garron.blog

Introduction Two days ago some of my fellow Mastodoners started to show how much does it cost to run their blogs?

I am now able to blog from the iPad, at least small notes on the go.

I really like to explore different ways to deploy my blog, this the great thing of static sites, you can deploy and host them almost anywhere, in the lst years I have tested a lot of them.

Introduction Yesterday night I read about Vercel and found that it offered a free tier to deploy and host static sites.

Introduction When the World Wide Web was born, websites were created using pure HTML, its structure were made by using tables.

Centralisation and Mastodon Let’s say that Mastodon’s biggest instance, Pawoo, decided to close down tomorrow.

Everybody should own at least one domain, it does not matter if you blog or not, it does not matter if you host something or not, but everybody should own a domain at least for one thing, and one thing only.

In order to remember because it was hard to find, here is the simple way to set up a Mastodon Instance as Single-User-Mode, or the opposite, open to the public an instance that is set in single-user-mode First, go to the installation folder, usually: /hom…

What’s In A Font?

I was already able to make webmentions work on this site, but with the structure change or maybe because I have installed Pagespeed module, or because I have removed JQuery (I put it again later), but something messed the webmentions up.

I started with Mastodon on May 3, so it is now a month on it I am following 34 people and 34 others are following me, I have 273 toots, but stats aside what I like the most is that I have connected with more people here in one month that on Twitter since…

As I have already said I started blogging about Linux under the go2linux.org domain, later in order to be able to have my personal blog I got garron.me domain, and started that site as Wordpress, but few days later I switched to Jekyll, I realized that it…

I have been thinking about getting rid you Google Analytics on this blog, actually I think I will get rid of any analytics on this blog I think that may help me write better, as I will be focusing on what I want to write about and not about what people wa…

I enjoy Self Hosting my apps, and I know that a lot of the people who read what I read (I know you are not a big group), also like to self-host, that is because we like what we learn when self-hosting and not because it is easier The problem is when somet…

Years ago I used to self-host TinyTinyRss, then some months later I started a new job, so I had very little time to read or anything, so I dithed all my servers and only kept my blog online but mostly not updated until few months ago.

In most countries the mother's day is celebrated in May, it is usually one specific Sunday of May but here in Bolivia thigs go in a different way.

DuckDuckGo DuckDuckGo promises to be more privacy friendly.

What is freedom?

Installing email server I was thinking about hosting my own email server, and today I've decided to give it a try, so I spun up a Digital Ocean VPS and installed iRedmail, it was not easy the first time, I've chosen Ubuntu 20.04 and the script failed (yes…

After reading Creating a notes page, and A place for notes I have decided to create the same space for myself.

Should you self host your email ?

Some days ago I have wrote about having your passwords on Google, and Kev told be he was using Bitwarden so I decided to give it a try, the best way to go with it is by hosting your own server, but it seems that store at Bitwarden's cloud is secure as your

Yesterday I have discovered NewCSS, and I decided I wanted to test it.

Tomorrow it will be our 60th day locked in our houses here in Bolivia, like everything in our life this has possitive and negative consequences.

Four years ago, I started a new relationship, I had gone through a hard time in those last months.

Yesterday I got this idea about having central place on the Internet, something like the HUB of my domains, and I have bought yet another domain.

Today on Hacker News this post made its way to the top of first page.

What I like about this #100DaysToOffload challenge is the interaction we all have in Mastodon reading each others posts, so today I have read two good posts about Dad's lessons, that made me remember some things from my childhood.

While reading the TimeLine at Mastodon today I have read that a new version of Pleroma has been released some days ago.

In almost all countries in Latin America, we have empanadas, they are made out of cheese, meat or chicken, of course there are a lot of other variations, but here in the south of south America these are the most common ones.

Today I had a really nice experience, I was trying to implement webmentions on my blog, I had a vague idea about how to do it.

In this cloud days, chances are, that you have your passwords stored in some online service, the people reading this may have choosen a better option, but the average joe for sure is using one Google or Apple services to store passwords to all his sites,…

in reply to: Basil Thanks to your post about Webmentions I managed to prepare my blog to work with H-Cards and be ready to sent webmentions using Telegraph, and to receive them using Webmention.io, everything seems to be working at this time.

I use Middleman to blog, Middleman is a static site generator, and one thing you cannot do when using a static site generator to blog, is that you cannot blog from anywhere, you need to be at your computer.

Webmentions or Mastodon as comments This whole thing of Fediverse hooked me up, and now I have to learn more about it, it is not enough to run my own Mastodon instance, I want to improve my blog to be also integrated I'm just thinking about which way I am…

In order to keep moving to a everything-self-hosted scenario, I am thinking about installing and testing NextCloud.

I am trying to write one post a day for 100 days, this is day number 11, and I run out of ideas, fortunately I post about it in the FOSSTodon Network, and ALazarte came this this sugestion, so I will write about that.

Yesterday I posted about installing my own mastodon instance, to do it I've got to get a new Linode server and installed Mastodon on it.

I am really new to mastodon, I have just knew about it, reading Kev's blog I was presented with it.

I have created this blog all of a sudden, basically in order to write a post every day for a 100 days, because of this, what I did was to buy a new domain, (this domain), then copy my other site (Middleman generated site), delete all posts, and start post…

I have decided to accept the chalenge of [Kev Quirk] about writing a post a day for 100 days, somedays I write more than one, and some other days I write none, because I am getting lost on how many posts I have, I am going to update this post until I end…

Privacy concerns Three days ago Jan Lukas Else wrote a post about privacy privacy, where he state that his girlfriend and him was talking about privacy and the way she thinks privacy is not important as long as you are not famous or has nothing to hide.

Coronavirus This virus will change our lifes, this is just starting, here how my city looks like because of it.

We all know what happened in China in December 2019.

Three days ago, my friend Kev Quirk wrote about why he has a blog.