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Selah Sue via Vicky Canals Beatles X Radiohead

futtta — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 16:28:01 +0000

Back in the sixties Paul McCartney wrote and recorded Blackbird. The song was partly based on a Bach piece and features great guitar-playing really and talks about hope, empowerment and freedom. Unrelated, Thom Yorke, suffering from post-“OK Computer” depression, wrote “Everything in it’s right place” on piano and recorded it with Radiohead in 1999, the ... Read more

Gelezen; “Het achtste leven (voor Brilka)” van Nino Haratischwili

futtta — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 21:14:12 +0000

Ik volg de literaire mode niet zo, maar ik lees graag en het mag van mij wel Echte Literatuur (mijn vrouw gruwelt als ze dit leest) zijn. “Het achtste leven (voor Brilka)” is ondertussen 10 jaar uit in de Nederlandse vertaling en ik zag op Goodreads dat het boek daar een whopping beoordeling van 4,54 ... Read more

Is programmeren echt zo moeilijk dan?

futtta — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 20:12:32 +0000

Sinds begin dit jaar probeer ik als newbie coach te helpen bij CoderDojo Genk. Ik moet eerlijk zijn, ik ken nog niet écht veel van Scratch en nog veel minder van micro:bit, maar ik ga ervan uit dat dat wel zal komen. Soit, afgelopen weekend vertelde de moeder van 2 deelnemers me dat programmeren haar ... Read more

How to go block-less with the WordPress ActivityPub plugin

futtta — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 11:20:41 +0000

Being the web performance zealot I am, I strive to having as little JavaScript on my sites as possible. JavaScript after all has to be downloaded and has to be executed, so extra JS will always have a performance impact even when in the best of circumstances it exceptionally does not impact Core Web Vitals ... Read more

As seen on YouTube; Angine de Poitrine live on KEXP

futtta — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 11:58:16 +0000

Angine de Poitrine live on KEXP. French-Canadian Dada-ist instrumental rock-techno-jazz maybe? A bit of Can, Primus, King Crimson and Sun Ra and a whole lot of virtuoso drums and guitar loop-pedal juggling. If I could I’d go straight for the moshpit but it’s just me in my homeoffice so … Some of the YouTube comments ... Read more

Zijn er Meshcore-users in de Limburgse Maasvallei?

futtta — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 14:57:26 +0000

Ik steek het op de Fediverse, waar ik sinds een paar weken (maanden?) regelmatig posts langs zag komen over Meshcore als technologie/ software voor gedecentraliseerde ad-hoc netwerken voor tekst-gebaseerde berichten op basis van LoRa radio. Ik heb me zo een Sensecap T1000-e gekocht, meshcore geflasht (vanuit Chrome, poef) en verbonden met m’n Fairphone met de ... Read more

New (old) bicycle; going to gravel

futtta — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 19:38:46 +0000

I bought a 2nd hand gravel bike today because my race bike (Cube Agree GTC SL) is really not well-suited to safely ride in icy/ wet conditions. So happy to show off my new old Specialized Diverge which I will happily also take off-road…

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w.social invite code

futtta — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 11:11:51 +0000

So regarding that new EU social network (which is said to be decentralized but unclear if that implies ActivityPub which would make it more relevant in my book); entering a string in the “invitation code” and clicking “continue” does not result in an XHR request to the server and there’s a lot of JS on the page to handle the invitation code. This implies the code is checked in the browser so the…

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blog.futtta.be on the fediverse

futtta — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 19:29:26 +0000

Pretty sure no-one is waiting for this, but after having spent a couple of years on the Fediverse (Mastodon in my case) I decided to add ActivityPub support to my WordPress installation via the ActivityPub plugin. I have the WP Rest Cache plugin active, so I’m expecting things to gently hum along, without (most likely) ... Read more

Joni’s “Both Sides Now”

futtta — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 20:01:02 +0000

I watched a movie this evening which featured the main actress singing “Both sides now” and is was moving until it became too musical-like for my taste. But now I’m in a Joni rabbit hole again, listening to all great versions of Joni performing that song. One of the earliest live video’s I found was ... Read more