Technical Infos

Do you rememeber the dithered picture of the Thinkpad X220?

Eponymous dithered picture of a Thinkpad x220 laptop on furniture, we can see the screen displaying some kind of neofetch/fastfetch results

This is my server. It's powered by Yunohost.

This Thinkpad X220 handled few projects on its back. List not reflecting actual list of stuff installed

I try to use my server the way i used other services. But there's some stuff i'll not host on this laptop such as:

  • Mastodon (or any of its forks) but i might try Go To Social
  • Peertube
  • Nextcloud

FAQ & Explanations

even if no one asked

Why all of this?

Started as a side project i wanted to have my own place on the web. It escalated real quickly.
I began to learn again HTML & CSS in the summer of 2021 with the discovery of Neocities a webpage provider, advocate for the creativity behind webpage creation.

My Neocities blog looked a lot like a previous version of this blog but more colorful. I still use it for fast HTML testing and implementing big stuff here.

Pictures

In the begining i wanted every picture to be clickable to see bigger versions but no-one need that (especially me). To unify the odd looking of the whole blog now every picture will be dithered for the sake of size and style. I'm sorry for people with extra wide screens.

Why? X220 Why?

I wanted to use it. Tried 2 other hardware to work with yunohost. The X220 was the best contestant among other machines. The first test was a Raspberry Pi 1B, the other one another old laptop i use with a projector. I do not hoard if it's not for using it one way or another. As far as i am in this project, it works quite well with the Thinkpad X220. Except when i troubleshoot stuff because it suddenly broke after some update But i'm happy with that setup.

The text editor fun

For the fun of memorising functions, i change back my text editor from a really talkative Visual Studio Code i used when i was on Neocities to Emacs. That i've learn to use on-and-off since 2012. It's a vanilla crazy punk flavor Emacs, homebrew with line numbers, highlight indent guides, super aggressive indent and word wrap enabled by default some expanded modes and a sick color theme.

I no longer use Kate or any other fancy GUI text editor. It's too late, i do not need to be saved. Sometimes i use Nano.

Workflow

It's old school but best school. I've made a CSS file that enclose all the rules i need; As Utada Hikaru said in the eponymous banger: "Simple and Clean" And that's it. A lot of trials and errors but that's how i learn and make it. I used to have 2 separated CSS files.

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