BurgeonLab
BurgeonLab
Naty S
Naty's personal site, built with IndieWeb principles, is where she writes about tinkering with technology and hobbies. She likes to write how-to guides on things she's learnt and is passionate about open source, Hugo, online privacy, and self-hosting.
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Disclaimer Technical information on this page is merely a log of my amateurish self-hosting experiences. I have no professional training in networking or self-hosting security. Allowing public access into your home network is...
Came across a site called DI.Day. It’s currently only available in Deutsch, with English possibly coming soon. It purposes that every first Sunday of the month is “Digital Independence Day”, where people are encouraged to break free from...
Troubleshooting FulfilmentsI don’t know about you, but I love working through and solving problems. That feeling of accomplishment, especially when it’s in a field you’re not familiar with, is awesome. What’s something you solved...
Problem: High Latency and Lag on SSHMy little Raspberry Pi 4B homelab server has always been headless and accessed via SSH on my Mac. After upgrading the home router to the GL.iNet Flint2 last month, the SSH connection has been super...
Despite the disruption message still on status.sr.ht, SourceHut has been back up for me today. So I took the chance to implement what I worked on in the local bin/bash script a few days ago, into a version that works on the alpine/latest...
I especially enjoy 4Connect because I love playing Categories and Connections. I first learnt of this game on the British game show, Only Connect. I don’t watch much TV, but this is a show Ilike. [For up-to-date content, visit BurgeonLab...
I use Mermaid diagrams occasionally on my Hugo blog. It came with the theme I had so I learnt to use it. Just now as I was working on a draft post, I decided to make a diagram, and found out nothing was rendering at all for the whole...
My blog relies on SourceHut (aka sr.ht) Git repo and Builds (their continuous integration/CI, like GitHub Actions). They’ve been down for around two days and I couldn’t deploy my site to my static host, Bunny Storage (this is my...
If you follow me on Mastodon or read my recent weeknotes, w12 and w14, you may have noticed fellow blogger, Hyde at https://lazybea.rs has posted my collaboration post for his Over/Under interview series! A few friends have told me they...
WritingLast week I’ve written more than usual because Hyde has invited me to his long-standing interview series called Over/Under. I’m really honoured to be the 60th entry! Read it on Hyde’s blog and definitely check out the other...
WordPress PlaygroundWordPress released my.wordpress.net earlier this month and I only got round to testing it out. An in-browser WordPress sounds great for local testing and experimentation—great for tinkerers like me! I finally tested...
It’s my first time coming across another Chinese IndieWeb user! They are a digital art creator and blogs (in Simplified Chinese) about Japanese anime, art, and computer technology. V1sta made some IndieWeb 88x31 buttons and drew this...
After discovering TiddlyWiki from @jbaty, I went ahead to give FeatherWiki (a lightweight version of TW) a spin as a personal brain-dump bin. I really like how it’s just a lightweight, 58kb HTML file! I used it on Android but failed to...
Blogging ItchesAlthough I’ve been exclusively blogging with Hugo on BurgeonLab in the past four months (largely putting my first blog, Eclectic Passions and photography project on the back burner); I have been getting an itch to: Check...
A few months ago, @joelchrono asked me to collaborate on a post he was working on which involved sharing a game one would bring to a desert island. I realized I never cross-posted the submission on my own blog; so here’s a copy of it:...