I set up an old iPhone for my daughter. I wanted it to show only a few apps and nothing else. No App Store. No web browser. No way to wander off into the rest of the phone. Newer iPhones have a built-in setting for this, called Assistive Access. It needs a recent version of iOS. My old iPhone only went up to iOS 16, so I couldn’t use it. If your phone is a few years old, you are probably in the same spot. ...
I have been on the hunt for the easiest way to host a personal site and blog for a long time. Over the years, I: developed several versions of my own CMS used various static hosting solutions like Jekyll built a simple static templating solution with Flask used Medium used a headless setup with AWS and Zappa tried Micro Blog even gave WordPress a try. There were pros and cons with each solution, but nothing really felt easy to setup and update. With this site, I feel like I finally settled on a configuration that is easy to maintain and update, with very low-cost hosting: ...