I've got a (now four-year-old) Unraid NAS called Fox and I'm a huge fan. I particularly love the fact that Unraid can work not only as a NAS, but also as a fully-fledged Docker appliance, enabling me to easily install and maintain all manner of applications.

I was chatting this week to a docker, nas, email, published on gemini, rss, freshrss, technology, geeky

Like much of the UK, there are local elections where I live next month. After coming home from a week of Three Rings volunteering I found my poll card on the doormat. Can you spot the bleeding-obvious mistake?

This'll be the first election for which I've needed to bring photographic ID to names, q, voting, published on gemini, elections, democracy, id

Background
I was contacted this week by a geocacher called Dominik who, like me, loves geocaching.... but hates it when the coordinates for a cache are hidden behind a virtual jigsaw puzzle.

A popular online jigsaw tool used by lazy geocache owners is Jigidi: I've come up with several

geocaching, jigsaws, javascript, puzzles, hacking, debugging, published on gemini, programming

Ever wondered why Oxford's area code is 01865? The story is more-complicated than you'd think.

I'll share the story on my blog, of course. But before then, I'll be telling it from the stage of the Jericho Tavern at 21:15 on Wednesday 17 April as my third(?) appearance at Oxford Geek Nights! published on gemini, oxford, geek, geeky, oxford geek nights

Did I mention recently that I love RSS? That it brings me great joy? That I start and finish almost every day in my feed reader? Probably.

I used to have a single minor niggle with the BBC News RSS feed: that it included sports news, which I didn't care about. So I wrote a script that

published on gemini, web, ruby, rss, programming, open source, news

I use a tool called Sonarr to, uhh, keep track of when new episodes of television shows are released, regardless of what platform they're on (Netflix, Prime, iPlayer, whatever) and notify me so I remember to watch it.

For several years, I've used IFTTT as the intermediary, receiving webhooks piracy, published on gemini, huginn, slack, technology

During a family holiday last week to the Three Valleys region of the French Alps for some skiing, I came to see that I enjoy a privilege I call the freedom of the mountain.

The Freedom
The freedom of the mountain is a privilege that comes from having the level of experience necessary to take published on gemini, travel, skiing, holiday

Progressive enhancement is a great philosophy for Web application development. Deliver all the essential basic functionality using the simplest standards available; use advanced technologies to add bonus value and convenience features for users whose platform supports them. Win.

In Three web development, children, published on gemini, javascript, progressive enhancement, user interface

The ever-excellent Kev Quirk in 2020 came up with this challenge: write a blog post on each of 100 consecutive days. He called it #100DaysToOffload, in nominal reference to the "100 days of code" challenge. I was reflecting upon this as I reach this, my 36th consecutive day of blogging and my #100daystooffload, published on gemini, indieweb, blogging, statistics, wordpress

I mentioned yesterday that during Bloganuary I'd put non-Bloganuary-prompt post ideas onto the backburner, and considered extending my daily streak by posting them in February. Here's part of my attempt to do that:

Let's take a trip into the Web of yesteryear, with thanks to our friends at the standards, web development, history, web, netscape, web browser, published on gemini, browsers, technology, web design, browser wars, web browsers