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+<rss version='2.0' xmlns:atom='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom'>
+<channel>
+<title>Bloggings</title>
+<link>https://wittamore.fr</link>
+<description>Ramblings from Brittany</description>
+<lastBuildDate>2026-07-02T10:22:43,069276386+02:00</lastBuildDate>
+<atom:link href='https://wittamore.fr/rss.xml' rel='self' type='application/rss+xml' />
+
+<item>
+  <title>upgrade to dwm 6.8</title>
+  <pubDate>2026-06-29</pubDate>
+  <author>Philip A. Wittamore</author>
+  <link>https://wittamore.fr/articles/2026/upgrade-to-dwm-6.8.html</link>
+  <guid>https://wittamore.fr/articles/2026/upgrade-to-dwm-6.8.html</guid>
+  <category> </category>
+  <description><![CDATA[      <h4>dwm with some patches</h4>
+      <p>I've been using dwm 6.5 for a while now, so I thought it
+      was time to upgrade to dwm 6.8.</p>
+      <p>Ideally I'd settle for a horizontal scrolling wm as my
+      Thinkpad screen is small, but after flirting with nwm I'm
+      staying with dwm for now.</p>
+      <p>I've added a few patches and shortcuts that make it easy
+      for me to circulate between windows and workspaces. I haven't
+      added the xrdb patch this time, instead I added the colorbar
+      patch which nicely colours the dwmblocks status bar and keeps
+      things simple. Many of the tiling patches I added to 6.5 have
+      been left out as I just don't use them. On a small 1366x768
+      screen splitting it renders it useless so instead I use the
+      monocle layout by default and switch workspaces with
+      super+right and left, and switch windows with super+up and
+      down.</p>
+      <p><a href=
+      "https://git.wittamore.fr/dwm-6.8-patched/tree">It's up on my
+      git server if you are interested.</a></p>]]></description>
+</item>
+<item>
+  <title>Freedos thoughts</title>
+  <pubDate>2026-06-11</pubDate>
+  <author>Philip A. Wittamore</author>
+  <link>https://wittamore.fr/articles/2026/Freedos-thoughts.html</link>
+  <guid>https://wittamore.fr/articles/2026/Freedos-thoughts.html</guid>
+  <category> </category>
+  <description><![CDATA[        <h4>Maybe I have the best system already</h4>
+        <p>
+          I've been looking at Freedos for the retrocomputing nostalgia value
+          and the text-only goodness.
+        </p>
+        <p>
+          I wound up using Qemu on my X270 as Freedos on bare metal means my 14
+          year old Thinkpad X220 is way too modern.
+        </p>
+        <p>
+          Yes there's some crazy good software, and it's fun. But using
+          fullscreen in Qemu means a fuzzy display, and I came to measure how
+          the terminal on Linux is truly light years ahead.
+        </p>
+        <p>
+          In fact it pushes home that my Artix / DWM / Kitty setup is the
+          veritable retrocomputing bees knees
+        </p>]]></description>
+</item>
+<item>
+  <title>semware-tse-editor</title>
+  <pubDate>2026-06-13</pubDate>
+  <author>Philip A. Wittamore</author>
+  <link>https://wittamore.fr/articles/2026/semware-tse-editor.html</link>
+  <guid>https://wittamore.fr/articles/2026/semware-tse-editor.html</guid>
+  <category> </category>
+  <description><![CDATA[        <h4>A very interesting editor for DOS, Linux and Windows</h4>
+        <p>
+          <img src="/images/blog/semware.png" alt="semware editor screenshot" />
+        </p>
+        <p>
+          I stumbled upon the #Semware editor (TSE) for #Linux, Windows and #Dos
+          and thought I'd share it here. Originally named Qedit in 1985, the
+          latest version is dated May 2026. I don't know about Windows (as I
+          haven't used it in years), but the Linux version is a pleasant CLI app
+          with many features, including it's own application language. The more
+          I look at it, the more I realise that it is a profound piece of
+          software.
+        </p>
+        <p>
+          <a href="https://www.semware.com/">www.semware.com</a><br />
+          <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@knudvaneeden"
+            >Knud Vaneeded YT videos</a
+          >
+        </p>]]></description>
+</item>
+<item>
+  <title>Living on Snac&#39;s bleeding edge</title>
+  <pubDate>2026-05-25</pubDate>
+  <author>Philip A. Wittamore</author>
+  <link>https://wittamore.fr/articles/2026/Living-on-Snac&#39;s-bleeding-edge.html</link>
+  <guid>https://wittamore.fr/articles/2026/Living-on-Snac&#39;s-bleeding-edge.html</guid>
+  <category> </category>
+  <description><![CDATA[        <h4>Autoupdate script</h4>
+        <p>
+          I like living on the bleeding edge of
+          <a href="https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2">snac2</a>, so I added
+          this (banal) script to /etc/cron.daily.
+        </p>
+        <pre>
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# snaceto
+# Social Networks Are Crap Except This One
+
+cd /home/snac/src/snac2 || exit
+
+sudo -u snac git remote update
+UPDATED="$(git status -uno | grep -c 'up to date')"
+
+if [ "$UPDATED" -ne "1" ] ; then
+    echo "Updating..."
+    systemctl stop snac.service
+	# backup data before update
+	TODAY=$(date "+%Y-%m-%d-%H-%m")
+	BACKUPDIR="/opt/backups"
+	mkdir -p "$BACKUPDIR"
+	FILENAME="$BACKUPDIR/pre-update-snac-$TODAY.tar.gz"
+	tar -zcf "$FILENAME" /home/snac/data
+	# pull latest
+	sudo -u snac git pull
+	sudo -u snac make
+	make install
+	sudo -u snac snac upgrade /home/snac/data
+	systemctl start snac.service
+	VERSION="$(snac | head -n2)"
+	toot post "My bleeding edge #snac2 server has been updated<br>$VERSION"
+fi
+</pre>]]></description>
+</item>
+<item>
+  <title>Web sites that work well in Dillo</title>
+  <pubDate>2026-06-19</pubDate>
+  <author>Philip A. Wittamore</author>
+  <link>https://wittamore.fr/articles/2026/Web-sites-that-work-well-in-Dillo.html</link>
+  <guid>https://wittamore.fr/articles/2026/Web-sites-that-work-well-in-Dillo.html</guid>
+  <category> </category>
+  <description><![CDATA[        <h4>and other minimal browsers</h4>
+        <p>
+          I'm always looking for sane web sites. By sane I mean websites that
+          are not bloated with useless eye candy, nor have any ketamin fired
+          javascript. Sites that just want to display data in the form of easily
+          readable text with or without some images.
+        </p>
+        <p>
+          There is an increasing number of web sites that do this, as it's a
+          normal backlash to the slop infested, obfuscated tar pit that the
+          internet has sadly become. I haven't found a single compendium of
+          sites, but I'll list some here.
+        </p>
+        <p>
+          One of the things I find realy interesting are web proxies that render
+          sites into a saner version, like
+          <a href="https://www.textise.net/">Textise</a> or
+          <a href="https://txt.dc09.xyz/">Textdot</a>. I fact I'm wondering if I
+          could roll my own simple version using php and rdrview.
+        </p>
+        <p>
+          This list incomplete list will be updated as I find them, or maybe you
+          dear reader might have suggestions?
+        </p>
+        <p>
+          <a href="https://dir.dillo-browser.org/"
+            >Directory of useful sites that work reasonably well on Dillo</a
+          >
+        </p>
+        <p><a href="https://wiby.me/">Wiby search engine</a></p>
+        <p>
+          <a href="https://ronaldsvilcins.com/2021/09/15/text-only-websites/"
+            >Text only web sites</a
+          >
+        </p>]]></description>
+</item>
+<item>
+  <title>Ghostbsd installation</title>
+  <pubDate>2026-06-14</pubDate>
+  <author>Philip A. Wittamore</author>
+  <link>https://wittamore.fr/articles/2026/Ghostbsd-installation.html</link>
+  <guid>https://wittamore.fr/articles/2026/Ghostbsd-installation.html</guid>
+  <category> </category>
+  <description><![CDATA[        <h4>messing around on a sunday</h4>
+        <p>
+          So now we have Microsoft delivering Linux, and the Arch based AUR
+          getting wrecked by people who should be locked into a public pillory,
+          and I have some free time. Well in fact a lot of free time now that
+          I'm retired.
+        </p>
+        <p>
+          So. I downloaded the latest #Ghostbsd Mate and cut a usb key, then
+          plugged it into my Thinkpad X220.
+        </p>
+        <p>
+          The installation was simple and uneventful, and it booted without
+          problem. Everything worked out of the box. Mate seems pretty and
+          unobfuscated, just like me.
+        </p>
+        <p>So far I've done just two things:</p>
+        <p>
+          (1) to get some thinkpad function keys to work I've added in
+          /boot/loader.conf
+        </p>
+        <pre>
+acpi_ibm_load="YES"
+</pre
+        >
+        <p>
+          Printscreen works, brightness and volume controls work, vol mute
+          works, lid led works, but the MICMUTE button doesn't work.<br />
+          For the X220 MICMUTE key, which is F20 or 0xBE (190), unfortunately
+          Ghostbsd's acpi_ibm doesn't pass on the event, so any script for it in
+          /etc/devd won't be fired. Checking the source code, acpi_ibm only accepts
+          a subset of events accepted by Linux's thinkpad_acpi, which appears to 
+          cover them all. It's unfortunate as I'm a bit pedantic about keys but I 
+          guess I'll have to live with it as the code is 20 years old and I 
+          doubt it will change anytime soon.
+        </p>
+        
+        <p>FYI, acpi_ibm accepts only these keyboard events:</p>
+        <PRE>
+        LCD_BACKLIGHT
+        SUSPEND_TO_RAM
+        BLUETOOTH
+        SCREEN_EXPAND
+        SUSPEND_TO_DISK
+        BRIGHTNESS_UP
+        BRIGHTNESS_DOWN
+        THINKLIGHT
+        ZOOM
+        VOLUME_UP
+        VOLUME_DOWN
+        MUTE
+        ACCESS_IBM_BUTTON
+        </pre>
+        <p>(2) to enable the automounting of usb storage media:</p>
+        <pre>
+sudo pkg install automount
+</pre
+        >
+        <p>
+          I've replaced the default Firefox with Librewolf, and I'm not too sure
+          about zsh instead of bash, and why not doas instead of sudo?
+        </p>
+        <p>
+          Ghostbsd is a very nice BSD distribution that's been around since
+          2010.
+        </p>
+        <p><a href="https://www.ghostbsd.org/">https://www.ghostbsd.org</a></p>]]></description>
+</item>
+<item>
+  <title>displaying MATE on a 1366x768 screen</title>
+  <pubDate>2026-06-15</pubDate>
+  <author>Philip A. Wittamore</author>
+  <link>https://wittamore.fr/articles/2026/displaying-MATE-on-a-1366x768-screen.html</link>
+  <guid>https://wittamore.fr/articles/2026/displaying-MATE-on-a-1366x768-screen.html</guid>
+  <category> </category>
+  <description><![CDATA[        <h4>xrandr to the rescue</h4>
+        <p>
+          Unfortunately several Ghostbsd MATE configuration windows are taller
+          than my Thinkpad X220's 768 pixels. I made both the top and bottom
+          panels autohide, but a better solution is to use xrandr:
+        </p>
+        <pre>sudo pkg install xrandr</pre>
+        <p>
+          type xrandr to get the name of your display, in my case LVDS-1 on my
+          Thinkpad X220.
+        </p>
+        <p>To change 16:9 screen resolution, you can type:</p>
+        <pre>
+xrandr --output LVDS-1 --panning 1600x900  --scale 1.171x1.172</pre
+        >
+        <p>or</p>
+        <pre>
+xrandr --output LVDS-1 --panning 1920x1080 --scale 1.406x1.406</pre
+        >
+        <p>To get back to the original resolution type:</p>
+        <pre>xrandr --output LVDS-1 --panning 1366x768 --scale 1x1</pre>
+        <p>
+          Here's a simple bash script that will rotate the screen resolution on
+          each call. I've added a MATE keyboard shortcut (CTRL+RIGHT) to run
+          this script. It is intended for my 1366x768 screen, so it will need
+          adapting for other screens.
+        </p>
+        <pre>
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+        
+RES="$(xdpyinfo | grep dimensions | sed -r 's/^[^0-9]*([0-9]+x[0-9]+).*$/\1/')"
+# xdpy results can vary by 1 or two pixels 
+# so take the first two characters
+RES="${RES:0:2}"
+        
+case "$RES" in
+  "13")
+  xrandr --output LVDS-1 --panning 1600x900  --scale 1.171x1.172
+  ;;
+  "16")
+  xrandr --output LVDS-1 --panning 1920x1080 --scale 1.406x1.406
+  ;;
+  *)
+  xrandr --output LVDS-1 --panning 1366x768 --scale 1x1
+  ;;
+esac
+        </pre>
+        <p>I doubt you can do that in Wayland.</p>]]></description>
+</item>
+<item>
+  <title>Oops! I did it again</title>
+  <pubDate>2026-05-31</pubDate>
+  <author>Philip A. Wittamore</author>
+  <link>https://wittamore.fr/articles/2026/Oops!-I-did-it-again.html</link>
+  <guid>https://wittamore.fr/articles/2026/Oops!-I-did-it-again.html</guid>
+  <category> </category>
+  <description><![CDATA[        <h4>More blog improvements</h4>
+        <p>
+          This blog now
+          <a href="https://git.wittamore.fr/bloggings/tree/"
+            >sits in my git repository</a
+          >, so I made a few changes.
+        </p>
+        <p>
+          One is the
+          <a href="https://git.wittamore.fr/blog-scripts/tree/blogsend"
+            >blogsend</a
+          >
+          bash script which now does a git commit on my local machine, and a git
+          pull on the remote web server. The other is the git repos itself which
+          now has the web site in one repos, and the bash scripts in another.
+        </p>
+        <p>
+          All this is probably of little interest to anyone other than myself,
+          but if you want to run a smol blog you might find it useful, after all
+          that's why I'm posting it.
+        </p>]]></description>
+</item>
+<item>
+  <title>smolweb validation in Dillo</title>
+  <pubDate>2026-06-22
+.dillo/actions/smolcheck.sh</pubDate>
+  <author>Philip A. Wittamore</author>
+  <link>https://wittamore.fr/articles/2026/smolweb-validation-in-Dillo.html</link>
+  <guid>https://wittamore.fr/articles/2026/smolweb-validation-in-Dillo.html</guid>
+  <category> </category>
+  <description><![CDATA[        <h4>a simple page_action script</h4>
+        <p>
+          I added smolweb-validator as a page action in Dillo. It's a bit of a
+          pain as the validator is a java application. The action script is
+          brutal so far but it works.
+        </p>
+        <pre><code>#!/bin/sh
+
+#smolweb validator location
+smp="$HOME/src/smolweb-validator"
+
+# validate
+cd $smp
+output="$(java -cp "jsoup-1.21.2.jar:." SmolwebValidator $url --verbose)"
+echo "$output" | dilloc rawload
+</code></pre>
+        <p>
+          The action is added to ~/.dillo/dillorc and appears in Dillo's
+          right-click menu
+        </p>
+        <pre>
+page_action="Smolcheck:~/.dillo/actions/smolcheck.sh"
+</pre
+        >
+        <p>
+          see
+          <a href="https://codeberg.org/smolweb/smolweb-validator"
+            >https://codeberg.org/smolweb/smolweb-validator</a
+          >
+        </p>
+        <p>&nbsp;</p>]]></description>
+</item>
+<item>
+  <title>Updated blogthis script</title>
+  <pubDate>2026-06-16</pubDate>
+  <author>Philip A. Wittamore</author>
+  <link>https://wittamore.fr/articles/2026/Updated-blogthis-script.html</link>
+  <guid>https://wittamore.fr/articles/2026/Updated-blogthis-script.html</guid>
+  <category> </category>
+  <description><![CDATA[        <h4>now with markdown</h4>
+        <p>
+          I've updated my blogthis script so I can write articles in markdown.
+        </p>
+        <p>
+          It saves me having to write html in the articles and avoids errors.
+        </p>
+        <p>
+          I've uploaded it to
+          <a href="https://git.wittamore.fr/blog-scripts/tree/"
+            >my git server</a
+          >
+        </p>]]></description>
+</item>
+<item>
+  <title>Hebdogiciel</title>
+  <pubDate>2026-06-07</pubDate>
+  <author>Philip A. Wittamore</author>
+  <link>https://wittamore.fr/articles/2026/Hebdogiciel.html</link>
+  <guid>https://wittamore.fr/articles/2026/Hebdogiciel.html</guid>
+  <category> </category>
+  <description><![CDATA[        <h4>Flashback to the 80's</h4>
+        <p>
+          After my ZX81 I purchased an Amstrad CPC464, and oh joy I discovered
+          Hebdogiciel. Before the internet this magazine printed the code for
+          games and programs that you could painfully copy out. Today I
+          discovered that there's an online archive:
+        </p>
+
+        <p>
+          <a
+            href="https://www.abandonware-magazines.org/affiche_mag.php?mag=7&page=1"
+            >abandonware-magazines</a
+          >
+        </p>
+
+        <p>
+          <b>1983–1987:</b> Imagine a weekly magazine that, in addition to
+          providing us with a weekly program to type out and delivering
+          uncompromising hardware and software reviews (and that’s saying
+          something), also featured TV listings, movie, music, and comic book
+          releases, assembly language tutorials, a comic strip, a discount club,
+          walkthroughs... A tone that blew you away from the first page to the
+          last, Carali’s drawings filling in the gaps, lawsuits galore… Simply
+          extraordinary, unmatched.
+        </p>]]></description>
+</item>
+<item>
+  <title>More on Dillo</title>
+  <pubDate>2026-06-21</pubDate>
+  <author>Philip A. Wittamore</author>
+  <link>https://wittamore.fr/articles/2026/More-on-Dillo.html</link>
+  <guid>https://wittamore.fr/articles/2026/More-on-Dillo.html</guid>
+  <category> </category>
+  <description><![CDATA[      <h4>update on yesterday's post</h4>
+      <p>The <a href="https://git.dillo-browser.org/dillo">git
+      version of dillo</a> has a new option: page_action, which
+      enables running rdrview on the current page if the
+      setting:</p>
+      <pre><code>page_action="Reader mode:dilloc dump | rdrview -H | dilloc load"
+</code></pre>
+      <p>is set in dillorc.</p>
+      <p>When you right click on a page the menu will now include
+      the option "Reader Mode".</p>]]></description>
+</item>
+<item>
+  <title>Installation of Snac2 on Artix Linux</title>
+  <pubDate>2026-05-20
+add user
+ In /home/snac/data/server.json edit these settings:
+ As root, create the dinit script: /etc/dinit.d/snac2
+enable snac2
+NGINX Media caching
+in /etc/nginx/nginx.conf http section add:
+make cache folder
+/etc/nginx/sites-available/example.com
+add pleroma relay</pubDate>
+  <author>Philip A. Wittamore</author>
+  <link>https://wittamore.fr/articles/2026/Installation-of-Snac2-on-Artix-Linux.html</link>
+  <guid>https://wittamore.fr/articles/2026/Installation-of-Snac2-on-Artix-Linux.html</guid>
+  <category> </category>
+  <description><![CDATA[<h4>Installation of snac2 on Artix Linux +Nginx +Dinit</h4>
+<pre>
+useradd -m -s /bin/bash snac
+passwd snac
+usermod -aG wheel snac
+su - snac
+mkdir src
+cd src
+git clone https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2.git
+cd snac2
+make
+sudo make install
+snac init ~/data
+</pre>
+<pre>
+Host name: your.server.domain
+Path prefix: leave empty
+Network address: 127.0.0.1
+Port: 8001
+</pre>
+<pre>
+snac adduser ~/data
+</pre>
+<pre>
+admin_email
+admin_account
+title
+short_description
+
+and add this line:
+
+"proxy_media: true
+</pre>
+<pre>
+type = process
+run-as = snac
+command = /usr/local/bin/snac httpd /home/snac/data
+depends-on = NetworkManager
+restart = true
+smooth-recovery = yes
+log-type = file
+logfile = /var/log/dinit/snac2.log
+</pre>
+<pre>
+dinitcl enable snac2
+</pre>
+<p>
+see <a href="https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/01/29/improving-snac-performance-with-nginx-proxy-cache/">it-notes.fragas.net</a>
+</p>
+<p>
+see <a href="https://comam.es/snac-doc/snac.8.html">comam.es</a>.<br/> 
+Use $host not $http_host (gixy)
+</p>
+<pre>
+proxy_cache_path /var/cache/nginx/snac_cache levels=1:2 keys_zone=snac:10m max_size=1g inactive=1440m use_temp_path=off;
+</pre>
+<pre>
+mkdir -p /var/cache/nginx/snac_cache
+</pre>
+<pre>
+server {
+    listen 443 ssl;
+    listen [::]:443 ssl;
+    server_name example.com;
+
+    ssl_certificate     /etc/letsencrypt/live/example.com/fullchain.pem;
+    ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/example.com/privkey.pem;
+    ssl_protocols TLSv1.2 TLSv1.3;
+    ssl_ciphers HIGH:!aNULL:!MD5;
+    # openssl dhparam -out /etc/ssl/certs/dhparam.pem 2048
+    ssl_dhparam /etc/ssl/certs/dhparam.pem;
+
+    add_header Strict-Transport-Security "max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains" always;
+
+location / {
+    proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8001;
+    proxy_set_header Host $host;
+    proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $remote_addr;
+}
+
+location ~ ^/.+/s/ {
+    proxy_cache snac;
+    proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8001;
+    proxy_set_header Host $host;
+    proxy_cache_valid 200 1d;
+    proxy_cache_valid 404 1h;
+    proxy_ignore_headers "Cache-Control" "Expires";
+    proxy_cache_use_stale error timeout updating http_500 http_502 http_503 http_504;
+    proxy_cache_lock on;
+    add_header Strict-Transport-Security "max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains" always;
+    add_header X-Proxy-Cache $upstream_cache_status;
+}
+}
+
+server {
+    listen 80;
+    listen [::]:80;
+    server_name example.com;
+    return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
+}
+</pre>
+
+<p>see <a href="https://relaylist.com/">relaylist.com</a></p>
+<pre>
+su - snac
+snac adduser ~/data relay
+snac follow ~/data relay https://relay.toot.io/actor
+</pre>]]></description>
+</item>
+<item>
+  <title>Funeral blues</title>
+  <pubDate>2026-05-07</pubDate>
+  <author>Philip A. Wittamore</author>
+  <link>https://wittamore.fr/articles/2026/Funeral-blues.html</link>
+  <guid>https://wittamore.fr/articles/2026/Funeral-blues.html</guid>
+  <category> </category>
+  <description><![CDATA[        <h4>A poem by W.H.Auden (1907-1973)</h4>
+        <p>This poem was read in the film "Four marriages and a funeral"</p>
+
+        <p>I just stumbled upon it and wanted to write it down.</p>
+
+        <code>
+Funeral Blues 
+
+Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone. 
+Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone, 
+
+Silence the pianos and with muffled drum 
+Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come. 
+
+Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead 
+Scribbling in the sky the message He is Dead, 
+
+Put crêpe bows round the white necks of the public doves,
+Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves. 
+
+He was my North, my South, my East and West, 
+My working week and my Sunday rest 
+
+My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song; 
+I thought that love would last forever, I was wrong. 
+
+The stars are not wanted now; put out every one,
+Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun. 
+
+Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood; 
+For nothing now can ever come to any good.
+        </code>]]></description>
+</item>
+<item>
+  <title>From minimalist to smolweb</title>
+  <pubDate>2026-05-06</pubDate>
+  <author>Philip A. Wittamore</author>
+  <link>https://wittamore.fr/articles/2026/From-minimalist-to-smolweb.html</link>
+  <guid>https://wittamore.fr/articles/2026/From-minimalist-to-smolweb.html</guid>
+  <category> </category>
+  <description><![CDATA[        <h4>When smarter people get things done</h4>
+        <p>
+          In 2023
+          about what I was feeling at the time on the sorry state of the web.
+        </p>
+        <p>
+          I'm happy to say that the people at
+          <a href="https://smolweb.org">smolweb.org</a> have made a far better
+          statement than mine.
+        </p>
+        <p>
+          As this blog is now a few years old, I'll be working on making it pass
+          the
+          <a href="https://smolweb.org/validator/">smolweb validation test</a>.
+        </p>]]></description>
+</item>
+<item>
+  <title>De Gaulle - Two films</title>
+  <pubDate>2026-06-04</pubDate>
+  <author>Philip A. Wittamore</author>
+  <link>https://wittamore.fr/articles/2026/De-Gaulle---Two-films.html</link>
+  <guid>https://wittamore.fr/articles/2026/De-Gaulle---Two-films.html</guid>
+  <category> </category>
+  <description><![CDATA[        <h4>De Gaulle is more popular than ever</h4>
+        <p>
+          People who choose a country to be their home are often patriotic as
+          it's their choice, not mere circumstance.
+        </p>
+        <p>Personally I'm patriotic but certainly not nationalist.</p>
+        <blockquote>
+          <i
+            >“The difference between patriotism and nationalism is that the
+            patriot is proud of his country for what it does, and the
+            nationalist is proud of his country no matter what it does; the
+            first attitude creates a feeling of responsibility, but the second a
+            feeling of blind arrogance that leads to war.”</i
+          >
+          ―
+          <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_J._Harris"
+            >Sydney J. Harris</a
+          >
+        </blockquote>
+        <p></p>
+        <div class="wrapper">
+          <iframe
+            src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/RTNzSKr3Hsw"
+            title="De Gaulle (2026) Official Trailer"
+            frameborder="0"
+            allow="
+              accelerometer;
+              autoplay;
+              clipboard-write;
+              encrypted-media;
+              gyroscope;
+              picture-in-picture;
+              web-share;
+            "
+            referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin"
+            allowfullscreen
+          ></iframe>
+        </div>]]></description>
+</item>
+<item>
+  <title>Ladybird turns into a squashed bug</title>
+  <pubDate>2026-06-06</pubDate>
+  <author>Philip A. Wittamore</author>
+  <link>https://wittamore.fr/articles/2026/Ladybird-turns-into-a-squashed-bug.html</link>
+  <guid>https://wittamore.fr/articles/2026/Ladybird-turns-into-a-squashed-bug.html</guid>
+  <category> </category>
+  <description><![CDATA[        <h4>Sponsored software hype</h4>
+        <p>
+          Last year
+          <a href="https://wittamore.fr/articles/2025/Ladybird-web-browser.html"
+            >I had high hopes for Ladybird</a
+          >, a web browser with a brand new engine written, from scratch and
+          open source.
+        </p>
+        <p>
+          Unfortunately
+          <a href="https://ladybird.org/posts/changing-how-we-develop-ladybird/"
+            >the code has now been locked</a
+          >, and the code was moved from Swift to Rust because ... AI code.
+        </p>
+        <p>
+          -->
+          <a href="https://exquisite.social/@thomholwerda/116697078838020135"
+            >The fash browser developed by "AI" hypeboys</a
+          >
+        </p>]]></description>
+</item>
+<item>
+  <title>My own private search engine</title>
+  <pubDate>2026-06-02</pubDate>
+  <author>Philip A. Wittamore</author>
+  <link>https://wittamore.fr/articles/2026/My-own-private-search-engine.html</link>
+  <guid>https://wittamore.fr/articles/2026/My-own-private-search-engine.html</guid>
+  <category> </category>
+  <description><![CDATA[        <h4>Messing around with a bad back in stormy weather</h4>
+        <p>
+          I made a bad movement in the shower this morning and made my back
+          scream again, so no woodworking today. One of the benefits of
+          retirement is that I get to choose the days activities.
+        </p>
+        <p>
+          I had installed
+          <a href="https://github.com/searxng/searxng">SearxNG</a> previously
+          more than two years ago, but as I'm constantly fiddling it wound up in
+          the bin.
+        </p>
+        <p>
+          Convalescing in the armchair I saw that my current vps is mostly idle
+          running just snac2, my blog, xmpp, gophernicus and other bits, so I
+          reinstalled SearxNG.
+        </p>
+        <p>
+          It's fast, responsive, and private. I have it behind an Nginx reverse
+          proxy, and only accepting my own IP address for now.
+        </p>
+        <p>
+          Another thing I did was to play around with the
+          <a href="https://getfresh.dev/">Fresh editor</a>. Like Micro, it can
+          be configured to use prettier, the code formatter. Ok, it's written in
+          Rust, but it is a nice editor with a retro computing vibe. It won't
+          replace Micro as my daily editor, but if I ever need a TUI IDE it
+          could be a good choice.
+        </p>]]></description>
+</item>
+<item>
+  <title>Filtering the web</title>
+  <pubDate>2026-06-20</pubDate>
+  <author>Philip A. Wittamore</author>
+  <link>https://wittamore.fr/articles/2026/Filtering-the-web.html</link>
+  <guid>https://wittamore.fr/articles/2026/Filtering-the-web.html</guid>
+  <category> </category>
+  <description><![CDATA[        <h4>A browser that says no</h4>
+        <p>
+          To me the problem with the smolweb is that there's isn't a browser
+          that applies these rules. Dillo comes close, even though it needs a
+          makeover.
+        </p>
+        <p>
+          Dillo also has an rdrview plugin, but you have to manually write
+          rdrview: in front of the url in the url bar of every page to see the
+          results.
+        </p>
+        <p>
+          A better solution would be a smolweb plugin that filters the entire
+          html page rejecting anything that doesn't
+          <a href="https://smolweb.org/validator/">validate</a> or pass to
+          rdrview . Degrees of acceptance could be set in settings.
+        </p>
+        <p>
+          A dedicated browser wouldn't require searching for smolweb / smallweb
+          / indieweb blogs, sites, or articles. (There seems to be no such thing
+          as a smolweb search engine, although points for wiby, marginalia, kagi
+          and mojeek).
+        </p>
+        <p>
+          Just point the browser to any web site and if it borks, display the
+          "errors" or ignore it with a
+          <a
+            href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Reference/Status/418"
+          >
+            418 I'm a teapot error</a
+          >: after all it's the web site author's responsibility to provide
+          clean, readable web sites.
+        </p>
+        <p>
+          Imagine a world where this plugin would be as ubiquitous as
+          ublock-origin, it could even change web site development.
+        </p>]]></description>
+</item>
+<item>
+  <title>Updated poem</title>
+  <pubDate>2026-06-01</pubDate>
+  <author>Philip A. Wittamore</author>
+  <link>https://wittamore.fr/articles/2026/Updated-poem.html</link>
+  <guid>https://wittamore.fr/articles/2026/Updated-poem.html</guid>
+  <category> </category>
+  <description><![CDATA[        <h4>Existance is the prize itself</h4>
+        <p>
+          Sadly a childhood friend of one of my nieces recently died at 36 of a
+          brain tumour. I gave this poem a re-write.
+        </p>
+        <pre>
+Life is but a long farewell
+While clawing at eternity's shell
+No rhyme nor reason, no justice in sight 
+A frantic push against entropy's might
+This fleeting hare 
+Brings grave dispair
+But pointless is a daily dread
+Of closing circuit in our bed
+Here then gone, a spark in the night?
+Our passing through is never trite
+Best keep your malaise on the shelf
+Existance is the prize itself
+</pre
+        >]]></description>
+</item>
+<item>
+  <title>This blog wasn&#39;t so bad after all</title>
+  <pubDate>2026-05-05</pubDate>
+  <author>Philip A. Wittamore</author>
+  <link>https://wittamore.fr/articles/2026/This-blog-wasn&#39;t-so-bad-after-all.html</link>
+  <guid>https://wittamore.fr/articles/2026/This-blog-wasn&#39;t-so-bad-after-all.html</guid>
+  <category> </category>
+  <description><![CDATA[        <h4>Smolweb, Fediverse and blogs</h4>
+        <p>
+          For several months I've been using Gopher exclusively, I find it's
+          minimalist raw text files appealing.
+        </p>
+        <p>
+          It does have several drawbacks however. Recently I've been self
+          hosting my own fediverse instance at
+          <a href="https://social.wittamore.fr">social.wittamore.fr</a>.
+        </p>
+        <p>
+          Looking around for a fediverse blog, I realised that this html blog
+          wasn't so bad after all.
+        </p>
+        <p>
+          It's work in progress, as I would like to have it
+          <a href="https://smolweb.org/">smolweb validated</a>, and needs a
+          clean up.
+        </p>]]></description>
+</item>
+
+</channel>
+</rss>
+