A rantbox
Posted by Michiel Scholten in projects
I mentioned in a recent post that I was working on a new gallery, based on some project I started in december. This project grew out of an increasing dissatisfaction with other gallery software (gallery2 has been out of my system for quite a while, zenphoto keeps bugging out on …
Posted by Michiel Scholten in projects
It has been a few days since I relaunched this weblog and I have been doing some tweaking to make things even better.
Apart from resurrecting images from the dead (my gallery2 instance has been gone for quite some years, for example, and I have been digging through my backups …
Posted by Michiel Scholten in projects
This weblog has always been a self-built affair.
It started off in 2003 as a PHP website, and continued in that form for over thirteen years. I open sourced it a while ago (in March of 2014), with a colleague promptly finding a security issue in the admin code. Frankly …
Posted by Michiel Scholten in posts
Slug: 5-minute-journal Location: Home Authors: Michiel Scholten Category: life Tags: life Status: draft Summary: I'm keeping a journal, was helped with this method and it makes me feel better about my life
In 2016 I learned of a method of journal keeping called the five minute journal, of which …
Posted by Michiel Scholten in posts
The year 2017 has barely begun, but somehow it is already looking up. At least in my personal bubble.
Son is suddenly confident enough to try a lot of new words, with mixed success in pronunciation or even correctness, but he is leaping forward amazingly. I am really happy with …
Posted by Michiel Scholten in posts
2016 was... interesting. Globally, it was overshadowed by some almost-disastrous events, and a lot of great and/or famous people left us (I won't even speak about the political... issues the world is having).
Personally, the year was challenging. Having a second kid eliminates all chances of getting some decent …
Posted by Michiel Scholten in posts
Er, weblog. Lots happened this year, lots of good and some less good things. We enjoyed our little girl growing from baby to toddler. We less enjoyed the continuing broken nights.
The world is a weird, scary, but also a wonderful place. Let's make 2017 great.
Posted by Michiel Scholten in howto
A while ago I wrote about getting notified on battery low. It is quite useful when you leave your laptop unattended for a while, to get a notification on your phone and/or smartwatch when that laptop is about to run out of juice. It has saved me a few …
Posted by Michiel Scholten in projects
A while back I started scratching an itch that I had and that wasn't relieved by some existing software or services I could find: a central place to keep track of interesting places on the web I wanted to follow up on, without having them saved as read-later in Pocket …
Posted by Michiel Scholten in posts
A few weeks ago I started noticing an odd problem: my Pebble Time Steel didn't want to update its various apps anymore. The watchface showed stale weather data, the public transports apps didn't want to tap into the latest departure times and so on. This of course annoyed me a …