Paul's Site of Stuff

Norg Backup Utility

2024-08-18T16:08:00+00:00

Norg</h1>
A simple, portable, wrapper for the borg backup</a> and restic</a> utilities written in Nim.</p>

BatMon

2024-07-29T21:16:00+00:00

A simple battery monitor tool that can notify you on battery status changes for FreeBSD.
Inspired by but in no way similar to batsignal</a> - inspiring the basic function only. Written in pure Nim</a>.</p>

TootInstall

2024-07-29T14:18:00+00:00

TootInstall Concept</h2>

Status of this Memo</h3>
This memo defines a conceptual protocol for software build and install scripts for varying platforms published via Fediverse (ActivityPub i.e Mastodon, et al) posts.</p>

Wholesome Errors

2024-02-02T00:00:00+00:00

Your Friendly Error Code Index Inspirational instructions for dealing with unhelpful error codes</p>

ERROR</span> -</span>41</span>: Failure!
</span></code></pre>
Wouldn’t it be great if there was something to tell you what to do about this error?!
Wouldn’t it be great if it said</p>
ERROR</span> -</span>41</span>: Sit by a lake
</span></code></pre>
instead?</p>


Gemini.css
2023-02-22T20:57:13+00:00
Gemini.css is an almost</em> classless CSS style for making Gemini-like HTML pages.</p>
For a Gemini.css demonstration, go to geminicss.paulwilde.uk</a>.</p>


Nemini
2023-02-20T12:57:13+00:00
'/nɛmɪnaɪ/' Nem-in-eye</p>
A simple Gemini server</h3>
Nemini is a simple Gemini server with static file serving, virtual host and alias support.
"Simple" in the way it is, hopefully, simple to configure and use with minimal knowledge of web servers in general.</p>


AI Search
2023-02-16T14:40:00+00:00
This is a story all about how

Your query got twist-turned upside down

And I'd like to show an answer just sit right there

It might not be fully accurate but I don't care</p>


Why I have turned off my BirdsiteLIVE instance
2022-12-21T11:36:00+00:00
Hello. How are you? I am fine.



You may know me from a few places, but likely on the Fediverse as the person that
maintains a BirdsiteLIVE instance with the url birdsite.wilde.cloud</a>.</p>


Keyoxide Verification
2022-11-17T11:44:27+00:00
[Verifying my keyoxide cryptographic key: 85633E30514CC1932E4268460ED12CF710BC42CA]</p>


SQL Haiku
2022-10-26T22:40:00+00:00
SELECT</span> haiku </span>FROM
</span>tableHaikus </span>WHERE</span> LEFT(name,
</span>3</span>) </span>LIKE '</span>SQL</span>'</span>;
</span></code></pre>


Fortieth
2022-09-24T15:45:22+00:00
'Twas the morning after the fortieth

And all through the house

Not a creature was stirring

Except the one making the coffee and Alkaseltzer</p>
'Twas the morning after the morning after the fortieth

And all through the house

The creatures were starting to stir but generally still uncomfortable and underperforming</p>
'Twas the morning after the morning after the morning after the fortieth

And all through the house

The creatures were stirring

Even the mouse!

It scurried up the staircase

Squeaking the old well known phrase

"Warning! Duration of hangover is proportionate to age!"</p>


wm_tools
2022-05-08T16:25:13+01:00
A selection of information output tools for dmenu</h1>
These are a selection of independant tools for displaying various information
about system status in dmenu. Some of them i.e. volume</code> have options (up, down, mute...)
which are selectable options in dmenu.</p>


thisisnotmy.email
2021-11-13T16:17:59+00:00
I run the thisisnotmy.email</a> email service.</p>
What's it all about?</h2>
Don’t you hate it when people, businesses, random telephone callers, etc. ask you for your email address out of the blue under the ruse of “providing you a better service”?
It's early days but I'm hoping to be able to offer something</em> for people to
use eventually.</p>


Peanut Butter Recipe
2021-11-13T14:15:22+00:00
This is the easiest thing in the world.</p>

Dry-fry (no oil etc.) the peanuts in the large frying pan for about 10 mins or for as long as it takes for the peanuts to become golden brown.

This will encourage the oils in the peanuts to release - which is exactly what we want!</li>
</ul>
</li>
Put the now-roasted peanuts into the blender and blend.

Blend, blend, blend and blend some more.</li>
There will be a point when you think nothing's happening and the small bits of peanut are just moving around the blender, or just stuck in place. Give the stuck pieces a nudge with a spatula and get back to blending.</li>
Blend, blend, blend even more until, eventually, the mixture starts to bind together and turn into a thick solid mass.</li>
Keep blending and the mixture will loosen up become a lovely, smooth, peanut butter.</li>
</ul>
</li>
Spoon out into a suitable container and allow to cool (or just eat it there and then, I won't judge you).</li>
</ol>
Top Tips  =</p>

If you prefer a chunky peanut butter, save some of the roasted peanuts back and only put them into the blended mixture at the end with a bit of a stir - lovely!</li>
</ul>


I Use …
2021-08-17T11:04:14+01:00
In the interest of sharing interesting information, I thought I'd create this page to list some of my favourite software packages and tools.

This list is by no means complete as, if you're like me you'll understand, I use hundreds of software packages.</p>
For PC/Laptop :</p>

Operating System

Arch Linux</a></li>
bspwm</a></li>
</ul>


Mailautoconf
2021-08-17T10:49:13+01:00
A simple, configurable autodiscover/autoconfig service for distributed and self-hosted services.</h3>
What is MailAutoConf?</h3>
MailAutoConf is autodiscover/autoconfig web server for self-hosted mail services
which do not have their own autodiscover service.</p>


St Skeletor's Day
2021-08-03T16:53:20+01:00
St Skeletor's Day

February 15th

Every Year</p>


Ross Rates
2021-04-06T21:12:57+01:00
Rate Stuff with Ross, quite simple.</p>


Basic Dough Recipe
2021-04-01T11:41:38+01:00
If you have a bread maker:</p>

add the water, salt, sugar, herbs, oil, flour and yeast/sourdough starter
IN THAT ORDER</strong> to the bread maker's container.

You must</em> add them in that order, or at least water first else the
mixture will not mix correctly.</li>
</ul>
</li>
set the bread maker to its "dough" setting and set it going - job done!

(P.S. you can just use this same recipe as a regular bread too - just set the
bread maker to the regular "bread" mode)</li>
At this point I normally transfer the dough to a suitable container and
cover it to let it rise.</li>
</ol>
Without a bread maker:</p>

add the flour, salt, sugar, herbs and yeast/sourdough starter to the
large mixing bowl and dry mix them all together.</li>
form a well in the middle of the flour mixture and slowly pour in the
water bit by bit, mixing the flour mixture into the water as you go</li>
continue to mix the flour and water mixture, you're going to need to use
your hands, but give it a good mix until everything is mixed together well.

you want the dough to still be a bit wet, so if it's dry, add a bit more
water</li>
</ul>
</li>
dust the large chopping board with flour and turn out the wet-ish dough
ball onto the board.</li>
Knead the dough, a lot!</em> Just keep kneading, adding more flour if
necessary.

As you knead you'll noticed the dough ball become more smooth and
springy, but it will also feel "stronger"</li>
</ul>
</li>
Once the ball is nice and firm, but still springy, place it into a suitable
container and cover to let it rise.</li>
</ol>
After a few hours of rising time (longer if you're using sourdough starter)
your dough will, hopefully, have risen enormously. You can now use it.
I'll be adding recipes for pizzas</a>, naans</a> and other
things that use this dough here, eventually.</p>


Unphonetic ABC
2021-04-01T11:05:46+01:00
A website directory of all words that can be associated with their letters by not</em>
sounding as their corresponding letter should do.</p>


Bedford & Co
2021-04-01T10:54:15+01:00
Simple single page website for a local accountancy business.
Has additional Vue.js implementation for news and exchange rates updates.</p>


Wilde IT
2021-04-01T10:47:49+01:00
A local IT business website detailing available services.
Our business website.</p>


The Lost Tin Opener Society
2021-03-31T22:20:31+01:00
A spoof single page animation website of a secret society dedicated to finding all
lost tin openers.</p>


Noisy Faces
2021-03-31T17:22:16+01:00
Just a very silly website with an animated face making sounds.

Yeah, just that really. (The image is not</em> me)</p>


The Geese Webpage
2021-03-31T10:05:31+01:00
Starting life as a (sort of inappropriate) parody of a certain popular dating website
the geese website was made as a bit of fun and to please minor obsession with geese.</p>


About Me
2021-03-29T10:19:20+01:00
Hello,

This is my website which will contain my general thoughts, utterings,
maybe my opinions, possibly some tech stuff I find interesting, some of the
recipes I cook and want to remember the ingredients of and a bit of artwork I
draw for fun and I in no way claim to be a good artist in any way.</p>
Some things about me. I :</h3>

am an IT Professional.

I run my own IT Business</a> that provides IT consulting, assistance and procurement services to local businesses (Devon, South West UK).</li>
</ul>
</li>
am an Open Source advocate/evangelist.

I try to use Open Source products in my personal and working life as often as possible.</li>
</ul>
</li>
am data privacy conscious.

I believe we shouldn't pay for products or services with our personal data and "marketability"</li>
I don't use the mainstream social media services. You shouldn't either.</li>
</ul>
</li>
use Arch Linux</a> btw …</li>
</ul>
Some information about this site. It :</h3>

was created using Zola</a></li>
is built with efficiency in mind; It's small and light and quick to view.</li>
uses no JavaScript (except a little bit for Plausible Analytics</a>, forgive me).</li>
runs on an Caddy</a> server on top of a Rocky Linux</a> VPS provided by OVH</a>.</li>
was written using the Neovim</a> text editor on a PC Specialist</a> laptop running Arch Linux</a></li>
</ul>

Paul's Site of Stuff

Norg Backup Utility

Norg</h1> A simple, portable, wrapper for the borg backup</a> and restic</a> utilities written in Nim.</p>

BatMon

TootInstall

TootInstall Concept</h2>

Status of this Memo</h3> This memo defines a conceptual protocol for software build and install scripts for varying platforms published via Fediverse (ActivityPub i.e Mastodon, et al) posts.</p>

Wholesome Errors

Gemini.css

Nemini

A simple Gemini server</h3> Nemini is a simple Gemini server with static file serving, virtual host and alias support. "Simple" in the way it is, hopefully, simple to configure and use with minimal knowledge of web servers in general.</p>

AI Search

Why I have turned off my BirdsiteLIVE instance

Keyoxide Verification

SQL Haiku

Fortieth

wm_tools

A selection of information output tools for dmenu</h1> These are a selection of independant tools for displaying various information about system status in dmenu. Some of them i.e. volume</code> have options (up, down, mute...) which are selectable options in dmenu.</p>

thisisnotmy.email

Peanut Butter Recipe

I Use …

Mailautoconf

A simple, configurable autodiscover/autoconfig service for distributed and self-hosted services.</h3>

What is MailAutoConf?</h3> MailAutoConf is autodiscover/autoconfig web server for self-hosted mail services which do not have their own autodiscover service.</p>

St Skeletor's Day

Ross Rates

Basic Dough Recipe

Unphonetic ABC

Bedford & Co

Wilde IT

The Lost Tin Opener Society

Noisy Faces

The Geese Webpage

About Me

Norg</h1>
A simple, portable, wrapper for the borg backup</a> and restic</a> utilities written in Nim.</p>

Status of this Memo</h3>
This memo defines a conceptual protocol for software build and install scripts for varying platforms published via Fediverse (ActivityPub i.e Mastodon, et al) posts.</p>

A simple Gemini server</h3>
Nemini is a simple Gemini server with static file serving, virtual host and alias support. "Simple" in the way it is, hopefully, simple to configure and use with minimal knowledge of web servers in general.</p>

A selection of information output tools for dmenu</h1>
These are a selection of independant tools for displaying various information about system status in dmenu. Some of them i.e. `volume</code> have options (up, down, mute...) which are selectable options in dmenu.</p>`

What is MailAutoConf?</h3>
MailAutoConf is autodiscover/autoconfig web server for self-hosted mail services which do not have their own autodiscover service.</p>