Philip

Work: Web & software development 🧑🏼‍💻 

Play: Ultimate (retired?) 🥏, climbing 🧗🏼, tramping 🏕, D&D 🧙🏼‍♂️ 

He/Him, not fussed

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2024-08-27 02:14:32

Been looking for a good Notion replacement and started playing with AnyType. Unfortunately, syncing via NextCloud doesn’t work very well due to the more complex data structure (It’s not just markdown files, and that’s fine). I thought I’d self-host their sync service, but it requires MongoDB which doesn’t support RaspberryPi’s architecture 🙁
So.. back to trying to find a good alternative. Let me know if you've found something like!
#FOSS

2024-07-28 03:08:34

@npub17nc…9dam do you know what these are? All over the floor in my garden shed and often garage as well.
Perhaps https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/319058-Arcitalitrus-sylvaticus?locale=en-NZ ?
https://mastodon.nz/system/media_attachments/files/112/861/912/379/411/821/original/be805dcf3f534025.jpeg

2024-07-04 12:02:27

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@npub17nc…9dam Still and clear? The past week would like a word 😅

2024-06-05 10:52:32

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@npub16uk…pv7k Try adding a bit of ginger! (I think in syrup form?)

2024-05-22 04:33:51

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@npub16uk…pv7k Been meaning to try this out. NextClound has been working fine, but I’ve heard this is a big improvement.

2024-04-10 03:56:56

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@npub1vfq…57sa The side benefit is it stops you from ever writing listicles "7-must-use-JS-frameworks.md" (there's 0, and the filter rightfully messes this title up)

2024-03-28 01:40:25

Any fluent German/English speakers out here? I have a translation question. Technical knowledge would be helpful, but I doubt that’s necessary as it’s a more generic question I hope.
#Translation #German

2024-03-07 10:30:14

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@npub1svs…p66u Cheers. Also I looked beurre and didn’t find anything, but is there a better place to file bugs (if! I find others) or is here okay?

2024-03-07 04:26:32

@npub1svs…p66u I’m not sure if this is a bug or not, but when a post as a long link in it, the app displays only the text that isn’t truncated - matching Mastodon’s web view. However, there is no tooltip or expansion of that link. Is there a way to show the entirety of the link URL w/out having to click and load it?
Thanks!

2024-03-06 00:03:48

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@npub16uk…pv7k Main thing that needs to scale right now is backup drives so that isn't a single point of failure 😰
Running of a Pi, but not sure if it can handle much other software. NC is not particularly quick (though that may be due to 50mb of frontend javascript. I'd love to test an NC instance on good hardware to compare)

2024-03-05 23:56:56

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@npub16uk…pv7k Ooh, I did not know about this service! Happy to have an A+ rating as well, but now reading their hardening guide. I self-host at home, so I’m sure there are better things I can do in how I run the server and software.

2024-02-12 00:21:29

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@npub16uk…pv7k “Future usage” - isn’t the council considering cutting funding for event procurement (ChristchurchNZ) as well?

2024-01-04 04:23:10

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Turns out Microsoft Defender Smartscreen, some sort of automatic Edge phishing/malicious website detector, is incorrectly blocking my domain. Or DOC’s IT department only allows known sites, but it didn’t sound like that.

2024-01-04 01:11:03

The Department of Conservation requested photos from my recent hike so they could have up to date information about some alpine conditions. The images were too large to email, so I made a public album on my self-hosted NextCloud instance and sent that. Unfortunately, I was told their govt browsers were unable to open the link :( Instead, they asked me to upload them to Google Drive or One Drive…
Yay, govt safety controls forcing the usage of Google and Microsoft! 🙄

2023-11-15 22:37:55

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@npub16uk…pv7k When are you getting on RNZ to help set it straight? :)

2023-10-30 20:25:21

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@npub17nc…9dam I wonder if there are 2 time related APIs in #Swift or something separate for “apps” vs the system. You’d think everything would base itself off a low-level API though and be consistent.

2023-10-24 02:07:23

Help! I haven’t touched #WordPress in years. The block editor is new to me. For page content, sure, all good. For themes, there's no more PHP and everything is blocks? What do I do if I want a section that is a custom grid? Column block only allows 6 items, and is flexbox. How do I set the media query breakpoint for various changes in layout? It seems very restrictive to have a WYSIWYG for the low level theme. There's not even a CSS file??
#WebDev

2023-10-16 23:34:33

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@npub1x4m…tvht @npub1qg4…augv Wow. This is going to be hella naīve, but how does this jive in any way with the same EU that fights for consumer privacy in their data against commercial data brokers and ad agencies? GDPR, location of data storage, etc. I mean, I get it’s law enforcement and ACAB, but sheesh. I figured if anyone could have pulled lawmakers’ strings it was big data even more than the fuzz.

2023-09-20 02:00:59

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@npub17nc…9dam I bought property with a few natives on it, all very young, including rimu and kahikatea. I want some sort of rider in a potential future sale document that prohibits their felling!
Unfortunately, they were also placed very close to the fence which is going to cause issues down the line :/

2023-09-07 10:56:54

@npub16uk…pv7k is pretty cool that I can follow your OIA request from an RSS feed!