Posts tagged "howto" (239)
2023
All about Farcaster Signers
Approving, revoking, and using them to re-sign messages.
The Farcaster icon font
I converted the farcaster logo to an icon font.
2022
ERC721 Subset
A smart contract to create an on-chain subset of an existing ERC721 collection.
Implementing tokenURI as a separate contract
The cost is minimal, and the advantages are significant.
Putting an old iMac to use
Configuring an old iMac to run pihole, homebridge, and ipfs, using Siri to turn the brightness on/off and using it as a... "LED panel" light.
2021
My first take on NFC tags
I recently purchased my first NFC tags. Here are my first impressions and my first experiments.
2020
Ανανέωσα το blog μου
το απλό redesign που οδήγησε ως συνήθως σε διάφορες περιπέτειες...
MagicMirror
What an amazing project!
2018
A "dual" SIM setup with older iPhones (not X+).
You can use two iPhones (one can be a quite old one) and carry only one with you.
How to create an ad hoc, private Instagram with iCloud
iCloud Photo Sharing allows you to create a small, private "Instagram". Here's how to do it.
My Synology DS916+: a year later.
How I set it up, how I use it and my overall impressions after a bit more than a year with it.
2017
A kill switch to countermeasure border controls?
Creating a kill switch that will wipe sensitive data from my computer if asked to unlock it.
2016
My feed reading setup.
If you miss the freedom RSS used to give us before we started relying on Facebook, read on.
How to create a simple ASN.1 parser
Step by step instructions to create a ASN.1 parser using asn1c.
Making GitHub part of my publishing workflow
How I'm using a github repo as a notebook, and the first steps towards hosting my blog on github.
Simple bash script for encrypted chat over keybase fs (kbfs)
First impressions of the keybase.io filesystem, and a small bash script to implement a secure, encrypted chat service over it.
POSE with IFTTT
Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere with ifttt.com
2015
How to archive your tweets
Why not take a backup of all your tweets every now and then?
How to archive your Gmail
Why not make a tradition out of archiving your Gmail at the end of the year? See how easy it is.
Testing Twitter ads
The results of a small experiment at getting new subscribers to my newsletter using Twitter lead generation ads and MailChimp form integrations.
Your startup’s blog should be on Medium.
Why your startup's blog (at least the first one) should be on Medium.
Social networking services have failed me. I'm going back to my web 2.0 roots.
For the last couple of years, I've been increasingly relying on social networking services to curate, share, discover and even publish content. Looking back, it think they have failed me and that's why I'm looking for ways to reconnect with my web 2.0 "roots".
A super-minimal, almost "plain-text" email template for Mailchimp.
How I created a very simple email template for Mailchimp that resembles a lot plain text emails, to send my daily digest.
Post to your GitHub-hosted blog using a simple bookmarklet.
jekyll-post-via-web is a simple HTML page that lets you update your GitHub-hosted Jekyll blog using your browser.
testing my webmentions server
This is a test post to try my own webmentions endpoint at www.listnr.net.
2014
I enabled SSL for my S3-hosted static blog
How I used CloudFlare's (free) Universal SSL to enable HTTPS for my S3-hosted static-HTML blog, and a few extra notes.
How we use Intercom to engage with our users on Twitter.
Intercom.io is full of nice little features and "social profiles" is one of them. Not part of the core product, but at Deepfreeze.io we've found it to be extremely valuable.
Retiring my DVDs.
DVD is a dying medium, at least for me. Here's how I deal with it.
browser-based notifications for my blog using Roost
Browser-based push notifications is an exciting feature for web publishers. Use Roost to easily enable it in your website.
How we use Intercom in the deepfreeze.io registration workflow.
I will describe here how we integrated Intercom with our invitation and registration workflow at deepfreeze.io to send user notifications, and how this helps us deliver better services.
Why and how we put our terms of service on github.
It's nice to say that you are customer-centric, customer-first, etc, but what really matters is how much of this you are willing to put down on paper. Your Terms of Service are the actual contract between you and your clients, not your keynote presentations, or your posts on Facebook and twitter.
"fragmentions" is a cool idea.
A cool idea that allows us to link directly to any text fragmet inside web pages.
SSH Back to My Mac
How to remotely SSH to your Macs by taking advantage of Back to My Mac.
2013
my vcsh setup
vcsh is a version control system for $HOME. This is how I've set it up.
OS X Finder file color labels
How to use OS X Finder color labels from the command line.
tools we use at longaccess: HipChat
One of the tools we use most at longaccess is HipChat. Here is why.
Showing twitter references in a static blog
Weekend project: How to show under each static blog engine post the tweets that mentioned it.
BitTorent Sync is a great tool for startups.
Our experience with BitTorrent Sync at longaccess has been great.
public-key cryptography for non-geeks
It's not as complicated as you think.
migrating from iPhoto to Dropbox, from feature rich to future proof.
How I moved from feature rich iPhoto to future proof Dropbox.