https://ko-fi.com/headsheddev I just set up ko-fi for https://mvk.headshed.dev/ to help keep it going beyond a planned event in November. As it is licensed under GPL, anyone can use it to run their own k8s in the cloud or on prem, so I believe this is of value to others and worth sharing. I […]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct6zp5 The BBC podcast Tech Life on 26 Aug 2025 reports on continuing issues with Meta over Facebook and Instagram accounts being banned for no good reason, leaving some users without access to sometimes years of data including messages, pictures and above […]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7cGhDbM5-pY electric canalboat silently slips along the Birmingham - Worcester Canal, England Anne posted another short #canalsidelifecoach #slowtv #bliss #peace

Today I completed another tear down and rebuild, as is the way in devops / sre and infra as code, of my MVK - minimal viable kubernetes cluster. This was to rebuild mvk complete with secure TLS https wild card certificates, traefik ingres, hyper converged […] [Original post on social.headshed.dev]

I've been working more on MVK - minimal viable kubernetes and have created a landing page for me to aim at for November this year https://headshed.dev/n25/ the code now has a 4th pre-release at https://codeberg.org/headshed/infctl-cli/releases which […] [Original post on social.headshed.dev]

truly amazing work - well done folks at Codeberg seeing off AI plundering, for now. rock on https://social.anoxinon.de/@Codeberg/115033782514845941

Vicky Spratt is The i Paper's Housing Correspondent who I heard an interview with on the BBC podcast 'The Media Show' https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002h03z - at 29:50 in the podcast Vicky said that without Instagram, journalists could not do their job. Journalists are well aware that if […]

with debian 13 Trixie just out I noticed this is now at a level supported by incus, an LXD / LXC fork but ubuntu server at 2404 is already supported so I just upgraded a server I have using Ubuntu `do-release-upgrade` which worked totally fine. I've been […] [Original post on social.headshed.dev]

https://youtube.com/shorts/-IEt4bBPxUQ?si=26YVeWENgze7YAOz My fellow founder and partner Anne has published a first 'short' on YouTube, to go with an already growing set of videos on mental well being by means of time served methods that can help build toward #diylifecoaching by […]

I'm glad to have found #indieweb and folks within it clearly are amongst those that are "knowing where ones's towel is" - to quote 'Phrases from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' on wikipedia.org I would like to think that the #indieweb is not just about owning your content on line. It can […]

really nice video and comparison. Its fascinating to see how, for some tasks, risc chips are gaining significant ground. I believe they have been integrated into mainstream hardware already as sort of co processors, but forgive me if I am wrong on that. Worth watching through to the end of the […]

https://proton.me/blog/apple-lawsuit Proton is taking legal action toward Apple as regards, amongst other things, their 30% commission upon any in app purchases that disproportionately affect Proton's bottom line. Proton are privacy centred and do not […] [Original post on social.headshed.dev]

The videos for FediCon 2025 are going to uploaded to the following PeerTube account: @fedicon https://spectra.video/@fedicon (At the time that I posted this, I am in the middle of uploading them. Some are already there. More are coming.) #fedicon #fedicon2025 #fediverse

thanks to a post from @elena several days back I came across https://indieweb.org/POSSE Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere - which up to then was what I was doing and didnt even know it was a thing. So glad to find other like minded folk that […] [Original post on social.headshed.dev]

Over the weekend I finally got round to writing some curl bash scripts to log in to Gotosocial, creating an app, getting a token, then using that token to list things from the API. Such fun. Docs are not complete for the rest api by the looks and ended up […] [Original post on social.headshed.dev]

https://mvk.headshed.dev/ its an initial version of something I'm working on. I will add to it as I go along. Its using 'Starlight' the documentation starter kit that is built in to Astro, you can 'cntrl-k' to do a search for keywords in the site which is all very standard these days but I […]

@jon as part of my exploration of the #fediverse I came across https://codeberg.org/about "a non-profit, community-led effort that provides Git hosting and other services for free and open source projects" which is running a fork of […] [Original post on social.headshed.dev]

In the PHP web framework Laravel, I'm trying to get my head around what a 'service provider' is without necessarily needing to implement one myself, regardless of the fact I'm using such all the time when ever I write Laravel apps. In an operating system […] [Original post on social.headshed.dev]

Listening to Linux After Dark earlier, they mentioned Strudel an open source software that is an app in your browser that you can write music, be it drum and bass or keyboard, play samples and more by writing code in your web browser. Music is after all […] [Original post on social.headshed.dev]

Prior to 2000, MS Windows had only cmd batch commands and little in the way of scripting languages that could be used for serious administration. This was why I then learnt Perl as there was good support from https://www.activestate.com/ and later on […] [Original post on social.headshed.dev]

Over time I am switching all my workflows to Linux. Using windows has always been a requirement for me until now really. In particular, I want to avoid having AI tools pushed in Windows I didn't ask for but if, like me, you need to keep some Windows […] [Original post on social.headshed.dev]

I'm learning about the #fediverse #mastodon for #devs like me with an intention to integrate it with my apps. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4pmWufYRr0&list=PL6nDc7ACvovJMt8MEiebpsXnlBuKp158j is a playlist on YT wordpress.com called 'the fediverse […] [Original post on social.headshed.dev]