Peter Ries

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Hi! I am Peter Ries. I am not the German techno music producer, but I am the techie from Colorado.

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Latest Post

Nov 30, 2025

GoAccess for web site analytics

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I recently moved a few web sites I own/run off of Netlify, onto a VPS I rent in the cloud. I did that so I could better control how my sites get published on the web. I learned recently that Netlify use Amazon Web Services (AWS) in the background and I was unhappy to learn that. With my new VPS, that is not happening. Now that I run my sites on my own (rented) server, I realized I could do something I never could before - analyze my web traffic.

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All Posts

  • GoAccess for web site analytics - Nov 30, 2025
  • De-Microsofting: More work to do! - Nov 25, 2025
  • Self Hosting my Websites - Nov 16, 2025
  • The Fediverse is for you! - Sep 25, 2025
  • Running a Bottle app in Docker - Sep 14, 2025
  • De-googling: Replacing Google calendar - Apr 21, 2025
  • De-googling: Searxng for web searching - Apr 19, 2025
  • Homemade image resizer - Apr 15, 2025
  • Psychonauts 2 - Jan 19, 2025
  • Happy Halloween! - Oct 24, 2024
  • Memos - a lightweight, self-hosted note taking app - Jul 20, 2024
  • Getting LLM writing help in an ethical way - Jun 5, 2024
  • Lawn Mower with AC from the 50s - May 29, 2024
  • De-googling my life - update for April - Apr 21, 2024
  • Saint Siméon by Marc-Aurèle Fortin - Apr 4, 2024
  • Filebrowser as a Google Drive replacement - Mar 13, 2024
  • Super cool pictures from the original Batman TV show - Jan 22, 2024
  • De-Googling my life - step 1 - Dec 30, 2023
  • What kind of bubble is AI? (a Cory Doctorow editorial) - Dec 24, 2023
  • Advent of Code - 2023 - Day 1 - Dec 20, 2023
  • Two neat things - Nov 4, 2023
  • Online blogging with Decap - Nov 4, 2023
  • Setting up Wireguard for home use on Ubuntu - Oct 29, 2023
  • Logseq and Syncthing - Oct 28, 2023
  • Yejin Choi's AI Ted Talk - Oct 16, 2023
  • Ancient sigils, modern symbols - Sep 2, 2023
  • Nineteenth Century Newspaper Illustrations - Jul 5, 2023
  • We need a new name for Artificial Intelligence - May 10, 2023
  • Shooting Stars - Mar 18, 2023
  • Youtube Dl for Music - Feb 4, 2023
  • Fun with ChatGPT - Dec 4, 2022
  • Your humble author as a wee child - Jun 29, 2022
  • AutoKey for Linux - Feb 5, 2022
  • Crown Records - Feb 2, 2022
  • How do you spell rhythm? - Dec 13, 2021
  • Firefox on Ubuntu - How to set a local file as a homepage? - Jul 15, 2021
  • Amazon: Encouraging Anti-Vaccine Conspiracy Theorists - Jun 7, 2021
  • Reset Windows Password From CMD - Apr 18, 2021
  • Amazon : Fake Amazon reviews 'being sold in bulk' online - Feb 17, 2021
  • Trying videojs with Piwigo on a Raspberry Pi - Feb 12, 2021
  • January 6 2021 in D.C. - Jan 7, 2021
  • Amazon: Steamrolling Rivals - Dec 22, 2020
  • An idea: Decentralized personal servers - Dec 19, 2020
  • Adding playable audio files to Hugo pages - Dec 14, 2020
  • Advent of Code Days 7 to 11 - Dec 12, 2020
  • Advent of Code Day 6 - Dec 6, 2020
  • Advent of Code Day 5 - Dec 5, 2020
  • Advent of Code Day 4 - Dec 4, 2020
  • Advent of Code Day 3 - Dec 3, 2020
  • Advent of Code Day 2 - Dec 2, 2020
  • Advent of Code Day 1 - Dec 1, 2020
  • XTC: King for a Day - Nov 18, 2020
  • Amazon: Fakespot says 42 Percent of Reviews May Be Fake - Nov 7, 2020
  • Piwigo on Raspberry Pi 4 in 2020 - Oct 23, 2020
  • Displaying your Raspberry Pi’s Temperature on its home web page - Oct 11, 2020
  • November 2020 General Election - Oct 2, 2020
  • Veggie garden going strong - Aug 24, 2020
  • Recipe for Date-Almond-Cherry Snacks - Aug 3, 2020
  • New bike! Cannondale CAAD Sora 2020 - May 15, 2020
  • New Disc Golf Course coming to HR - Apr 30, 2020
  • South Metro Fire Rescue Election 2020 - Apr 26, 2020
  • Desmond Dekker 007 (1967) - Apr 10, 2020
  • Jazz At the Philharmonic 1967 - Apr 4, 2020
  • Colorado's Senate Seat in 2020 - Mar 5, 2020
  • Music on YouTube - Feb 26, 2020
  • How I solved a 'No Disk Space' error on my Pi - Feb 9, 2020
  • NSA Motivational Posters from the 50s - 70s - Feb 1, 2020
  • Good times, thanks to The Vandals - Sweatin' to the Oldies - Jan 22, 2020
  • The Evil List - Jan 18, 2020
  • Firefox - How to set a local file as a homepage? - Jan 12, 2020
  • Petros Klampanis in Denver - Jan 11, 2020
  • Privacy shouldn’t be a luxury - Jan 10, 2020
  • How to solve the Bad Options Error in jshint - Jan 6, 2020
  • Dizzy Gillespie - 1966 - Jan 3, 2020
  • Microsoft OneNote – How to add a border around an image - Dec 30, 2019
  • First post! - Dec 19, 2019

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    Privacy

    Updated November 30 2025

    I still believe in privacy and so the only way this site tracks you is via the data your browser provides to the web server (Your public IP Address, your general location in the world, your browser and its version). With this basic and limited info, I know how many people visit, how many subscribe to the RSS feed and a few more things like that. If you choose to reach out to me, I know what you choose to tell me. This site does not set any cookies, and doesn’t use any tracking software in the browser. I am not selling anything from here and you are not losing anything other than your browser’s stats by visiting this site. Please let me know via the Contacts page here if you have any concerns about this.

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