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Tuesday, March 17th, 2026

• 2026-03-17 23:30

  Added support for photos and videos

  Three days after posting Changes to the Site and it’s already out of date.

  I wrote that I was going to optimise my photos so they would be smaller and I could include them in my posts, since that’s all I was planning to do.

  Then I realised I needed a video in my post. If you’ve read Museum memories you’ll know why. …

• 2026-03-17 14:00

  Museum memories

  This is my entry for this month’s IndieWeb Carnival: Museum memories.

  I have not been to many museums or galleries. I am not a cultured person.

  My favourite museum is the city of Barcelona. …

Saturday, March 14th, 2026

• 2026-03-14 23:07

  Changes to the Site

  I’ve made some recent changes to the site and have a few ideas for what comes next.

  Changes:

  • Notes: shorter posts that don’t need titles
  • Bookmarks and likes: a way to share links without writing full posts
  • Replies: posts that are part of a conversation with another site
  • Webmentions: now appear below posts

  Ideas:

  • serving media through a CDN
  • dynamic image resizing with imgproxy
  • publishing from my phone using micropub

  …

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2026

• 2026-03-03 12:00

  I Made a Terraform Provider for Mythic Beasts

  paultibbetts/terraform-provider-mythicbeasts is a Terraform provider that lets you declare infrastructure from the company Mythic Beasts as code.

  I use it to provision the infrastructure for my personal website.

  This is why I built it, what it does, and how to use it. …

Sunday, March 1st, 2026

• 2026-03-01 16:33

  How to create an RSS Feed

  In my last post I recommended starting with RSS to make your site followable.

  This is how to do that. …

• 2026-03-01 11:36

  Ways to make your feed followable

  You’ve got 3 posts on your site and you want people to be notified about new ones.

  Here’s all the ways I can think of doing that. …

Tuesday, February 24th, 2026

• 2026-02-24 12:10

  I Made an Ansible Role for Caddy

  paultibbetts/ansible-role-caddy is an Ansible role for Caddy web server that lets you install Caddy with plugins.

  I use it for my personal site and in my homelab.

  This is what it does and how to use it. …

Thursday, February 19th, 2026

• 2026-02-19 17:40

  Moved My Website From GitHub Pages to a Raspberry Pi

  My site was hosted on GitHub Pages.

  It was simple and free, but it didn’t really feel like it was mine.

  I’ve fixed that with a Raspberry Pi. …

Wednesday, December 31st, 2025

• 2025-12-31 16:00

  Favourite Games of 2025

  Last year I wrote my own take on the Steam Awards, and in 2025 I played less games, so instead of pretending otherwise, this is a list of my favourites from this year. …

Tuesday, December 30th, 2025

• 2025-12-30 15:10

  Pangolin on a Pi

  This post is not a step-by-step guide. It’s a record of what I tried and what I learned getting Pangolin to run on a Raspberry Pi with NFS storage in an IPv6-only environment.

  TLDR: if you want to run Pangolin hassle-free, use a VPS with local SSD storage on an IPv4 network. …