Tech on phil@bajsicki:~$

On Mark Zuckerberg's recent claims

Sat, 28 Sep 2024 00:00:53 +0200

The other day, a post on the Fediverse caught my attention, linking to this article from The Verge. I thought I’d make some things clear.

A new look: ox-tufte

Mon, 23 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0200

Struck by insomnia and dissatisfaction with the way my website has looked so far, I have opted for something less garish, and lighter, than before.

MissKey: Resetting Admin Password

Fri, 11 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0200

So recently I had the need to reset the admin password in MissKey.

Alas, there was no recovery email configured, nor other users on the instance, so I needed to do some digging in the database.

Shared hosting is a scam

Wed, 29 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0200

This isn’t the first, and won’t be the last time I rant against shared hosting, SaaS, and all the other ‘I want to be a landlord’ scams out there.

This time in shared hosting: friend of mine wants to set up a tech stack for their new agency. Website, email, CRM, the works.

Note about LLM's and training data

Thu, 09 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0100

No license is granted for any use of the content on this website for the purposes of training Large Language Models (commonly referred to as “AI”), commercial, or any other purposes not covered by Fair Use.

Yes, I don’t want corporations to profit a single bit from my work. Bite me.

Join the FSF.

Efficient computer use

Sat, 12 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0100

There’s been a whole bunch of things going in the background that kept me from writing more recently. Work has regularly left me brain-drained, and I’ve found myself in a position where I desperately need to focus on moving my career forward.

Haxe, heaps, and VSCode (small rant)

Mon, 10 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0200

Yesterday me and a friend have been trying to set me up with a development environment to start working on a small game.

He’s already made all the big choices, and so the plan was for me to set up with Haxe, Heaps, and the HashLink VM with the IDE VSCode.

We got everything running, except for the debugger link. We spent - no joke - over two hours until we found an explanation for the issue.

VPS is my new friend

Fri, 07 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0200

Over the past month and a half, I have migrated all of my services over to a VPS that I am renting from Netcup.de. Unsurprisingly, I am very happy with it.

Considerations on FOSS and subscription models

Sun, 02 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0200

I’ve had this idea for a few days. Mulled it over. Thought about it. And I end up considering options.

There are a ton of vendors for automation services. Zapier, Make, and others. Fundamentally what they do can be done as a one-time service.

I really, really like Emacs

Sat, 01 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0200

I was taking with a friend a few hours ago and he mentioned that Emacs is intimidating. And yes, it may well appear so.

VPS set-up

Thu, 18 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0200

A few months ago I took up a project to centralize and collect all of my websites and email boxes.