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How to use the git commit as your app version in your app.

Simon Depelchin - Blog · EN

How to setup Laravel without frontend scaffolding and use it as a backend API.

Simon Depelchin - Blog · EN

Self-hosting Mastodon on AWS using Nomad

With Twitter being a mess at the moment, I decided to try out Mastodon as an alternative. Mastodon is a federated social media platform, built on top of a protocol called ActivityPub. It can be self-hosted, letting you own your data, and I wanted to do so using Nomad as a cluster orchestrator. This post shows how I did it, and will hopefully inspire you to give Mastodon a try if you haven’t already! You can find me on the Fediverse at @lopcode@mastodon.social 🐘.

lopcode.com · EN

It’s Time to Ditch Twitter/X

Prior to the platform’s buyout, I had a Twitter/X account since 2008 (nearly from the start!). Almost two years since Elon Musk bought it, it’s been long enough to make a judgement on the platform’s new direction. This post details why I feel it’s time to move on to bluer skies, and shares some practical tips on how to do so.

lopcode.com · EN

Staying Organised With a Spicy Brain

Keeping on top of things at work, and in my personal life, is a challenge. I’m neurodivergent, and struggle to form habits, even for things that others might find natural or easy. In this post, I share the framework that I use to stay organised, and offer some tips and tricks for getting things done.

lopcode.com · EN

Announcing vips-ffm - libvips Bindings for Java / JVM Systems

This is short post announcing a new Java / JVM image-manipulation-related library I've shipped to Maven Central - vips-ffm.

lopcode.com · EN

Releasing vips-ffm v1.0 - libvips Bindings for Java / JVM Systems

I'm very happy to announce that, after lots of testing and improvement, vips-ffm is now version 1.0!

lopcode.com · EN

Switching from Spotify to Apple Music

I recently switched from Spotify to Apple Music. Here's why, how I did it, and how I feel about both platforms after a month.

lopcode.com · EN

Rebuilding my personal cluster with k3s, Cilium, and BunnyCDN

I host my own website and personal projects (like bunnies.io), because it’s fun, and I like being in control of what I’m running. I recently rebuilt it - here's why, and how.

lopcode.com · EN

One year in Sweden 🇸🇪

One year ago, my partner and I packed up our lives and moved from the UK to Sweden. Here's a summary, and some photos of our move.

lopcode.com · EN

A reward for thinking

the thrill that comes from actually sitting down, thinking about something, a solution to a problem, and then actualize it.

Caleb Olojo's Blog · EN

Content-deterministic CIDs?

How do you tell if a CID points to a file or a directory? And can you get the original name back?

Caleb Olojo's Blog · EN

An up-close look at UCANs in the wild

Space DIDs, account DIDs, proof chains. What I learned building a delegation tool for myself and indirectly for people building upon Storacha's Hot Storage Network

Caleb Olojo's Blog · EN

Remotes

My mental model around git remotes, and how to push to multiple at once.

Caleb Olojo's Blog · EN

Bits, bytes and pieces

understanding bits and bytes from first principles — binary, storage, ASCII, and why computers speak in powers of two.

Caleb Olojo's Blog · EN

On strings and characters in Haskell

String is a type alias for [Char] in Haskell. GHCi will tell you that, but only once you look closely enough.

Caleb Olojo's Blog · EN

tuples can be unambiguous

code should be as clear as possible. that's why i'm in love with the concept of named tuples

Caleb Olojo's Blog · EN

an interface can actually extend multiple interfaces

today i learned that an interface can extend a shit ton of interfaces if you want it to

Caleb Olojo's Blog · EN

Three grey pubes and an ankle sprain

I’ve started writing a post to sum up hitting 40 and a recap on my progress on all the things I wanted to achieve before I hit 40 about 6 times since the start of January and each time I get about one paragraph in and the inspiration just fizzles out. I think it’s partly... read full entry »

Jem's field notes · EN

Up, up and away!

I completed another of my 40 before forty list last week and fulfilled a childhood dream in the process: I went up in a hot air balloon. Shane bought the balloon vouchers for me for Christmas last year, and after redeeming the vouchers with Wickers World we had repeatedly tried to book evening flights, but... read full entry »

Jem's field notes · EN

Everything hinges on strength

I had a quick flick through the 50+ drafts dating back to 2013 sat in the back-end this morning and spotted one near the top entitled ‘West Midlands Autumn Cup Powerlifting Competition’. That comp happened nearly three years ago (September 2023) which really cements how bad I’ve been at blogging over the last few years.... read full entry »

Jem's field notes · EN

Bubbles, and the old web

I spotted Bubbles in my basic referrers this morning, and my heart lit up. A little directory, surfacing blog posts from actual bloggers, what in the old web is going on?! This isn’t the first time I’ve spotted a resurgence in indie / ‘old’ web stuff lately. Personal sites are making a comeback, bloggers are... read full entry »

Jem's field notes · EN

Re: Re: An infuriating goodbye to Photoshop

I spotted Online Goddess’ blog post, Re: An Infuriating Goodbye to Photoshop, which itself is a reply to Gavin Anderegg’s An infuriating goodbye to Photoshop on Bubbles and had to add my tuppence worth. Like Gavin and OG, I’ve been using Photoshop a long time. I switched to Photoshop 5 after Corel bought Paint Shop... read full entry »

Jem's field notes · EN

Watering someone else’s garden

I’ve spent the past couple of weeks watering someone else’s garden. (This isn’t some ~deep~ metaphor, I’ve literally been watering someone else’s garden.) My daughter agreed to water her boyfriend’s parent’s garden while they’ve been away on holiday, and as they live two villages over and she doesn’t drive, it inevitably fell on to me... read full entry »

Jem's field notes · EN