Garron Blog

2004 Trek Gary Fisher Marlin GS

Thu, 18 Sep 2025 07:00:00 +0000

Maybe the last addition to the collection, a 2004 Gary Fisher Marlin GS

1999 26er Specialized Hardrock

Thu, 14 Aug 2025 07:00:00 +0000

1999 Specialized Hardrock, the new adquisition for the collection

2016 26er GT Palomar

Fri, 18 Jul 2025 11:56:00 +0000

Talking about my GT Palomar

My Specialized Stumpjumper: Still Rolling Strong

Thu, 17 Jul 2025 11:56:00 +0000

How I got a restored Stumpjumber 2008

Giant Iguana 1995

Wed, 16 Jul 2025 07:56:00 +0000

Giant Iguana 1995

Biking

Mon, 20 May 2024 10:56:00 +0000

My new hobby

From Middleman to Blot.im

Wed, 21 Jun 2023 10:56:00 +0000

Why I am moving away from Middleman and migrating my blog to Blot.im

This is How You Can Use Kubernetes

Fri, 02 Apr 2021 11:05:00 +0000

Some use cases of Kubernetes

Mastodon Review

Mon, 24 Aug 2020 21:15:00 +0000

After four months using Mastodon, here is my review of the decentralized Social Network

My Top 10 Most Used Commands

Fri, 21 Aug 2020 21:05:00 +0000

The list of my most used command on Linux Terminal

Running update

Sun, 16 Aug 2020 22:05:00 +0000

Update of my running activity up to August

They finished

Wed, 12 Aug 2020 23:18:00 +0000

Those who finished the 100 to off-load-challenge

How to self-host Plausible Analytics

Sat, 08 Aug 2020 22:35:00 +0000

Complete guide and step by step instructions to self-host Plausible Analytics

Happy Independence Day Bolivia

Thu, 06 Aug 2020 19:45:00 +0000

A hard year is behind for Bolivia in this day, as we are celebrating our Independence Day

Writing for nobody, writing for everybody

Sun, 02 Aug 2020 23:45:00 +0000

The responsability behing writing a blog

Keep Writing

Tue, 28 Jul 2020 18:45:00 +0000

Talking about my activities on this month, and keep writing

Bitwarden Review

Sun, 26 Jul 2020 22:15:00 +0000

Bitwarden review, all its features, and how to host it yourself easily, using the alternate Rust version behind a proxy with Nginx or Caddy

How to self-host your email server

Sun, 19 Jul 2020 22:15:00 +0000

Options to self host your email server on Docker, what you should consider before doing it, and how to do it right

How to decentralize the Internet

Sat, 18 Jul 2020 15:55:00 +0000

How to decentralize the Internet, steps towards freedom

Cloudflare outage and the risk in today's Internet

Sat, 18 Jul 2020 12:06:00 +0000

Cloudflare outage and the risks of concentrating Internet services in just a few companies around the world

AMP Pages

Fri, 17 Jul 2020 22:55:00 +0000

What AMP pages are, when to use, what are the benefits of using them, and what are the drawbacks

Middleman on Docker, and automatic deploy of the site

Sun, 12 Jul 2020 21:13:00 +0000

Installing middleman on a Docker container using Dockerfile, and creating a post-receive hook to deploy automatically to production after pushing to web server

Dockerize Everything

Fri, 10 Jul 2020 21:13:00 +0000

Moving all applications installed on bare OS to Docker containers

Running in 2020

Mon, 06 Jul 2020 07:05:00 +0000

Running in 2020

Featured Image with Middleman Blog

Sun, 05 Jul 2020 21:13:00 +0000

Implementing featured image with Middleman, and setting a fallback in case no one is defined

Wallabag Review

Sat, 04 Jul 2020 18:21:00 +0000

Review of the Wallabag service, the open source alternative to Pocket

Reading

Wed, 01 Jul 2020 22:21:00 +0000

To be a good blogger, is not only about writing, it is also about reading

Webmentiond

Tue, 30 Jun 2020 14:01:00 +0000

Webmentions managed by webmentiond on this site

Tombstone 1993

Sat, 27 Jun 2020 21:01:00 +0000

Tombstone 1993, the best Val Kilmer’s movie

Plausible Analytics Review

Fri, 26 Jun 2020 22:01:00 +0000

Review of Plausible Analytics, the privacy focus and respectful way to do analytics

Re_Webmentiond

Fri, 26 Jun 2020 00:05:00 +0000

Re Webmentiond

Night Walk

Wed, 24 Jun 2020 21:00:00 +0000

Walking at night

From Google Analytics to AWStats

Tue, 23 Jun 2020 23:01:00 +0000

Stats, switching from Google Analytics to AWstats

Holiday, Improving the Blog and Hacker News front page

Mon, 22 Jun 2020 21:01:00 +0000

Holiday in Bolivia, Front page of Hacker News, and a whole day working on blog and server changes

Thank you Kev

Sun, 21 Jun 2020 19:01:00 +0000

Half way of the 100 days to offload

Typora

Sun, 21 Jun 2020 17:21:00 +0000

Typora, free and great Markdown Editor for Linux, Windows and MacOS, if you use a static site generator, this post is for you

Create No-JavaScript friendly sites

Sat, 20 Jun 2020 21:00:00 +0000

Why you should create No-JavaScript friendly sites, and ensure they are useable by anyone

Like of: How Does Mastodon Work?

Sat, 20 Jun 2020 16:40:00 +0000

Like of: How Does Mastodon Work?

Like of: Permanent Writing vs. Temporary Writing

Sat, 20 Jun 2020 16:00:00 +0000

Like of: Permanent Writing vs. Temporary Writing

Three months locked down

Sat, 20 Jun 2020 12:31:00 +0000

Three months locked down because of Corona Virus Pandemic

Working Copy App review

Wed, 17 Jun 2020 07:41:00 +0000

My first impressions and review of the git client for iOS, Working Copy

Github to change the name in master branch to avoid slavery references

Tue, 16 Jun 2020 19:05:00 +0000

GitHub to replace Master name in the main branch with another term, like main to avoid racist terms

How does running this blog cost?

Mon, 15 Jun 2020 22:21:00 +0000

How much does it cost to run this blog?

New blogging workflow

Sat, 13 Jun 2020 22:21:00 +0000

New blogging workflow using vercel, git and Middleman

Deploying to Vercel

Sat, 13 Jun 2020 15:25:00 +0000

Deploying my Middleman blog to Vercel

Blogging from iPad

Sat, 13 Jun 2020 10:00:00 +0000

Blogging from iPad

Web or System Fonts

Thu, 11 Jun 2020 15:31:00 +0000

What is the difference between web fonts and system fonts, and when to use each of them

Re: Mastodon Centralisation

Mon, 08 Jun 2020 19:30:00 +0000

A replya to Mastodon Centralisation

Own your domain

Sun, 07 Jun 2020 17:41:00 +0000

Why should you own your domain?

Single User Mode on Mastodon

Sat, 06 Jun 2020 20:00:00 +0000

How to set Single User Mode on Mastodon

Typography

Sat, 06 Jun 2020 17:00:00 +0000

Website Typography

Webmentions again

Fri, 05 Jun 2020 22:41:00 +0000

Webmentions stopped working, I need to learn more

New friends at Mastodon

Wed, 03 Jun 2020 20:41:00 +0000

How Mastodon introduce you to new nice people and friends

I have changed this blog permalink structure

Wed, 03 Jun 2020 08:41:00 +0000

I have change the permalink structure of this site, here is why

Getting rid of analytics on your blog

Tue, 02 Jun 2020 21:41:00 +0000

Thinking about getting rid of analytics on this blog

Self-hosting problems

Mon, 01 Jun 2020 21:41:00 +0000

What kind of problems do you have when self-hosting your apps

Miniflux

Sun, 31 May 2020 21:34:00 +0000

Using Miniflux to read RSS

Mother's day in Bolivia

Fri, 29 May 2020 21:34:00 +0000

Celebration of mother’s day in Bolivia

DuckDuckGo

Tue, 26 May 2020 21:00:00 +0000

Duck Duck Go

Freedom as risk

Sun, 24 May 2020 08:05:00 +0000

My humble opinion about how the current situation might affect our freedom

Hosting your own email server

Sat, 23 May 2020 21:05:00 +0000

How to host your own email server and get push notifications on your phone

On hosting your own mail server

Fri, 22 May 2020 23:00:00 +0000

Hosting your own mail server

Notes

Fri, 22 May 2020 14:00:00 +0000

My space for notes

Bitwarden

Thu, 21 May 2020 21:05:00 +0000

Moving to Bitwarden

Two months locked in

Wed, 20 May 2020 23:05:00 +0000

How two months lockded in will affect our lives

New theme (again)

Wed, 20 May 2020 07:05:00 +0000

Changing the theme of the blog again

Tea for two

Tue, 19 May 2020 15:05:00 +0000

Celebrating four years together

PicoCMS

Sun, 17 May 2020 21:05:00 +0000

Testing PicoCMS

Blogging is not dead

Sat, 16 May 2020 20:00:00 +0000

Blogging is not dead

Dad's lessons

Thu, 14 May 2020 22:00:00 +0000

Some lessons my dad thought me

Home-made empanadas

Wed, 13 May 2020 22:40:00 +0000

Home-made empanadas

Testing Pleroma

Wed, 13 May 2020 18:40:00 +0000

Testing Pleroma, how it compares to Mastodon

FOSS Spirit

Sun, 10 May 2020 18:40:00 +0000

Helping others just becuase it feels good, FOSS Spirit

Webmentions

Sat, 09 May 2020 22:00:00 +0000

Webmentions on this site

Your passwords online

Sat, 09 May 2020 16:00:00 +0000

Storing your passwords online, a safe option?

Blogging from GitHub

Fri, 08 May 2020 18:00:00 +0000

Blogging from GitHub

Webmentions or Comments from Mastodon

Thu, 07 May 2020 22:40:00 +0000

Webmentions or Comments from Mastodn

Ready to test NextCloud

Wed, 06 May 2020 22:10:00 +0000

Getting ready to test NextCloud

My Cloud Provider

Tue, 05 May 2020 22:10:00 +0000

The best cloud provider, or the one I use

Back to a self hosted server

Mon, 04 May 2020 19:10:00 +0000

Back to a self hosted server

My own Mastodon instance

Sun, 03 May 2020 19:10:00 +0000

Deploying my own Mastodon instance

100 days to offload

Sat, 02 May 2020 19:30:00 +0000

My 100 posts in 100 days list

New Theme

Sat, 02 May 2020 18:30:00 +0000

New theme for the blog

Nothing to hide

Thu, 30 Apr 2020 07:30:00 +0000

Reply to Jan Lukas’ post about privacy

The streets of Coronavirus

Tue, 28 Apr 2020 20:00:00 +0000

How streets look like in Coronavirus time

Working from home will be the new "normal" situation

Sun, 26 Apr 2020 09:45:00 +0000

How working from home will be for a lot of people

Why I have a blog

Sat, 25 Apr 2020 20:45:00 +0000

Replying to Kev Quirk about why do I have a blog

About

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

About me

My name is Guillermo Garron, I am an electronic engineer with more than 20 years of experience in Telecomunications, working with Linux and Mac OS most of those years.

I have developed websites, I have created and managed this site as well the old Go2Linux.org. They were developed first in Drupal, then in Wordpress, after that as Jeklyll and finally in Middleman static site generator.

I have worked with Debian, Ubuntu, Arch Linux, Gentoo Linux as well as Fedora and CentOS

Contact

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

If you want to contact me, you can use one of the following methods:

Twitter
Email me: blog@garron.me

Being the better options, email or Twitter. Or at least those that I check more often.