Digital privacy as a new currency

This morning I was a briefly a part of the interesting conversation started at the Fediverse microblogging server fosstodon.org by the user kip. The thread started by the privacy oriented resolution kip made, stating that they are about to make steps aimed at increasing their onl…

Comparing my domain registrars

Over my life as a mostly hobby web developer I had used multiple domain registrars. I did not look at this as a problem. Domains are usually paid once a year and sometimes even less often, and many can be turned on auto renew, so it is mostly set and forget. The problems start to…

Netlify email forwarding problem

I have created a static page application and hosted in on Netlify. I did it mostly for fun and a learning experience. I was poking around and tinkering it, doing some bugfixing and polishing. The day of the release is coming near and I have started thinking about adding a contact…

Using mnemonics outside of my vim

Vim. Many swear by it, many hate it. It has a steep learning curve, but once I got proficient, I really saw the benefits. As with everything muscle memory related, it is now even harder for me to use a normal writing mode, for instance on web sites. :wq In vim I build a memory ma…

Syncthing can sync my entire phone

Syncthing has totally got me as a software. Every day I find new ways it helps increase my productivity. It started with a synchronized folder with password files made by KeePassXC between my phone and the notebook. Then I went on by synchronizing my photos folder. Apart from the…

Most useful keyboards for Android

I do use my phone daily, and although I try to limit the time I spend using it to the most productive minimum, the virtual keyboard is the core experience. It would be very hard to use the phone without it. Being so important, I decided to try some keyboards available on F-Droid…

SvelteKit is is almost beta

Now that SvelteKit repository got unwillingly turned public in an attempt to increase the available GitHub Actions supply for the project, we all now have a chance to peek at the some of the discussions the dev team currently has or or has had in the recent past. I was among the …