2022-10-19De-Google Yourself
Some notes on my attempt to use fewer Google services and to replace them with self hosted open source alternatives.
Some notes on my attempt to use fewer Google services and to replace them with self hosted open source alternatives.
An extension I wrote for the Directus to easily and automatically backup strava activities. I believe in controlling your own data but Strava has many useful integrations with other apps and devices so this allows me to get the best of both worlds.
Some photos from the bank holiday spent caving in Yorkshire. A trip from Pool Sink to Lancaster Hole on Saturday and then into Toyland in Valley Entrance on Sunday
Ikea sell a motorised standing desk, made by Linak. The desk comes with a phone app to control it via bluetooth but there's no version for the desktop. I did a little digging and scripting to fix this oversight.
Developing very slowly from non-photographer to extremely bad photographer. Here are some more cave photos from 2013.
Second hand Kindles are a cheap source of linux driven eink displays. They are a bit janky and hard to work with but with some effort you can get them displaying custom text and images. The classic project is a low power weather/calendar display, and thats what I did.
I thought I'd go through my cave photos and try and pick out highlights in chronological order. These are some of my first photos underground from 2012/13.
A walk out from the busy port of Dover, over the famous white cliffs, and down onto the long promenade of Deal.
Getting out of London is an important part of living in London so here is a post about some attempts to see the surprisingly nice countryside within a train's journey away. I also made a track viewing app.
A script I wrote for managing interdependent docker services; what is it, how does it work, and why would you use it.