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Migrating away from Wordpress to Pelican with nice results


I have been running various iterations of websites operated by me, most often with WordPress. However, there were some issues that made me move away from WordPress. The reasons were mainly related to how heavy WordPress is to operate compared to how little of its functionality I actually use. By [...]

Fixing Matomo tracking for modern web


Matomo tracking seems pretty much unusable with the default setup it is providing. This is a short checklist on fixing it to see a more realistic view on website's visitors (at the same time, I'm using this post to test publishing something with Pelican).

  1. Check that default piwik.php and
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Whisky advent calendar 2023 final review


It’s been a while, but as I promised here is a follow up to the post where I got a Japanese whisky advent calendar. To put this simply, the whole table lists every whisky found in the advent calendar in order with its notes and a grade I’m [...]

Tuuba – Simple YouTube monitoring to Discord


Couple months ago I created a simple webhook posting based tool for a small circle of people to monitor YouTube for certain keywords and see the results in Discord and decided that I might release it as well as a public tool for those who want to keep these things [...]

Trying out a Japanese whisky advent calendar


I’ve learned a long time ago that there are different kinds of whisky calendars out there, but most often I’ve been too late to purchase one when I’ve felt like buying one. However this December is different since I got my hands on with The Spirit Co [...]