Posts - page 26

A listing of all long-form posts published to-date. Herein, you'll find my thoughts on concepts, ideas, politics, and more.

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Make Some Noise (on Bluesky)

In my efforts to continually preserve the weird things that I do, and have been doing, and/or am also learning to do, I setup a Python noise generation script, that’s completely procedural (like the other ones), and plopped it onto a Bluesky account. Make some noise! Procedurally generated by Python!...
published November 22, 2024
#python #scripting
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I Need Random Quotes, and I Need Them Now

Another little update before I call it a night and do something to rest my brain. I put together a random quote display thing for the top of my website here. Mine has a bunch of quotes from political figures, astronomers, and also Star Trek characters, and it shows them...
published November 21, 2024
#javascript #scripting
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Expanding on the Reasons People Reject Mastodon

I feel like I’ve explored this topic before, but it keeps coming up on my timeline. Specifically, on the timeline of my Bluesky alt account that I’ve got setup for the off-chance, or the just-in-case situation, where I can no longer exist on my personal Mastodon instance (I love my...
published November 21, 2024
#socialmedia #bluesky #mastodon
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Doing More Useful Automation

In more themes around developing automation for my daily internet-life, I decided to make even more little features for my website. Have you ever visited a webpage and thought to yourself, “Man, I wish there was like, a huge mountain of data and pictures for me to stare it!” Well,...
published November 20, 2024
#scripting #programming #jekyll #github #tags #second-life #blogging #pixelfed
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A Tag Generator for Jekyll, Because My Fingers Hurt

I was trying to think of something new to do with my website while I sip a very large beverage this evening, heading into another day off. And I thought, “You know, I hate how I have to manually create new pages for every tag I put on a post....
published November 19, 2024
#scripting #programming #python #jekyll #github #tags
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Let the Past Be the Past

Today, while I was working away, (not on the code I shared in my other post, but at work), I suddenly fell into this kind of melancholy. I’ve dated a lot of people. Thirty-some-odd people. But I also, kind of, in my brain sauce, circle back to the one woman...
published November 18, 2024
#thoughts
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Put a Functioning Guestbook On Your Jekyll Site

So, yesterday, I got home from work late, and wanted to do something more with my website. I wasn’t happy with cbox as a “guestbook” of sorts. It was intrusive, and it was nothing more than an injection of code from some other source, controlled by some other person. That’s...
published November 18, 2024
#webdev
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The Double-Edged Sword of Being a Creator

I was having a conversation with a singer in Second Life yesterday, and it quickly went down the road of parasocial relationships, expectations, and suddenly, money-traps. We talked about the ways in which artists, writers, or creators in-general are taken from, at all angles, with the promise of a boost,...
published November 17, 2024
#thoughts
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Poasting to Mastodon Via Jekyll

So, you may be asking yourself, “Hey, didn’t you already post the code to this directly on your blog?” And the answer to that question would be, yes. Yes, I posted an unfinished version of it. But now, if the universe looks kindly upon me, it is done. Welcome to...
published November 16, 2024
#scripting
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Test Post

This is purely a test post in testing some altered functionality of poast.py
published November 16, 2024
#webdev