by Jared Heath | Dec 20, 2024 | Web Work
A website domain is the address of your website that people type into their web browsers to access it. Think of it as the digital equivalent of a street address for your home or business. Just as a home address guides people to your physical location, a domain name...
by Jared Heath | Aug 26, 2023 | Awesomeness
AI and Censorship Rudimentary AIs have been used in the form of standalone or interlocking algorithms to push or squash certain content on search engines, YouTube, and other social media platforms for the better part of a decade. We know this. Many of us have...
by Jared Heath | Jul 4, 2023 | Awesomeness, IT Work
What’s FOSS? FOSS is an acronym for Free & Open Source Software[1]. Most software that we are familiar with is not open source. What does it mean that something is open source vs being proprietary? Why should we want something that is open source vs something...
by Jared Heath | Jun 9, 2023 | Awesomeness, IT Work, main
Why Use Linux? Last time, we looked at what Linux is and is not. Today, we’ll lay out part of why you should want to use Linux rather than Windows or macOS. Let me recap just a bit from what Linux is before we jump into the meat of today’s post, ok? So, what is Linux?...
by Jared Heath | May 19, 2023 | Awesomeness, IT Work, main
Hi Again, Today I thought we would roll things back a bit and take a look at what some of the core topics I’ve been covering really are. First things first, we will take a look at what Linux is, and what it isn’t. If I have space, I will talk about infrastructure,...
by Jared Heath | May 7, 2023 | Awesomeness, IT Work, Web Work
Tired of knowing that Zoom, Hangouts, Meet, Skype, and most of the other video conferencing platforms get snooped on by the CCP, if not our own intelligence community? Need a good alternative? There are a few out there, and most of the free ones are more or less...
by Jared Heath | Apr 28, 2023 | Awesomeness, IT Work, main, Web Work
If you ever wondered about self-hosting, this week will be a good introduction to the concept as well as to the fediverse, a portmanteau of Federated and Universe. The Fediverse is a set of interoperable protocols and applications which can talk to one another, and...
by Jared Heath | Apr 21, 2023 | Awesomeness, main, Web Work
What you need to know about how Altha Tech uses WordPress to host and manage your sites A match made in heaven. Altha Tech has used WordPress to power most of its web design and hosting services for 7+ years. Altha Tech can build just about any kind of website for...
by Jared Heath | Apr 14, 2023 | Awesomeness, IT Work, main, Web Work
What is Nextcloud all about? Maybe you’ve heard of it, or maybe this will be an introduction for you, but it is, in short, a powerful, private, open source collaboration solution which you can self-host (on any hardware you want which has a network connection) or set...
