Category: Information Technology
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Enabling LibreTranslate In Mastodon
Read more: Enabling LibreTranslate In MastodonLibreTranslate is a neat feature that will translate posts between languages. Unfortunately, it’s usage is not well documented so here are some hints to get it working with Mastodon. These instructions are written for Podman and adapted from this posting from fixermark.com. The original posting was written for Docker. These instructions involve several steps but…
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Mastodon On Podman
Read more: Mastodon On PodmanToday I am really proud of myself for having gotten Mastodon operational on Podman. I wanted a challenge and I wanted to get off of Docker because I don’t like Docker’s attitude towards open source. Furthermore, Docker is not as secure as Podman because Podman runs rootless by default. Below is how I got it…
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A Realization Has Hit
Read more: A Realization Has HitUnfortunately, web development is not going to be a practical path for me and I am okay with it. As I get deeper into the material, I am only getting more and more confused. I am confused to the point where I don’t even know how to get started on the project assigned and my…
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Been Away From My Blog
Read more: Been Away From My BlogIt’s been awhile since I’ve written anything on my blog and it’s because I have been totally immersed in The Odin Project, my web development class. It turned out that I had all kinds of bugs on my calculator project and really had to start from scratch. The calculator project was, by far, the most…
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Major Success With Odin
Read more: Major Success With OdinToday I had a major success with The Odin Project. I completed the final project of the Foundations part of the course. The final project of this stage was to build a basic calculator with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. And yes, I completed it and I did some of the extra credits by making the…
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Writing Code
Read more: Writing CodeI’m starting to realize that coding and software development is a lot like learning another written language. It’s replete with its own set of grammar rules and elements of style. Thus far, I’m kind of muddling through the journey. At times, I’m sure the code I’ve written is garbage despite getting the goal achieved. I’m…
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Major Progress Today
Read more: Major Progress TodayI made some major headway today on JavaScript but I’ve also encountered some challenges. I think it is slowly starting to sink in. I understand how to use JavaScript to basically update the DOM. But I am having trouble with some aspects of my code. Below represents the game of Rock, Paper, Scissors. However, this…
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Running WordPress With Podman
Read more: Running WordPress With PodmanI am a fan of using Podman over Docker to run software and platforms whenever possible because Podman is fully open source and it features rootless operation. Being able to run containers rootless is a good security measure. I wrote this little piece to document what I’ve done to make WordPress work with Podman 5.0…
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Using Podman To Deploy A Ghost Blog Server
Read more: Using Podman To Deploy A Ghost Blog ServerIntroduction My favorite blogging platform is Ghost. Ghost is simple yet powerful and does not require as much in the way or resources as WordPress. Ghost also does not suffer from the same security woes that pop up with WordPress. To properly use Ghost, you will want to have a reverse proxy for TLS. I…
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Using Podman To Deploy A Nextcloud Server
Read more: Using Podman To Deploy A Nextcloud ServerIntroduction I really want to de-Google. I don’t like what Google is doing and I do not feel like helping them improve their revenue any longer. There are plenty of articles out there that detail how to stand up a Nextcloud server using docker but I don’t want to use docker. Instead, I want to…
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