This always trips me up, so I’m putting it here for posterity. It assumes you’re running Ghost, and proxying it through (free)nginx. First, install and configure Ghost as though its running on localhost. I do this in its own FreeBSD jail, and with a ghost user, so node doesn’t sp … | Continue reading
This is just a short post to remind everyone that PmWiki is excellent, and you should consider it. I’ve been running a local install of it for my own note-taking uses for two decades, and I recently flipped another public MediaWiki install to it… ours! I maintain, and have mainta … | Continue reading
The fallout from suggesting to (certain) Linux fans that some still need to run Windows continues. I’m ignoring social media for a bit, but I’m still getting regular angry email. As I said in my follow-up, I’m done. My apologies to those of you I’ve yet to reply to, but I’m going … | Continue reading
Last Saturday I made the mistake of asking Linux people not to tell those who need Windows to use Linux, and answered the most popular replies. I thought it was innocuous, but at the time of writing, it has over a hundred (visible) comments, five hundred reposts, and a thousand l … | Continue reading
Last Saturday I made the mistake of asking Linux people not to tell those who need Windows to use Linux, and answered the most popular replies. I thought it was innocuous, but at the time of writing, it has over a hundred (visible) comments, five hundred reposts, and a thousand l … | Continue reading
In no particular order: Is a phrase with four words. Mmm, that’s quality humour. There were a few elements not showing up properly in dark mode on single pages. You might need to force a refresh to get the most recent CSS. Some Dublin Core metadata wasn’t quite correct. I didn’t … | Continue reading
I resisted making another account for two decades, but the time finally came. I couldn’t believe how much was the same as I remember. The Tiki Tack Tombola! There’s plenty of blame to go around here, but the bulk of it goes to my sister. She has the second-oldest active account o … | Continue reading
From “An Ad (Gasp!) in Cyberspace” (New York Times, April 19, 1994): An Arizona lawyer had an entrepreneurial idea: advertise his services over the Internet, the global web of computer networks. Advertisements are beginning to appear all around the network, usually followed swift … | Continue reading
TIL: Cognitohazards Could social media posts be actively damaging to our mental health? – literally, not just figuratively? That's the premise of a TechScape article in The Guardian, that draws on both science fiction and psychological research. In Neal Stephenson's "Snow crash" … | Continue reading
This put a smile on my face this morning: Note: - Though this is not an automated email, (i.e., to ensure that we do not contact you again for this matter), please send a blank mail to it with NO as Subject. Not automated! This post wasn’t written by me as I drink coffee either! … | Continue reading
I’m not sure if this is a side-effect of using my own VPNs and a bunch of privacy and security extensions, or that FreeBSD/Firefox is unusual enough to raise eyebrows. But I’ve been triggering these checks constantly, at least half a dozen times a day. I’ve decided my time is wor … | Continue reading
For a company that shot to success on the back of an algorithm that made it easy for ordinary people to find what they need online, Google has done an extraordinary job of turning their search engine into hot garbage. And make no mistake - Google utterly dominates search. Sure, w … | Continue reading
Criminals gonna crim. It's what they do. Sometimes its kids operating out of suburban basements. Sometimes it's a more professional outfit. The trick isn't in stealing your money or assets - it's getting you to hand it over willingly - usually by logging into a fake account page … | Continue reading
I posted on Mastodon that I’d failed a CAPTCHA, but it reminded me it’s been happening a lot lately. Here are some more: Failed to select a motor scooter when it asked for motorbikes. Failed to select a crosswalk. We don’t use that term here, so that’s an i17n failure. I assumed … | Continue reading
My post yeterday about the WITCH computer mentioned that Nick Cartron had shared it with me. This was wrong, his nickname is Nico. I’d messaged three different Nicks yesterday, so I guess my brain was primed to write it as such. Pardon, Nico! As an apology, I encourage everyone t … | Continue reading
I had a free day today and I was free to do whatever I pleased. So, yeah. | Continue reading
I’ve reached the point in my web life where I’ll read something, ruminate on it, decide it’s interesting and that I want to comment. Then I’ll go back to the source to quote it, and I have absolutely no idea where I read it, let alone who wrote it. It happens at least once a week … | Continue reading
The ultimate aim is HERE – at this desk, writing, doing what I love. Addressing EVERYTHING in the […] | Continue reading
Jason Lefkowitz wrote a post in late February explaining a big reason behind WordPress’s rise in 2004: Movable Type was commercial software; there was a free personal version, and a relatively expensive pro version. This didn’t get in their way for a long time, because the terms … | Continue reading
Nurse on her way over. List of things to do but need time to collect. Blog Design Tech […] | Continue reading
Last year we went out on a van adventure, starting in Florida to Oregon, Arizona and back again. And we recorded what RV mobile internet options we used at each stop. We’ve shared the travelogues from each segment on this blog if you want to dive into the trip details. We thought … | Continue reading
It’s already Monday morning. I’m playing the age old game of avoiding tomorrow by making today last longer. It’s been a bit of a weekend. The project I’ve been tinkering with during the evenings over the last few weeks kind of collapsed in on itself this weekend – or rather, it b … | Continue reading
This is the sort of story that if a non-technical person told it to me, my instinct would be to assume they’re doing something wrong. Because networks don’t work like this. Or do they? One of the coffee shops I love going to around here has this bizarre effect on my electronics. … | Continue reading
Virgin Media - a UK-based fibre-optic ISP - recently sent me a survey about their potential product offerings. It was desperate to know if I wanted bundled streaming video (no), or Sky Sports (LOL no), or any other digital subscriptions (no, go away), or a landline (what, is this … | Continue reading
Tomorrow marks the first week after migrating all the websites I share with my wife Silvia, from Netlify to Mythic Beasts. Very happy about the quick transition, and grateful to Leon Paternoster for the brilliant suggestion. Here’s something I’ve noticed since. In a sim … | Continue reading
A personal process of disinvesting from the corporate internet, started last year, is speeding up considerably in 2024. It’s fuelled by a desire of reducing digital noise, and severing my contacts with a tech world that isn’t appealing anymore. After deleting an old Wor … | Continue reading
Getting everything for the day done in that block. BED journal, then prospecting. One appointment already set. Have […] | Continue reading
I’m down for Cory Doctorow’s description of modern web services having entered a state of enshittification. He’s discussed one prominent merchant example named for a South American rainforest, but I’ve noticed it among plenty of other stores. Specifically, spend any time on a mar … | Continue reading
12:17 back from haircut. Finally. As in, I finally got one. Mood still low with the job situation. […] | Continue reading
Is there any more terrifying a prospect?! Don’t answer that. By Ruben Schade in Sydney, 2024-03-04. | Continue reading
After seeing the spotlight on twitter from WinWorld, on NetManage Chameleon, an old TCP/IP stack that supported Windows 3.0! With more details over on the forum. I was inspired to set it up myself. I did go a bit overboard … Continue reading → | Continue reading
Be open to new approaches with sales… sounds obvious, but the application and philosophy are so true, I […] | Continue reading
Elevating all efforts and energies in the new AE story. That’s what it is… MY Ae story. About […] | Continue reading
3-2-24 08:09 AE mentality this morning. Work week behind me, but thoughts won’t stop revolving and cartwheeling. Everything is purposeful, I remind myself. The story shapes as it does w… | Continue reading
looking at the prompt in the journal she bought me. If my mood was a weather forecast, what would it be…. Well, yesterday and today you get two drastically contrasted answers. Today… sun. Coole… | Continue reading
Posts on this date come only every four years. Smashing! I went through the archives to see what I’ve posted on past leap year days: 2024: 29th of February; how meta 2020: Nothing 2016: Rubenerd Show 326: The 29th of February episode 2012: Nothing 2008: Is embedded spam gett … | Continue reading
Desk office home working. Not in much mood for breaks, punctuation. Doubting self, and trying to stop. Meeting […] | Continue reading
Michał Sapka emailed a comment about my own blog here, though I think it equally applies to the format more broadly: I love discovering sites, and blogs are the least traversable of all. It’s impossible to find stuff at rubenerd without a search engine. I’m not saying it’s a bad … | Continue reading
No elaboration here. Looking through notes, old entries of when in the wine industry, then some from Sonic […] | Continue reading
The Federal Laboratory Consortium selected Lincoln Laboratory’s Timely Address Space Randomization (TASR) cybersecurity technology for a 2024 Excellence in Technology Transfer Award. | Continue reading
I read this email subject line, and heard “left-side brain ” when I read “website blog”. I still can’t believe I saw Train with my sister back in the day. But I digress. I get these sort of spam emails more than daily, with the requisite replies saying they’re “just following up” … | Continue reading
Jospin Hassan shared skills he learned through MIT open learning resources with his community in the Dzaleka Refugee Camp in Malawi. His organization, ADAI Circle, now offers education programs and mentorship. | Continue reading
1. An ostrich jockey in the streets of Brussels, 1933 Photographer by Jacques Hersleven, colorised by RDB Colors. 2. Concept art for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) Found on the Art behind the Magic. | Continue reading
2-25-24 Better Together blend from Caddis, paired with a Pop Tart. Cherry. Yes, a Pop Tart. Just off […] | Continue reading
So. Good. Post by @cerebralclown View on Threads The post This is the most I’ve laughed in a really long time first appeared on @gurupanguji • Ramblings of an Eccentric Soul. | Continue reading
Phoronix posted an article on the upcoming KDE Plasma 6 yesterday, and the comments were nothing if not predictable. We start with this observation by hv_139: Just one example: One year ago they released support for fractional scaling of wayland and it got reverted one day after … | Continue reading
11:43… break soon. Rest of the day, the most open of books. Input notes for client, may need […] | Continue reading
So the story goes, is a phrase with four words. Woz’s creativity and engineering prowess are the stuff of legend, in particular his ruthless ability for optimisation. He could look at a printed circuit board, rewire it, and remove half the components while maintaining the same fu … | Continue reading