Jason R Briggs

I’ve just returned from a trip to New Zealand over Christmas - my first time back since before covid. While there, I was looking through an old handwritten recipe book, which my mother inherited from an aunt (or great aunt, I forget now), and on the back of one of the many recipe newspaper cuttings...

Following on from this post, for anyone who's interested in getting ActivityPub integrated on their static site, this is what I've needed to setup/build (some of this may indeed be redundant, but it 'evolved' over time, so easier just to leave alone than fix).

Some not-hugely-relevant backgrou...

I've been trying to integrate ActivityPub (basically Mastodon) into my static site with varying levels of success. The most difficult part is the inbox which is obviously not static - there are 3rd party services to help, like fed.brid.gy, but I had limited success with that unfortuately,...

After reading the experiences of a number of other folk also having issues with Microsoft Bing (and thereby DuckDuckGo) indexing -- particularly this comment on Hacker News, I've come to the conclusion it was my fault after all.

At some point last year, I redirected my older (mostly unused) doma...

This is a weird one. DDG has been my search engine of choice for a number of years, so I also used it as the search engine for this site (since it's statically generated). At some point over the last 3 (I think) months it stopped working - returning no results for any search criteria. Given Bing...

I've been using feedly since Google decided RSS wasn't a thing any more, and have been pretty happy with it. It wasn't as good as Google Reader, but good enough. The ads are gradually becoming more invasive though, and there's less of the minimalist feel it had when I first started using it, s...

Janick writes:

My son got "Python for Kids" (the dutch translation) from Sinterklaas last december (Sinterklaas is the local Santa in Belgium and the Netherlands). He really enjoyed it! The weeks following he read and coded almost every day until he finished the book. Some days after, I ment...