Skip to content
Station in the Metro
Menu
  • Voiceover & Voice Acting
  • CV
  • The Optical Podcast
  • Apps and Scripts
    • Django Internal Links
    • Django MultiRangeField
    • FeedPress Subscribers Status Board Graph Panel
    • Post Atomic Horror Unofficial Episode Guide
    • Markdown Cheat Sheet
    • Proper English Title Caps 2 for iTunes
    • Clean Ripped TV Episodes for iTunes
    • Track Name Clean Parts for iTunes
  • Casio PT-7
    • Photo Galleries
    • Operation Manual
    • Keyboard ribbon cable repair
  • Colophon
Menu

Tag: server

Ad-blocking

Posted on 2015-08-112015-08-15 by Mark Boszko

I don’t always agree with Marco Arment, but his post today about the ethics of modern web ad-blocking really struck a nerve. As a publisher myself I’ve been trying to figure out how to monetize my sites so they will at least pay for their own expenses. I’m not trying to turn my podcast into…

Read more

Upgrading Django to use Virtualenv on WebFaction

Posted on 2015-07-312015-08-15 by Mark Boszko

Recently, I wanted to upgrade my website on ye olde Django 1.6.5 to finally come up to speed with Django 1.8.3 (current, as of this writing). However, I realized that upgrading a WebFaction webapp in situ seemed to be a rather painful process. In addition, WebFaction doesn’t set you up with Virtualenv by default, and I’d…

Read more

The Ultimate Guide to Hosting Your Own Data

Posted on 2015-04-192015-08-15 by Mark Boszko

Hi! Sorry about that click-bait title. What one person can write an ultimate guide to anything, really? All I can do is tell you about my own experience, and some tools I find useful. Have some other ideas to add? Hit me up on Twitter or Facebook, and maybe we can actually build an ultimate…

Read more

FeedPress Subscribers for Panic Status Board

Posted on 2014-01-192022-03-22 by Mark Boszko

Since the launch of my new podcast, I’ve been trying to keep track of stats on podcast downloads and subscribers. FeedPress has been my feed tracker of choice recently, and seems to work very smoothly (even if they only update stats once a day). I’m also a big fan of Panic’s Status Board iPad app…

Read more

New Digs

Posted on 2013-04-282015-08-12 by Mark Boszko

If you’re seeing this, it means you’re seeing my new, migrated site. I realized that I wasn’t really using any of the extra features that Squarespace was affording me, and while they have given me great service (and I love their stats package), it was time to minimize my outlay to my various service providers….

Read more

Mark Boszko

Film & Video Editor, Voiceover Artist, macOS IT Engineer, and Maker

© 2025 Mark Boszko | find Mark elsewhere on the internet