A thing I have realized: filling all the vents of my Crocs with #3dprinting nonsense makes them a bit too warm to wear. 🥵
Man, this image gallery component I lashed together just isn't behaving right. Image sizes are all over the place. I've seen this particular lightGallery widget work well on other sites, so I'm pretty sure it's something I'm doing that's disagreeable. Not sure how to fix it, tempted to switch to something else entirely - on the hypothesis that picking it up and shaking it like an Etch-a-Sketch may result in a better outcome.
I don't often get feedback & comments via the Disqus comments widget I've embedded at the end of every post. That could be because a) folks aren't reading my blog or b) Disqus is too annoying to use these days. Probably both. I can work on the former by posting better stuff more often and sharing it around. As for the latter, I dunno. I don't want to open a spam honeypot, but I think I need to offer some simpler way to at least give a lil thumbs up as a response.
I'm tempted to hook this stuff up to accounts on the Fediverse and Bluesky, try to get feedback from those channels. That could be worth hacking on for a bit.
Just like my RSS feeds, though, I don't want to generate churn on those networks as I iterate on posts over the course of a day. I'm still thinking through how to balance editing flexibility with publishing stable things when word goes out to the world.
Maybe these miscellanea posts get a 24-hour delay, because they're where I expect to futz around the most throughout a day. If you happen to read them, you're an early alpha reader I guess. Other posts that bud off from this daily scratchpad will likely be stable enough to send out immediately.
I guess that means I need to implement a defer-until feature in my Easy-Blog Oven 🤔 Maybe I can set the post date into the future and implement logic such that no post shows up in a feed or gets sent out to another service until after that time? Too clever?
Hmm, I sent out "Word to your mother" on #meshtastic and someone replied. Maybe my messages are getting out?
I'm starting to look into getting a doorbell camera that works with Home Assistant. I've seen a few recommendations for PoE widgets. Like this REOLINK Video Doorbell PoE Camera. That seems troublesome, unless I'm careful to stick it on its own VLAN / DMZ / whatever? Like I'm imagining someone could walk up at 4am, unhook it, plug in a laptop, and have fun on my network?
Nice day in Portland! Took the car to get serviced, walked for a sammich at Snappy's, then walked over to TOTL Games to see what's what there. Bought myself an Xbox 360 HDD expansion. Someday, I'll get around to hacking that thing and loading it up with all the Rock Band ever.
Time for a bike ride! I've got a 15 mile route in Portland that I take around the Willamette River just about any weekend when the weather's pleasant. Not all that long, but rather pleasant, and gets me out of the house.
I'm still playing with #meshtastic a little, but I think the two devices I have are really only receiving and not managing to transmit to anyone. At least, no one's ever really responded to any of my "ping" messages. Not sure whether I want to go further down the rabbit hole and buy any more robust antennas and the associated paraphernalia that goes along with.
Been watching "Resurrecting Sinistar: A Cyber-Archaeology Documentary", which has been great. Played Sinistar last at Portland Retro Gaming Expo in October and was digging the heck out of it. They squeezed so much out of that 8-bit processor - I guess it had a multitasking system that could handle like over 100 game entities? In 1983?! The source code has actually surfaced, so you can see how they did it.
I was starting to do "weeknotes", this month. But, this week, I decided what I really wanted to do was just blog more. So, that got me started hacking on my blog software.
I'm just going to deploy these changes to the blog. Some things might be broken, but I'll fix them as I go. I want to start actually using the thing.
Thinking I'll start each day off with a miscellanea entry like this one and fill it full of little bullets.
Maybe I'll start spawning little entries for bookmarks and quotes?
One of the main things I'm thinking about with all this hackery and ASCII art is whether I'll be able to do something with all these files in 10 - 20 years' time. Granted, I'll be pushing 70, so maybe I won't care by then?
But, the writing is the important part to me. I could write a whole new blog publisher from scratch and still read all the file formats. I've done that a couple times now and I can still handle stuff I wrote back in 2002. I think that's pretty cool.
And here I am, attempting to blog from Obsidian on my phone? Is this the future?
Next thing I need to work out is how to upload and display images via Obsidian on my phone. I think it's very doable, just a few more bits of Rube Goldberg crud to slot into place.
I've been asked to write up how this whole mess works - that might be a thing I'll do this weekend in greater detail. It really is an accumulation of random little parts.
Dang, now that I have this easy channel from my brain into my blog, I'm feeling like a motormouth. I'll probably settle down, soon enough. I'm always giddy with a new toy.
