Blogs
Why I ditched cloudflare (and you should too)
When I published Part 1 of Taking Control of Your Chapter's Digital Tools, I chose Cloudflare as the domain registrar and nameserver host due to their ubiquity and low cost. After I published it, a reader pointed to an article listing many issues with Cloudflare that...
What’s in the PIPELINE for the upcoming hot open source summer of socialism.tools
I haven't posted in a while, so to let the several people who actually read this blog know that I am both not dead and still working, here's what I've got in the drafts: FreeScout vs OSTicket - which FOSS helpdesk solution works best for the cost-conscious and...
Taking the leap into a multilingual WordPress world
Making your Wordpress site multilingual can seem complex or difficult, especially when you need to ask others for help. I’ve done a lot of experimenting, and I hope I can walk you through some basics.
Multilingual is Important but Challenging
To include everyone, an org has to be multilingual, and while learning a language can take a long time, it can be easier to enlist bilingual people within the organization to translate web content. Translating digital content is seen as an easy, quick way to make the...
Cloudron vs. YunoHost – the self-host app showdown
It can be hard to self-host many open source apps if you’re not a Linux expert. Several projects try to make this easier – they offer new admins an easy web-based installer and come out of the box configured to support secure, stable applications. There’s a large number of different apps that claim to support this need, but two stand out – Cloudron and YunoHost.
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