Notices by Kev Quirk (kev@fosstodon.org), page 25

@acasajus welcome! Hopefully we will offer a better community than twitter. 😁

@rtwx @brandon https://varnish-cache.org/intro/index.html#intro

@rtwx @brandon you could use varnish. It's an automatic static site/cache generator. So you tell it to fetch from home.brandon.com:8080 and serve the site from https://book.linuxliason.org within varnish.

I used to use varnish on a fairly large blog I ran, it's a great tool and fairly simple to configure.

@brandon ah, I see. So you're looking at having a vps with a third part and route through that. I see now, yeah, that should work. 👍

@brandon seems excessive? Why not just put it on Dropbox, or Drive, or another tool that offers public link sharing. Seems a lot of infrastructure to maintain for a simple download link.

@brandon you will have to. If your ISP blocks ports like 80, 443, 110, 143, 25 etc. Anything you try and push to your IP on that port will be blocked. The port translation is either done at your router or server, so the traffic will need to traverse you ISP first.

So you will need to use the obscure port so that the traffic gets through in the first place. Plus, you create a bookmark and never worry about it again.

@brandon if your intention is to run a NC server at home, you should be able to set up NAT on the router so requests coming in from a certain port route to a different port to an IP on your LAN.

Or just configure your webserver to listen on that obscure port on the first place. Should be quite trivial to do.

@brandon how you're at over 4600 is beyond me. @mike and I respond to A LOT of requests etc, being admins and we're still nowhere near you.

@puffinux

@redandgreen14 I ran a Zimbra server for a few years. Works extremely well, but in the end it was too much work to maintain. I'm not with Fastmail and am extremely happy.

@redandgreen14 I use Name Cheap, I've got no complaints.

@poetgrant sure. I'll ping it to you on Keybase.

@ohyran hahaha that's brilliant!

@brandon all good. 👍

@timapple they've renamed it. It's now simply "nextcloud news reader" by David Luhmer.

@timapple as others have said, Mastalab and Tusky are the best. The latter being my personal favourite. As for Nextcloud news, there and app call OwnNews (I think) it's not free, but it works well.

I think it's available fore free via f-droid.

@joseph how you holding up mate? Everything OK?

@aadilayub

@brandon yeah, please don't spam people's feeds with this stuff.

@mooshoe

@amolith a great place to start is the element inspector in your browser. Right click in a part of the page you want to edit, select element inspector.

EI will then open and show you the css for that particular piece of the site. Fiddle around with colours, padding, borders, position etc. until you're happy.

Once you are, replace the old piece of css is the new one.

That's how I started learning css anyway. 😊

@poetgrant

@poetgrant great work, so much better on a mobile.

I see you've fashioned a Fosstodon icon. I can send you the proper SVG is it helps? You can change the colour then, but have the correct logo.