BurgeonLab
BurgeonLab
Naty S
Naty's personal site, built with IndieWeb principles, is where she writes about tinkering with technology and hobbies. She likes to write how-to guides on things she's learnt and is passionate about open source, Hugo, online privacy, and self-hosting.
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Missing In ActionI am a bit disappointed at myself for breaking my relatively consistent weeknote habit—missing out on W26 and W27. I am now writing this on Friday to make sure W28 is not cancelled! Life just kinda caught up, and partly...
A new geography game I discovered recently. Another one is https://travle.earth/. [For up-to-date content, visit BurgeonLab directly (XML feeds don't fetch updates in real-time). For topic-specific feeds, visit /subscribe. Thanks for...
Writers and bloggers, does this happen to you? You sit down to write a weeknote or some journal entry, but suddenly, one of the topics becomes really long and you decide to split that off into its own separate post. You continue with...
As an Indiekit supporter and user, I’m really appreciative of Paul for maintaining this open source project. After a short hiatus, he’s back to review pull requests and issues! I made a PR for some Markdown quality-of-life features and...
June has flown by it seems, and that means Junited-2026 has come to an end. This initiative by Robert has got me reading a lot more blogs this month (and I actually missed two weeknotes…) I’d thoroughly enjoyed discovering new bloggers...
[Note: This page contains regularly updated or dynamic content (e.g., guestbook, changelog). Feed readers may show stale versions. Please view in your browser for the latest version.] What Is This?Inspired by the many /now pages featured...
James has been making quite a few quizzes! They’re all good fun and interestingly accurate! My result: I am a “Link Curator” and “Author”. [For up-to-date content, visit BurgeonLab directly (XML feeds don't fetch updates in real-time)....
Grade10 Trading Card ShowI spoke about Pokémon cards a few weeks ago. Last weekend, I attended Grade10, Hong Kong’s largest card show at Hopewell Centre, Wan Chai. The building is quite unique as it is a round column, plus it has one of...
Troubleshooting Technical ErrorsYesterday, my Indiekit docker failed to start on my Pi. I also couldn’t run npm audit fix despite reviewing and accepting npm approve-scripts --all. As a beginner Node.js user, I am still very...
Homebrew Website Club: Eastern June 17 2026Last Thursday, David (an IndieWeb regular) couldn’t make it due to an emergency. Luckily James, another regular, caught me before I went to bed the night before to tell me the technical details...
[Note: This page contains regularly updated or dynamic content (e.g., guestbook, changelog). Feed readers may show stale versions. Please view in your browser for the latest version.] What Is This?Junited is a project started in 2024 by...
Web Dev UpdatesStale Files on BunnyI was checking my Bunny.net (affiliate link) dashboard a few days ago and noticed some stale files in the root directory for this site. I thought every time I build and deploy the Hugo /public to Bunny,...
A feature I didn’t know existed in VS Codium saved my day! I was working on a untracked Git file (the zensical.toml configuration file) and accidentally, the whole file was overwritten and ctrl+z didn’t work. I thought my config was lost...
digiKam MySQL Database Upgrade WoesEver since I left Adobe Lightroom in mid-2025, I’ve been using digiKam from KDE for digital asset management (DAM). I quite like using it to manage my extensive library of photographs (+100k images)....
Regular expression (Regex) is a skill I wish I have a better grasp on; but I’m slowly learning! For example, I often find myself searching for a particular string pattern to replace it with something else. Today, I learnt how to search...