capslockday.org: JUNE 28 AND OCTOBER 22 ARE SEMIANNUALLY OBSERVED AS INTERNATIONAL CAPS LOCK DAY AS A PARODY HOLIDAY CREATED IN OCTOBER 2000 BY DEREK ARNOLD, A USER ON METAFILTER. Came across this one today on IRC! One of my most used keys, as I have the Caps Lock mapped to Control :-)

Over the past couple of weeks I have been experimenting with Linux Mint on two devices: a MacBook Pro and a Microsoft Surface Laptop. You don’t really notice the habits you develop over years of using macOS, so spending time with Mint in different hardware was a good opportunity to question which ones were worth...

Thoughts of Widdershins writes: I see a lot of posts about people leaving platforms. … What strikes me is that hardly anyone is leaving for something big. They’re going smaller. A personal site, a self-hosted app, a capsule nobody’s going to stumble onto by accident. Gordon over at Happily Imperfect wrote a reply...

In my last post I mentioned that I keep forgetting the syntax for adding images here, so this is a note on how to create an editor snippet with YASnippet for Emacs. Markdown mode has a shortcut for inserting images, but for Jekyll I use the Liquid relative_url filter which prepends the site’s baseurl to an image’s...

Happy October! This week we had a couple of rainy days and even a brief thunderstorm… but now the city is back to clear, sunny skies and temperatures of (92°F / 33°C). I’m looking forward to cooler days and for the season to feel more like fall 🍂 I’ve been watching Vampire Diaries lately and it’s such a fun show I’m...

I read note taking: analog and digital from lucky instar so I thought it’d be fun to write about taking notes. The question is: How do you take notes on things? Physical Notes The answer is it depends on what I need the notes for! For personal interests like books it’s always a legal pad and a pen. Before that I...

Kev Quirk, Do you use :visited on links?: I’ve always made the :visited attribute for hyperlinks look the same as links that haven’t been visited, and it seems that it’s the default behaviour across the web. I was getting ready to draft a response saying how I do… but it looks like I don’t! A few weeks ago I...

ldstephens: I often find a site I want to follow, only to discover that its RSS feed is hard to find. With RSS Lookup, you paste in the site’s URL and it searches for available feeds. There’s also a bookmarklet you can add to your bookmarks bar and use while you’re on a site. This is a feature I use a lot! On...

Big title! I’ve been thinking a lot how nowadays I come across more blogs and articles in languages I don’t know. On regular social media very rarely do I see things in languages besides English / Spanish. The exception to this is often about the soccer players I follow, like with Armando González recently signing...

If you use Cloudflare, you may be blocking RSS users. Came across this link on Mastodon today and I’m sharing it as a bit of a heads up: Source: openrss.org When enabling the tools, Cloudflare will evaluate each visit to your website and determine whether the visit is from an AI scraper or “bot” based on a score ,...

Back in April I joined my first Homebrew Website Club meeting and since then I’ve made a habit of reading the blogs from everyone there that day. The first post I read this Wednesday is from Thomas Vander Wal at his blog Off the Top. On this very hot summer day (108°F / 42°C) I’m reminded of blogs that used to have...