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Linuxiac ☛ Immich 1.140 Photo and Video Backup Adds Background Sync
The other main novelty, read-only mode, prevents accidental edits or deletions. By double-tapping the profile photo in the app, only viewing is allowed, and all action buttons are hidden.
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Simon Späti ☛ Self-Host & Tech Independence: The Joy 2of Building Your Own
As someone who has hosted my own stuff for quite a while, and has been adding more every year, I thought I would write a short article about it.
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Andrew Kelley ☛ An Open Letter to Everyone I've Butted Heads With
Zig turned 10 years old, and I've been thinking a lot about the project overall, and what another ten years of my life might look like.
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Web Browsers/Web Servers
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James G ☛ Working on the Artemis demo video (and captions)
This week I have been making several small improvements to Artemis, the calm web reader I maintain. First: the website now has a footer that links to important pages, from the privacy policy to the API documentation. Many of these pages have been added over time and, until now, there was no place that grouped them all together. Second, I have been doing some sysadmin work, including updating the server.
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SaaS/Back End/Databases
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Ayer ☛ SQLite's Durability Settings are a Mess
Durability comes at a performance cost, and sometimes applications don't need durability. Some applications can tolerate losing the last several seconds of commits in the event of a power failure, as long as the database doesn't end up corrupted. Thus, databases typically provide knobs to configure if and when they call fsync. This is fine, but it's essential that the database clearly documents what its default durability properties are, and what each configuration setting guarantees.
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Content Management Systems (CMS) / Static Site Generators (SSG)
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Martin Hähne ☛ This Blog Is Now A Monorepo
This blog consists of two parts: A static blog (powered by Eleventy) and a small API that powers the favs and the guestbook. They always lived in two different repositories, which made developing and testing things together a little awkward, but not anymore! Everything is now united in one repository.
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Justin Searls ☛ This blog has a comment system
But that's not why I want you to adopt this blog's commenting system. I'm not a high-minded individual who cares about the intellectual project of the World Wide Web as a bastion for free expression or whatever the fuck. No. I just had a super rad time on the Internet from 2000 to 2006 and I want to do my part to bring it back.
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FSFE
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Standards/Consortia
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Gregory Hammond ☛ Webmentions: Please send them, in addition to receiving
I’m noticing more and more websites which have webmentions (which is one way to know when other websites link to you), however many are missing one thing which I think is key, informing other website owners when you include a link to their website. Granted, as a visitor to a website, you may not be able to determine if a website is sending webmentions, but in my personal experience, I’ve had more websites not send a webmention than have actually send me one. This is also known as receiving webmentions but not sending them.
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