Kevin C. @kcoram@librem.one
- Keybase
- kcoram
- Personal Site
- https://kevin.thecorams.net/
Joined Jun 2019
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I have put my article "Fed up with Big Tech" on my Small Tech blog: https://ghost.sndm.me/fed-up-with-big-tech/
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An easy tutorial to help make sure your #Docker containers are secure with the latest #security #updates https://chriswiegman.com/2019/12/keeping-docker-containers-updated/
While still a manual process to update my static #Hugo site with webmentions, I now have the basic framework in place. It wasn't as hard as I feared it would be ... mostly because I'm climbing onto the shoulders of giants.
https://kevin.thecorams.net/site/2019/12/add-webmention-support/
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If you love working on the command-line as much as I do, you may like what I have been working on recently!
Meet glow - a stylish #markdown viewer for your shell:
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#introductions Yet another Hello World from yet another new user 👌
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Scientists find cheaper way to make hydrogen energy out of water
Hydrogen-powered cars may soon become more than just a novelty after a UNSW-led team of scientists demonstrated a much cheaper and sustainable way to create the hydrogen required to power them.
https://phys.org/news/2019-12-scientists-cheaper-hydrogen-energy.html
SIte update: My Semantic IndieWeb Theme currently being used for the site has been updated to provide a more responsive design. On landscape tablet or wider screens, the author card now displays in a column on the right side of the screen. On smaller devices, such as ones phone, the author card will continue to render at the end of the page.
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"One small way to get our independence and agency back from exploitative platforms is to build personal websites to share on instead. It’s a step to taking back control, and building a web that neither relies upon, nor feeds, the harms of Big Tech."
Great post by @laura
While waiting at the local Panera Bread shop for my lunch order, I noticed a fellow patron who was wearing a Miskatonic Observatory t-shirt. It made my day.
https://kevin.thecorams.net/posts/2019/12/the-little-things/
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Take a moment to consider the profound impact each of us has in the fediverse.
The fact we can communicate across the world using open source technology is pretty amazing.
We also have a responsibility, as developers, to ensure platform privacy and safety are legitimate priorities and not just buzzwords used in marketing.
We can do it better than Silicon Valley if we step outside our bubbles and listen to the people. The fediverse depends on it!
Inspired by the many blog sites out there that display a series of icons linking to the site author's other sites and social media profiles, I set out to add the same to my site.
tl;dr : For my use-case, using WebFonts for the icons made more sense than trying to use the SVG files directly.
https://kevin.thecorams.net/2019/12/implementing-social-media-icons-svg-vs-webfonts/
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RT @jeffpaul
Facebook thinks you're worth $158, why not spend LESS than that and have your own website and #OwnYourContent? http://bit.ly/2ORBaD0 #IndieWeb #AntiSocialMedia
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Step away, look at alternatives that respect you as a person (https://switching.software/ is a great place to start) and learn about the issues, https://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/titles/shoshana-zuboff/the-age-of-surveillance-capitalism/9781610395694/ by @shoshanazuboff@twitter.activitypub.actor is a great place to start on the latter.
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RT @behind_thecode
“How did I become a good developer? The only answer is you have to build things.”
We had a chat with @SaraSoueidan, an award-winning front-end developer, author and speaker from Lebanon. https://www.welcometothejungle.com/fr/articles/interview-sara-soueidan
With the update of the site to use my new (work-in-progress) theme with #IndieWeb support, I have now completed both Level 1 checkpoints from IndieWebify.Me:
- Get your own domain name
- Set up Web Sign In
https://kevin.thecorams.net/2019/12/indieweb-level-1-reached/
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Happy to see that @sir's https://useplaintext.email is now the top search result for "plaintext email"!
(At least on 
. It probably varies more on Google)
(and special shoutout to the graphic by Fosstodon's own @ohyran :) )
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Did you know, you can narrow down the suggestions from the firefox address bar using the following characters :
^ to search for matches in your browsing history.
* to search for matches in your bookmarks.
+ to search for matches in pages you’ve tagged.
% to search for matches in your currently open tabs.
# to search for matches in page titles.
$ to search for matches in web addresses (URLs).
? to search for matches in suggestions.
I just pushed up tag v0.1.5 of my Basic Hugo Theme.
https://kevin.thecorams.net/2019/11/basic-hugo-theme-v0.1.5-released/
This is the first version that I'm semi-officially announcing. I think it has all of the building blocks that I intended to use in a very basic theme, and the theme documentation is more-or-less complete.
I suppose I should go ahead and call it version 1.0, but I'll wait to see if any more flaws in it shake out from using it as the theme for my Personal Siite.
I think I need to rename my recently launched website. @torproject already uses the tag line of "Take back the internet", so it doesn't seem right for me to use the same one.
I'm not trying to take back the whole internet, anyway. Just my little #IndieWeb #POSSE corner of it.
- Keybase
- kcoram
- Personal Site
- https://kevin.thecorams.net/
Joined Jun 2019
