I’ve been trying to teach myself how to use Jekyll to see if it can help me set up static websites that aren’t dependent on a CMS with a database. My needs have changed and for the state of my webcomic site today, WillowCMS is very over-engineered. For example, I no longer allow comments on […]
Category Archives: Tech-geekery
Linklog: Catching Up With A Lot Of Stuff
I let the linklog slide again for about what, a week? I’ve been a little under the weather while also working on commissions as well as catching up on a backlog of errands. But I have been using my Mastodon.social account as a scratch pad using both a Content Warning and a tag for links […]
Links for January 19: Crumbling pachyderms, Ugly Fruit
The Mastodon is Crumbling post. To be honest, I can’t give this my full attention right now, but it’s here in case I want to read what it actually says. The Ugly Fruit thread from Sarah Taber on Twitter, who understands agricultural supply chains better than most.
Links for the day: Chronicles of the Witch Queen, Lynxlet, Sweet Potato Curry
A new Chronicles of the Witch Queen story, Castle of the Gods, started on Wednesday at the slightly more relaxed schedule of three per week. Read it, starting at this page: http://cotwq.thecomicseries.com/comics/314 I’m pretty much only the webmaster for this webcomic at this point, but I love it for how surreal it’s gotten. This one […]
OpenBSD on an old iBook G4
Through Matthew Graybosch‘s initiative to collect links to personal websites from his Mastodon/Pleroma friends, I found Bobs Tech Site and it turned out this site had an article on something I’ve been meaning to do for a while: installing OpenBSD on an iBook G4. I have an old iBook G4 that I had loaned to […]
Curious Photoshop/Mac/WiFi behaviour
One for the Mac-heads in the audience. I’ve been trying to cut distractions while working on comics, which means that I turn off the WiFi on my Macbook now. However, this doesn’t work as well as it should, because the following behaviour occurs: If I switch off WiFi (AirPort) and then fire up Photoshop CS […]
Scribus sucks, but its suckage can be defeated with patience
What is this? It’s a screenshot of the open source DTP program Scribus on a Mac with the 143rd episode of The Corby Tribe open, as it is being prepared for presentation on my Drunk Duck mirror. The image is a Photoshop file with adjustment layers, and is not rendered correctly. However, it is at […]
There’s no better welcome home and no better start to the new year than a dead computer
As you may remember, the day before I left for Tennessee in mid-October, my Macbook died (it got better, especially after I gave up running Parallels on it). I just came home from Tennessee after a trip that included delays, lies about delays, the worst airline information I have ever come across and 1 hour […]
Running Windows on a Mac still to be considered harmful
Reader Kitchenbutterfly asks: Why have you burst my bubble? I’ve been living in paradise, claiming the MAC and all things APPLE to be the next best thing to sliced bread, or at least windows! And I know about buying computers in a hurry. Well here’s the thing: I loved my first iBook. I never had […]
How I crave real Internets
Reader Branko asks: “Reinder, how is life in the new fatherland? Have they internets there?” Well I don’t know about the rest of the USA (it’ll be a while before it’s really my new fatherland as I won’t even be getting my fiancé visa until early next year) but here in rural middle Tennessee, life […]