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While I develop my new custom CMS, it seems like I neglect the blogging. So here’s a photo from my evening walk. Going for a walk after work helps me to breathe fresh air and get a clear mind. It’s also great to enjoy the last few days of summer.

I watched “The Social Dilemma” on Netflix today. I like the movie! A good movie with a lot of things people from within my bubble probably already know. And a lot of reasons to stay away from (classic) social media.

I’m switching from Backblaze B2 to Scaleway’s Object Storage.

I used to use B2 as a backup destination for my restic backups from various servers. The service is fine, but what drives me away is missing €-billing (and credit cards as the only payment method) and a somewhat slow performance (at least it feels like that). Scaleway asks for twice the price (0,01€ per GB per month) but the first 75GB are free. And my last monthly B2 bill was below 1$ anyway, so it doesn’t really matter. ☺️ Now backing up my 51GB home cloud: 4,5 hours left.

This is the first photo (and note) posted from my new phone: A Samsung Galaxy S10 Lite.

I took inspiration from Ru and finally added a “favorite blogs” section to my blogroll. I also sorted the blogs into English and German, so that someone without knowledge of German can ignore the German blogs.

Ru Singh automated her blogroll too.

In July 2020, Jan au­to­mated his blogroll — and this val­i­dated the idea in my head. Now, my own blogroll is au­to­mated as well!

I think I’m not the first one. If I remember correctly, Jan did this already before.

A key dif­fer­ence is that I have my script mark some feeds as recommended based on their feed IDs from my Miniflux reader. Then, these feeds are shown first as “Recommended Feeds,” fol­lowed by all the other feeds in a sep­a­rate list.

That is a very clever idea! Currently there are 68 blogs in the blogs section on my blogroll, definitely confusing for people searching for the best blogs to follow. Problem: I have to pick a few favorites and that’s a really difficult task.

If anyone is wondering, why there’s no new content on this blog: I’m on vacation in northern Germany at the Baltic Sea!

I’m fine and am (mostly) enjoying the time with no internet. There’s no WiFi here and also my mobile network’s coverage isn’t optimal (o2 sucks outside of big cities). So I’m more or less forced to do a digital detox. I read books and spend time with my girlfriend instead. 😌

I also chose the right time for my vacation, now that it’s so hot and dry in most parts of Germany. Doing work during this heat wouldn’t be so comfortable. I really hope temperatures are back to normal when I’m back home.

@bekopharm Yeah, that shirt is really cool ☺️👍 But I wouldn’t wear it myself, I am already asked far too often things that you can easily find on Google DuckDuckGo. 😅

It was a nice evening yesterday with interesting discussions about different IndieWeb topics! I also used the writing hour to write some code for my custom CMS and it’s progressing well…

Answer to a comment by a reader on my last post: I know that there’s an active modding community for the Xiaomi Mi A1. However, I don’t want to use any custom ROM as long as possible, because it usually makes using banking apps etc. a lot harder and I don’t have any alternative to them. And Android 9 is still recent enough that all apps (I need) work fine. I used LineageOS on my Moto G 3rd Gen. and the Moto E 1 Gen. I had before.

Is it just my feeling or is there way less talk about custom ROMs these days? I already thought about this in 2018.