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Setting Up a Mail Server with Chasquid and Dovecot – Part 1 The Servers
Conventional wisdom says you shouldn’t try to run your own mail server. It’s difficult: as the percentage of email that is unwanted continues to grow, it becomes harder and harder to ensure that your legitimate messages are delivered. It’s difficult to build a reputation as a legitimate sender, and the tools needed to do that […]
Am I an Avid Reader Yet?
At the beginning of 2024, I gave myself a goal to read more. As a kid, I loved to read, but somewhere along the line, life happened, and aside from an occasional book here and there, I hadn’t really been reading much for several years. I decided to change that. I started off by making […]
Expanding the File System on a Le Potato with Raspberry Pi OS
I have a Libre Computer Le Potato single board computer that I bought during the pandemic when Raspberry Pi boards were pretty much impossible to get. It has turned out to be a great little machine that’s been so reliable that a year or so ago I decided to move some of my most important […]
Simple Image Galleries With Eleventy
As I continue converting my largest non-work site from Jekyll to Eleventy, I keep coming across things that I did in Jekyll that no longer work in Eleventy. One of these is image galleries. Jekyll and Eleventy have a fundamentally different approach to how they handle files. Jekyll splits all of the files in the […]
Recreating Jekyll’s _drafts Directory in Eleventy
I’m in the process of converting a couple of sites that I built a few years ago using Jekyll to use Eleventy instead. Both tools are static site generators that work very similarly, but Eleventy gives me more flexibility and, given that it’s based in JavaScript—a language I use daily—rather than Ruby—a language I know […]