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Goodbye West

As they now demolish the massive Tomson Reuters, formerly Tomson West, formerly West Group headquarters in Eagan, I found this photo of a meeting in 2017 I got to take in the special conference room originally built for the owner/founder and not often used. Behind the panneled wall on the right was a small kitchen. If you stretch your browser window, you can see the flags on the left. Now look at this recent photo of the destruction and you can see the same flags

Matrix and Element: Matrix Web UI

Published Nov 14, 2023 by Isaac Johnson

Element is already the client I use in Android. However, they have Clients for all OSes, including a self-hosted one that includes running in Kubernetes.

Immich: OS Photo and Video Sharing

Published Nov 9, 2023 by Isaac Johnson

Immich is a fully open-source project for “Self-Hosted” “Photos and Videos” that supports web and mobile devices. It was created (and maintained) by Alex Tran. In fact, I think it’s so good, I bo...

Matrix Synapse: Federated Open-Source Messaging

Published Nov 7, 2023 by Isaac Johnson

Matrix is an open protocol for decentralized, secure communications. Basically, a federated method of chatting with rooms and channels - like a marriage of Mastodon and Slack.

Strapi part 2: GraphQL and Content Management

Published Nov 2, 2023 by Isaac Johnson

Earlier this week we looked into setting up an on-prem Strapi instance. The whole reason for a Content Management System (CMS) is to, well, store some content.

Strapi: OS CMS

Published Oct 31, 2023 by Isaac Johnson

Strapi is a CMS that has been around since 2016. They have both a self hosted and Cloud option. But more importantly, they are based on Open-Source and free to setup and run yourself, should you ...

On-Prem Upgrades: Harbor, Uptime, Rundeck

Published Oct 26, 2023 by Isaac Johnson

Harbor CR has moved up a lot since we last installed it nearly a year ago.

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