Hi. 👋

I am JayVii, a data enthusiast with a passion for Free and Open Source Software. I care about social inclusion & privacy. This is my personal Fediverse server, powered by ktistec. I modified its appearance with my own adjustments.

I typically remove shared posts after ca. 3–6 months. I do keep most of my own posts (for now).

I post about a variety of topics, both in German and English, such as:

I also developed a few tiny & simple self-hostable tools to ease my life (and that of others), such as:

You can find out more about myself on my website or in my introduction post.

JayVii

Trying to mass-delete older posts and shares on my #ktistec instance without prior backup turned out to be a bad idea

The docker container running on my tiny 1 vCPU, 1GB RAM VPS suddently started crashing and restarting every few seconds.

Turns out, ktistec is doing some(?) tasks in the background now, hogging the CPU and loads of RAM, which eventually leads to crashing the container. Creating a swapfile stabilized the situation until the cleanup(?) tasks are done. We will see whenever it finishes.

Remember: never start fiddling without doing prior backups...

JayVii

I did some basic explanations and screenshot-showcase of my new bookmarking / note taking #PHP web application #rememori: https://src.jayvii.de/pub/rememori/index.html#features

Suggestions for new features (and coding style...) are very appreciated!

JayVii

#Fennec #FDroid has not been updated in months and apparently has known vulnerabilities. So which webbrowser are #privacy contious #Android users using these days? There is always #Mull & #Mulch from #DivestOS, I suppose. #Firefox

JayVii

Been working on a simple bookmarking client ("rememori") completely written in #PHP, without any data base in the back, but instead based on simple .txt files.

The features include (for now):

1. tagging (only one per note),
2. a simple search through all your notes,
3. automatic title-fetching for URL-notes,
4. a simple API endpoint for programmatically adding new notes (I imported all my linkding bookmarks via three lines in bash and #curl),
5. #RSS feeds for individual categories (so you can use it as read-it-later application together with an RSS reader

JayVii

As my #selhosted (and often self-written) tiny webservices start to mount in numbers, I fell the need to setup a small link-tree style landing page, listing all of them, rather than putting them up somewhere on my "normal" website: https://jayvii.de

Easy enough with static website generators like #hugo (which I use for all static sites anyways)

JayVii

And finally came around reworking #yt2html as well in lieu to https://social.jayvii.de/objects/ceSWAqOpqTk

It's full #PHP now, rather than the weird hack of PHP running an #rstats script in the background.

Try it here: https://video.jayvii.de
Help with development here:  https://src.jayvii.de/pub/yt2html/

JayVii

Reworked my tiny #tw2html webtool that let's me check and "follow" streams on #Twitch. Checking is now done client-side via #JavaScript instead of the much slower server-side #PHP procedure. The new procedure checks 30 streams in well under 1 second.

Feel free to try it out here: https://twitch.jayvii.de/

JayVii

Whoops, looks like #GNOME's website is down. Same to extensions.gnome.org where a 504 error turns up. Any infos on that? Does not look like maintenance

Image description: Screenshot of the error message on gnome.org, where a connection to the database behind the Wordpress site can not be established
JayVii

On yesterday's #serci Update post (https://social.jayvii.de/objects/MVKQo4c6huo), today I finished a massive overhaul of the web-frontend for this Meta² search engine.

Besides looking a lot slicker, it should be a lot easier to understand for new users now. The list of search engines can now be searched and filtered and your personal default search engine can be chosen easily with a single click! I also added descriptions for each search engine, to make the list easier to browse and understand.

Feel free to try it yourself! https://search.jayvii.de

Oh, and the re-factoring increased performance by 33%! Searching on average takes 0.12s before redirect (same as before), but loading the web-frontend takes only 0.18s instead of 0.28s now. Really happy with how it turned out. Still: any suggestions are more than welcome!

#webdev #PHP #webdesign #searchengine #selfhosted 

JayVii

I have been adding quite a few more search engines to #serci today, including #Fireball, #SearX/#SearXng, #eTools, #TigerCH, #WolframAlpha and #DBLP today.  All new additions are already live at https://search.jayvii.de.

With 64 search engines in the default configuration, I feel like the webfrontend has to present all the options in a better way. But I am really out of ideas on what that could look like... Suggestions are very welcome! #webdev #php #foss #search