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• Post #685482

  In response to the recent events between Proton, the Swiss authorities, and the FBI, a look into the choices that all companies (even privacy-focused ones) must face in the jurisdictions in which they operate. https://www.markpitblado.me/blog/privacy-focused-companies-still-have-to-follow-the-law/

• Post #546922

  I tried to write this post from the perspective of explaining end-to-end encryption to a family member or friend. It's not super technical, rather it tries to be accessible. https://www.markpitblado.me/blog/encryption-in-everyday-life/

• Post #546921

  Favourite day to use the wayback machine to see what the price was for things a month ago. Some very clever marketing going on. 50% off forever you say? How? Oh you just doubled your "normal" price

• Post #546920

  What we've done online has always been public, but now it can be combine in seconds into a nice tidy package (with frequent mistakes), with added opinions about what we beliefs we might hold. https://www.markpitblado.me/blog/ai-treats-us-all-as-public-figures/

• Post #546919

  Testing a new option for static site hosting in Canada, with a CI/CD deployment from codeberg https://www.markpitblado.me/blog/deploying-a-static-site-in-canada-with-worktree/

• Post #546918

  If you're busy in the terminal, the last thing you want to do is switch to libreoffice or excel! These two tools are still early in development, but can allow for some nice quick glances at either input or output data for things like pandas or polars. https://www.markpitblado.me/blog/opening-excel-and-csv-files-from-the-terminal/

• Post #546917

  Created a little tool to make it easier for people to download and cite images from #GBIF, and wrote a paper about it that was published today Paper: https://journals.ku.edu/jbi/article/view/24326 Tool: https://github.com/mark-pitblado/gbif-image-downloader

• Post #546916

  As I was reading on a small e-ink display, I thought about where we had gone wrong with tech, and how we could get the magic back. https://www.markpitblado.me/blog/tech-can-be-enjoyable-again/

• Post #546915

  @Ryan love to see some of these options laid out! As I use many of the products you're considering switching to,, I'm curious how the transitions go and any rough points along the way! Especially Worktree as a super new company, lots of opportunity for feedback.

• Post #546914

  TIL that proton pass now has a new cli application, super useful for things like API keys in dotfiles. It also has a built in ssh agent by the looks of things https://protonpass.github.io/pass-cli/ #protonpass

• Post #546913

  If you're looking for an easy way to check data for errors, pointblank is a great tool that allows for report generation and automated checks in CI/CD pipelines. https://www.markpitblado.me/blog/validating-data-with-pointblank-in-python/ #python

• Post #274287

  If you are looking for a way to preview data files (excel, csv) right from within yazi, duckdb.yazi is a great way to do it! https://github.com/wylie102/duckdb.yazi

• Post #204608

  After self hosting music, wanted to try books next! Booklore allows for Kobo integration, and borrowing from the library still works flawlessly. https://www.markpitblado.me/blog/selfhost-an-ebook-library-with-kobo-and-library-integration/