I revived my old Wordpress blog. Still have a bunch of things to fix, like missing images. But there it is. All of the poetry and a few other things I have written since 2009. Including some early digital art. I figured what the hell. It is a shame to just leave all that on my hard drive. It ain't nothing fancy. But it is meaningful to me. Maybe you will enjoy some of it too.
Peace Out #wordbress#blogs#poetry#writing
Going through a lot of old blog post drafts (I somehow have over 20 now) and either updating them, combining some with other ones, or deleting them. It's a long but rewarding and worthwhile process.
Should've posted about this piece on the second generation of video game consoles by @siliconundergro before the one on the third generation I linked the other day. This one's super cool too. Colecovision, Intellivision, Vectrex, Atari consoles, etc https://dfarq.homeip.net/second-generation-video-game-consoles
O Ghost, CMS de código aberto para blogs e newsletters, anunciou a adoção do protocolo ActivityPub (AP). Ele se junta ao WordPress, Flipboard, Mastodon, WriteFreely e vários outros sistemas compatíveis com o AP, que vai, aos poucos, se transformando em uma espécie de camada social da web.
#KI killt das Internet - doch das alte Web 2.0 kann sich wehren - Das Internet zu #SocialMedia Zeiten war ein Fast Food-Restaurant. Jetzt ist es nur noch die Erdnuss-Schale an der Theke.
Um so schöner ist, dass es manche Ecken im Web gibt, die im Angesicht der KI-Tools und -Angebote noch ganz nach der guten alten #Web20-Methode gepflegt werden. Persönliche #Newsletter und #Blogs erobern sich zunehmend Nischen, die erfrischend unalgoritmisch und persönlich sind. | @gigoldhttps://gigold.me/blog/ki-killt-web
Hace tiempo que tendría que haber escrito sobre las charadas (riddles) the Howard Oakley, una de las cosas que más me gustan de su siempre interesante blog The Eclectic Light Company.
Enlace a la última (a la fecha) entrada Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 247.Lo más curioso es que lleva desde el 29 de Junio de 2019 publicándolas sin saltárselas ni una sola semana… pero no tiene forma de encontrar esas charadas de los sábados — y las soluciones de los lunes — de forma sencilla.
Así que me puse a escribir un script en Python que me proporciona el URL de cualquier charada, o su solución, asumiendo que se sigan publicando de forma ininterrumpida.
Aquí lo tenéis, por si os sirve de algo (con sus comentarios):
import datetime as dt<br></br><br></br>def riddle_for_date(date, solutions=False):<br></br> base_date = dt.datetime(2019,6,29)<br></br> if solutions: # A monday<br></br> base_date = base_date+dt.timedelta(days=2)<br></br> <br></br> return ((date-base_date).days//7 + 1)<br></br><br></br>def date_for_riddle(riddle_num, solutions=True):<br></br> """<br></br> Computes the date associated with a given Eclectic Light Co Saturday's riddle number, considering whether to give the date for the riddle or for the solution.<br></br><br></br> Parameters:<br></br> riddle_num (int): The number of the riddle for which to calculate the date.<br></br> solutions (bool): Indicates whether to use the solution's or the riddle's date. Default is True (for the solution's date).<br></br><br></br> Returns:<br></br> datetime: The computed date associated with the specified riddle number.<br></br><br></br> Raises:<br></br> ValueError: If the specified riddle number is less than 1.<br></br> """<br></br> # Set a base date for the riddles<br></br> # The first riddle was issued on June 29th, 2019<br></br> base_date = dt.datetime(2019, 6, 29)<br></br><br></br> # Adjust base date to the next Monday (two days after)<br></br> # if solutions are requested<br></br> if solutions:<br></br> base_date = base_date + dt.timedelta(days=2)<br></br><br></br> # Validate riddle number<br></br> riddle_num = int(riddle_num)<br></br><br></br> # We use -1 to indicate the latest date<br></br> if riddle_num < 1 and riddle_num != -1:<br></br> raise ValueError(f"The specified riddle number ({riddle_num}) is less than 1, and not -1.")<br></br><br></br> # Compute the date associated with the riddle number<br></br> # by adding as many weeks as the riddle number - 1.<br></br> if riddle_num == -1: # Latest riddle<br></br> riddle_num = riddle_for_date(dt.datetime.today(),solutions=solutions)<br></br> result = base_date + (riddle_num - 1) * dt.timedelta(days=7)<br></br> return result<br></br><br></br><br></br>def url_for_riddle(riddle_num, solutions=True, open_in_browser=False):<br></br> """<br></br> Generates a URL for accessing a specific Mac riddle from the Eclectic Light Company's blog.<br></br><br></br> Parameters:<br></br> riddle_num (int): The number of the riddle to generate URL for.<br></br> solutions (bool): Indicates whether the URL should lead to the riddle's solutions (True), or just to the original riddle. Default is True.<br></br> open_in_browser (bool): Indicates whether the generated URL should be opened in the default web browser. Default is False.<br></br><br></br> Returns:<br></br> str: The generated URL for the specified Mac riddle.<br></br><br></br> Raises:<br></br> ValueError (through `date_for_riddle`) if the riddle_num is less than 1, or not an int.<br></br> """<br></br> if riddle_num == -1:<br></br> riddle_num = riddle_for_date(dt.datetime.now(),solutions=solutions)<br></br> date = date_for_riddle(riddle_num,solutions=solutions)<br></br> slug = f"saturday-mac-riddles-{riddle_num}/"<br></br> <br></br> result = f"https://eclecticlight.co/{date.year:04d}/{date.month:02d}/{date.day:02}/"<br></br> if solutions:<br></br> result += f"solutions-to-{slug}"<br></br> else:<br></br> result += slug<br></br> <br></br> if open_in_browser:<br></br> import webbrowser<br></br> webbrowser.open(result)<br></br> <br></br> return result
Perdón por haberlo escrito en inglés, pero dado que el sitio de Howard Oakley está en inglés, lo preferí. Con ese código en Python, ahora podéis teclear algo como:
url_for_riddle(-1,True,True)
Y se abrirá en vuestro navegador por defecto las soluciones a la última charada de Howard Oakley.
I’m still fixing up my website. I have decades of posts and things to improve.
But almost exactly a decade ago, I was in Yangon and Mandalay half the time. The 6am Jetstar flight would take me to Yangon. I would go to get mohinga at Tin Tin Aye directly from the airport. I would go to meetings. It was a weird time in a beautiful country.
Getting back into RSS after finding an app I like for Android, Feeder (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nononsenseapps.feeder.play). Only thing I don't like about it is that when you read something, it marks it read instantly & removes it from your feed altogether instead of just leaving it there read like I'd prefer.
But you can save favorite posts before you close/back out of them for reference - you just have to remember to do it.
Other than that, Feeder is a GREAT app with an excellent simple, intuitive UI. I now have 30 blogs in it that I follow and check regularly.
I don't know how many of you are into cartoons and such - I'm super into certain ones and have been for most of my life, ever since I used to get up early in the morning to catch them on TV as a kid.
Strangely, one of my only consistent habits for the last 14 years has been writing about them on a blog. Just wrote about the upcoming Daffy/Porky movie that I'm pretty psyched for.
Pensando em alternativas federadas ao Tumblr e mais completas para blogs que o WriteFreely, acabei de descobrir a existencia do Wordpress MU (multisite). Basicamente uma instalação do Wordpress que permite ter vários blogs, e dá pra ativar o plugin do ActivityPub por padrão pra todos.
Fica a questão da viabilidade e sustentabilidade de manter um servidor desse...
"What matters is... immersion in comprehensive treatment of a topic, as opposed to a blog-style linear sequence of short, frequent postings commenting on the hot topic of the day. It doesn't matter what software is used to host the content, the distinctions are:
in-depth vs. superficial
original/primary vs. derivative/secondary
driven by the author's expertise vs. being reflectively driven by other sites or outside events"
What’s your favourite way to add working examples of code in your blog posts that isn’t CodePen? Both for CSS and JS example code.
Thinking a basic web component with declarative shadow DOM might do it nicely since it will fully encapsulate the code? Maybe wrap it in @zachleat browser-window or resize-asaurus component.