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Just going to put this out into the universe that I’m really looking for a job. Something web related I can do from Tampa.

Ohhhh, I like having Letterboxd on the Apple TV. That might get me to go pro. I want to track what I’ve watched but haven’t been good about logging. Being able to do it from the TV might help.

I haven’t written up much yet about my latest passion and I haven’t fixed up photo posting so this post is a test.
Gyotoaku print of a sheepshead.

Speaking of NetNewsWire and Mastodon, Brent Simmons wrote some thoughts about Mastodon support in NetNewsWire. I’m enjoying being able to follow Mastodon accounts using fed.brid.gy and reading them in NetNewsWire. Folks may also want to look at Granary for converting Mastodon feeds to other formats.

Inspired by @zachleat.com’s evangelism of HTML Web Components I played around with turning Aaron Gustafson’s progressively enhacing his share button into a component. It’s totally Aaron’s code so I’m not sure about formally releasing it. But I’ve seen the light.
If you see Aaron, tell him I said thanks and if he’s cool with it I’ll clean it up and release it. Repo link.

Syndicated on: Bluesky

Finally figured out how to follow people on Mastodon from my own site. I’m using fed.brid.gy, which in essesnce is a bridge between the IndieWeb and the Fediverse. You follow using fed.brid.gy and it creates a feed of your follows you can subscribe to in your reader of choice. I just add it to my feeds in NetNewsWire and I’m good to go.

I really loved this line Chris Coyier highlighted in his post about Bill Watterson’s The Mysteries.

“Working through differences toward a common purpose is practically an act of defiance these days.”

There are a few options for archiving your tweets and Ben Balter has released a new project on GitHub—tweets. Pretty straight forward publishing on GH Pages.

What a beautiful thing to say.

Free software offers free time, free life extension to many human living now and maybe in the future.

Ploum

Read the full post The Gift of Time

11ty doesn’t have the concept of themes. I’m good with that. But what I’m considering, from a data portability standpoint as well as allowing work to the site to be separate from content is the concept of a theme. And making it easier for others to use it. Trick would be to get 11ty to read content from a directory outside of _src. Or to have a separate repo for the posts/content and _data as a submodule in _src.

Having fun trying to figure out how to get a date for the note that I can generate a unique timestamp for. Created seems to build time. Trying git Created now. Note this is for Eleventy and a supplied value. I wrote a filter to convert the date to unixtime stamp for a permalink value for notes with no title.


Will this timestamp filter work?

So it begins the testing for using Brid.gy and webmentions. It’s been almost 5 years since I last set something up and while the underlying tech hasn’t changed, my memory on some of it has faded.


There are many notes but this is the first one.