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Monthly Recap: July 2024
What's up, Internet? A couple of blog posts, heaps of bookmarks and a few updates from these corners of the web.
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Monthly Recap: June 2024
What's up, Internet? June was code jams, blocking bots, posts, books, music, bookmarks and small improvements to the website. - monthly recap
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Blocking Bots With 11ty And Apache
How to block bots with robots.txt, .htaccess with 11ty and Apache. Make it difficult for them to jack your stuff!
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Monthly Recap: May 2024
What's up, Internet? Time to recap the posts I wrote, books I read, links I shared and updates I made to the website during May. This month includes a recap of WebLogPoMo2024.
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Sliding Away
I've been sitting on this for two years... I dive into the evolution of Miley Cyrus between "We Can't Stop," "Slide Away," and more recently, "Jaded."
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The Tortured Poets Department
I listened to two hours of The Tortured Poets Department, ask me anything
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Challengers (2024)
Tonight I managed to watch a movie, Challengers. A movie about tennis and friendship.
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X-Terminators (2022)
The X-Terminators is a fantastic X-Men story during the Krakoan era, but not part of the main Krakoan story line.
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BMF Season 3
Hiliarious acting makes great watching in this dramatised retelling of the story of an organised crime group.
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Nostalgia Music
Nostalgia music... Albums or songs that hold a special place in your heart. What's yours?
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Halt And Catch Fire
Halt And Catch Fire is a wonderful walk through the early eras of technology and the Internet.
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Mac Miller: Swimming
Sit back with a couple beers or a smoke and enjoy Mac Miller's sup chill record Swimming with me.
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Everything Is Recorded: Friday Forever
Friday Forever is an album that I will happilly listen to front to back in a single sitting multiple times a year.
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Wu-Tang: An American Saga
Even if you're not a fan of Wu-Tang, I bet you'll enjoy this dramatised version of their origin story.
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Surfing The Web And Sharing What I Find
How I surf the web, manage my online bookmarks and share exciting hyperlinks with the community.
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Deploying An 11ty Project To Shared Hosting
Forget the usual suspects for your website hosting. You should consider shared hosting for your next 11ty project.
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Blogging Anonymously
Exploring the benefits of blogging with and using a pseudonym online, how it still enables me to build meaningful relationships world wide with others who share similar interests.
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Freaks and Geeks
I just finished watching Freaks and Geeks and I'm happy to report that this show holds up.
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Building My Comics Page
How I built my comics page using League of Comic Geeks, a NodeJS module and Eleventy.
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Making Websites Should Be Easy
Creating a website can be daunting, especially for if you're not a developer. This is a summary of a conversation with Sara Joy. Our vision is to make it easy for anyone to create a beautiful and functional website.
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A Simple Guide to Redirects on Neocities with Eleventy
We need more tutorials for using Eleventy outside of Netlify. Lets take a look at setting up redirects on Neocities with Eleventy.
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Relics Of The Web
Blogrolls, buttons, and webrings. Remnants from an earlier Internet era. How do they function in today’s digital landscape?
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Podcasts Worth Exploring: Recommendations Received
Following up on filling the fourth gap in my podcast subs
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Build Personal Websites
I'm a big fan of websites created from pure enjoyment, free of a monetised agenda. Website creation should revolve around fun.
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Own Your Web: What’s in a Name?
When creating a website, the most crucial decision a webmaster makes is not the design or content, but rather its name and domain.
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App Defaults
Episode 097 of the Hemispheric Views podcast held a fun Duel of the Defaults! competition. Here’s my list.
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On Blogs and Digital Gardens
Exploring the evolving landscape of the personal website. What are contrasts in content curation, the nature of personal blogging, and the concept of digital gardens?
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DRM-Free Audiobooks
Discover the freedom of DRM-free audiobooks and explore how to listen to them on your terms.
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Hear me out: The Whopper is the best type of burger
Whopper odyssey unleashed and a new project underway.
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New X-Men (2001) Was Awesome
What an amazing run in 2001 by Grant Morrison that sets major X-Men plots for years to come.
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The Secrets of Azeroth
The Secrets of Azeroth world event is a detective caper where players particpate by solving clues to help the Preservationists find a perpretrator in a series of arifact heists.
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Bushwalks
Intentionally leaving the house during the day and surrounding myself in nature does wonders for the soul.
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Show Some Love: Supporting Your Favourites
Support a free and open web by supporting the projects that you love.
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Whakapapa Ski Trip
We could not have asked for better conditions for a day of skiing at Whakapapa ski field on Mt Ruapehu last weekend.
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Marvel Unlimited Continue Reading
Marvel Unlimited is my preferred choice for reading comics. This post discusses the frustrating aspects of the Continue Reading feature and how it affects my reading experience.
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Now page update: poster art for shows and movies
Combine multiple API calls and eleventy-fetch to enrich Trakt metadata with poster art.
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Network link aggregation on Synology and Unifi
My notes on creating a bonded interface for link aggregation on a Unifi switch and Synology NAS.
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Dragonflight Season Two Recap
Dragonflight season two is almost over, so I've spent a few minutes reflecting on my achievements.
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Adding game cover art to my /now page
How I'm using Eleventy-Fetch and the Steam API to fetch recently played games, the games cover art and store page URL to display on my /now page.
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How have your listening habits changed?
How have your listening habits changed when you started listening to audiobooks?
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Monthly Recap: April 2023
Hello web surfers, and welcome to April's recap. This month I focused on automating more of Flamed Fury.
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Record Store Day 2023
Record Store Day 2023 has been and gone. What new records did I manage to add to my collection?
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What's On My Steam Deck Autumn 2023
What do I have installed on my Steam Deck for Autumn 2023? How many of these games will I play, and how many will I finish?
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Monthly Recap: March 2023
Hello web surfers, and welcome to March's recap. This month I started writing blog posts again.
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Dragonflight Season One Recap
Dragonflight season one is almost over, so I've spent a few minutes reflecting on my achievements.
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Logitech MX on Linux
When it comes to computer peripherals, I use Logitech. Keyboards, mice, headsets - they’re all Logitech. But how do you take advantage of them when Logitech doesn't provide Linux drivers or software?
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Monthly Recap: February 2023
Hello web surfers, and welcome to February's recap. This month I spent time updating existing pages and added some new pages.
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Monthly Recap: January 2023
Hello web surfers and welcome to January's recap. It's been an exciting month refreshing existing content and adding new content.
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Gaming PC History Walkthrough
Walking down memory lane of the computers that I've built over the years
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Create A Static Site Using 11ty & Deploy to Neocities
This is a simple guide to set up a simple static site or homepage using the static site generator 11ty and deploy it to Neocities.
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Running World of Warcraft on Pop!_OS Guide
These are my notes for getting World of Warcraft up and running on Pop!_OS.
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Pop!_OS Setup Guide
I've recently moved from Windows to Pop!_OS. These are my notes for first time configuration to get myself up and running and refer back to later.
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Video games and me
I've loved computer games forever. I miss having the time and energy I used to have for them.
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The music and me
Music has always been a massive part of my life, let's dive into how that came to be.
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Book Report: Hustle Harder Hustle Smarter
I just finished up this book and damn, I really enjoyed it.
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I got big dawg status, it ain’t no secret
Where I laugh while watching stupid videos on the Internet.
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Covid-19 Anticipating the Lockdown
Aotearoa heads into Alert Level 3 and expected to shift to Alert Level 4 within 48 hours followed by a nationwide lockdown.
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Weekend Roundup
The four day long Easter weekend was amazing. We’re already halfway through the working week, I believe it’s safe to say that I have recovered. Now lets see if I can remember how the weekend went? Where to begin…
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The Day I Fell In Love With The Violin
On Saturday the 23rd of February, we travelled over the Rimutukas to Alana Estate in Martinborough to catch the last concert of the in tune with Nature tour featuring Haley Westenra and Dave Dobbyn.