I just moved from Writefreely to a custom made blog engine. Writefreely is great but I wanted more control over every bit of the template and style and I couldn’t easily achieve what I wanted. ...

I recently moved to a new apartment and now I have a little closet which contains the electrical board. It’s also where the optical fiber comes in and so it’s where I put my ISP-provided modem. For a few weeks, it sat on the floor in this closet since I didn’t have any room for it anywhere else. I wasn’t satisfied, so I decided to design some small pieces to create a wall mount for the beast. #100DaysToOffload No. 16 ...

🧓🏻 Old post This post is quite old now. Since then, I’ve moved my git repositories to a self-hosted gitea instance and I cancelled my subscription. I still stand behind this post though. Sourcehut is a solid git forge and keeps improving. For a few weeks now I’ve been hosting my new projects at sourcehut instead of my usual GitHub account. So far, the experience has been very pleasant but it also has some drawbacks. Let’s talk about it! #100DaysToOffload No. 15 ...

In a recent post, I talked about how I tracked my posts views over time using Grafana and InfluxDB. Today, I went another way and configured GoAccess to provide me with an HTML report with data extracted from my webserver’s logs. Update 2020-01-03 I now use my own blog platform with Goatcounter. #100DaysToOffload No. 14 ...

In January 2020, I discovered a budget app called You Need A Budget (YNAB). I’ve been using it since then and I’m very happy with it, here’s why. #100DaysToOffload No. 13 ...

Today’s very quick post is a recommendation to a french YouTube channel. It’s called Chat Sceptique and features a statistician popularizing many different topics related to statistics. The same person was behind another channel which is not active anymore due to conflicts between the team members: La statistique expliquée à mon chat. If you understand french, I highly recommend taking a look at both channels and subscribing if you like it!...

Recently I added some statistics to my blog. I wanted to do that with minimum effort and without serving any crappy proprietary JavaScript to my users. Update 2020-01-03 I now use my own blog platform with Plausible Analytics. #100DaysToOffload No. 11 ...

TL;DR: I use a password manager and you should too. Bitwarden is a Free Software alternative. This is my 10th post of #100DaysToOffload. ...

👴 Old post I don’t use Pi Hole anymore but this post should still be relevant. I’ve switched to AdGuard. There is an easy to install Home Assistant addon available and it allows me to easily configure local-only DNS entries. As I was telling you before, I own a Raspberry Pi on which I set up a Pi Hole. As they advertise it, Pi Hole is “a black hole for internet advertisement”. It’s basically an ad blocker for your whole network. ...

Since I consider my messages on social media to be valid at the moment they’re posted, I like to have them deleted after some time. When I still used Twitter, I also used a CLI tool called cleantweets that helped with this. A few months ago, after having created an account on Fosstodon, I wrote a simple command line utility to help you achieve the same thing but with toots: cleantoots (notice how much effort I put into naming it). ...