Category: Web Development

September 23, 2023

Subscribe to my Website Feed in Fediverse (fi. Mastodon)

It is now possible to subscribe to my website feed in your Fediverse client. Put into the search field of your client – Mastodon in most cases. If this does not yield the expected result, try the profile URL https://ingram-braun.net/erga/@website You will get a profile which you can follow in the usual way. All new postings will show up in...

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September 6, 2023

Soziales Netzwerk „Ello“ abgeschaltet

Erinnert sich noch jemand an das soziale Netzwerk Ello? 2014, als Facebook versuchte, eine Klarnamenpflicht einzuführen, wechselten viele FB-Nutzer dorthin. Bis dahin war es ein werbefreies Netzwerk für Grafiker und Fotografen gewesen. Eine Art Pinterest, nur mit besserem Content. Nach einigen Monaten flaute der Hype wieder ab, und Ello fiel in seine ursprüngliche Nische zurück. Er gibt bis heute nicht...

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August 13, 2023

Configuring Friendica with Redis

I cannot remember exactly why I chose Friendica when I wanted to take a look on the Fediverse years ago but very likely it was because it is written in PHP which I have considerable skills of. I wasn’t familiar with Docker containers at that time. So I ended up with a bare metal instance which I started to use...

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August 8, 2023

WP Tournament Registration 1.2a released

My WP Tournament Registration plugin for WordPress sees now its release 1.2a. It was made to speed up tournament inscriptions through advance registrations in my local chess club ESV Rot-Weiß Göttingen. Main purpose of the release is a fix of the message field, which on some installations did not put the message into the database. Head over to the project...

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July 11, 2023

Lessons learned from recent server and website updates

Content-Security-Policy Regarding the CSP header, the prefetch-src entry is deprecated and should be removed. More at Mozilla! Nginx and HTTP/3 The Nginx version in Ubuntu 22.04 is pretty old (1.18) and has reached EOL yet. For receiving newer releases one must add the Nginx repository from nginx.org to the package manager and remove the old install. Nginx distinguishes a stable...

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June 28, 2023

Running Java Applets and Flash Videos in Current Browsers

One of the great successes of the early years of ingram-braun.net was the Chess Replay Utilities Synopsis which provided an overview over all then available chess game viewers ready for embedding in websites. Most of the projects enlisted there are now defunct. However, my demo pages are still there. Even of those viewers that were carried out as Java Applet...

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April 13, 2023

YaCy’s Docker image behind Nginx as reverse proxy

YaCy is a peer-to-peer search engine. Every peer sets up his own client and is able to crawl and index websites. Searches are carried out by contacting all known peers and cumulating their returns. It is not necessary to have a web server for that. You may well install YaCy on your office computer but of course it only works...

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December 25, 2022

A Twitter-like widget of fediverse posts in WordPress via RSS

The post explains how to display a Twitter-like feed of fediverse posts in the sidebar of a WordPress site. through the RSS feed.

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December 3, 2022

archive.pl v2.2 released

I have released the 2.2 version of my Perl script archive.pl for saving URL sets in the Internet Archive. The most important improvement is that there is a Docker image now that contains TOR as service for a every 10 seconds IP rotation and a headless Firefox browser that betters the quality of HTML downloads and analysis. There is a...

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Swiss Chess Table Cleaner

A tool that rebuilds tables generated with the tournament manager Swiss-Chess in order to get a responsive and fit it to your corporate identity.

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