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Can I host my site at home on a Raspberry Pi? YES!

Escape the fogginess and uncertainty of a cloud solution and host your own site at home. A recent convergence of technologies has made this obvious solution both simple and desirable.

Using certbot to secure your personal site

  • https://www.donaldmcintosh.net/blog/certbot; By Donald McIntosh (Posted by ahab on Feb 23, 2017 3:51 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Security, Tutorial; Groups: Apache
Introducing an amazing simple command line tool called certbot that generates a trusted SSL certificate for your personal website.

GPS for Linux

  • http://donaldmcintosh.net/resource/gps-for-linux; By Donald McIntosh (Posted by ahab on Jul 7, 2016 4:33 PM EDT)
  • Groups: Linux
A Linux-friendly solution to retrieving, graphing and saving GPS data from a bike GPS tracker. But not using the expected solution.

Next: Open social networks

An online journey from closed, restricted and commercial social networks monopolies to a new breed of independent personal web sites linked by open social networks

Introducing a Semantic Web server

  • http://donaldmcintosh.net/resource/introducing-a-semantic-web-server; By Donald McIntosh (Posted by ahab on Apr 12, 2016 9:10 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Editorial; Groups: Intellectual Property
Following on from my last two blogs about how we share our own content on the web today, this blog introduces triki - a new semantic web server.

Reclaiming our Web

  • http://www.donaldmcintosh.net/resource/reclaiming-our-web; By Donald McIntosh (Posted by ahab on Apr 3, 2016 9:22 AM EDT)
In my last blog I explained why the Web was broken for us, as individuals. This blog suggests a model that will allow us to reclaim the Web.

Why the Web is broken

The Web has revolutionized and enriched out lives. And yet our current model for sharing on the internet is deeply flawed. We are giving up far more than we realise and becoming increasingly ensnared by mega-content providers. We need to start by recognising this and remember that there is an alternative.