Top 10 Most Viewed in 2022 Why Ergo? Forecasting a Cryptocurrency's Price Don't Shoot the Dog by Karen Pryor: Summary Installing LineageOS on a Samsung Device The Asshole Filter Mutt: Viewing Attachments / HTML via .mailcap and a Custom Fortune as a Signature in Mutt Installing Citrix Workplace on Ubuntu Linux A Quick Introduction to … Continue reading cafebedouin.org: 2022 Year in Review
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Some Reflections on Twitter & WordPress: 2022
You may have noticed that I have been posting to cafebedouin less lately. It is partially because I have been more involved in using Twitter. Why? One thing I like about Twitter is that it is a larger, socially constructed version of the kind of thoughts that we have moment to moment. Reading the timeline … Continue reading Some Reflections on Twitter & WordPress: 2022
Get Blogging!
"Your easy guide to starting a new blog. A blog is an easy way to get started writing on the web. Your voice is important: it deserves its own site. The more people add their unique perspectives to the web, the more valuable it becomes." -https://getblogging.org/ I've been blogging since January 2017. In those five … Continue reading Get Blogging!
Streak 1, 600 Days
It seems like a long time, and yet, not long at all.
cafebedouin.org: 2021 Year in Review
Top 10 Most Viewed in 2021 Why Ergo?Don’t Shoot the Dog by Karen Pryor: SummaryInstalling LineageOS on a Samsung Device (updated in December 2020)Forecasting a Cryptocurrency PriceSeedvault: Encrypted Backup for AndroidBook Review: Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton WilsonMutt on OpenBSD & Linux: configuring gpg/gpg2 & ~/.muttrcA Quick Introduction to StumpWMThe Asshole Filter Posts That Deserve More Visibility … Continue reading cafebedouin.org: 2021 Year in Review
Programming Note: WordPress Scheduling
The secret to publishing something good every day is to get ahead, find more interesting stuff and stack it ahead of schedule. This way you don't feel like you have to post every day, because you don't. On the other hand, WordPress has a bit of a janky scheduling function that likes to default back … Continue reading Programming Note: WordPress Scheduling
Email & Tool Choice
Like everyone, I get more email than I really want. Most of it is newsletters. I usually use Thunderbird for email. It incorporates most of my email into one interface. It uses IMAP to pull the information from the email providers' servers, so I don't have to use some janky, javascript laden website for email. … Continue reading Email & Tool Choice
Plausible Analytics
"Frustrated with Google Analytics? So are we and that's why we built Plausible Analytics, a simple, lightweight (< 1 KB), open source and privacy-friendly alternative that doesn't come from the adtech world."https://plausible.io/ Costs ~US$48 / year, the same as the cost of a personal WordPress site.
Disabling Facebook and Other Social Media Tracking in WordPress
I realized yesterday that the default sharing options in WordPress enabled tracking by Facebook and Twitter. I don't want advertising or tracking on my site. I found that you can turn these "features" off in the Dashboard. Simply click on Enabled Services and drag and drop into Available Services, and vice versa, for services you … Continue reading Disabling Facebook and Other Social Media Tracking in WordPress
Fixing a Broken org2blog Configuration
I used to have a working set-up of org2blog. Somewhere along the way, it got borked. I couldn't login. I tried fixing it a few times, but I couldn't get the problem resolved. Today, I finally got org2blog working. Key piece is setting the gnutls-algorithm-priority. Use the instructions at the org2blog site: https://github.com/org2blog/org2blog/wiki/Usage Do everything … Continue reading Fixing a Broken org2blog Configuration
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