🌐 Growing My Own Little Fediverse: The Joy of Going Further Down the Rabbit Hole
When I first wrote Back to the Old Internet, I thought I’d simply hit “peak nostalgia” - Linux, Mastodon, RSS, and a calmer web. But it turns out that was only the
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📟 Back to the Old Internet: A Personal Reboot
I didn’t set out to recreate 2005 — it just kind of happened.
It started with a few simple decisions: I switched to Linux Mint. I began fossifying my phone. I set
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🐘 Finding My People (Again) on Mastodon
For years, Twitter was my digital campfire — a place to think aloud, learn from others, and occasionally scream into the void with like-minded people. But lately, it’s felt more like
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🚀 Self-Hosting for Everyone: A Friendly Introduction to Taking Back Your Digital Space
'Self-hosting' is one of those terms that sparks endless debates in the more purist corners of the internet. Some insist it must mean running everything yourself on a Raspberry Pi at
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🚀 Ghost v6 Upgrade + Docker Migration: What I Learned (So You Don’t Have To)
I’ve just finished upgrading my blog to Ghost v6 and finally moved it fully into Docker, and a few things caught me off guard that might save other self-hosters some
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💋 Lip Gloss and Liberation: Rethinking the 'Girl Power' Era
If you grew up in the ’90s or early 2000s, you probably remember what empowerment looked like: glitter eyeshadow, low-rise jeans, and the words girl power splashed across everything from lunchboxes
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🤖 Why I’m Not Anti-AI (and Why We Need to Separate the Technology from Those Who Control It)
It’s become fashionable in many corners of the open-source and IndieWeb worlds to say “I’m against AI.” And I understand why. The industry surrounding it has done little to
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⚙️ From Scripts to Systems: Why LangOps Needs Rapid Automation
🧩 The Shift from File Handling to Workflow Orchestration
For years, localisation engineering has revolved around file processing - moving, converting, and validating assets between systems. It worked when volume was predictable and content
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💬 Inside My Matrix: How I Reclaimed Messaging from the Cloud
When people talk about the fediverse, most think of Mastodon, maybe Pixelfed - but fewer realise that Matrix is quietly doing for chat what ActivityPub did for social media.
Where Mastodon is a
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🌐 Growing My Own Little Fediverse: The Joy of Going Further Down the Rabbit Hole
When I first wrote Back to the Old Internet, I thought I’d simply hit “peak nostalgia” - Linux, Mastodon, RSS, and a calmer web. But it turns out that was only the
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📱 FOSS Android Essentials: A Whole‑Phone Guide
Going fully open-source on Android isn’t just a geeky experiment — it’s about taking back control. Control from random UI-breaking updates. From invisible tracking and forced logins. From apps
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👩💻 Mira Murati Deserves to Be a Household Name
When people talk about the AI revolution, they tend to mention ChatGPT, OpenAI, maybe even Sam Altman. But rarely — almost never — do they mention Mira Murati.
And yet Mira was instrumental in
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🐍 Python, AI, and the MLOps Tinkerer's Toolkit
There was a time when Python was just my go-to for scripts, cleaning localisation data, or automating little tasks. But along the way, it quietly became the language of AI—and
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📟 Back to the Old Internet: A Personal Reboot
I didn’t set out to recreate 2005 — it just kind of happened.
It started with a few simple decisions: I switched to Linux Mint. I began fossifying my phone. I set
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💌 Email Signups (and Comments!) Now Live
Good news if you’d like to stay in the loop or join the conversation — email subscriptions and comments are now enabled on this blog! 🥳
Here’s how it works:
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