I went to TICTeC Local last week, which was about the use of civic tech at the municipal level.
It was pretty cool, some good talks and nice peeps.
I learned that the UK has a nascent Local Digital Strategy. https://localdigital.gov.uk/
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There was a lot of griping about GDPR, but as a public legislative recognition that every individual should be in control of their own data, and should be able to do what they want with it, and that they should be in control of who has access to it, it’s a great step (along a long path).
#gdpr
voss (blog.voss.co)Seems like a good argument for everyone owning their own data. The personal data store of children would be the most heavily guarded.
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voss (blog.voss.co)If you are a Chromebook user, and you want to get a nice setup for developing on your Chromebook, this is my goto article. Goes through how to get functioning CLI environment, editor, ssh, etc. Termux is a brilliant app.
Thinking in terms of data portability, it would be kind of cool to have a jf2 (serialized microformats) backup of all my site content, that I could just then reimport into another app that ingests jf2, if I ever want to move away from my current infrastructure, which I undoubtedly will.
I guess that’s not really data portability, it’s more app portability. I mean, as in, I already own my own data and can put it where I want, it’s just in a format that isn’t that reusable.
#indieweb
I upgraded Metabase to 0.31 and oooh it has some nice new indicators and chart types.
I switched our Metabase install from running on Jetty using a certificate wrapped in a Java keystore file, to using nginx to reverse proxy to normal Jetty and Let’s Encrypt for the SSL.
Seems more complicated but I guess I don’t like/understand .jks files. And I prefer traffic to go through nginx first. So works for me.
It’s a sunny Autumn day, it’s 1pm and I’ve not left the house yet.
Is that technology’s fault or is that my fault?
Is it even a bad thing?
Either way. Popping out for a bit.
#letsgooutside