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Going to the annual book fair but got some cheese and juice instead. Bookwyrm data loss, building a book tracking plugin, and being part of a new writing group.
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Missed two weeks but I’m back with links to share despite finishing Junited. Usual webdev tinkering, a childhood memory, hosting HWC, and IndieWebCamp thoughts.
Attending my first Trading Card Show and thinking about selling my vintage Pokémon card collection, and the usual link dump.
Fixing stale site files on Bunny, working with Zensical for my secondary site, website readability issues. Driving an EV for the first time, and F1 updates.
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See how I added a pre-build step using a Bash script in my Hugo deployment workflow to check for the draft status of Markdown content. By using stricter linting rules than Hugo’s default draft behaviour, it can catch and prevent drafts from being accidentally published.
Learn how to batch convert plain URL links from a TXT file into a list of Markdown links using Python, handy for link dumps or link lists.
Discover Feather Wiki, a FOSS lightweight and customizable personal private web notebook, with multi-device sync via Syncthing and Android support using Termux.
How I fixed high latency and laggy SSH after getting a new router. Steps on how to SSH into Raspberry Pi over Ethernet with direct connection on Mac devices.
As a long-time user of LanguageTool’s offline server on macOS, I thought I’d share how I set it up. It’s a great way to get a pretty accurate grammar and spell checking / proofreading software without relying on online services. I’ll go through how to configure this open source tool, get extra optional improvements like n-gram data processing, and script shortcuts.
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