New year, new habits?!
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Colin’s post yesterday inspired me to install the Loop Habit Tracker app. How did I not know about this app yet? Free, no ads, and even open source!
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Finally I have implemented a kind of trash in GoBlog. When I delete a post, it is first marked as deleted and can be restored within 7 days. Unfortunately the integration with ActivityPub is not that easy. ActivityPub allows to Undo a Delete activity, but Mastodon doesn’t support that, just like Mastodon doesn’t support Updates. 🙄
Will Windows become Open Source?
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Microsoft’s open source strategy is interesting. Microsoft currently publishes 3836 repositories on GitHub. By chance I came across the following new repository: Extensible Storage Engine. It is published under the MIT License.
Winter walk
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It’s freezing cold outside after it snowed on Friday. But perfect weather for a winter walk.
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My January ‘21 in Review
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And now the first month of the new year is already over. On the one hand, time passes quickly, but somehow it doesn’t. Due to lockdown and the limited possibilities to do something outside, one day is like the other, one week like the other.
FUD about Telegram
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It seems (not only) to me that Facebook is buying online articles to spread FUD about Telegram. Because Telegram does not use end-to-end encryption by default.
“The unreasonable effectiveness of simple HTML”
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Terence Eden has written memorably why it is important to write simple HTML. Especially for pages that might be important to some people.
Why a paid Twitter won’t work
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Twitter has bought a newsletter platform called Revue. Revue’s business model was provisions of paid newsletters and premium features. After the acquisition, the provision has now been lowered and the premium features made free.
hckr news
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Half a year ago I introduced an alternative site that provides RSS feeds for Hacker News. However, I banned this feed from my feed reader some time ago and another alternative feed shows me the top links of the previous day the following day. Sometimes, though, I check the site manually.
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Netlify has problems and suddenly many of the feeds in my Miniflux instance can’t be refreshed anymore and fail with timeout errors. I guess all those people use Netlify. Didn’t Netlify advertise using a multi-cloud solution?