Personal and technical ramblings and write-ups from pixeldesu
I recently did quite a few changes in regards to my online presence and platforms that I use. Here's the why for these changes...for the few people that care! Twitter/X I blanked out my main account there, full on deleting the 80,000 posts that I had posted on it in the past 11 years and unfollowed everyone. Why? Because I couldn't be bothered anymore. Twitter has become a cesspool of negative…
Damn, it's been a long time since I wrote a blog post...a whole year. And I'm back with exactly the same topic as last year, a Dokomi recap! Things outside Dokomi ...or in short, the "where did I go to dinner" section of the blog post. Bing Go / Sakura Bar Having my train ride be super late and only arriving in the evening at around 7 PM, I actually missed out on the dinner plans. I joined my…
After my last time attending Dokomi in 2022, it was finally time to do so again! I was asked by friends if I wanted to go there, and since I wouldn't go there just on my own (mainly because of the distance), I agreed. What I did outside of Dokomi I arrived on Thursday (to attend Dokomi on Friday and Saturday), so I had some time to spare and everything off-site. Dokomi was usually grabbing dinner…
Exactly one year ago , I relaunched pixelde.su . Let's talk about it! An Ode To Lume I also posted this on launch day , but once again, big thanks to Xe Iaso for responding to my call about static site generators back when I asked about what people build their sites with. I checked out Lume and instantly fell in love. I built my previous sites with Jekyll and Eleventy , but my need for frontend…
One year ago, after some consideration, I decided to switch to Apple Music, away from Spotify. I'll discuss my experience and thoughts on Apple Music in this post! Why switch away from Spotify? There are a multitude of reasons. Most people already know the awful pay, etc., but that was not even the final straw for me because if I really want to support an artist, I buy their music elsewhere, like…
If I had to summarize my first FOSDEM in one word: Overwhelming. Positively overwhelming and also just in general. FOSDEM is absolutely massive. For those who don't know FOSDEM, let's take a step back. FOSDEM is an annual FOSS event at ULB Solbosch Campus in Brussels, Belgium. Almost the entire campus area is used for a multitude of tracks on various topics. In total, there were 1,104 events…
This year passed quickly; I blinked a few times, and a few months passed. But regardless of that feeling, a lot of things actually happened this year! My website First and foremost, I remade my website — the one you are reading this article on right now! After about five years of attempts that I got discouraged from quite quickly for different reasons (my design idea didn't stick with me, tooling…
A lot of stuff happened on this site in November. Here's a summary of all of them! Comments The most significant change and feature I'm proud of is the comments on this site. Some readers have already asked me how they could leave feedback on some posts, which got me thinking. I saw others that employ a variety of different options, which are: Webmentions GitHub-backed comment widgets (like Giscus…
Another quarter, another TYPO3 Community Sprint, which I'm, of course, attending! To start things off nicely, I had no trouble with my train ride like in June . Things went smoothly, and I arrived on time. I was one of the first people at the hotel. In terms of focus for the sprint, the core team decided to make bug fixing of the LTS release their priority in November, unsurprisingly labeling it…
This is not your run-of-the-mill article on making your personal website. Well, it kind of is, but its point is not that you have to build one. Programming is complicated and takes its time after all. So, what exactly do I mean with Personal Hub then? Well, where is your internet identity housed? If you mainly use social media, it's probably one of the mainstay platforms, like Twitter, Bluesky,…