PeerTube is a really nice self-hostable YouTube alternative that Jim has been using for a bit and introduced me to. I wanted to spin up my own install at video.jadin.me and theme it a bit to fit in with this blog site. The first thing I did was install the dark theme, which I thought would more closely match my blog site as a starting point. You can do this from Administration > Plugins/Themes....
I’ve been messing around with Pinboard lately for social bookmarking and I’ve been really impressed with its archiving features and all the excellent iOS clients for it. I’ve also messed around with getting my bookmarks showing up on my domain! I’ve had some people ask exactly how I’ve integrated Pinboard with this site, so here’s what I’ve done. The finished product. At pinboard.in/resources you can find the Linkroll and Tag cloud widget, under Javascript Widgets....
This is a post I put together to show the ITS Tech Bar Students I work with how to quickly put a static page up on their domain. I am assuming almost no prior knowledge of HTML, CSS, or cPanel. When we are finished you will have a page that looks like this: demo.jadin.me Creating index.html First, we will make an index.html file. The quickest way to do this for now will be to use cPanel’s File Manager tool....