Kay & Dimi off on adventures yet unknown
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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 in the DataBase of the website was corrupted. Luckily StackOverflow came to the rescue: mysql…
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Using ProtonMail
I’ve started using ProtonMail with the new e-mail address: dimitri.dhuyvetter@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 ProtonMail. Or if you want to try it out, the basic account is free: ProtonMail…
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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, it is interesting to see how different people and organizations are trying to make PGP…
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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 two. The conference was held overlooking the Waterfront with its fishing boats, seals and sailing…
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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 in the presentation are some screen shots of my own website and the Prince Albert…
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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 the time IE6 was the most used browser, which even prompted me to sign a…
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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 doing Responsive Web Design, Mashable a year ago talked about Why 2013 Is the Year…
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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…
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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.…
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