Website downtime
If you tried to visit this site in the last month or so, you saw the WordPress Error establishing a database connection screen, which is never a good thing. It took me a while to figure out, but a table … Continued
Author Archives: Dimitri Dhuyvetter
Using ProtonMail
I’ve started using ProtonMail with the new e-mail address: dimitri.dhuyvetter(at)protonmail.com. For now I haven’t switched my existing e-mail address to Proton, but I might in the future. If you have ProtonMail, please use the new address if you are using … Continued
New approaches to PGP key servers
I’ve been a long time fan of PGP encryption and played around with it. If you want to send me something encrypted, you can find my key here. As encryption is slowly moving from a geek/paranoid hobby into the mainstream, … Continued
Bitcoin Africa Conference
The first Bitcoin Africa Conference in Cape Town on 16 and 17 April was a big success. It brought together an impressive line-up of speakers, including Gyft co-founder Vinny Lingham and Bitcoin Foundation board member Brick Peirce to name but … Continued
Building a Bootstrap based WordPress theme
At the Brussels WordPress Meetup in November I gave a very short presentation on building a custom WordPress theme based on Bootstrap, using Roots. I think the slides are pretty self explanatory, it is mainly an overview of resources. Included … Continued
The revenge of JavaScript
When I made my first steps in web development over ten years ago, in 2003 to be exact, of course I also learned JavaScript. It was the early 00’s and XHTML and CSS where still relatively new. It was also … Continued
Responsive Web Design
Searching for Responsive Web Design I found this great article on A List Apart: Responsive Web Design which dates from May 2010 which just shows how much ahead of the curve they are. In 2013 everyone is talking about and … Continued
How I Learned to Stop Worying about Google and Love DuckDuckGo
Google, Bing and other search engine make a search “bubble”, and only give you results in line with sites you already visited. This reduces the chance of finding interesting sites and narrows your view of the world wide web to a bubble: Escape your search engine Filter Bubble! http://dontbubble.us/
Google used to have a motto “don’t be evil”, that was a long time ago. Unless privacy is evil in Google’s world. Don’t wanna be tracked? http://donttrack.us/
Rooting the Motorola Milestone and flashing custom ROM
There are a lot of guides, how-tos, blog and forum posts about rooting and flashing Android phones. I decided to add this post to that pile, because it still took me some time to find the really relevant info, especially since I had already updated to Android 2.2 and I am using a Linux machine. Hope this helps some people and doesn’t just make it more confusing or harder to find the relevant info.
