Entries Tagged - "indieweb"
- School is not Enough
- May Chaos Take The World
- Samsara
- Using Tailscale in builds.sr.ht
Using Tailscale inside your builds on sr.ht are a little trickier then you might expect, since it’s done in a way thats counter to how Tailscale outlines the process of using it in CI inside their own docs. I had to learn this the hard way trying to get my own
.builds.ymlconfigured for this very blog, as the server it’s hosted on can only be accessed outside of HTTPS via the tailnet, and am now able to pass this knowledge onto you. - Is the internet dead? Are we?
- Christine Emba: Rethinking Sex
I have a lot of thoughts about this book but I’ll try to keep this brief.
To start, this book has a very odd citation format. The author directly cites journalists, blog posts, magazine surveys directly in line, but then deeper resources, ie Academic Studies, Medical Journals, are cited at the back of the book - and not many are cited compared to how many Journalists are. This creates a problem where many times in the book the author will say something along the lines of “many studies show…” but not actually directly link to a study.
- Make Certbot Certs Readable by Non-Root Users
- John Micklethwait: The Company
While occasionally simplistic and revisionist, The Company is a fascinating foray into the history of human organization, corporate profits, and human society.
An interesting reminder that things have not always been the way they are, humanity pushes forward through progress and chaos alike, and shows that even in the largest bureaucratic machines in the world, any choice can be traced back to an individual.
- Gator On A Bike on Paper
Musical equivalent of having a tooth pulled out at the dentist and then having to walk a mile home. Love it.
Favorite track: Bring me a berban.
- A Quick and Brutal Match
I’ve had the ability to post chess games on this blog for a while but have found few games I have really wanted to highlight - this one is one I’m proud of.
Hopefully I’ll be willing to start posting losses I’m proud of, too.
- Unlocking the Bootloader on the Kyocera 902KC
There have been mixed reports of people managing to unlock the bootloader on the Kyocera 902KC. I’ve done some extensive research on unlocking and rooting this phone and I’d like to outline all my findings here.
Being able to unlock the bootloader on the Kyocera 902KC would be a huge boon for usability in North America, as it would mean you could sideload the microG services, allowing you to utilize maps properly, as well as any apps that rely on Google Play Services in order to function.
- Catitecture
- Writing in Typst
- New Bump Mural
Walked down a street in an opposite direction then I normally do and discovered a grand new mural on the opposite wall.
- A Weapon to Surpass Metal Gear
- The Internet Manifesto
- Quality of Letters to the Editor
I find reading letters to the editor enjoyable. I find a lot of good debate springs up in that column, and on the flip side, I find it hilarious how poor comment sections can get. I wonder if this is due to the greater degree of curation by print editors versus the cacophony of the vox populi. I wonder if this is a problem that could be solved on the internet. Is the barrier for entry too low on a website for quality to remain consistently high?
- Webmentions for Deno
This is a straightforward webmention sending and endpoint discovery implementation. It has a single external dependency, which is Deno DOM. It uses this library to find the webmention endpoint within a page.
- Putnam's Phrase Book
- Webmention Deno!
Wrote a webmention library for Deno, it was good practice getting it to pass the test suite at webmention.rocks.
https://deno.land/x/[email protected]
The next step is writing out a CLI tool that can completely replace (the now defunct) webmention.app.
- Silly Little Jokes
- <noscript>
All that Javascript to render this single static image. Embarrassing.
- REK Solar Cooking
- The 88x31 GIF Collection
- An assorted collection of things
- evy's ever-changing manifesto
- the "Baseline" test from Bladerunner 2049
- The Alternative Press in Retrospect
- The Dark Forest and the Cozy Web
This is very interesting.
Recently I was discussing the slow decay of Advertising. What I see happening now is that to most people, ads don’t work. They don’t contribute anything except noise and annoyance. When you google something like “Best Garden Shears”, as an example, the list of websites is functionally mulch. It’s not useful, it’s hyper-seo ad spam linking back to Amazon. People don’t trust these google listings, and the alternative is asking a community, or your real life friends, what they prefer in terms of garden shears.
- Super Simple One Time Passwords for Deno
SSTOTP is as simple as it gets for a TOTP implementation. The libary can do the following:
- Generate TOTP Secrets
- Generate TOTP Tokens
- Validate TOTP Tokens
Tokens are valid for 30 seconds, and a step tolerance of two is implemented to account for clock skew.
It has a single standard library dependency, which is base32.
At this time, it is considered feature complete. Generating otpauth:// QR codes is left as an exercise to the reader.
- So you've installed `fzf`. Now what?
- Itty Bitty Site
- Run Your Own Social Network
- Jeremy Maluf's Onebag Travel System
- Reverse Engineering A Mysterious UDP Stream in My Hotel
- Build a reputation instead of a personal brand
- A Collection of Windows 98 Icons
- Tenuta di Carleone - Chianti Classico
Chianti Classico - 2019
🇮🇹 Italy // Chianti Classico"Very light nose of bubblegum and black fruit. Good acidity and body, fresh strawberries and old oak."
- Felinae's Homepage
- I Miss Twitter
Glad as I am that the personal website is having a renaissance – you know how much I love personal websites – for me that fulfils a different function from sites like Twitter. This site is my own space on the internet, but it’s me shouting into the void in a way that Twitter wasn’t.
- localghost
- Where is Mastodon Headed?
The fundamental issue I see repeatedly is that Interoperability (what Mastodon and Fedi truly offers) is a no-brainer for tech-types but completely uninteresting and in some-cases a turn off for laypeople. Creates a huge adoption issue.
I’ve had conversations with people that go “I don’t care that other people can follow me from other servers - I want all my friends to be on the same server as me. Why would I just want some person to be running my server anyways?”
- Self Hosted Twitter Archive
- Posy's Cursors
- Most Played 2022
I still don’t use any streaming services, so here’s my yearly list of albums I listened to the most in the past year.
- Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
This is a great little whodunit caper, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. If you’ve seen the original Knives Out and liked it, you’ll probably like this too. If you haven’t, think an Agatha Christie novel.
I’ve seen people say it’s “tighter” then the original, but I’d have to disagree. I’d say they’re very comparable in pacing, if anything, the original film is a little more directed in it’s story. Both are excellent, though, and stand independently of each other.
- Photography for Geeks
This article is an excellent, in-depth guide for how to take photographs with your phone camera (and beyond!)
- Named Web Colors Wheel
- Puffs Bathroom Tissues with Lotion
I have a cold right now and just about wrote a pretty lengthy article about just how good Puffs Bathroom Tissues are compared to normal tissues but it came off pretty delirious and Proctor and Gamble really doesn’t need the press, so - here:
Puffs Bathroom Tissues with Lotion are really good and you’re a sucker if you use any other brand of bathroom tissues when you’re sick.
- xSwords New Blog!
A good friend of mine started a new Blog! Be sure to check it out!
- Club Penguin
Thinking about how learning Adobe Flash exploits to cheat in the Club Penguin surfing game for infinite coins pretty much directly caused me having the career I have today
- Nice Writeup!
Nice Writeup! I love seeing how different each site can handle parsing Indieweb content.
My own site is also built with Hugo; if you’re looking for Indieweb inspiration it might be worth looking at my source code here:
- Chaosnet
- Why you can't dig switzerland
- Use Plaintext Email
- Build Your Own Search Engine with Wiby
- Running an Open Source HAN
- Liked: Badminton
- Liked: Coffee Is Cooler Than Ever. So Is the Third Wave Dead?
- Paranoia Sans
- Generative Art AI
I’m deeply skeptical of most things happening in the tech sphere at the moment - but I am very excited for these recent, rapid developments in art generating neural networks.
Being able to iterate an idea to drawing instantly is going to allow people to create wonderful things.
- Bookmark: Single Sheet Boatplans
- History of Dance Music Lecture @ KaffeeKlatsch
I’ll be hanging out @KaffeeYYC at five pm until late, to listen to the History of Dance Music lecture being put on by Sled Island!
- RAP Ferreira
I wasn’t planning on going to any sled shows this year, but got invited to the RAP Ferreira show last night by a friend, and I’m very glad I went! What an excellent show.
If anyone is in Winnipeg tomorrow (25th), I’d definetly take the time to go see him perform at the Good Will Social Club.
- Bugs
You know when you see a beetle in the house and know you need to take care of it, so you step on it and there’s a little resistance and a horrible crunch sound?
I think that’s the worst sensation in the world.
- Bookmarked 'hostnames.html'
- Reply to Robbinespu
Thanks for the great jumping off point for my own code! Reading through your page layouts helped a lot in understanding how to get indiepost content working on my own site.
- Permashortlinks & Cloudflare Webworkers
I’ve been investigating more deeply about Indieweb, namely their idea of a permashortlink - put succinctly, it is inevitable that shortlinking providers will either
- Fold, or
- Deprecate underused links.
This means that relying on them - and they are awfully convenient - is a net negative to the longevity of any web content you produce - and we’ve already seen it happen.
The Indieweb solution to this deprecation problem is, of course - to roll your own. Reading the wiki about this raises the same problem I have with a lot of Indieweb content - it’s a wiki clearly written by developers. I don’t think it’s actionable for the average web content consumer - even if they were gunhoe about running their own blog - to roll any of the permashortlink solutions mentioned on the wiki by themselves.
- I Added Indieweb Support
I stumbled across Indie Web today, and I think it’s a neat idea.
Essentially, it’s a set of philosophies and toolsets to allow indie websites to communicate amongst each other, establish a standard for using your domain as an identity, and a way for websites to parse html as rss feeds.
Webmention is the most interesting out of all of their various projects, which is essentially a modern replacement for pingbacks, if you remember those - I certainly did not.