I’m having some new year’s day fun with my NC Deck process.

As part of using Nextcloud as our family unCloud, I’m using Deck as as personal Kanban-adjacent system. It stretches in 2 main areas (on 2 different boards): apartment related things (shared across the family and including everything from small maintenance through getting stuff from Praxis/Gamma (hardware store chains in NL) to larger (and expensive) projects like the long overdue replacement of our air filtering/circulation system; and personal stuff, for tracking things I need to plan around my life, be it something in the home IT stack, or my bike(s), or planning a holiday.

Each of these have their small benefits. Continue reading I’m having some new year’s day fun with my NC Deck process.

The Beacons of Minas Tiener: fun home automation project for your chemotherapy pleasure.

It’s no secret that (to use one the infamous term) I’m double tapping lymphatic cancer these days. More details here, but what’s relevant for this blog is that high dose steroid treatment (which is a part of the chemo, and unfortunately didn’t make me look like The Rock) comes with funny side effects like insomnia, and in my case, a hyperactive, albeit rhapsodic, brain on the “good days”. So I dusted off a couple of old and neglected nerd side projects (like unclouding my RSS), and picked up some new ones, like this one, The Tinerebox. Continue reading The Beacons of Minas Tiener: fun home automation project for your chemotherapy pleasure.

Tl;dr I unclouded my RSSs (RSS’s? RSS’? RSSes?)

How long will it be before your Facebook stream is so full of promoted content, bizarre algorithmic decisions, and tracking cookie based shopping cart reminders that you won’t be getting any valuable information?  For as little as $60, a business can promote a page to Facebook users.  It won’t be long before your news feed is worthless.

Ben Wolf of Old Reader fame wrote this back in November 2013. (And I found it in this Wired article, credit where credit is due.) It was true then in 2013, it was true in 2018 when I started writing this blog post (LOL), and it is true now. More amazingly, that 2013 slug still works! Anyhow, today I want to write a bit about RSS so time to dust off this draft! Continue reading Tl;dr I unclouded my RSSs (RSS’s? RSS’? RSSes?)