Category: Featured
The moon of Makemake
There is a whole world, besides the small cabotage of classical astronomy, that of a school textbook. And that's exactly what fascinates me most. I'm curious about what is in the shade, what is not in the spotlight. We…
By mcastel
Give your Vivaldi Social profile some love!
Personally, I love a good profile page. When I decide if I want to follow someone or not, I always look at their profile page, and I often change my own profile. Here are some thoughts on how and why you should change…
By Gaute Holmin
How to use IFTTT to integrate the Vivaldi blog (Wordpress) with Vivaldi Social (Mastodon)
When you write a blog post, you want to tell your followers that you've written it. You can do that automatically with IFTTT. This guide works with any Wordpress site and any Mastodon instance, but I'm using the Vivaldi…
By Gaute Holmin
Graphic Designers Rely on Hierarchy
Graphic Designers Rely on Hierarchy for Impactful Results…
By maxcompose
Gmail has a spam problem
Or rather, the rest of us have a Gmail spam problem… When running a small mail service, one thing that requires the most effort is making sure your outgoing mail is deliverable. When delivering to certain big mail…
By Thomas Pike
Getting Ready For New Years Eve
The weather is going to be awesome for New Years Eve and New Years Day with highs in the upper 80's. That means we will be celebrating the arrival of the new year sitting around a fire on the patio with the accompanying…
By robrose
Cafe Society
My morning constitutional took me four kilometres or so today, through often ankle deep but everywhere melting snow and grubby slush, down the main road that runs past my apartment block to the Metro station at the end…
By travellinbob
Old Posts from an Old Blog
Sharing a couple of posts from an old blog that was secretly hidden somewhere in this big virtual world. Managed to resurrect it from the ashes of the obscure and the decadent. These are disjointed writings. They are…
Making a home in the fediverse?
One of the most interesting by-products of all the tussle that there was (and still is) following the acquisition of Twitter by Elon Musk… , with all the mess also derived from the incongruous moves of the well-known…
By mcastel
A solo traveller
I've been lucky in my life. Couple of marriages, five great kids, 4 grandkids (so far), blessed (still) with pretty good health, and mostly well rewarded financially for my work. Mind you, I spent too much of that,…
By travellinbob
The Importance of Being Original
Picked up "Waves" by Virginia Woolf from the library at work today. She has always been a favorite writer. Maybe because her voice is extremely original. The first time I read "Mrs. Dalloway" or "Orlando" I was rather…
