Sometimes I get to play with really cool stuff at work resulting in a real mess on my desktop 🤓
Week 26, 2020
While work is underway officially to bring Vulkan API support to the Raspberry Pi 4, what about the older models? An NVIDIA engineer decided to get it done as announced on Twitter. The NVIDIA engineer, Martin Thomas, worked on the RPi-VK-Driver which is now available to grab from GitHub to bring Vul...
Hope it’s not Zoom. Please don’t let it be Zoom. Did I mention I dislike Zoom?
20th Anniversary
While checking some very old backups of mine I stumbled over some really old HTML files. Turns out they are old websites of mine – including my very own that apparently went live on the 23rd June in 2000 on the free hoster FortuneCity.
For a quick recap: In 2000 WordPress didn’t exist yet, webspace and bandwidth were costly and a database was an extra you had to pay for. People wrote their websites in very unique styles and ways and many started out doing so at all. SelfHTML was my browser “home” for months.
Back then I went with the nick DukeBernd
, or Duke
for short. It still shows in various domains and mail addresses of mine but was soon replaced by beko
, that was not only shorter but also way less popular and also holds parts of my real name (and that was actually never a secret by the way).
While learning more and more on HTML I also started with Warhammer 40k tabletop and LARP. As a student I obviously had all the time of the world. The website changed a lot in appearance during the early days and yes I had it all, animated gifs, blinking text, under construction signs and… browser requirements. Here some more screenshots for [y]our amusement from 2000 to 2002:
Hosting changed also all the time. There was a brief episode with Crosswinds but the roundtrip was awful and the website was slow to a point that images stopped loading so I was quite happy when my school started to offer some tiny amount of webspace that I used to offload most of my images – mostly drawings – as some sort of handicraft content distribution system. I had also various domains pointing to intro and landing pages. It was a huge mess and most are dead by now and I only kept the current .net domain.
This was also about the time when I came in contact with Linux, as you can guess from the next screenshot showing a design I was quite happy with and went with for years to come.
While most of this is offline nowadays some of the LARP articles survived but I had no desire to migrate ~400 hand written HTML files (no frames) about Warhammer into a CMS some years later. My drawings are also best forgotten 😉
In 2004 I migrated to 1&1 hosting with a database. That was a goal for years and I could finally afford to pay for this. Soon I discovered this brand new content management system called WordPress and started learning PHP.
This changed everything since the idea of dynamically assembled website code was totally new and alien to me. I dived into what is nowadays known Full Stack Development and as usual my own website and various projects became the playground.
A lot has happened since the early beginnings. I finished formal education, ditched Windows, became that Linux Jack, started working on T3 vans, emigrated to sweden [and back 🙁 ], visited places with my van, worked as driver, distributor and postman until I eventually went back into tech settled down, married and forked/got two children. Who would have guessed.
I never stopped programming, gaming, tinkering, trying and gathering know-how.
And it’s all here – mostly. There are some holes thanks to social networks and forums that raised and vanished again taking heaps of bits written with them.
I got takeouts of most of such silos before they vanished but sorting this and migrating it back into my own blog is quite a burden. Still I do so on occasion and on days like this I’m happy for the extra work. It’s the satisfaction of looking back on my own life, having it all in one place. Like a diary. It’s just not as private as a diary but it brings back the memories just the same.
This blog survived twenty years unlike e.g. Google+ and there is still the occasional visitor sent here by an old forum article or by search engine looking for some info or image. And I happily serve. Fixing dead links or wrong wording and re-uploading articles and images in better resolutions as I find them.
Blogging ain’t dead.
You are the product
roses are red violets are blue in surveillance capitalism poem reads you and shows you ads for flower shops and tracks your clicks and never stops it cares not about if privacy's harmed the money is green when people are farmed twitter is cyan facebook is blue your friends are the product and so are you
Stumbled over this beautiful poem:
roses are red
violets are blue
in surveillance capitalism
poem reads you
and shows you ads
for flower shops
and tracks your clicks
and never stops
it cares not about
if privacy’s harmed
the money is green
when people are farmed
twitter is cyan
facebook is blue
your friends are the product
and so are you@lifning@cybre.space
It’d make a great hymn for decentral systems like the Fediverse or the Indieweb.
Hat tip @textbook@social.tchncs.de
roses are red violets are blue in surveillance capitalism poem reads you and shows you ads for flower shops and tracks your clicks and never stops it cares not about if privacy's harmed the money is green when people are farmed twitter is cyan facebook is blue your friends are the product and so are you
roses are red
violets are blue
in surveillance capitalism
poem reads you
and shows you ads
for flower shops
and tracks your clicks
and never stops
it cares not about
if privacy’s harmed
the money is green
when people are farmed
twitter is cyan
facebook is blue
your friends are the product
and so are you@lifning@cybre.space
There are indeed a lot of similar tools but keep in mind that the tools are not designed specific for WordPress and go far beyond without an API by design. It’s like an iceberg and I understand your confusion because it was like this for me as well in the beginning. The shadowing is kinda annoying but I understand the reasons for this by now. @dshanske has more info on this topic at https://david.shanske.com/2015/01/10/post-types-post-formats-post-kinds/
I still recommend Sans Bullshit Sans as default font in your browser:
https://www.sansbullshitsans.com/
It may need an update for 2020, of course.
Homebrew Website Club Karlsruhe
Well, that was a fun evening with the people of Homebrew Website Club #Karlsruhe. Plenty of insight on various topics about the #Indieweb and lots of good talks. 10/10, would drink there again 🤣
https://events.indieweb.org/2020/06/online-homebrew-website-club-karlsruhe-gGcoYsY7Pjiz