Archive Widget Plugin

I have just installed the “jQuery Archive List Widget”. This offers collapsable archive lists. It’s so easy. You configure it once installed by the widget management page. It’s now available on my home page’s 2nd page.

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Mastodon

aka mastodon.social, wikipedia says, “Mastodon is a federated social network, with similar features to Twitter, but administrated as a decentralized federation of servers running open source software.” Can we build a “club” using this? Here are my notes which focused on my failed attempts in building an instance. …

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WordPress & LDAP

Can we do better? I have looked at membership management and recorded it on this article, but I consider that if we want other services that a common single user list would be best and given my history it has to be LDAP.

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Corbyn on Digital

In the 2016, Labour Leadership election, Jeremy Corbyn issued a digital manifesto, it is currently on the web here … and I have uploaded it to this site here… .

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Social Sites, private control

I spent the weekend at Momentum’s Digital Hub. I did some work on source code control. One of the questions it raised in my mind is around collaboration. The tools chosen are those that you’d expect from a bunch of techies and developers. There was a split about using facebook, and I reconsidered how one…

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Systemd (ptui)

It seems systemd can’t be avoided. I am annoyed at having to relearn stuff for a problem not worth solving. Here are my notes as I learn to use it.

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