It's been a while since I've self-hosted a blog, and I'm excited to bring that early 2000s feeling back again. Sure I'm not waist-deep in the booze world like I used to be, but I still love food photos, coding projects, retro gaming and my home media server. Expect more along those lines.
In my opinion, one of the biggest missing annoyances is its reliance on a static cities.json to pre-load locations into a database. This means that more obscure locations cannot be found. Since I'm running my own instance, I figured I'd give it ago to correct this.
I went back to my old VPS to retrieve the data, first doing a SQL dump and then scp-ing the entire storage/app/public directory that housed all the uploaded photos, avatars and thumbnails. My userbase and content after a year was quite modest, especially given that I had neglected
[Philip Rivers is joining the Colts, and I've spun up a new blog. This is a perfect reason for me to unearth an old blog post I wrote on November 9, 2012.] With the release of Nate Kaeding from the San Diego Chargers, the Manning-Rivers trade is looking
About a year ago, I wanted to join the fediverse and wanted to see what their alternatives were to Instagram. And while I saw that Pixelfed provided the framework, a food-centric photo platform has been missing from the landscape, going back to the days of Flickr before they were acquired