Jan van den Berg

We're about to go on vacation. And I have decided not to take my newish Macbook Air M4. Just on the off-chance something might happen to my favorite piece of technology. And also: we'll be travelling a lot and staying in lots of different places and I do

Due to global supply chain disruptions and macroeconomic shifts, hardware prices have increased across the board. Flash storage media is no exception. Depending on the brand and speed class rating, a legitimate 1TB SD memory card typically retails somewhe

TLDR: My 20+ year-old WordPress wp-content directory was a complete mess. After many failed attempts to clean it up, I finally managed to do so. I've written before about the mess that is my WordPress /wpcontent folder on my daily blog. This WordPress ins

My daughter has had a laptop for two years now. For school. But not just for school: the thing is used for everything (read: lots of Minecraft). And if she isn't using it herself, the youngest one is sitting on it. So, it gets used. At the end of April, s

Cloud photo solutions are fantastic right up until they start hitting you with subscription limits, heavy web tracking, or bulky interfaces. Recently, I wanted to self-publish a chronological historical photo archive of our local event, Urkerdag, across m

I've been a very happy Pure Blog user for some weeks now. There was one small thing left: migrating my old comments from WordPress to Pure Comments, another piece of minimalist quality software by Kev Quirk. This is a public note on how I did it. YMMV. Th

I noticed one of my sites was running slow. So I logged in and saw that my server load was climbing. Being a webserver the first place to look are the serverlogs. With a quick tail -f in the /var/log/apache dir I saw 1000s of these flying by: 2a01:4f8:1c1

After exactly six years, I conclude that Cruddiy has served its purpose. It is time to archive. A Look Back Exactly six years ago today, I put my quarantine project Cruddiy on GitHub. Cruddiy is a tool that can write PHP code for you. In the period that f

I came across the so-called Ecograder score. Ecograder helped us understand the environmental impact of our website and provided a clear roadmap to build a better site that's both people- and planet-friendly." Sharon Miller, Director, Digital Experience a

Can you spot the difference between the following punctuation marks? A hypen - or an em-dash - . Maybe you can, because the web safe font renders the em-dash just fine. However in the Pure Blog backend - which uses the Menlo font - it's pretty hard to tel