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  • THIS is the year for the Lunix Desktop

    This is about replacing a Windows operating system with Linux, specifically Ubuntu, on a family computer which had been crippled by Windows and was going to be thrown out. The setup The computer was basically unusable, Windows was doing so much rubbish trying to sell the owners stuff and show them weather forecasts it was…

  • A case for organisations running their own ActivityPub servers

    The internet has always been about standards, otherwise it simply would not work. The visibility of these for the average user has diminished as large platforms have monopolised activities on the web and run them with their own invisible data structures. Now the internet is the main form of communication there is a growing acknowledgement…

  • Cross Posting WordPress to Social Media

    As we work towards a Publish Once Propagate Widely strategy it is nice (essential?) if on publish the post is pushed out to the required social platforms automatically. Goals: Solutions: * There are WP plugin options Jetpack works ok but is an annoying thing to have installed and keeps dropping the Facebook API connection, others…

  • Website and Social Media Strategy for Small Non-Profit Organisations

    I am involved in a Trust that runs a Community Workshop in Wānaka and used to look after the website for another non-profit Wānaka Wastebusters. The demands of running a website change all the time along with the expectations of delivering content on social media. All non-profits have limited resources and we at Pure Web…

  • WordPress self hosted versus wordpress.com

    We haven’t used any AI for any of the writing in this blog. I mean writing is fun so why take short cuts. For a question as important as this though I imagine people will search for themselves. So instead of trying to convince anybody with our own biased thoughts here are some hopefully less…

  • Wānaka WordPress Course

    It is hard for small organisations, especially non-for-profits to not succumb to skipping to different technology instead of investing in learning and supporting existing. We have seen this with WordPress, a organisation has a site built with it, decides change is necessary and is wooed away by a designer who is more at home in…

  • Off Grid Energy Storage Using Recycled Electric Car Batteries

    We would really like to one day run our backup servers, and maybe even some of our principle services from our location in #Wānaka, #Otago. In order to make this feasible we will need a reasonable amount of off grid storage to ensure we can keep everything up in a power cut. Gwilym’s 2016 Nissan…

  • And Pureflow becomes Pure Web Hosting

    This all started because we wanted a .nz domain name. Ten years ago when we started Pureflow.io we thought .io was all trendy. Only to realise down the track that we’d rather be seen as the local dogooders that we are, rather than a ‘Company From Elsewhere’. It was going to take a few weeks,…

  • Sending events to your Matrix Room (webhook styles)

    A great usage of Slack, and then Discord was being able to have Events coming from your business into a feed alongside other conversations going, it keeps the beating heart front of mind. In our case it’s servers advising when they are being rebuilt, code errors and customers signing up and adding new sites. Now…

  • Matrix & Digital Sovereignty

    Things have been changing fast on the internet. Especially for people outside of the bubble that is the USA. A couple of years it was laughable to think having your business relying on Google, Facebook and Slack was a problem, now it’s not uncommon to hear people talking about it as a potential business risk.…