The personal blog of Annika Backstrom
I'm going to try a Weeknotes practice. I expect it's less pressure than needing a specific long-form topic for a blog post, but sometimes the weeks run together and there's not much going on, so maybe I won't write one every week? It's also not clear to me how I want Weeknotes to be different from /now . Dublin Inquirer Civics Classes Dublin Inquirer held their Summer School 2026 over the weekend.…
I started list late last year but never finished it! Anything that's changed since then is struck through with the replacement listed. I have added a /uses page for this list, which may be more up-to-date than this page. Hardware Fairphone 6 running Murena /e/OS (de-Googled Android). Card holder accessory so I can lose all my important stuff at the same time. MacBook Pro (2020) , Core i7. Feels…
I recently switched from Firefox to Zen , since Mozilla won't stop fucking around with inane AI features and Google cannot be trusted. Zen has some great features, including a UI mostly shoved into the sidebar, pop-up pages, and split tabs. It also handles pinned tabs really nicely but I didn't grok them right away, so I'm writing up my findings here. In Firefox, I have a bookmark bar with folders…
Here's how I migrated my 500-something page knowledge graph/base/whatever from Logseq to Trilium . Just want the script? Download trilium-import.py . Importing Logseq into Trilium is not streamlined. You can zip up parts of your Logseq directory and import them through the Trilium app, but the notes will retain Logseq's bullet point structure and document links will break. Block-level meta for…
These are my "rules" for how I interact on the Fediverse (Mastodon, GoToSocial, and other ActivityPub friends). I don't claim that they're perfect or correct or appropriate for anyone other than me. Follow and unfollow liberally. Don't be afraid to follow someone new, even if I'm happy with my feed. Follow folks boosted into my feed, follow folks who interact with me, follow from the federated…
In lieu of a retrospective of my weekend-long mad dash to convert this site from Pelican to Eleventy (11ty), here are a few pages I found helpful and some things I learned along the way. Neovim supports a .lazy.lua file for project- or directory-specific settings. Working with custom taxonomies in Eleventy means jumping through a couple hoops but it's not impossible. Once you get a handle of the…
DIY Book Lamp PiKVM 28 slightly rude notes on writing JSON Structure -- JSON Structure is a data structure definition language that enforces strict typing, modularity, and determinism. Fedify -- A TypeScript library for building federated server apps powered by ActivityPub and other standards, so-called fediverse The ‘Sinners’ Movie Syllabus via @jalcine@todon.eu Slidev -- Presentation slides for…
bylandandsea.ie – Travel to and from Ireland without flying Garage — An open-source distributed object storage service tailored for self-hosting, supporting the S3 API Human chains feel like a metaphor in these dark times ICE came for their neighbor, so these Tennesseans formed a human chain to protect him ‘Book brigade’: US town forms human chain to move 9,100 books one-by-one stty -ixon to stop…
The "docs" microsite for xoxo.zone is a static page built with Eleventy. I explicitly didn't want to overcomplicate the site's setup with a cloud build process triggered by commit actions: the static site is compiled locally and committed alongside the content changes. A cron on the server runs git pull on the repo every 5 minutes. The web server can directly serve the site without any additional…
Mastodon hosted on xoxo.zone is now living on its new server at OVHcloud. We were hosted at Hetzner for just about 2 years , but draconian terms of service and some scary experiences for other communities made the move inevitable. I evaluated a few EU-based hosts, including Netcup and Scaleway. OVH hit the sweet spot of pricing, specs, and terms of use. We built this shitty Due to a…