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This is the Fediverse mirror of the oelna.de blog

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  • Baby Alia Wallpaper from Dune Part Two

    Some of the most striking images in Dune Part Two, at least for me, were the inside-the-womb visuals of Paul’s unborn sister Alia. I liked it so much I made a wallpaper from one of the stills, and I guess, I can share it here. It’s upscaled, modified and cleaned up, pretty opinionated stuff, but…

  • Halal sign in sans-serif font

    Just what it says on the tin: I recently had a project that uses a sans-serif font for most of the communication and I needed to put a Halal sign on a flyer. Arabic seems to have a preference for non-uniform stroke weight, so it didn’t quite integrate with what I had already designed. A…

  • ActivityPub Plugin

    I have spent quite some time setting up the ActivityPub Plugin and getting it to work. For me the issue was twofold: And if I understand this correctly, readers should now be able to follow oelna@oelna.de on Mastodon and see new posts on this blog in their timelines. Success, I guess?

  • WordPress and SQLite

    For a long time I have hated MySQL with a passion. I guess mostly because it is cumbersome. Requires additional credentials, is non-trivial to host on desktop OSes, most of the time requires an additional UI for management, such as PHPmyAdmin. It is probably reasonable for a project like WordPress to use it as storage,…