<p>A simple, portable, wrapper for the <a href="https://www.borgbackup.org">borg backup</a> and <a href="https://restic.net">restic</a> utilities written in Nim.</p>
<summarytype="html"><p>A simple battery monitor tool that can notify you on battery status changes for FreeBSD.<br />
Inspired by but in no way similar to <a href="https://github.com/electrickite/batsignal">batsignal</a> - inspiring the basic function only.
Written in pure <a href="https://paulwilde.uk/ponderings/batmon/https/nim-lang.org">Nim</a>.</p>
<p>Wouldn’t it be great if there was something to tell you what to do about this error?!
Wouldn’t it be great if it said</p>
<pre data-lang="sh" style="background-color:#212121;color:#eeffff;" class="language-sh "><code class="language-sh" data-lang="sh"><span style="color:#82aaff;">ERROR</span><span style="color:#89ddff;"> -</span><span style="color:#f78c6c;">41</span><span style="color:#82aaff;">: Sit by a lake
<contenttype="html"xml:base="https://paulwilde.uk/ponderings/geminicss/"><p>Gemini.css is an <em>almost</em> classless CSS style for making Gemini-like HTML pages.</p>
<p>For a Gemini.css demonstration, go to <a href="https://geminicss.paulwilde.uk">geminicss.paulwilde.uk</a>.</p>
<summarytype="html"><p>Hello. How are you? I am fine.<br />
<br />
You may know me from a few places, but likely on the Fediverse as the person that
maintains a BirdsiteLIVE instance with the url <a href="https://birdsite.wilde.cloud">birdsite.wilde.cloud</a>.</p>
<summarytype="html"><h1 id="a-selection-of-information-output-tools-for-dmenu">A selection of information output tools for dmenu</h1>
<p>These are a selection of independant tools for displaying various information
about system status in dmenu. Some of them i.e. <code>volume</code> have options (up, down, mute...)
which are selectable options in dmenu.</p>
<summarytype="html"><p>I run the <a href="https://thisisnotmy.email">thisisnotmy.email</a> email service.</p>
<h2 id="what-s-it-all-about">What's it all about?</h2>
<p>Don’t you hate it when people, businesses, random telephone callers, etc. ask you for your email address out of the blue under the ruse of “providing you a better service”?
It's early days but I'm hoping to be able to offer <em>something</em> for people to
<contenttype="html"xml:base="https://paulwilde.uk/ponderings/peanut-butter/"><p>This is the easiest thing in the world.</p>
<ol>
<li>Dry-fry (no oil etc.) the peanuts in the large frying pan for about 10 mins or for as long as it takes for the peanuts to become golden brown.
<ul>
<li>This will encourage the oils in the peanuts to release - which is exactly what we want!</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Put the now-roasted peanuts into the blender and blend.
<ul>
<li>Blend, blend, blend and blend some more.</li>
<li>There will be a point when you think nothing's happening and the small bits of peanut are just moving around the blender, or just stuck in place. Give the stuck pieces a nudge with a spatula and get back to blending.</li>
<li>Blend, blend, blend even more until, eventually, the mixture starts to bind together and turn into a thick solid mass.</li>
<li>Keep blending and the mixture will loosen up become a lovely, smooth, peanut butter.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Spoon out into a suitable container and allow to cool (or just eat it there and then, I won't judge you).</li>
</ol>
<p>Top Tips =</p>
<ul>
<li>If you prefer a chunky peanut butter, save some of the roasted peanuts back and only put them into the blended mixture at the end with a bit of a stir - lovely!</li>
<summarytype="html"><p>In the interest of sharing interesting information, I thought I'd create this page to list some of my favourite software packages and tools.<br />
This list is by no means complete as, if you're like me you'll understand, I use hundreds of software packages.</p>
<summarytype="html"><h3 id="a-simple-configurable-autodiscover-autoconfig-service-for-distributed-and-self-hosted-services">A simple, configurable autodiscover/autoconfig service for distributed and self-hosted services.</h3>
<h3 id="what-is-mailautoconf">What is MailAutoConf?</h3>
<p>MailAutoConf is autodiscover/autoconfig web server for self-hosted mail services
which do not have their own autodiscover service.</p>
<contenttype="html"xml:base="https://paulwilde.uk/ponderings/basicdough/"><p>If you have a bread maker:</p>
<ol>
<li>add the water, salt, sugar, herbs, oil, flour and yeast/sourdough starter
<strong>IN THAT ORDER</strong> to the bread maker's container.
<ul>
<li>You <em>must</em> add them in that order, or at least water first else the
mixture will not mix correctly.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>set the bread maker to its "dough" setting and set it going - job done!<br />
(P.S. you can just use this same recipe as a regular bread too - just set the
bread maker to the regular "bread" mode)</li>
<li>At this point I normally transfer the dough to a suitable container and
cover it to let it rise.</li>
</ol>
<p>Without a bread maker:</p>
<ol>
<li>add the flour, salt, sugar, herbs and yeast/sourdough starter to the
large mixing bowl and dry mix them all together.</li>
<li>form a well in the middle of the flour mixture and slowly pour in the
water bit by bit, mixing the flour mixture into the water as you go</li>
<li>continue to mix the flour and water mixture, you're going to need to use
your hands, but give it a good mix until everything is mixed together well.
<ul>
<li>you want the dough to still be a bit wet, so if it's dry, add a bit more
water</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>dust the large chopping board with flour and turn out the wet-ish dough
ball onto the board.</li>
<li>Knead the dough, <em>a lot!</em> Just keep kneading, adding more flour if
necessary.
<ul>
<li>As you knead you'll noticed the dough ball become more smooth and
springy, but it will also feel "stronger"</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Once the ball is nice and firm, but still springy, place it into a suitable
container and cover to let it rise.</li>
</ol>
<p>After a few hours of rising time (longer if you're using sourdough starter)
your dough will, hopefully, have risen enormously. You can now use it.
I'll be adding recipes for <a href="/recipes/">pizzas</a>, <a href="/recipes/">naans</a> and other
things that use this dough here, eventually.</p>
<contenttype="html"xml:base="https://paulwilde.uk/ponderings/unphoneticabc/"><p>A website directory of all words that can be associated with their letters by <em>not</em>
sounding as their corresponding letter should do.</p>
<contenttype="html"xml:base="https://paulwilde.uk/ponderings/ltos/"><p>A spoof single page animation website of a secret society dedicated to finding all
<contenttype="html"xml:base="https://paulwilde.uk/ponderings/faces/"><p>Just a very silly website with an animated face making sounds.<br />
Yeah, just that really. (The image is <em>not</em> me)</p>
<contenttype="html"xml:base="https://paulwilde.uk/ponderings/geesewildecloud/"><p>Starting life as a (sort of inappropriate) parody of a certain popular dating website
the geese website was made as a bit of fun and to please minor obsession with geese.</p>
This is my website which will contain my general thoughts, utterings,
maybe my opinions, possibly some tech stuff I find interesting, some of the
recipes I cook and want to remember the ingredients of and a bit of artwork I
draw for fun and I in no way claim to be a good artist in any way.</p>
<h3 id="some-things-about-me-i">Some things about me. I :</h3>
<ul>
<li>am an IT Professional.
<ul>
<li>I run my own <a href="https://wilde-it.co.uk">IT Business</a> that provides IT consulting, assistance and procurement services to local businesses (Devon, South West UK).</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>am an Open Source advocate/evangelist.
<ul>
<li>I try to use Open Source products in my personal and working life as often as possible.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>am data privacy conscious.
<ul>
<li>I believe we shouldn't pay for products or services with our personal data and "marketability"</li>
<li>I don't use the mainstream social media services. You shouldn't either.</li>
<h3 id="some-information-about-this-site-it">Some information about this site. It :</h3>
<ul>
<li>was created using <a href="https://getzola.org">Zola</a></li>
<li>is built with efficiency in mind; It's small and light and quick to view.</li>
<li>uses no JavaScript (except a little bit for <a href="https://plausible.io">Plausible Analytics</a>, forgive me).</li>
<li>runs on an <a href="https://caddyserver.com">Caddy</a> server on top of a <a href="https://rockylinux.org">Rocky Linux</a> VPS provided by <a href="https://ovh.com">OVH</a>.</li>
<li>was written using the <a href="https://neovim.io/">Neovim</a> text editor on a <a href="https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/">PC Specialist</a> laptop running <a href="https://archlinux.org">Arch Linux</a></li>
