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If I had more time, I would have written a shorter stylesheet.

That said, 3.6K is awfully short by today’s standards.

And it automatically adjusts for display sizes from phone portrait to widescreen monitor, light and dark themes (so it doesn’t blast your eyes out if you open it on a dark themed desktop), and switches the main font between serif on high-density displays and sans-serif on low density displays for maximum readability.

This stuff doesn’t require half a megabyte of frameworks and JavaScript to implement.

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Oh yeah, link so you can see it actually works https://hyperborea.org/tech-tips/
At least on modern browsers.

I guess the next step is to test in older ones to see how they handle the mix of media queries. I don’t care if it doesn’t look perfect on the older browsers, but I do want it to be readable!

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Here goes: I’ve taken the troubleshooting posts that I already put on #gemini and set …

Here goes: I’ve taken the troubleshooting posts that I already put on #gemini and set up a web mini-site with them. I figure on adding more as I go along, redirecting some blog posts and linking others.

https://hyperborea.org/tech-tips/

Digging deeper into #IndieWeb and #Eleventy/#11ty, trying to make it both light and responsive, and building a reusable template setup.

Once I’ve refined it a bit more I plan to generalize it & post a git repo of the structure & styles

https://hyperborea.org/tech-tips/about/

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Telling Firefox to open Lagrange for Gemini links

Response to a question about telling Firefox to open Lagrange for Gemini links

I don’t remember exactly how I set that up, but I’ll see if I can configure a fresh profile and write it down this time!

What I remember: I either pasted a gemini: url into the Firefox URL bar or clicked on an actual hyperlink to a gemini: url and it asked what application to open it with.

Firefox also has a per-website security setting on whether a website is allowed to open links in other protocols.

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Yeah, that’s basically it. Paste the URL into Firefox, choose the application (either from the list or from the file picker), and check the “always…” box. Then gemini: links in web pages will open the confirmation box and you can click always-allow per site.

(It won’t work on Mastodon, unfortunately, because Mastodon doesn’t turn gemini: URLs into links.)

I’ll write this up on the #gemini capsule too!

Dialog box in Firefox: Choose an application to open the gemini link. Lagrange is selected. There is also a button to choose another application, and a checkbox for always using this application to open gemini links.

Dialog box in Firefox: Allow this site to open the gemini link with Lagrange? There is a link for choosing another application, and a checkbox for Always allow https://www.hyperborea.org to open gemini links.

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Here it is: opening #gemini links in your preferred client from Firefox.

hyperborea.org/howto/follow-gemini-links-from-firefox.gmi

Spent a good chunk of time last night & this morning (post-windstorm) trying to fix …

Spent a good chunk of time last night & this morning (post-windstorm) trying to fix a broken boot loader on my desktop. (Pro-tip: when power’s flaky, make sure the computer is *off*, not just asleep.)

I figured out pretty quickly that UEFI was missing an entry for the Linux install, but since manually creating boot entries in UEFI isn’t something you do very often, it took me forever to find the right steps to fix it.

Blog post for future troubleshooting: https://hyperborea.org/journal/2021/01/fix-uefi/

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