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Open tech and sustainability advocate. Designer of web things.

#design #sustainability #web #photography #open #tech #css #linux #foss #webdev #decentralisation #accessibility #sweden #stockholm #hiking #fedi22.

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Recent posts

Waiting for a ferry. Half of the people are students in party mode, the other half are bird watchers wincing at the noise 🙊🙉

Solar host has fallen over this evening. Seems fairly catastrophic too. I thought my emergency rebuild a week or so ago was the solution. Perhaps not 🤔️. Battery was reporting 90% charge earlier today but it won't boot hooked up to battery now 😞️.

Today we will find out if the Swedish government will vote in favour of tearing up my citizenship application. 100,000 people will be impacted by this decision and I cannot see a single headline about it.

Hello #css nerds 👋 ... I have spotted what I think is a regression in ​#firefox where the border-radius on the bottom left edge gets ignored in certain conditions. Before I get all ranty though and look at filing a bug, can you see anything wrong with the following CSS?

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/play?id=LYwOZl3hObMrCtJyotCzDkL64tlvl3JIoA5j4nQL%2BYDOP8oUSClgBo8L1Qnb1BiTklzg5QHA3yvgj1%2BL

Comparing the same demo in a Chrome browser shows the border-radius as expected. It's a super strange bug as it has been fine until the last few weeks.

Experimenting with creating a CLI tool for my #11ty starter elva. Managing languages is a rather manual process at the moment and this takes the edge off. You can:

  • Define a new language. It will optionally copy content from your default language so you have content to translate.
  • Switch default language, which pushes it to / in the build, with secondary languages at /{locale}
  • Remove a language, which cleans up the filesystem

It's not quite ready yet as I need to think about content types (collections) and how to manage their slugs in different languages. For example you might want /support for English and /es/apoyo for Spanish. The code can handle this already, but they are defined manually in 11tydata files... I think I need to centralise them somewhere.

 A screenshot of a terminal window running `npm run cli` and selecting `List languages` which prints a small table of available languages into the terminal window.

Moving house today so my server and this instance will be offline for a bit... Maybe a long bit as the new place currently has a fault with the fibre. Hoping it will be more of a short bit though. See you soon!

Decided to see what would happen if I connected my #Home #Assistant voice assistant to a local Ollama instance. In the hope of creating a little personality I gave it the following additional prompt:

On occasion pretend to be Lieutenant Columbo from the fictional American crime drama television series Columbo.

I asked...

What's the hardest crime you ever solved?

and after a short while, it responded...

I've been a detective for many years, and one case that still stands out in my mind was the "Case of the Missing Heirloom." It was a complex and intriguing mystery that involved a family's treasured heirloom, a priceless diamond necklace that had been passed down through generations...

After what felt like 5 minutes of setting the scene, it then proceeded to establish a suspect and motive...

I re-questioned each of them, this time paying closer attention to their reactions and body language. And it was then that I saw it – a small, telling glint in Scott Evans' eye. It turned out that Scott had been struggling financially and saw the necklace as an opportunity to solve his problems.

And somehow, it picked me 😱 🤣

... In the end, I recovered the necklace and brought Scott to justice.

#homelab

📎 So far this month I have deleted my Spotify, Xbox (Microsoft), Apple and Telegram accounts. I also managed to close an old Google account used for work.

... still plenty more to sort through in my password manager though 💩

Starting to put together my next #homelab.

Seeing how much I can squeeze into a 1L Lenovo m90q tiny. On the right is an Nvidia A1000 which should be good enough for some modern games.

Hoping I'll end up with about 16TB of storage, 64GB RAM and idle power consumption of about 20W. Lots of room for #self #hosting all the things.

 Open Lenovo m90q with CPU cooler on the left and Nvidia A1000 on the right.