Michael Nordmeyer: All

I retired my JSON feed to be able to style the Atom XML feed with XSLT to educate feed beginner.

Disable all automatic feed fetching to not waste resources.

With nginx 1.25 mainline, experimental HTTP/3 support is widely available.

Occasionally missing meta responses after restarts for the exact same config.

A non-home-lab as a low-consumption power and data solution for all possible devices.

The conflicting sides of online publishing.

Mastodon link previews can lead to excessive requests at the same time, which is not Mastodon’s fault.

Barely changing default browser styles, dark mode, but two take it too far.

Deploying Jekyll to the server with built-in tools.

How to easily generate favicons from unicode glyphs like ★.

Every five slides is an ad and downloads only work after login.

Again, it looks like, after careful consideration of all options, it seems best to choose the simplest alternative.

Gemtext is a gem and with a proper client the Geminispace shines.

All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain…

I’ve limited my Fediverse data retention to 90 days.

Writing Markdown in a portable way.

Bare-bones web browsing by design.

I’m in the process of moving to the Fediverse and am quite excited.

I’ve come to believe that it’s not a good idea to keep all my content around indefinitely.

What computers should be like.

Bing and therefore DuckDuckGo apparently remove already indexed websites and bury those inadvertently.

Embedded YouTube videos have 3rd-party tracking cookies, which can easily be avoided with privacy-friendly embeddings without sacrificing functionality.

Why not choosing the most popular option is good for everyone.

Even though I’ve quit using WordPress in 2017, I keep the code for customizing my former WordPress installations.

After stopping using an RSS reader and deleting my Facebook account, I still feel exhausted & appalled by social media and the news cycle.

An unposted draft written on my phone to announce me quitting Facebook.

A static site generator with no server maintenance instead of self-hosting a CMS.

Sometimes I wonder if I sport a behavior called digital hoarding.

Avoid comment spam on WordPress blogs without the need for plugins through server configuration.

How a hiatus and pruning my feed wasn’t enough.

More than 90 % of the errors in my computing life come from syncing via iCloud and the restrictions of iOS. macOS is fine by comparison.

From early Markdown adopter to using WordPress’ visual editor exclusively again.

I want to buy movies, but buying them on iTunes or Google Play would limit the ability to switch platforms because of high additional costs.

Delete an iCloud email account altogether or delete an iCloud email account from an iOS device or Mac.

Can’t remove or delete a Google login from your iOS device?

A failed attempt to back the Internet and to own my data with cross-posting.

I’m cutting down on external input like social media, RSS, YouTube, and the Internet in general for a month to gain time and mental space.

There are different email addresses you can add to an Apple ID.

Apple iBooks highlights are sometimes omitted from exports without notification and are in the wrong order, which is quite uncool.

Strong passwords are important, because your personal data is important.

Google’s collection of interest-based data is pervasive.

Keeping your privacy means disabling your Google account history.

Changing, merging, moving, or deleting iCloud email addresses is tricky, because Apple doesn’t allow to merge accounts.

BarCamps are awesome and here’s why.

I measured both the Time Capsule 802.11n 4th generation and the Time Capsule 802.11ac in their 2 TB variants.

Infinite scrolling has many disadvantages, but only few advantages.

Crossposting reduces the density of information and litters the feeds.

Apple’s AirPort devices are the first choice for Mac users.

A presentation of agile estimation methods.

A report on the 2011 TEDxHamburg.