Tech, life and everything else
Nice to see that there is such a variety of MicroPub clients, next to Quill, Micropublish and the mobile app Indigenous, there’s also sparkles. But on the desktop, I mostly just use GoBlog’s editor nowadays. It has live sync and and a live preview, which is sometimes very helpful. But flexibility is the key, use what fits you and the situation the best.
My first Freeletics week is complete. And I got a badge for the first “perfect week”. I hope this gamification (levels and badges for perfect weeks, perfect week streaks, training session milestones etc.) will make me pull through. My girl friend also joined me and started using Freeletics. 🤓
I bought a full year of access to the Freeletics coach, so I should actually start doing my workout, right? 🙃 I can already feel the soreness just thinking about it…
2022 is over, welcome 2023! A year full of unexpected events, many personal changes and a lot of new experiences… But since I wrote a review every month, I just want to highlight the highlights here.
Happy new year! 🎆
Now the last month of the year is coming to an end and before I put together a short review of the year soon, here’s another monthly review.
Bitwarden (my favorite and recommended password manager) is offering a “new deployment option”. This new option combines all microservices into a single Docker container and doesn’t require 11 different containers anymore. And it supports PostgreSQL and MariaDB in addition to MS SQL.
Achievement for today: I can finally correctly reply to Mastodon/Fediverse/ActivityPub posts. 🥳
P.S.: And I can mention ActivityPub actors and they will get a notification (at least on Mastodon).
Just setting up a quick Mastodon instance to test some compatibility is a pain. Using test accounts on public instances is also unreliable, because many instances are already overloaded and I don’t want to create spam. So I got a new DigitalOcean account with a $200 starter credit…
DigitalOcean has a simplified Mastodon setup and now I can try to improve my ActivityPub implementation during the next two months and then probably have to create a new DigitalOcean account.
By the way, happy holidays! 🎄 My family’s Christmas wasn’t as expected. On Wednesday evening I got sick (I guess it’s RSV). But my girlfriend and my sister are also sick. 🤒 Today is my first day without fever, but it doesn’t feel like that.
WordPress implemented SQLite support! 😱 (Not merged into Core yet, but you’re able to test it.)
Update: Just tried the Performance Lab plugin with SQLite support enabled on a test WordPress instance using Docker. Do I see it right, that the plugin isn’t using SQLite WAL? That would probably give the whole thing a big speed boost. At least that’s what I do with GoBlog and my website is fast, right? 🤓