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Another small this and that post. Blog Stuff I decided to remove all web fonts from my blog. At the end it was nearly 500Kb just for a slightly different font. Well, I used self-hosted WOFF2 Fonts. Nevertheless, tiny is better. Also at the footer of each post I integrated a webmention display via webmention.io. And last but not least, I updated the /uses page. Home Desktop Win Free 1st of may is a public holiday in germany, I used to extended weekend to debug a small thing which got on my nerves recently. My home Desktop boot time was annoying me. Sometimes it needed 1-2 minutes to show the login screen. Don’t get me wrong, I am not always in a rush - but this is one hting I cant stand; Having a system I know it should boot in <20s and seeing something is not right. Just bugs me and causes something I call a “frustration focus” so it had to be solved no matter what. Guess what; It was the 2nd SSD in my System with a Win11 on it for dual boot. For what ever reason the systemd init every boot tried to “wait” for this drive. I set a udev rule, didnt helped. I excluded it fully in grub, did not help either. After tinkering around for longer then I should have, I finally decided that the last time I booted this windows I cant even remember so why bother… Partition table cleared and disk reinit as btrfs. ...

Minor Blog Extensions First I added asciinema support to better show some console stuff. ASCIInema allows to record a terminal session in text and replay it as text. So no wasteful GIF or blurry MP4 for just text. You can see the first use of it in this blog in my FZF SSH Parser Article. Then inspired by Naty I also implemented humans.txt [?] and human.json [?] standards to this blog. Im not so big in all the Indieweb standards. But specially in times of AI slob everywhere, it cant hurt to have more humans on the web. ...

Recently we had the Digital Independence Day what better Reason could one have to rethink how I use published photos. I actually wanted to integrate them better into my blog already since long. But Digital Independence Day was a good kick in the ass to finally quit Instagram for real. I’m not here to start a big moral talk… let’s focus on the Tech Aspects of what I did. As you may noted we now have the new Menu entry /photos which offers a small Gallery. Instead of integrating another workflow which is doomed to fail because of my lazyness, I need something easy usable from my Android phone. So I had my pixelfed account laying there, mostly collecting dust. Why not start using it again and integrate it into the blog. This post is about how I wired this up. ...

To be honest, the switch from a classic CMS to Hugo had a steep learning curve at first, but Hugo is incredible. Even though we have static pages, you can do a lot of “dynamic” stuff. The Problem From the start when I began using Hugo, I had an issue with the open graph images, per default you can specify one image as default in hugo and use post header mages as og:image. Well - I try to keep my blog posts free of images which are not beneficiary to the content. Screenshots are fine but general pseudo matching placeholder images just that you have something for the header 🤷‍♂️. So the problem that came up was all posts ended up with the same image when you linked to the article. ...