An eclectic blog.
Yesterday I changed the background iterator for the homepage of this website. How did I do that? The code is below but here I’ll give you the highlight: First, I added a <div> at the end of your <body> tag, with a specific id (I used intermediate_background_layer). This is where the backgrounds will live. Then, I retrieve and parse the background data. I have a JSON list of objects, containing,…
It’s the end of 2025, and unfortunatly I didn’t manage to watch ALL the horror movies released this year. That said, I think watching more than 30 titles is a decent achievement. So, as the year wraps up, I thought of sharing the horror films that sent a chill down my spine, and that I would like to recommend for a fun watch with friends. Here they are - no particular order. Opus A movie where…
And the self-hosting adventure did not last long… issues with bandwidth and the fact I have not yet found the time to create a proper remote-management setup (all while traveling for the holiday season) made me roll things back. So we are officially back to GitHub pages, at least for the time being… 🤷
I was invited to answer these questions by reading Lynn Fisher’s answer to the larger Blog Questions Challenge originally started by ava. And, to be honest, it felt like a great way to close the year. I’ll pass the baton to you, if you feel like it! 1. Why did you start blogging? Everything started with the Albergo Filopoetica forum, which I founded and was an admin for during my high-school…
It finally happened! I dropped GitHub pages and moved the website to self-host it 🎉 We can probably considere this a trial. If things do not work out I could always roll things back. Also next I will need to set things up to more easily edit the website when I am not on location (which I could do via GitHub). I have updated the related details in the colophon and in the privacy policy. Now all…
I just left Dansens Hus in downtown Stockholm, walking on the crispy fresh snow and breathing in the cold evening air. I was still vibrating from attending the Sol Invictus performance by the Compagnie Hervè KOUBI. My friends stayed a bit longer for a chat with the dancers, but I was still a bit too emotional and wanted to retire quickly (am I becoming Swedish?) The performance brought so many…
A strict Content Security Policy (img-src self or stricter) will conflict with out-of-the-box Bootstrap CSS files, as they contain inline image data. Below is a table matching raw image data from the CSS to the corresponding SVG file name. The only solution I found has been to manually replace the inline data with the path to a locally stored SVG file, after downloading them. SVG Raw data SVG code…
Some dependencies are very heavy and the recommendation is then to defer their import. A deferred import happens within a function, instead of the beginning of a module. The advantage of deferred imports is that only the first time the dependency is needed, it is then imported, instead of causing a high overhead import time when a program is launched. Especially, for cases in which that dependency…
Where do you get your ideas? I am not asking where the ideas come from, when they get to you. I am rather wondering where you are when ideas, especially bright ones, come to you. Personally, I often have ideas, or great thoughts (great imho), when I’m in the shower box. And don’t misunderstand me; I am not sitting in the shower box waiting for some great epiphany. It just so happens that I find my…
How to resist to the temptation of… cookies? 🍪 Yes, we’ve gone to the dark side of themes. They say light attracts bugs, right? Who likes those??