Tech, life and everything else
Underwater data centers powered by 100% renewable energy are a very interesting idea. It is also noteworthy that they seem to be much more reliable than conventional DCs and that an “unreliable grid” isn’t such a big problem.
Today I have dealt with WordPress for the first time in a long time. I’m not planning to move my blog to WordPress (I’m in the process of developing my own content management system), but have set up a site for someone else and migrated a few articles.
… and what I’ve learned about backups and self-hosting my files.
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.
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“I am afraid for the future,” she said. “Lately, it is already impossible to exercise outdoors. If that was only for a few days it would be fine but the heatwaves are extreme and recurring. I live with the feeling my home is becoming more hostile each year. It scares me a lot.”
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.
Medium is bringing back support for custom domains. And in general they seem to listen better. In addition to custom domains, Medium is reducing the amount of annoying pop-ups and banners and will also offer more customization options.
Today, I learned that it’s possible to “vendor” Hugo modules. By vendoring Hugo modules, Hugo will add all required module files to your site directory and use them when building your site instead of trying to download them first. No need for me to use a module cache on Drone anymore and two seconds less build time. (But 3000 additional files in my blog repo.)
Reply to: A note by Ru Singh
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.