I've just spent the evening migrating my Mastodon profile from Mastodon.scot to 500.social.  As ever I seem to have lost a bunch of followers along the way, and I needed to manually import my connections.  Hopefully the migration will fill the gaps over the next day or so, they sometimes do, a few have trickled in while I've been writing. The more complicated task was adjusting brid.gy and the indieconnector setup on my Kirby CMS website to send and receive webmentions.  I needed to set up the app on 500.social, replace the taken in my websites config file, and connect...

Fearghus has taken to sitting with the other canine children as he recovers from his illness.  Here he is insisting Professor Mustang share his bed with him.  Caoimhe looks on nonplussed in the background.  #dailydog

I discovered the Championship Manager 1989/90 project for CM0102 last night.  Probably the easiest CM0102 install yet to get running on MacOS.... and check out the view along the Longside from the associated pictures pack!

Being mortal

I’ve been exploring the status of the local NHS recently, primarily because I’ve been struggling with abdominal pain for the last couple of weeks.  In that time I think I’ve spent at least 3h listening to my GP’s queueing system, I’ve spoken to one practice nurse, met another, have been to the urgent care centre in Burnley, and this morning to A&E in Blackburn.  I’m just not ready to be old and infirm yet, so I’m finding the experience chastening. One of the quirks of life in Burnley is that there is no Accident and Emergency facility - you have...

Doors to manual

The three weeks since my last 'weekly' update here on Scribbles have been fairly deterministic.  In this scribble I'm going to provide a 'final' update on migrating my web presence from micro.blog to Kirby CMS, about a fateful 3 weeks in Burnley FC's season, and about problems that I'm having in my own fitness regime.  I'll wrap up by talking about my plans for the rest of the year now that my site migration is complete. Website MigrationWhen I last wrote three weeks ago I still had around 800 microposts and snaps (photos) to reformat and import into my site,...

A week in Kirby CMS

A short update this week, as the week was a quiet one on my website - mainly because I have been rebuilding it. This week I have: • Introduced some basic styling into the Kirby Starterkit theme, mainly limited to font face (Atkinson Hyperlegible), and the font weight of the title and abstract sections. • Templated the structured data collected in activity and route format types into the page format. • Created archive pages for activity and route content types, including tagmoji to denote activity type, and some structured data. • I wrote in an earlier Scribble about getting feeds...

Implementing Feeds in Kirby CMS

When I wrote in my weekly update on Sunday, I identified three barriers to launch for my Kirby build. 1. OpenGraph meta tags 2. Site feed 3. Redirects The opengraph tags are already there so I just need to customise them for the different content structures now that they have been created. Redirects are easy too.  I have a plugin installed, but I can control redirects from the server if I want to, just a bit of time needed to map old urls to new ones. I already had my sitemap up and running for indexing, but I was pretty...

Rebuilding my digital life in Kirby CMS

In last weeks Scribble I talked a little about why I was looking to move from micro.blog to a self-hosted solution.  This week I'll talk about how that has gone, and what there remains left to do. First though, a couple of real world updates. TalkPython TrainingI've always liked Mike's courses, and commercial approach.  He sells his courses on an own forever model with a yearly subscription approach to obtaining new courses in the library.  Year 1 costs 100%, with year 2 discounted 33% and year 3 50%.  What's even better is that you can buy the subsequent year pack...

Hens, interweb migration, and why Darren England is a soggy vegan bake.

This week was a very sad week.  We lost Chewy, she was a Brahma that we adopted back in 2019.  Chewy was my favourite hen, the one that I looked for every morning and night to make sure that she was ok.  She had started going downhill. while Vickie was in hospital, and though I did my best to save her, and managed to get her to put some weight back on, it was not enough. Hosting PlatformLosing Chewy probably accelerated some of the decisions that I had been talking about in this feed for the last couple of weeks. ...

Scribbles, site hosting, hospitals and 'Bolton is Massive'

In this weeks update I talk a little about weekly updates, probably a lot about my future plans for using Scribbles, web hosting, and the indieWeb more generally, about Vickie's adventure at the Royal Blackburn Teaching Hospital, and talk through some of the content on my site this week. ScribblesVincent very kindly let me in to the Scribbles beta a few weeks back, and though I didn't really have a plan for Scribbles, I immediately obtained a lifetime membership. I did toy with using Scribbles for hosting my main website.  Things is though, as nice an interface as it is...

View statistics on Scribbles

I wrote an article a few days on Scribbles, and while I still have no idea what I'm going to use Scribbles for, there is no plan, I wanted to talk a little about analytics so far - as they have surprised me. When I originally moved my site over to micro.blog a year ago, one of the reasons for that was engagement within the community (and wider mastodon community).  It hasn't really worked out that way.  I still get good traffic from google on my retrogaming stuff, and probably have a conversation every week or two, usually about Burnley...

On Scribbles

I've been testing out Scribbles for the last few days.  Here's my thoughts on why, what I think so far, and which I might (and might not) use it for. My main site is hosted over on micro.blog.  There are a number of things that I like about the setup there.  In theory I like the activitypub integration, which should interface my site with the indieweb.  I also like the flexibility that the Hugo backend gives, which has allowed me to design a site that is very bespoke to me.  However, interaction feels quite cliqued and is also restricted by...

Testing out scribbling live from Bolton Wanderers v Oxford United.

Mr Leo wanted to stop by Scribbles and see Vincent's work.