On owning blogosphere
(originally comment on blogpost by Dave Winner)
I was thinking about this a lot especially from the point of view of
owning my own data. The first version of how to do it was “the canonical
version is on my harddrive in some reasonable format, WordPress is just
for presentation to be discarded anytime” (even more important because
WP pulverizes anything resembling HTML into its own disgusting mush).
For that I started to use (and extended) b.py (with reStructuredText
sources; originally from elsewhere, but upstream didn’t accepted my
changes) and used WP on my own server.
Then inevitable happened: my server died, so I have to rebuild my
site. My colleagues from work shared rented VPS so I joined them
and pointed my domain to it. However, when I started to work on
installing WP, I was caught again by my suspicions about WP. Do I
really want to fight with pulverized HTML, zillion upgrades,
comment spam, etc., when all I want from the server is to render
my posts to HTML? So, I started to look for static web
generators. After a brief affair with Hexo (Server-side
JavaScript looks like such a good idea, but it still so immature
and unuseable!) I ended up with pelican.
The only problem is of course the only dynamic part of my blog,
which are comments. For now I have Disqus on my site as everybody
else, but I am very unhappy with it. Sometimes, when I have time
I will try to make Isso working for me, but I have failed so
far.
Scrapping of the Google Groups
As a followup to my previous rant on the locked-in nature of the Google
Groups, I have created this Python script for scrapping the messages
from Google webpages.
Thanks to Sean Hogan for the first inspiration for the script. Any
comments would be welcome via email (I am sure you …
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Yet another on identity
I am not sure I have written it somewhere here, but I have been
persuaded that identity is the most important and yet unresolvable issue
circling around Internet since at least 1997 (don’t bother to read
the paper, it is pretty poorly written and I didn’t have courage …
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'Do whatever!'
(I had this post in draft queue for a long time, but for a moment I
couldn't get into one of my code.google.com projects which made me
panick; it seems to be fixed now, but now when this panic made me to
finish this post, I will publish …
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I have just closed my LinkedIn account. Did you?
When joining Red Hat I felt suddenly so professional that I have finally
opened my LinkedIn account. Since then I wondered why I did so and
whether there are any benefits of having been constantly spammed with
various spew LinkedIn decided to throw in my direction. With every email
and …
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'Good bye tt-rss, rss2email I am coming back!'
Fixed connectivity-problems (no more endless waiting with spinning
activity-wheel)
While getting used to my new Android phone (which will be subject
of another post(s)) I have found in the f-droid repository
application Tiny Tiny RSS Reader, which is a reader
application for Tiny Tiny RSS Reader, a RSS
reader …
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Just a brief reply about SyncEvolution
Author of the SyncEvolution commented on mine and Adam
Williamson´s blogpost about problems with synchronization. Patrick
asks in his post: “I'm not sure what kind of problem Matěj had with
SyncEvolution. He doesn't say in his blog post, only that it does not
allow him to reliably sync with …
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Is there a better decentralized “Like” than status.net?
So, I was reading through my daily avalanche of blogposts and emails and
various links from various sources, and I was thinking about my current
obsession: decentralized clouds. And on each webpage I read (for example
on this beautiful article from
Slate)
I saw “Like” button. Of course, given it …
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'Synchronization sucks!'
One of my biggest pet-peeves in the free software world hit me again.
Whenever I asked my friends what are their biggest blockers against
switching to Linux, I get two questions. The first one is "Will my Word
documents work? Will I get something equivalent to MS Office?" And I …
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