Blogs are back, baby!

Blogs are back, baby!

In many ways they never left. But often they were ignored, left to collect cyber-dust and possibly go horribly out of date, needing many updates as they are revived. But they're coming back. The Great Centralisation that started in the early 2000s with the advent of...

Bookwyrm.

Bookwyrm.

I don't read a lot. I think it's because I read slowly. I have occasionally posted reading-log (and one reading-slog) entries here. But I've moved that over to Futzle's Bookwyrm instance. So. If you're curious about what I'm reading: https://outside.ofa.dog/user/KO ....

Windows 11.

Windows 11.

Enshittification.noun Colloquial the gradual deterioration of a service or product brought about by a reduction in the quality of service provided, especially of an online platform, and as a consequence of profit-seeking. Macquarie Dictionary word of the year in 2024....

Media.

Media.

There are a lot of ways to "do" media in a house. Plex seems popular. Jellyfin, too. In the end they all do vaguely the same thing, it's just a matter of picking the one(s) that will do what you want it to do. I've been a long term Kodi user for TV and Movies, which I...

Typora

Typora

It's not new. I'm just late to the party. I love plain text files for documents. They're future-proof, past-proof, and completely platform agnostic. I'm sure someone has written a text editor in Minecraft or something more outrageous. Text editor for Gameboy Colour?...

Migrating Ghost

Migrating Ghost

I found the instructions on how to migrate self-hosted Ghost from one host to another quite lacking. It took a lot of tinkering to get it to work properly.