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Twitter: exit. Because you have no voice to change it, and Musk does not deserve your loyalty.

28.12.2022 2 comments

I’m not going to get into a discussion about whether what Musk is doing to Twitter is by accident or by design. All I know is that Twitter is, at the time of writing, a network I no longer want to be a part of. Since Musk’s takeover in October […]

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From foreboding to a glimmer of hope in a week – the switch to Mastodon is on

11.11.2022 6 comments

Years ago I used to run a little parody account on Twitter. Nothing major, nothing dangerous – just gently joking about a European Commissioner. The bio even said it was a parody. And then, from one day to the next, the account disappeared. No warning. I contacted Twitter’s support to […]

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Tweetbot 6 review: hello old friend, we might meet again, but not just yet

22.06.2021 0 comments

As a very heavy Twitter user, for years I was a fan of Tweetbot on iOS, an independent Twitter app made by Tapbots. Using an independent app made sense as I could configure how everything would display according to my needs, rather than Twitter chose that for the sake of […]

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No, I am not about to start a newsletter or a podcast

13.04.2021 8 comments

A Twitter thread by Jeff Jarvis caught my eye yesterday. “I far prefer blogs to email newsletters & podcasts” Jeff wrote, and I agree with him. I mused about why this was over my morning espresso. I pondered further during a cable internet outage at lunchtime. And now, when I […]

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€21.95 to make your webinars a whole lot better

27.11.2020 1 comment

I had to move flat in the middle of the Coronavirus lockdowns in Berlin and one of my aims for my new workplace in the new flat was that it would all be set up as well as possible for webinars – as a massive part of my work life […]

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Fixing persistent WordPress image upload problems – and saving some disk space too

28.09.2020 0 comments

For months this blog has been beset by a problem. Every time I upload an image I would receive the error: Post-processing of the image failed. If this is a photo or a large image, please scale it down to 2500 pixels and upload it again. Scaling it down, or […]

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jonworth.eu – my European online identity since 7th April 2006 – and now this blog is even an award nominee

29.07.2020 2 comments

For the past 14 years, jonworth.eu has been my online identity. It’s the URL of this blog, the hub for all I do online. Even as blogging in the traditional sense has diminished, my blog has still accompanied me through all the best and worst of my work and personal […]

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How to use a Mac mini as a home server, part 3 – software

02.05.2020 14 comments

This is part 3 of the series about the Mac mini server. Do read part 1 about the requirements and the hardware, and part 2 about the repairs and the network setup first. Contents of this blog post Music Films and TV Series Photos Music, Films, Photos – the Plex […]

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How to use a Mac mini as a home server, part 2 – hardware upgrades, accessing the Mac mini, and Dynamic DNS

02.05.2020 5 comments

This blog post is the second of three in the series, following Part 1 about the requirements for the server and the choice of hardware. Part 3 looks at software installation. Contents of this blog post Hardware upgrades Installation of macOS Initial network setup Accessing the Mac mini and file […]

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How to use a Mac mini as a home server, part 1 – requirements and hardware

28.04.2020 6 comments

For some years I’ve been wondering whether to run a server at home. With time on my hands due to the Coronavirus lockdown it was time to finally get around to doing it. This blog post (part 1 of the series) explains the requirements and the purchase of the hardware. […]

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Blog spring cleaning, and learning some lessons after 15 years of blogging

20.04.2020 1 comment

Some people have used the Coronavirus lockdowns to clean their homes and flats. I instead have spent a good part of the past fortnight cleaning my online presence instead – essentially getting this blog back into some order after a good while just posting day to day. The aim: to […]

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shop4me V2 – designing a more robust system while we still have time

24.03.2020 0 comments

V1 of shop4me.team went live on Saturday 21 March, and the first deliveries were conducted on Monday 23 March. Getting the first minimum viable product up and running was the priority, and how the tech for that worked is explained in this blog post from Saturday. A couple of things […]