Sirius Stuff

I had tried upgrading Pelican once or twice over the years and had problems that I don't remember anymore. Today it went surprisingly smoothly but instead of starting with my existing setup, I installed Pelican 4.11.0 using uv to a new directory, then copied over my markdown files …

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Mozilla Observatory will test your website and assign it a letter grade based on how well your website implements things like implementing a good Content-Security-Policy, blocking clickjacking, enforcing HTTP Strict Transport Security, and so on.

When I started, this blog was rated F. After a few changes, it's now rated …

I write these blog posts for myself but I certainly don't object to other people reading them and (hopefully) finding them useful or insightful. What seems like a good way to get them out into the world is to tweet the blog title and URL. Maybe somebody will be looking …

How to Read RSS in 2020 is a nice article on how to use RSS.

RSS is a great way to follow people who post longer content on their blogs. You fire up your reader of choice and it pulls in the articles without you having to visit all those …

I've been using Gmail with the setting for "Display Images" set to off. It helps cut down on tracking and it cuts down on the visual clutter so I scan quickly.

I got free 4 months of Apple News+ for buying a new Apple Pencil and I activated it. This …

A couple of years after I wrote about how happy I was with Blogofile, it stopped being developed. The last update on GitHub was in 2015, the owner has archived the repository, and Blogofile.com doesn't answer anymore.

I looked for forks and didn't find any active ones. So as …

After almost 10 years of letting the blog sit, I wanted to bring it into the modern world. One of the issues was that I had last touched the blog back in 2011 when SSL connections were only for transactions. The blog was just fine serving pages at https:// but …

Making CSS Custom Font works with IE, Firefox, Opera and Safari has a clear explanation of how to use custom fonts on your site.

Really bad performance on my MacBook has been driving me up the wall the past few days. Closing all un-needed programs didn't help. I ran several Mac utilities on my system, rebooted and so on and so forth.

Still no good.

There's 8GB of RAM in my (latest model - fall …