Lately I am getting good at cooking a typical “truita de patates” how we call it in Catalunya, “tortilla de patatas” how they call it in Spain, or “Spanish omelette” how I discovered it is called internationally. I took a family receipt, some tips and tricks around, and evolved my own receipt that brings a delicious omelette with potatoes and onions as a base.
In a recent team breakfast I promised to some of my peers that I'll share my receipt, so here it goes 😋
Masto-Feed: A personal RSS reader as a Mastodon account companion
12/03/2024 11:00 digital life
projectes
mastodon
Python
When I came to #Mastodon I directly engaged with the bot possibilities, and so I started my own RSS feed bridge to publish in the #fediverse. This is around a year and a half ago.
Since then, my EchoBot evolved quite a lot in stability and functionalities, but moved a bit away from the initial idea of having a personal companion that pings me when new content has published.
Recently I took its last version, stripped out everything not meant to be in a RSS feed reader, and added mentions interaction, to give birth to a new bot: the Masto-Feed.
Today I just finished the last details after seeing it working nice for the last month, and I am proud to present it to you in this blog post.
Migrate the firefish admin account to another instance
05/02/2024 16:30 digital life
mastodon
Docker
firefish
In a previous article I installed a #Mastodon #Glitch Edition intended to become my techie instance, moving there my bots from the previous #Firefish instance. The final step was to migrate my personal nerd account and this article was supposed to be a walk through… just that it’s not. It is a log about my adventure and failures to move an admin account away from Firefish, to execute a successful #fediverse account #migration against all odds.
So bear with me, grab a sit and a drink, and let me explain you how (not) to do a migration between fediverse instances.
Update Mastodon to v4.2.5 and keeping customisations
14/02/2024 22:30 digital life
mastodon
Raspberry Pi
Git
Recently the new #Mastodon v4.2.5 was announced and with it the urge of a security fix. In a previous article I explained a strategy to keep the code customised and up to date, and even working with #git is part of my daily work, I feel like explaining in detail the process so that I will remember it for future references and also may help anybody that has the instance somewhat customised.
Install Mastodon Glitch Edition on a Raspberry Pi 4
29/01/2024 22:00 digital life
mastodon
Raspberry Pi
Linux
Docker
With the fall of #Firefish I started to look for alternatives for my nerdy instance. I won’t come back to #Akkoma and I really got fed up of the #Misskey / #Calckey flavour. I already have a #Mastodon that simply works great, and what about this #Glitch fork that just adds some features? Looks promising, let’s try it!
Recently I saw again one of my #RaspberryPi hosts freezing and needed a physical restart while I was away. This is the only topic that worries me about #self-hosting, as I am not always next to the hosts when they fail (that does not happen that much).
This time I received the tip from @Cassman@mastodon.social that triggered a test and this article about the built in #Watchdog!
Script to install custom templates into reMarkable2
26/01/2024 20:00 digital life
Remarkable 2
e-ink
Linux
A year ago I posted some articles about customising the reMarkable 2. The device is great and easy to play with, but every OTA update sent will remove every customisation. I've been manually re-installing them until a point that I reduced the custom templates due to the work that the installation implies.
Today I had enough and I coded a simple script to release me from this work. In this article I explain a bit what it does and where can you get it from.
Unable to negotiate with [IP address] port 22: no matching host key type found
18/12/2023 08:00 digital life
SysAdmin
Linux
NAS
I have an old host that works as a NAS basically for backups. It has a linux inside and allows some (by then) fancy stuff out of the box. Recently I was leveraging it as a resource for backups via SSH and I ran into this error. Took me a bit to get the clue and a minimal explanation.
This small post explains it.
Migrate a Mastodon instance from a Raspberry Pi 4 to a Raspberry Pi 5 under Docker
26/01/2024 20:00 digital life
mastodon
Raspberry Pi
SysAdmin
Linux
I am #self-hosting my own #Mastodon instance in a #RaspberryPi 4 under #Docker. With the arrival of the new #RaspberryPi5, I wanted to try a full migration, installing the system from scratch and performing a backup and restore, also to understand how all of this works.
Here I intend to describe my journey, a full step-by-step walk through!
Spawning a Raspberry Pi 5 with Raspberry Pi OS in a SSD SATA III disk
11/12/2023 07:30 digital life
mastodon
Raspberry Pi
Linux
Docker
Beginning of last summer I wrote an article walking through the steps for spawning a #RaspberryPi 4 with #RaspberryPiOS. Now I received a new #RaspberryPi5 and I revisited the article, spotting some changes and also installing the last #Bookworm over a #SATA3 #SSD besides a MicroSD.
