Electrical engineer, musician, out and about on two wheels (bike or Vespa), I read a lot of books (aiming for about one per week, mostly SciFi, biographies, non-fiction), coffee-addict. I may write about tech, music, retro, books... Currently trying my hands at blogging. Fed up with the corporate internet, which is what brought me here. Why 82MHz? Well I was born in 1982, and I studied electrical and telecommunications engineering, so the MHz is a nod to this :) He/Him
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Last Notes npub1rvp426p98plsqvejplf867avvmare9exeunz3aq4hltnv8fkuhgqaqcws7 Andreas (82mhz) New blog post: 'Techtember' is upon us and I think we should use it to get rid of some superfluous tech http://82mhz.net/posts/2025/08/techtember-is-upon-us-and-i-think-we-should-use-it-to-get-rid-of-some-superfluous-tech/ #blogging #blog npub1rvp426p98plsqvejplf867avvmare9exeunz3aq4hltnv8fkuhgqaqcws7 Andreas (82mhz) @nprofile…4d9x Hi Adam, thanks for including so many of my posts! Great issue as always! 😎 npub1rvp426p98plsqvejplf867avvmare9exeunz3aq4hltnv8fkuhgqaqcws7 Andreas (82mhz) @nprofile…j6tr My comically overpowered high end Windows 11 workstation at work feels more sluggish than a 16 year old Core2Duo Notebook with Windows XP or even 7 on it. It's crazy. npub1rvp426p98plsqvejplf867avvmare9exeunz3aq4hltnv8fkuhgqaqcws7 Andreas (82mhz) @nprofile…sr9k INACCEPTABLE, Stefano! I DEMAND that you implement the features that I WANT! This is open source and I'm paying nothing for it, so I feel totally justified in making unreasonable demands and being a total dick towards you. I'm sure that's fine with you and you agree with me here 😜 Kidding, obviously. Great update! I am running out of excuses for why I haven't ported my site over to BSSG yet 😉 npub1rvp426p98plsqvejplf867avvmare9exeunz3aq4hltnv8fkuhgqaqcws7 Andreas (82mhz) @nprofile…4d9x Yours are next level 😄 npub1rvp426p98plsqvejplf867avvmare9exeunz3aq4hltnv8fkuhgqaqcws7 Andreas (82mhz) New blog post: Linkdump No 60 http://82mhz.net/posts/2025/06/linkdump-no-60/ #blogging #blog #linkdump npub1rvp426p98plsqvejplf867avvmare9exeunz3aq4hltnv8fkuhgqaqcws7 Andreas (82mhz) New blog post: My Hometown has changed http://82mhz.net/posts/2025/06/my-hometown-has-changed/ #blogging #blog npub1rvp426p98plsqvejplf867avvmare9exeunz3aq4hltnv8fkuhgqaqcws7 Andreas (82mhz) New blog post: Blogs are still a thing http://82mhz.net/posts/2025/06/blogs-are-still-a-thing/ #blogging #blog #blogging npub1rvp426p98plsqvejplf867avvmare9exeunz3aq4hltnv8fkuhgqaqcws7 Andreas (82mhz) New blog post: Linkdump No 59 http://82mhz.net/posts/2025/06/linkdump-no-59/ #blogging #blog #linkdump #links npub1rvp426p98plsqvejplf867avvmare9exeunz3aq4hltnv8fkuhgqaqcws7 Andreas (82mhz) @nprofile…sr9k I hear the talk on Friday at 11 is going to be a banger 😎 @nprofile…d6js npub1rvp426p98plsqvejplf867avvmare9exeunz3aq4hltnv8fkuhgqaqcws7 Andreas (82mhz) New blog post: What is an FPGA and why can it play retro games? http://82mhz.net/posts/2025/06/what-is-an-fpga-and-why-can-it-play-retro-games/ #blogging #blog npub1rvp426p98plsqvejplf867avvmare9exeunz3aq4hltnv8fkuhgqaqcws7 Andreas (82mhz) @nprofile…sr9k Great post, and very true. I saw these two tweets some time ago shared on another blog, and they demonstrate the problems with vibe coding perfectly: https://assets.oldbytes.space/assets.oldbytes.space/media_attachments/files/114/629/756/534/343/866/original/ce3d7f38fa6f4bec.png https://assets.oldbytes.space/assets.oldbytes.space/media_attachments/files/114/629/756/537/982/626/original/6d3248b1d76c6b89.png npub1rvp426p98plsqvejplf867avvmare9exeunz3aq4hltnv8fkuhgqaqcws7 Andreas (82mhz) @nprofile…sr9k There's coffee? Count me in, I'm coming too! 😜 @nprofile…kj9l @nprofile…dks6 npub1rvp426p98plsqvejplf867avvmare9exeunz3aq4hltnv8fkuhgqaqcws7 Andreas (82mhz) New blog post: Linkdump No 57 http://82mhz.net/posts/2025/05/linkdump-no-57/ #blogging #blog #linkdump npub1rvp426p98plsqvejplf867avvmare9exeunz3aq4hltnv8fkuhgqaqcws7 Andreas (82mhz) @nprofile…sr9k It's a shame. Not to say that Covid was good in any way, but when everything was locked down and the waters cleared up and the dolphins returned to the lagoon that was pretty amazing... we stopped our destructive ways for a minute and nature started recovering. Then we went right back to doing our thing 🙄 @nprofile…kj9l npub1rvp426p98plsqvejplf867avvmare9exeunz3aq4hltnv8fkuhgqaqcws7 Andreas (82mhz) @nprofile…sr9k @nprofile…kj9l Scusate che rispondo in inglese, ma il mio italiano non é piú molto buono... I lived near Venice for a few months during an internship I did in a company there, and I went to Venice a couple of times during the winter months when there were almost no tourists there, and it was amazing! The city has so much atmosphere when the fog is rolling in from the sea and the lights are on and noone is around, it's magical 😊 npub1rvp426p98plsqvejplf867avvmare9exeunz3aq4hltnv8fkuhgqaqcws7 Andreas (82mhz) New blog post: How DO you keep old software running? (old software still has value part 2) http://82mhz.net/posts/2025/05/how-do-you-keep-old-software-running-old-software-still-has-value-part-2/ #blogging #blog npub1rvp426p98plsqvejplf867avvmare9exeunz3aq4hltnv8fkuhgqaqcws7 Andreas (82mhz) @nprofile…sr9k Aperol Spritz, Pizza, Tiramisu, Espresso. In exactly this order 🙃 npub1rvp426p98plsqvejplf867avvmare9exeunz3aq4hltnv8fkuhgqaqcws7 Andreas (82mhz) @nprofile…sr9k Gotta take some time away from it to eat Pizza, completely understandable 😎 npub1rvp426p98plsqvejplf867avvmare9exeunz3aq4hltnv8fkuhgqaqcws7 Andreas (82mhz) @nprofile…sr9k Ah, got it. From the outside it looks like you're just frantically hacking away at BSSG every day 😉 npub1rvp426p98plsqvejplf867avvmare9exeunz3aq4hltnv8fkuhgqaqcws7 Andreas (82mhz) @nprofile…sr9k Amazing update! How are you so productive? Are you working 20 hour days? Are there two of you? 😉 I noticed today that BSSG seems to trip over Umlauts (äöü) inside a slug, but I haven't found the issue yet. I'm guessing it has to do with some regex. Not an urgent issue, but I thought I'd mention it. npub1rvp426p98plsqvejplf867avvmare9exeunz3aq4hltnv8fkuhgqaqcws7 Andreas (82mhz) @nprofile…tprk Thanks! npub1rvp426p98plsqvejplf867avvmare9exeunz3aq4hltnv8fkuhgqaqcws7 Andreas (82mhz) New blog post: Linkdump No 56 http://82mhz.net/posts/2025/05/linkdump-no-56/ #blogging #blog #linkdump npub1rvp426p98plsqvejplf867avvmare9exeunz3aq4hltnv8fkuhgqaqcws7 Andreas (82mhz) @nprofile…sr9k Hi Stefano, I have a potential bugfix for BSSG. I have a slug field in the metadata of my markdown blogpost files and I noticed that this is picked up by BSSG and used as the slug for the URL of the post, but it's not sanitized. I had spaces in my slug field which were taken into the URL and then the page wasn't found. I fixed it by adding two lines to content.sh, line 180: if [ -z "$slug" ]; then slug=$(generate_slug "$title") else slug=$(generate_slug "$slug") fi This way the slug field is turned into a URL the same way like the title field. If you prefer, I can send it in as a PR, but I thought since it's only two lines maybe it's fine like this. However you prefer. Cheers! npub1rvp426p98plsqvejplf867avvmare9exeunz3aq4hltnv8fkuhgqaqcws7 Andreas (82mhz) @nprofile…sr9k Completely understandable, thanks for the response! I started looking into how to convert my site to bssg and noticed I'd like to change a few things, but I'll figure something out. Have a good evening! npub1rvp426p98plsqvejplf867avvmare9exeunz3aq4hltnv8fkuhgqaqcws7 Andreas (82mhz) @nprofile…sr9k Quick question about BSSG, is the templating system functional? Currently there's header.html and footer.html, but all the other html code that is generated is hard-coded in the source files. Do I have to edit it there if I want to change something about the structure of the site? npub1rvp426p98plsqvejplf867avvmare9exeunz3aq4hltnv8fkuhgqaqcws7 Andreas (82mhz) New blog post: Old software still has value http://82mhz.net/posts/2025/05/old-software-still-has-value/ #blogging #blog npub1rvp426p98plsqvejplf867avvmare9exeunz3aq4hltnv8fkuhgqaqcws7 Andreas (82mhz) @nprofile…sr9k Oh come on! You're making my entire review obsolete now 😜 npub1rvp426p98plsqvejplf867avvmare9exeunz3aq4hltnv8fkuhgqaqcws7 Andreas (82mhz) @nprofile…sr9k Amazing Stefano! That's the quickest bugfix I've ever witnessed, and I didn't even send it to you, I hid it in a post 😄 Works perfectly now, I tested it right away. I updated the post accordingly. Thanks for the fix and for the kind words 😊 Wish you a great Sunday! npub1rvp426p98plsqvejplf867avvmare9exeunz3aq4hltnv8fkuhgqaqcws7 Andreas (82mhz) New blog post: Testing BSSG - the Bash Static Site Generator http://82mhz.net/posts/2025/05/testing-bssg-the-bash-static-site-generator/ #blogging #blog npub1rvp426p98plsqvejplf867avvmare9exeunz3aq4hltnv8fkuhgqaqcws7 Andreas (82mhz) @nprofile…sr9k For monitors, for me the sweet spot is 27''' with 1440p resolution. 1080p is a bit too cramped for work, while 4k I think is unnecessary because you have to scale everything up anyway otherwise it becomes too small to read, and then you might as well go with the lower resolution. npub1rvp426p98plsqvejplf867avvmare9exeunz3aq4hltnv8fkuhgqaqcws7 Andreas (82mhz) New blog post: Linkdump No 55 http://82mhz.net/posts/2025/05/linkdump-no-55/ #blogging #blog #linkdump npub1rvp426p98plsqvejplf867avvmare9exeunz3aq4hltnv8fkuhgqaqcws7 Andreas (82mhz) @nprofile…826r @nprofile…sr9k The website looks great! I'm testing BSSG right now as well, and it's great. There maybe a blog post about it soon 😉 npub1rvp426p98plsqvejplf867avvmare9exeunz3aq4hltnv8fkuhgqaqcws7 Andreas (82mhz) New blog post: Linkdump No 54 http://82mhz.net/posts/2025/05/linkdump-no-54/ #blogging #blog #linkdump npub1rvp426p98plsqvejplf867avvmare9exeunz3aq4hltnv8fkuhgqaqcws7 Andreas (82mhz) I have a 2006 MacBook 1,1 that originally came with OS X 10.4. I'd like to install the original OS on it, however I don't have any of the original CDs. I've *acquired* (ahem) an ISO of 10.4.5 from archive.org (https://archive.org/search?query=os+x+tiger+intel+10.4.6) and naively dd'ed it to a USB stick. (making sure I got the intel version) It starts booting but then displays the circle with a diagonal line through it symbol and doesn't go any further. So, how would I go about restoring this computer to its original OS? It's currently running 10.6.8, and there's no recovery partition on the disk. #macbook #retrocomputing npub1rvp426p98plsqvejplf867avvmare9exeunz3aq4hltnv8fkuhgqaqcws7 Andreas (82mhz) @nprofile…sr9k Just move everything to the cloud, I hear it has unlimited power. It's the future!! 😉 npub1rvp426p98plsqvejplf867avvmare9exeunz3aq4hltnv8fkuhgqaqcws7 Andreas (82mhz) @nprofile…sr9k And of course if they haven't written the code, they probably don't fully understand what it does and so they don't even know how bad it really is. I could have written another 10 paragraphs about what an awful practice this is, but I decided to leave this for a future post ;) I actually remember you telling the story of a dev who said "if the program needs more ram, the user can just buy more for a few bucks" or something like that. I would have quoted it, but I couldn't find it anymore 😄 npub1rvp426p98plsqvejplf867avvmare9exeunz3aq4hltnv8fkuhgqaqcws7 Andreas (82mhz) New blog post: Coding then and now http://82mhz.net/posts/2025/05/coding-then-and-now/ #blogging #blog npub1rvp426p98plsqvejplf867avvmare9exeunz3aq4hltnv8fkuhgqaqcws7 Andreas (82mhz) @nprofile…sr9k This is a great approach, and one that resonates a lot with me. More than "these types of people are not welcome here" that other people are practising. I also believe, and I've written about it, that having different opinions and values is fine and we should be able to have discussions about them as long as we're being *respectful* towards the other person. It's good to hear something like this from the maintainer of a mastodon instance. If I ever need to switch instances, I know where to go (after installing BSD first of course) :) npub1rvp426p98plsqvejplf867avvmare9exeunz3aq4hltnv8fkuhgqaqcws7 Andreas (82mhz) New blog post: Linkdump No 53 http://82mhz.net/posts/2025/05/linkdump-no-53/ #blogging #blog #linkdump npub1rvp426p98plsqvejplf867avvmare9exeunz3aq4hltnv8fkuhgqaqcws7 Andreas (82mhz) New blog post: Linkdump No 52 http://82mhz.net/posts/2025/04/linkdump-no-52/ #blogging #blog #linkdump npub1rvp426p98plsqvejplf867avvmare9exeunz3aq4hltnv8fkuhgqaqcws7 Andreas (82mhz) @nprofile…mjxp Awesome, going to watch it right away! Since you're posting on two different platforms I thought I'd ask - which platform do you prefer people watch your videos on? npub1rvp426p98plsqvejplf867avvmare9exeunz3aq4hltnv8fkuhgqaqcws7 Andreas (82mhz) New blog post: Coincidences http://82mhz.net/posts/2025/04/coincidences/ #blogging #blog npub1rvp426p98plsqvejplf867avvmare9exeunz3aq4hltnv8fkuhgqaqcws7 Andreas (82mhz) @nprofile…sr9k OK no worries! Just thought I'd ask 🙂 npub1rvp426p98plsqvejplf867avvmare9exeunz3aq4hltnv8fkuhgqaqcws7 Andreas (82mhz) @nprofile…sr9k Hey Stefano, I was just browsing through the themes of BSSG and I noticed that some stutter quite significantly while scrolling and also cause a huge spike in CPU load, while others are buttery smooth. Win7 is an example that at least on my machine stutters pretty badly: https://bssg.dragas.net/example/win7/ Any idea why this could be? Is there too much CSS stuff going on? npub1rvp426p98plsqvejplf867avvmare9exeunz3aq4hltnv8fkuhgqaqcws7 Andreas (82mhz) @nprofile…sr9k Very nice! Subscribed 😊 npub1rvp426p98plsqvejplf867avvmare9exeunz3aq4hltnv8fkuhgqaqcws7 Andreas (82mhz) New blog post: I made the harddrives in my desktop computer swappable http://82mhz.net/posts/2025/04/i-made-the-harddrives-in-my-desktop-computer-swappable/ #blogging #blog npub1rvp426p98plsqvejplf867avvmare9exeunz3aq4hltnv8fkuhgqaqcws7 Andreas (82mhz) @nprofile…mjxp Hi Jan, maybe you've seen it already, @nprofile…r35p had some nice words to say about you in his latest post. Thought I'd share :) https://rubenerd.com/blog-questions-challenge-tv-shows/ npub1rvp426p98plsqvejplf867avvmare9exeunz3aq4hltnv8fkuhgqaqcws7 Andreas (82mhz) New blog post: On blogging and negativity http://82mhz.net/posts/2025/04/on-blogging-and-negativity/ #blogging #blog npub1rvp426p98plsqvejplf867avvmare9exeunz3aq4hltnv8fkuhgqaqcws7 Andreas (82mhz) New blog post: Linkdump No 50 http://82mhz.net/posts/2025/04/linkdump-no-50/ #blogging #blog #linkdump npub1rvp426p98plsqvejplf867avvmare9exeunz3aq4hltnv8fkuhgqaqcws7 Andreas (82mhz) New blog post: A perfect setup might not always be the right one http://82mhz.net/posts/2025/04/a-perfect-setup-might-not-always-be-the-right-one/ #blogging #blog npub1rvp426p98plsqvejplf867avvmare9exeunz3aq4hltnv8fkuhgqaqcws7 Andreas (82mhz) @nprofile…gv7u Still have the one I got as a kid... haven't turned it on in years. npub1rvp426p98plsqvejplf867avvmare9exeunz3aq4hltnv8fkuhgqaqcws7 Andreas (82mhz) I just saw that it's Amiga month under the hashtag #amigapril It's April. I have an Amiga. Maybe I should get it out again 🤔 #amiga npub1rvp426p98plsqvejplf867avvmare9exeunz3aq4hltnv8fkuhgqaqcws7 Andreas (82mhz) @nprofile…qfh3 8/10 on the "looks like it might electrocute you"-scale 👍 npub1rvp426p98plsqvejplf867avvmare9exeunz3aq4hltnv8fkuhgqaqcws7 Andreas (82mhz) @nprofile…sr9k That's amazing! I recently switched to Zola and I'm only medium happy with it... if you had published this a bit sooner, my SSG switching story might have turned out differently 😉 npub1rvp426p98plsqvejplf867avvmare9exeunz3aq4hltnv8fkuhgqaqcws7 Andreas (82mhz) @nprofile…sr9k FINALLY a move that makes sense! Only paid software is the way forward 💪 npub1rvp426p98plsqvejplf867avvmare9exeunz3aq4hltnv8fkuhgqaqcws7 Andreas (82mhz) New blog post: This website is now generated with Zola - I'm still not sure I like it http://82mhz.net/posts/2025/03/this-website-is-now-generated-with-zola-i-m-still-not-sure-i-like-it/ #blogging #blog npub1rvp426p98plsqvejplf867avvmare9exeunz3aq4hltnv8fkuhgqaqcws7 Andreas (82mhz) New blog post: Linkdump No 48 https://82mhz.net/posts/2025/03/linkdump-no-48/ #blogging #blog #linkdump npub1rvp426p98plsqvejplf867avvmare9exeunz3aq4hltnv8fkuhgqaqcws7 Andreas (82mhz) @nprofile…f8rk "the're all just as bad as one another in various ways" That's a depressing sentiment, but unfortunately I think you're right about it 🙄 npub1rvp426p98plsqvejplf867avvmare9exeunz3aq4hltnv8fkuhgqaqcws7 Andreas (82mhz) New blog post: I'm trying to port my site to Zola and I'm not sure I like it https://82mhz.net/posts/2025/03/im-trying-to-port-my-site-to-zola-and-im-not-sure-i-like-it/ #blogging #blog npub1rvp426p98plsqvejplf867avvmare9exeunz3aq4hltnv8fkuhgqaqcws7 Andreas (82mhz) @nprofile…gv7u 90s cinema, I approve 😉 npub1rvp426p98plsqvejplf867avvmare9exeunz3aq4hltnv8fkuhgqaqcws7 Andreas (82mhz) New blog post: Linkdump No 47 https://82mhz.net/posts/2025/03/linkdump-no-47/ #blogging #blog #linkdump npub1rvp426p98plsqvejplf867avvmare9exeunz3aq4hltnv8fkuhgqaqcws7 Andreas (82mhz) @nprofile…avnq That's some pretty depressing Sunday afternoon reading you're doing there... npub1rvp426p98plsqvejplf867avvmare9exeunz3aq4hltnv8fkuhgqaqcws7 Andreas (82mhz) @nprofile…j6tr Nice one! I really enjoyed the one the other day about installing Arch. I wanted to tell you but I forgot, so I'm telling you now 😉 npub1rvp426p98plsqvejplf867avvmare9exeunz3aq4hltnv8fkuhgqaqcws7 Andreas (82mhz) @nprofile…sr9k I have the same problem with Hugo. I pinned it to stick to version 0.134 as a newer one also broke my site and I had no patience to fix it. That's not a long term solution though.... eventually I'll either have to update my blog or switch to something else. Hugo is okay, but if it breaks the site every few months, that's a pretty big red flag. npub1rvp426p98plsqvejplf867avvmare9exeunz3aq4hltnv8fkuhgqaqcws7 Andreas (82mhz) @nprofile…avnq I remember this from the Amiga! Sounds similar, but I guess the Amiga had a slightly higher quality version of it. npub1rvp426p98plsqvejplf867avvmare9exeunz3aq4hltnv8fkuhgqaqcws7 Andreas (82mhz) New blog post: I'm constantly distracted and I need to do something about it https://82mhz.net/posts/2025/02/im-constantly-distracted-and-i-need-to-do-something-about-it/ #blogging #blog npub1rvp426p98plsqvejplf867avvmare9exeunz3aq4hltnv8fkuhgqaqcws7 Andreas (82mhz) New blog post: Linkdump No 43 https://82mhz.net/posts/2025/02/linkdump-no-43/ #blogging #blog #linkdump #SmallWeb npub1rvp426p98plsqvejplf867avvmare9exeunz3aq4hltnv8fkuhgqaqcws7 Andreas (82mhz) @nprofile…gv7u How is that forum? npub1rvp426p98plsqvejplf867avvmare9exeunz3aq4hltnv8fkuhgqaqcws7 Andreas (82mhz) New blog post: Blog Questions Challenge: Technology Edition https://82mhz.net/posts/2025/02/blog-questions-challenge-technology-edition/ I'm challenging @nprofile…6utj @nprofile…qfh3 and @nprofile…6k22 to answer these questions next :) #blogging #blog npub1rvp426p98plsqvejplf867avvmare9exeunz3aq4hltnv8fkuhgqaqcws7 Andreas (82mhz) New blog post: Black Sabbath are playing live again https://82mhz.net/posts/2025/02/black-sabbath-are-playing-live-again/ #blogging #blog npub1rvp426p98plsqvejplf867avvmare9exeunz3aq4hltnv8fkuhgqaqcws7 Andreas (82mhz) New blog post: Linkdump No 41 https://82mhz.net/posts/2025/02/linkdump-no-41/ #blogging #blog npub1rvp426p98plsqvejplf867avvmare9exeunz3aq4hltnv8fkuhgqaqcws7 Andreas (82mhz) @nprofile…ca53 Fully agree with your assessment. There's also this: https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-tesla-workers-germany-high-rate-sick-leave-2024-9?op=1 If the big boss of a company is a toxic ***, then so is the rest of the management. npub1rvp426p98plsqvejplf867avvmare9exeunz3aq4hltnv8fkuhgqaqcws7 Andreas (82mhz) @nprofile…ca53 Oh this just looks stunning! npub1rvp426p98plsqvejplf867avvmare9exeunz3aq4hltnv8fkuhgqaqcws7 Andreas (82mhz) New blog post: Replacing my phone's battery in 13 not so easy steps https://82mhz.net/posts/2025/02/replacing-my-phones-battery-in-13-not-so-easy-steps/ #blogging #blog npub1rvp426p98plsqvejplf867avvmare9exeunz3aq4hltnv8fkuhgqaqcws7 Andreas (82mhz) I'm following quite a number of small web blogs, but they're all written in English and I'm wondering if there is also a German speaking small web community? npub1rvp426p98plsqvejplf867avvmare9exeunz3aq4hltnv8fkuhgqaqcws7 Andreas (82mhz) Question for the webmasters around here: I'm parsing my web server logs with #goaccess. It tells me that this mornings blog post has around 2400 hits, 1600 visitors. The post includes an image, and I can see from the logs that the image has been accessed around 250 times. I would expect the image to be downloaded roughly the same number of times as the website, however these numbers are vastly different. And I don't really understand why. Any ideas? And related, much of the traffic on the site is from crawlers with the user agent "http.rb/5.2.0". What could that be? npub1rvp426p98plsqvejplf867avvmare9exeunz3aq4hltnv8fkuhgqaqcws7 Andreas (82mhz) A friend is thinking about setting up a blog. Great idea, and I think he has a lot of interesting things to say, but my friend is not tech savvy AT ALL, so he needs an easy to use and foolproof framework. Telling him to learn an SSG like Hugo is probably not feasible as that will overload him, and I could tell him/help him to install Wordpress which works, but it's also this huge bloated thing and there's the recent drama surrounding it.... so I'm wondering if there's a lighter framework that's easy to use and doesn't take too long to learn to recommend to him? Any suggestions? npub1rvp426p98plsqvejplf867avvmare9exeunz3aq4hltnv8fkuhgqaqcws7 Andreas (82mhz) So my chosen home on the fediverse is oldbytes.space, which is a Mastodon instance about retro computing. I chose this because I like retro computing.... And I post about retro computing sometimes, but definitely not all the time, not even most of the time actually. So I'm wondering, is there a Mastodon community that would be better suited for me, given the type of things I post? To be clear, I'm not saying there's anything wrong with oldbytes, there's great people on here and nobody ever told me to get lost or that my postings aren't wanted or anything like that. But I've felt bad for a long time now for "spamming" a timeline that's supposed to be about retro computing with posts that have nothing to do with that, that's all. So, any ideas where I could go? npub1rvp426p98plsqvejplf867avvmare9exeunz3aq4hltnv8fkuhgqaqcws7 Andreas (82mhz) New blog post: You don't need to be connected to the whole world https://82mhz.net/posts/2025/01/you-dont-need-to-be-connected-to-the-whole-world/ #blogging #blog npub1rvp426p98plsqvejplf867avvmare9exeunz3aq4hltnv8fkuhgqaqcws7 Andreas (82mhz) @nprofile…avnq @nprofile…gv86 I haven't played it in a looong time, but I always tried my luck with the joystick (and failed) 😄 How do you play it on the original arcade, do you know? Have you ever played it there? npub1rvp426p98plsqvejplf867avvmare9exeunz3aq4hltnv8fkuhgqaqcws7 Andreas (82mhz) @nprofile…avnq @nprofile…gv86 That looks fantastic! Marble Madness is one of my all-time favourites as well, but I really suck at it, I can never get past the third stage 😄 npub1rvp426p98plsqvejplf867avvmare9exeunz3aq4hltnv8fkuhgqaqcws7 Andreas (82mhz) New blog post: Linkdump No 38 https://82mhz.net/posts/2025/01/linkdump-no-38/ #blogging #blog npub1rvp426p98plsqvejplf867avvmare9exeunz3aq4hltnv8fkuhgqaqcws7 Andreas (82mhz) @nprofile…sr9k I have similar problems with self hosting that your client's friend has: No static IP address, slow upload speed, not the most stable internet connection. That's why I went with a hosted solution. The provider is pretty good, I even get SSH access to the server the site is hosted on, so it almost feels like my own machine, and I value the amount of trust they place in their customers. Thanks for sharing your thoughts! npub1rvp426p98plsqvejplf867avvmare9exeunz3aq4hltnv8fkuhgqaqcws7 Andreas (82mhz) @nprofile…sr9k This feels like the opposite of the story you told a few days ago about the developer who was offended when you hinted that his code wasn't all that well optimized. This person here by comparison seems eager to learn and improve, which is great to hear! I'm wondering, what are your thoughts on hosting a website with a smaller local provider instead of one of the big corporations? To me that feels like a good middle ground between self hosting and hosting on Github or AWS or whatever. Really curious to hear your take on this! npub1rvp426p98plsqvejplf867avvmare9exeunz3aq4hltnv8fkuhgqaqcws7 Andreas (82mhz) @nprofile…mjxp Go for it Jan! You can start small and just play Turrican for half an hour, you do that on Youtube all the time already anyway ;) But I'm sure people will be delighted to see you coming back to streaming, and I bet you'll enjoy it too :) npub1rvp426p98plsqvejplf867avvmare9exeunz3aq4hltnv8fkuhgqaqcws7 Andreas (82mhz) @nprofile…gv7u You were not kidding about your goal to write more this year 💪 Keep it up! npub1rvp426p98plsqvejplf867avvmare9exeunz3aq4hltnv8fkuhgqaqcws7 Andreas (82mhz) I don't have detailed analytics, but I can see from my web server logs that my post from earlier today has been accessed 1400 times. Wow. I'm pretty sure that's a record. Thanks everyone for clicking through and reading!! npub1rvp426p98plsqvejplf867avvmare9exeunz3aq4hltnv8fkuhgqaqcws7 Andreas (82mhz) @nprofile…j6tr It's a nice rig though, and that will last you a while! With my upgrade philosophy I will arrive at a system with these kind of specs in around 2032 or so 😄 npub1rvp426p98plsqvejplf867avvmare9exeunz3aq4hltnv8fkuhgqaqcws7 Andreas (82mhz) @nprofile…j6tr Out of curiosity... what are the specs of your new system? npub1rvp426p98plsqvejplf867avvmare9exeunz3aq4hltnv8fkuhgqaqcws7 Andreas (82mhz) @nprofile…j6tr Absolutely. It's nice to have a really fast PC for sure, that's why I keep having the urge to upgrade... but unless something comes along that really makes upgrading worth it, I'll pass. SSDs are a great example actually. Just switching to an SSD from a HDD while keeping everything else the same makes you feel like you bought a new computer, it's such a massive difference! That's totally worth the upgrade. npub1rvp426p98plsqvejplf867avvmare9exeunz3aq4hltnv8fkuhgqaqcws7 Andreas (82mhz) New blog post: I will never need to buy a new computer again https://82mhz.net/posts/2025/01/i-will-never-need-to-buy-a-new-computer-again/ #blogging #blog npub1rvp426p98plsqvejplf867avvmare9exeunz3aq4hltnv8fkuhgqaqcws7 Andreas (82mhz) New blog post: Linkdump No 37 https://82mhz.net/posts/2025/01/linkdump-no-37/ #blogging #blog npub1rvp426p98plsqvejplf867avvmare9exeunz3aq4hltnv8fkuhgqaqcws7 Andreas (82mhz) I don't know who might ever need this, but I just learned that if you download and install Active Sync 4.5 from Microsoft on Windows XP, you can use tethering on Android, meaning you can use your Android phone as a wifi interface (which doesn't work out of the box on XP). Might work on Windows 2000 as well, but I haven't tested this. Super handy if your wifi is WPA3 encrypted, which Windows XP doesn't support. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=15 #windowsxp #retrocomputing npub1rvp426p98plsqvejplf867avvmare9exeunz3aq4hltnv8fkuhgqaqcws7 Andreas (82mhz) New blog post: New Year 2025 https://82mhz.net/posts/2025/01/new-year-2025/ #blogging #blog npub1rvp426p98plsqvejplf867avvmare9exeunz3aq4hltnv8fkuhgqaqcws7 Andreas (82mhz) New blog post: Linkdump No 36 https://82mhz.net/posts/2025/01/linkdump-no-36/ #blogging #blog npub1rvp426p98plsqvejplf867avvmare9exeunz3aq4hltnv8fkuhgqaqcws7 Andreas (82mhz) I would like to improve my #italian skills by being more exposed to the language. So, question to the speakers of Italian around here: Can you recommend good Youtube channels or Podcasts in Italian? Preferably around the topics of (retro) tech or just italian culture in general. Thanks! #italia #italiano npub1rvp426p98plsqvejplf867avvmare9exeunz3aq4hltnv8fkuhgqaqcws7 Andreas (82mhz) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gb7poHQuMWg Only 500 more years!! npub1rvp426p98plsqvejplf867avvmare9exeunz3aq4hltnv8fkuhgqaqcws7 Andreas (82mhz) @nprofile…ca53 This is great! We often focus too much on the negative (talking about myself here first and foremost), so to see a list of positives is very inspiring! Sorry to hear about the loss of your friends, but your conclusion is absolutely right, we should appreciate our friends and family much more, we never know how much time with them we have. npub1rvp426p98plsqvejplf867avvmare9exeunz3aq4hltnv8fkuhgqaqcws7 Andreas (82mhz) @nprofile…4d9x Happy new year to you too! Is it just past midnight in your place? I'm already eight ours into the new year 😄