Google Photos integration in WordPress, Gergo integration into walled garden.

WordPress gained a very important milestone recently: you are now able to directly insert media (mediae?) from your Google Photos library.

That’s right: I can now directly insert this photo, for example, without having to download and re-upload into my media library:

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Once again, I created 5 extra hours of work for myself by missing one config line

So I am sick and therefore grounded, and I decided this is the perfect time to finally clean up my mediacenter setup. A rambling geek post.

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Let’s talk about the Mastodon in the room

This weekend’s hype in the Twitterverse is hands down Mastodon — the free (as in free beer), free (as in free speech), open, federated social network slash microblogging service. Technically speaking it’s a GNU Social implementation, but what it really is in layman’s terms, is a Twitter clone. The service(s) currently count around 128kĀ users, adding a couple of hundred every hour. I can’t explain very clearly why, but this attempt looks very exciting to me. I’m trying to collect nonetheless. Continue reading Let’s talk about the Mastodon in the room