Lester's Rants

Created by: Administrator, 15 June 2011
Last modified: 28 February 2025

Although I need to update the manual first

By Lester Caine
23 February 2025

Starting point on this is while I've been using bitweaver for 20 years starting from it's precursor TikiWiki, remembering all that it does is almost impossible. Added to that I've put up with a few little niggles such as in this blog module when it would not take long to address them. So need to prioritise things a little better, which is already proving fruitful.

The code for all of the websites runs from a single copy and so any changes automatically update all the sit…

Time to start reading the manual

By Lester Caine
19 February 2025

I am starting to get to like Jellyfin. Most things I have set up in Plex are just working, but the bit I do like is that it uses the metadata from Calibre for the book sections so I can manage everything from there. No point in duplicating all that capability IN Jellyfin. I just add the two main book directories to the Jellyfin media and they work. I was looking at BookBrainz to see if that would be of help with extra information, but it's early days…

Remember to save before saving!

By Lester Caine
18 February 2025

Nice new post got lost because of a 'security violation' ... Need to find out just what IS timing out preventing the later save.
Will leave this as a poke to remember and start a new post trying to remember what I had written :(

Definitely on a Roll

By Lester Caine
18 February 2025

Started working on fixing some of the niggles in Bitweaver. First step was to address the warnings that Firefox throws up when loading pages such as 'zoom is deprecated' and 'cookies need samesite entry'. In addition, ckeditor has always worked, but with warnings about already assigned or missing.

'zoom' is a css entry, and the pointers given lead to it needing to be replaced with 'transform: scale(1)'. Some of these changes do seem contorted, but hit…

Had a great day ...

By Lester Caine
16 February 2025

Lets leave out the summary and just get stuck in.

Few jobs I thought I would get on with yesterday. Starting point was to monitor if anybody is accessing my sites and given the nginx logs are growing fast something is, but difficult to see who. So what is available to parse the files? A quick search put GoAccess as the top option, so I tried to get a copy loaded since it's not in the basic openSUSE setup of packages, but it is on the ex…