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Reticulum - a beginner's guide

Reticulum - a beginner's guide

Reticulum is digital infrastructure for building networks - local networks in your house, or more widely available networks connecting people in a community or even globally. You can think of it as a toolbox for building what is essentially an alternative internet, an internet which cannot be surveiled, censored, and

Using a Terminal 101

Using a Terminal 101

A terminal is a text-based interface that allows you to interact directly with your computer’s operating system. Instead of clicking with a mouse, you type commands to navigate files, run programs, and manage system tasks. Terminals are powerful tools for developers and system administrators because they provide precise control

Alternatives to big-tech social media

Alternatives to big-tech social media

Big Tech is evil - I know that, you know that. I don't know what convinced you - maybe it was the Cambridge Analytica scandal, maybe it's Musk and X being at the epicenter of US election misinformation, or maybe it's just that algorithmic

Emails 101

You probably know about emails - they've been a thing since at least the early 70s. But still, to make sure we're on the same page... Emails are messages sent between two users via the internet. Emails are sent from and to email addresses - they

How to de-Google yourself

How to de-Google yourself

Google is everywhere, mostly because they're good at what they do, and their services are mostly free. Well, I say free - but you know that you're the product, and they use surveillance and data mining to figure out how to sell you stuff, a practice

How to make home-made vinegar

How to make home-made vinegar

Vinegar is one of the easiest things to be self-sufficient with once you're past the initial hurdle of Getting Started. That's because it requires only three ingredients: 1. Some alcohol 2. A vinegar culture - or mother 3. Time Ok, you also need somewhere to do

Being on the Internet 101

Being on the Internet 101

I'm going to write this article assuming that you know next to nothing about being on the internet - which is most definitely not true - and that you're smart enough to understand what's going on, which is almost certainly also true. But maybe

Micro-Nikkor P Auto 55mm f/3.5

The Micro-Nikkor P Auto 55mm f/3.5 lens is a manual focus macro lens produced from 1971 to 1973. I bought my copy some years back for 500 DKK - roughly 70 USD - and even for vintage manual focus lenses that's cheap. Out of the box

Blommekage med crumble

Blommekage med crumble

I like fruity cakes - and I happen to work at a place where people don't eat a lot of plums, so they're always left behind on fridays. Rather than dooming them to the bin, I occiasionally take them home and bake with them. This is

Paradisæblesaft (crab apple juice)

Paradisæblesaft (crab apple juice)

Crab apples - paradisæbler in Danish - are minature apples made by various wild cousins to the domesticated apple (malus domestica). They're small, tart, and very decorative - and they make a pretty juice which can be used raw or made into a cordial. Preparation Pick enough crab

Kringle

"Kringle" is a type of pastry made in all the Nordic countries, Germany, and probably also elsewhere. In Denmark there are two main variants - one using puff pastry ('butterdej'), and one use a butter-heavy yeast dough. This recipe is for the yeast dough version -

How to make home-made cider

How to make home-made cider

In theory it is very easy to make cider; at the most basic level, all you have to do is press some fresh apple juice and then leave it to ferment. Once it stops bubbling you have cider. So in a way, this is a hobby which is only as

Sønderjysk Kaffebord

Sønderjysk Kaffebord

Maybe you've heard of it, maybe you haven't - but a Sønderjysk Kaffebord is a dream come true for anyone who likes a stacked cake buffet. And I'm serious about stacked - in order for an event to be considered a proper kaffebord you

Courgettes au Citron

Courgettes au Citron

The courgettes keep coming this year, and I keep experimenting with new ways to try and do something interesting with them. This recipe is also from a French magazine, but this time we're conserving the courgettes with spices and olive oil. I figure that if all else fails

flohmarkt

flohmarkt is the German name for flea market - and also the name of a cool project which allows you to self-host a small virtual flea market. I host an instance of this software which can be found on www.brugt-bazar.dk - it currently looks like this: Now, the

Courgettes à la Menthe

Courgettes à la Menthe

When we went to France this summer, I was happy to discover that my French is now at a level where I feel I can understand and use French cookbooks to a reasonable degree. Obviously that meant I had to buy several French cook books, including one on conserving and

How to get started with custom theme development in Ghost

Since I am faced with this task myself, I figured I might as well document it as I go along. So here are my notes on the process. Here are my points of departure: * I run my production instance on a small home server running Ubuntu * I don't

There's a backlog

In my search for a good platform, I've had other blogs and websites. Some of the stuff I wrote on those websites was good and I want to keep it. But is it more important to work on the design or on the backlog? How I post stuff

Nikon Nikkor D-series lenses

I've been getting into #photography a bit again, mainly because I've finally been able to afford a decent secondhand full frame camera (Nikon D750). So I've been selling and buying lenses a bit, to move my DX-format lenses and get some which work on

hello world

Yes yes, I know - hello world is such a cliché. So what is this? Well, this is my latest attempt to find some sort of self-hosted software for hosting a personal digital garden of sorts. You know, a place to write stuff - for yourself and others. The idea