Here’s a quick snippet to allow you change the HTML of a page before Cypress fires your tests. In an ideal world you would want to have different server side rendered HTML pages and you would just call page-1.html and page-2.html but in my case the component I’m trying to test inherits a configuration from […]
The other day I wanted to post several links and posts on Mastodon. I didn’t want to flood my followers’ timeline with my face several times in a row. So I thought, I’d love to have a way to schedule posts on Mastodon 🤔 So far there doesn’t seem to be a way to do […]
After starting to host my own private Mastodon instance it became clear that disk usage was going to be problem. I eventually moved all the assets to an S3 compatible Object Storage. Now I’m moving away from Backblaze B2 as a S3 provider to Scaleway. I wanted to highlight why and how I did it, […]
The current (4.0.2) Mastodon profile page is bad. Bad because it requires JavaScript to load. If you want to go back in time and look at your own posts it’s not convenient, it’s just slow. I find myself wanting to find old posts to re-share or revisit often. So I decided to first build a […]
The out of the box Mastodon does not come with sitemap.xml generation built-in. If you want to push a user’s sitemap to Google or other search engines here’s how to do it. 💡 My setup is meant to be for a single-user Mastodon instance. 🤔 Why? It’s simple, I don’t have Elastic Search set up […]
Here my highlights of the VPS move last week. You will see a lot of cons which are negated by the fact that pricing and hardware is that much better deal. For context, I have been a Linode customer for like 10 years. The customer service has been good, the dashboard is nice and they […]
⚠️ I have written a follow-up post moving from B2 to Scaleway as Object Storage provider. This post is still valid, the only thing is I’m not longer using B2, which might be perfectly fine for your needs 👍 When I installed my private personal Mastodon instance y quickly noticed Mastodon has storage issues, so […]
A Webmention enables enables cross-site conversations. Letting site A know that site B is mentioning them (be it via link, a like, a re-post… there are many times of mentions). One of the cool use cases is to link your Fediverse account (Mastodon, in my case) with your blog. So every time you share a […]
Mastodon’s built-in CLI gives you the availability to clean attachments and previews from remote accounts, purging the disk cache. This is fantastic and you couldn’t possibly survive with out it. My current crontab that runs every 3 hours: As of Mastodon 4.1.0, we have new available commands. Here’s the content of my purge-media.sh script: ⚠️ […]
⚠️ Read this before deep diving I’ve been dealing with Mastodon’s high disk usage for the last week. Have a read before installing your own Mastodon instance. I would recommend checking out Pleroma and Akkoma before taking a decision. They have way less system requirements than Mastodon. EDIT November 8th Self-hosting That’s right, I know […]