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VΓshnΓΊ asked how I created the audio version for my latest post. Hereβs a way how you can use the Google Text-to-Speech API to create MP3s from text. A simple way to try this API without a Google Cloud account is to follow these steps:
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Hugo themes have the option to override the default rendering of Markdown images by using βMarkdown Render Hooksβ since version 0.62.0. By creating a file in layouts/_default/_markup named render-image.html it is possible to use a custom template for rendered images. This gives a lot of flexibility. I just used that flexibility to create a lightbox with pure CSS (without using JavaScript, like many lightbox implementations do). After clicking (or tapping) on an content image, you will see it filling the browser view. Another click brings you back to the content.
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I promised and people already asked, so here is the first part of the documentation about how I enabled ActivityPub support on my Hugo-based blog:
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I just updated my blogroll and thought that it might be a great idea to share my workflow to do exactly that.
I use Miniflux a lot. Using Miniflux, I read all the blogs and get all the news, get updates from all the YouTubers and even subscribe to some Mastodon accounts (fediverse microblogs). I use multiple categories to sort the feeds. One of those categories is βBlogsβ with all the blogs, which I also list on my blogroll.
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Although itβs great to self-host your web fonts instead of using a service like Google Fonts (that may decrease the privacy of your siteβs visitors, because Google can log IP addresses and other stuff), itβs probably not necessary to use web fonts at all. Every PC or tablet or phone has a lot of fonts already pre-installed, which are more than perfect for displaying your website (unless you take a lot of care about corporate design or your personal brand and require a specific font).
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After thinking about it, I finally figured out how to PESOS from Pocket to my own site using IFTTT. I tried to do it in a similar way to how Charlotte Allen did this.
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In this post I want to show with which services and tools it is possible to run a completely free website. An own website not only offers the possibility to create your own professional web presence, it can also make you independent from silos like Facebook, Twitter or Medium. It is always better to publish content on your own page with your own domain. If a service changes the terms of use or ceases operation, it is so much easier to move to another service.
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Today I started sorting out a couple of old computers from the flat. To save the data from those, I took the hard drives, connected them via adapters to my PC and cloned each partition to a huge external hard drive. Now I have a bunch of NTFS partition image files. One also with Windows 2000. π
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In my previous post about the operating systems I use, I wrote:
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Yesterday, GitLab sent an email to all users (and wrote a blog post) telling that they are updating their terms & services (to which you have to agree) to include a new third party service to track and analyze the behavior of their users, so that they better understand how their users interact with GitLab.
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