this article by John Naughton on The Guardian, the first serious blog, Dave Winerās blog Scripting News1, was born 25 years ago.
James Fenn published a blog about Aptoideās campaign against Googleās āanti-competitive behaviorā.