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Some bastards stole my bike from within our property last weekend. I'm now perusing eBay and Gumtree for bike listings to see if my bike comes for sale there.
Reported it to the police, but not much to do about it. No witnesses, no CCTV footage, nothing left behind.
If you are in London and you see a Trek District bicycle with a carbon belt drive, please let me know. I'm hoping to be reunited with my bike

‘Roman Biro’ – complete with joke – found at London building site | UK news | The Guardian

Yes: Planning on showing up at the HWC London on the 10th!

1908 Bakerloo line poster - Connections Everywhere (x-post /r/LondonUnderground) : london

TfL is going to track all London Underground users using Wi-Fi

Session Victim @ Jazz Cafe, London

Had the pleasure of seeing Session Victim play at Jazz Cafe in Camden, London on Saturday. The video doesn't do it justice, it was a very lively performance, with excellent music of course. You should definitely go check them out if they are playing near you in the future.

Session Victim

Yes: Wednesday HWC London time (:

Yes: Looking forward to the first HWC London meetup of the year.

Festive indieweb and selfhosting

Holiday is on, and apart from relaxing with the family, I aim to look into a bunch of stuff before I'm back at the factory in January.

My Indieweb life is coming on well, thanks to Known, and the community in London. I attended my first couple of Homebrew Website Club meetups in town in 2018, and although my contributions to the community so far is non-existant, I'm very glad to have met a handful of people to talk indieweb stuff with in person, on a regular basis. I've also logged onto the Indieweb slack/IRC channel where I'm a regular lurker.

One thing I'd like to do is, to import all the posts from my homegrown CMS into Known, so they get equipped with all the indieweb goodness which is part and parcel of Known. I've had comments turned off on my own CMS for years, because I gave up dealing with the deluge of spam coming in through the comments form. I'd like to have comments back. Known has an import feature which will let me import Wordpress RSS-feeds (which my old blog produces), so it should be possible. I did try a few weeks ago and wasn't successful, but I gather with a bit of tinkering I can make it work.

On the selfhosting front I'm very happy with my current inventory (bookmark service from Shaarli, Tiny Tiny RSS for reading feeds, dokuWiki for documenting/notes), but I also want to host more stuff. In particular, I'd like to try to run my own instance of Mattermost. With my current hosting provider, that option is a bit limited. As long as whatever service I want to selfhost has very standard requirements, such as PHP and MySQL, to run, then I'm fine. But I find that more and more of the things I would like to try to selfhost, requires a bit more, such as artisan, go, docker, and a bunch of other things that I either a) never heard of before or b), have heard of before, but have no clue about.

I will sign up for a month of VPS with one of the providers in the field, and try out a few things. It might be overkill, but then at least I'll know I'm in way over my head, and I can return to my shared hosting, and whatever that allows me to install.

Happy holidays (:

Printworks

Printworks
Printworks
Printworks

Had a great evening at Printworks London listening to SG Lewis last night.

@wintervilleldn the link for local residents tickets for the ice skating rink doesn't work so well. I'm taken to a seetickets page where I can't buy tickets. Tried in a private browser window as well, but same issue: https://winterville.seetickets.com/event/ice-rink/clapham-common-london/1263351?OfferCode=RESIDENT&a...

Yes: Looking forward to attending my first Homebrew Website Club London meetup!

An IndieWeb Webring 🕸💍

Jonas Voss