Jan Boddez @[email protected]

I’ve been using Mastodon for quite a while now—since #DeactiDay, give or take—but have never posted a proper #introduction.

So, I’m a thirtysomething mechanical engineer and lousy guitarist. I work in the semiconductor industry, spend most of my spare time developing for the web, and own quite a few affordable (!) electric guitars, a handful of Raspberry Pis, and a couple hacked together MAME—I know—cabinets. Also, happily married, father of two, wannabe investor.

#introductions

What I’m saying is, interests include #PHP, the #IndieWeb, #PunkRock, #HomeRecording, #art, and personal finance.

Referring to someone online using their Twitter handle and not, you know, their actual website.

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Now I’m a material boy / There’s nothing in this world I don’t think I need

Wanted to update my /uses page with game consoles, but then my browser froze. That said, I don’t actively _use_ any of them, right now. (Not a collector, either. Just happy to (still) have them around.) And I’m not ready to list my fridge, oven, stove, washing machine, lawn mower or car, yet.

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I do, however, keep all of my bills and receipts and exactly once a year enter them all in a spreadsheet that goes to my accountant. (As a "small business," I'm exempt from filing [monthly or] quarterly VAT returns.)

Now how much does all of that cost, monthly? I have no idea, though I'd say no more than €50. Way less than I'm allowed to deduct, definitely.

I run VPSes at Hetzner and OVH. Object storage at Scaleway. I use Cloudflare for DNS management, as a registrar, and, at times, as a CDN. Mailgun for outgoing email, and G Suite personally. Have a reseller hosting account at Neostrada, too—they're pretty great for shared hosting. (Their email deliverability is pretty much zero, though, as might be expected.) Get my other domains from Porkbun (international) and Versio (.eu, .nl and .be), mostly.

In reply to https://jlelse.blog/thoughts/2020/06/blogging-german/.

That’s how I do it. English for “technical stuff,” Dutch for, say, (inherently more local) news and politics. (I kind of prefer Dutch—I’m simply better at it.) I would love to eventually “cross over” more often, and write about, e.g., the IndieWeb in Dutch, even though no one reads that blog anymore—I would get a handful of readers through Twitter, which I have left sometime last year. 🤷

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Now I might unsubscribe, and you wouldn't know, because IndieWeb stuff is cool and doesn't track. (Reminder to self: try to join the chat one day.)

If your mf2 feed dates are malformed, they're going to show up as Jan 1, 1970 in my reader, and thus way at the bottom. Also, if you've removed your old avatar and somehow don't redirect to the new one, I'm going to see a lot of broken images.

Rootless Docker is fun, but you’d better set those environment variables in your systemd and crontab files as well.

#docker

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Up next: stuff all of these additional bells and whistles behind a couple user settings, and disable them by default. Then open up the instance for others as well, and make OPML import more robust.

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Now syncing `channel_source` pivot column values across channels, which isn’t perfect but works. I’d prefer a `source_user` pivot table instead of having everything tied to channels first (and use channels as taxonomies, really). But that would be a major change, and baby steps and all.

#indieweb

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