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Laura Hargreaves

Open thoughts on the open web.

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🚀 Self-Hosting for Everyone: A Friendly Introduction to Taking Back Your Digital Space

✨ New blog post: "🚀 Self-Hosting for Everyone: A Friendly Introduction to Taking Back Your Digital Space" A gentle guide to taking control of your data, running your own services, and building a little corner of the open web you truly own. 💜 #SelfHosting #OpenWeb #FOSS #DigitalSovereignty #IndieWeb

🚀 Ghost v6 Upgrade + Docker Migration: What I Learned (So You Don’t Have To)

✨ New post: "Ghost v6 Upgrade + Docker Migration: What I Learned (So You Don’t Have To)" Demystifying databases, containers and ActivityPub magic 💜 #SelfHosting #Ghost #Docker #Fediverse #FOSS

💋 Lip Gloss and Liberation: Rethinking the 'Girl Power' Era

✨ New blog post: "Lip Gloss and Liberation: Rethinking the ‘Girl Power’ Era" The 90s promised we could have it all — career, confidence, and lip gloss. But what we really got was empowerment with a price tag. 💋 #Feminism #GirlPower #Reflections #90s

🤖 Why I’m Not Anti-AI (and Why We Need to Separate the Technology from Those Who Control It)

✨ New blog post: “Why I’m Not Anti-AI (and Why We Need to Separate the Technology from Those Who Control It)” AI isn’t the enemy — exploitation is. The tech can empower and connect, but progress must be shared with the people. 🤖💜 #AI #EthicalTech #OpenWeb #Reflections

⚙️ From Scripts to Systems: Why LangOps Needs Rapid Automation

✨ New blog post: "From Scripts to Systems: Why LangOps Needs Rapid Automation" As localisation shifts from file handling to workflow orchestration, ops-level automation is becoming essential. ⚙️🤖 #LangOps #Localisation #Automation #AI

💬 Inside My Matrix: How I Reclaimed Messaging from the Cloud

✨ New blog post: "Inside My Matrix: How I Reclaimed Messaging from the Cloud" How I self-host Matrix — bridges, clients, and all — to own my chats without losing connections. Freedom without isolation. 💬💜 #Matrix #Fediverse #SelfHosting #OpenWeb #FOSS

🌐 Growing My Own Little Fediverse: The Joy of Going Further Down the Rabbit Hole

✨ New blog post: "Growing My Own Little Fediverse: The Joy of Going Further Down the Rabbit Hole" Turns out, the future of the internet might just be federated. 💜 #Fediverse #OpenWeb #SelfHosting #FOSS #DigitalSovereignty

📱 FOSS Android Essentials: A Whole‑Phone Guide

✨ New blog post: “📱 FOSS Android Essentials: A Whole‑Phone Guide” I got tired of random updates breaking my layout — so I rebuilt my phone setup from the ground up with FOSS tools I actually trust. All open, all mine. 💜 Take back control, one app at a time? #Android #FOSS #OpenSource #Fossify

👩‍💻 Mira Murati Deserves to Be a Household Name

🚨 New blog post: “👩‍💻 Mira Murati Deserves to Be a Household Name” She helped build ChatGPT responsibly — with safety, ethics, and care baked in. And yet most people don’t even know her name. Let’s change that. 💥 #AIethics #OpenAI #WomenInAI #WomenInTech

🐍 Python, AI, and the MLOps Tinkerer's Toolkit

🐍 New blog post: “Python, AI, and the MLOps Tinkerer's Toolkit” A friendly guide to Python libraries for AI/ML — complete with pip install commands, PyPI links, and use cases from data wrangling to fine-tuning. We love Python 💜 #Python #MLOps #AI

📟 Back to the Old Internet: A Personal Reboot

✨ New blog post: “Back to the Old Internet: A Personal Reboot” Switching to Linux. Self-hosting. Fossifying my phone. I thought the old internet was gone — turns out, it just needed a reboot. #OldInternet #OpenWeb #FOSS #Linux #DigitalReboot

💌 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: ✨ Email Signups Subscribe if you want to receive an email notification whenever a new post

🧠 LangOps and the Future of Localisation

🚀 New blog post: “🧠 LangOps and the Future of Localisation” Language isn’t just content — it’s infrastructure. LangOps is about flexible, AI‑assisted systems that scale across languages without locking you in. Curious? #LangOps #Localisation #AI

🐘 Finding My People (Again) on Mastodon

🚀 New blog post: “🐘 Finding My People (Again) on Mastodon” I was a longtime Twitter fan, but the algorithmic mess pushed me away. Mastodon was a joy — and self-hosting my own instance? Even better. 💜 Curious about reclaiming your social space? #Mastodon #Fediverse #OpenWeb #SocialMediaReboot

👋 Welcome to my Blog

👋 Just published my first blog post on the new site! This is my little corner of the open web — self-hosted, FOSS-powered, and privacy-conscious. 💜 If you're into localisation, tech reflections, or digital decluttering, come say hi! #SelfHosted #OpenWeb #Localisation #LangOps #GhostBlog #FOSS