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Month: March 2023

  • Screenshot showing new content from The Far Side in my FreshRSS reader.

    New Far Side in FreshRSS

    In response to a recent comment, I've written a recipe for getting "new" Far Side content into FreshRSS too.

    Read more - about 3 minutes (646 words)

    • Article
    • 10 comments
    • posted 29 March, 2023
  • Screenshot showing RSS feed items: recent Forward episodes including their numbers, titles, and publication dates.

    Subscribing to Forward using FreshRSS's XPath Scraping

    FreshRSS's XPath scraping continues to be a "killer feature": here's how I'm using it to follow webcomic Forward.

    Read more (347 words)

    • Article
    • 10 comments
    • posted 28 March, 2023
  • Inked pencil sketch showing a resolute-faced young girl - Bea Wolf - in a teddy-bear hat, flowerprint dress, and star-spangled boots, standing cross-armed amongst four of her friends. Above, a line of text ends a quote, reading "Your leader sparkles with power and also with sparkles."

    I bought Zach Weinersmithโ€˜s Bea Wolf for my kids (9 and 6, the elder of them already a fan of Beowulf). It arrived today, but neither of them have had a chance to because I wouldnโ€™t put it down.

    Read more (96 words)

    • Note
    • 38 comments
    • posted 23 March, 2023
  • Thoughts on Editing Posts

    Kev Quirk commits to continuing NOT to edit his old blog posts. I'm in the same boat.

    Read more (258 words)

    • Repost
    • of this original
    • posted 22 March, 2023
  • Image representing post: Solving Jigidi... Again

    Solving Jigidi... Again

    The Jigidi jigsaw solver I wrote a year and a half ago stopped working, so I made another one (it's not as good).

    Read more - about 4 minutes (814 words)

    • Article
    • 28 comments
    • posted 20 March, 2023
  • Installing Listmonk on Unraid

    Frustrated that nobody on the Internet has solved my problem for me, here's my guide to configuring Listmonk on an Unraid server.

    Read more - about 3 minutes (621 words)

    • Article
    • 6 comments
    • posted 16 March, 2023
  • Image representing post: Satoru Iwata's first commercial game has a secret

    Satoru Iwata's first commercial game has a secret

    After a long hiatus, Codex has returned with a vlog about Satoru Iwata's history as a game developer. Nostalgic fun.

    Read more (57 words)

    • Repost
    • of this original
    • posted 15 March, 2023
  • Screenshot showing radio.garden tuned into YouFM in Mons, Belgium. An additional player control interface appears below the original one.

    Bypassing Region Restrictions on radio.garden

    As the last person on Earth to discover radio.garden, I was disappointed to find that you can't access non-UK stations from within the UK. So I "fixed" it.

    Read more - about 4 minutes (942 words)

    • Article
    • 13 comments
    • posted 15 March, 2023
  • Automattic Acquires ActivityPub Plugin for WordPress

    WPTavern reports that Automattic is to acquire Matthias Pfefferle's ActivityPub plugin for WordPress, and I couldn't be more excited!

    Read more (209 words)

    • Repost
    • of this original
    • 23 comments
    • posted 14 March, 2023
  • Image representing post: Geohashing expedition 2023-03-10 51 -1

    Geohashing expedition 2023-03-10 51 -1

    The dog needed a walk, so we explored North Leigh Common in the dark and found a hashpoint.

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    • to 2023-03-10 51 -1
    • posted 10 March, 2023
  • Image representing post: The tape library robot that served drinks

    The tape library robot that served drinks

    @SecurityWriter shares a story about repurposing a backup tape management robot as a barkeep.

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    • Repost
    • of this original
    • posted 3 March, 2023

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