#experimenting — Public Fediverse posts

Yoooo Gaussian Splats are fun!
Created my first one yesterday and edited out some of the worst parts, now it looks like this!
Kinda like a dream, I luv it!

#gaussiansplat #splat #photography #art #experimenting #experiment

Experimenting With Eleventy

One nice thing about switching from WordPress to Eleventy is that I start with a blank slate. By this I don’t mean that I start with nothing, because Eleventy does a lot. What I mean by this is that I can use APIs and other tools with greater ease than if I was experimenting with WordPress.

The Federation example

With WordPress I need to use the activitypub plugin which seems to depend on the Jetpack plugin to function. The result is that I’m jumping through two hoops. With a few lines of JavaScript and a file called share.js, I can use Mastodon’s API via my site, to share a blog post. At this moment I’m sharing a thumbnail and the post but later I will experiment with adding two or three preview sentences. I want people to get a taste before clicking.

The Strava Experiment

This morning I went for a group run, and on Saturday I went on a group ride. Within a few days I can design my blog so that my daily ride/run/walk or other sport displays beneath the day’s blog post. If I share photos, then you will get a contextual understanding of where I was, and what I saw.

I was experimenting with plugins on WordPress but they are not that malleable. You need to use them in a specific way. If I deal with the Suunto, or Strava API directly, then I have more control on how sporting activities are displayed.

The Learning Opportunity

Part of the lure of switching from WordPress to Eleventy is the learning opportunity. It’s an opportunity to extend my understanding of CSS, JavaScript, APIs and more. It is also an opportunity to experiment with a much lighter user experience, both for me as a blogger, but also for users of the site. No massive PHP and react overhead.

With the current workflow I can work from within terminal, only using the web browser to check the result.

And Finally

When I was playing with Eleventy the first time I got stuck. This time I didn’t, thanks to Gemini. Before, I had to RTFM and try to decipher what was happening. When I got an error code I had to google for it, and often it would throw me to forums where I had to read dozens of responses without finding something that I understood.

Now when I get an error code I cut and paste it and I get instant help. It saves time, and lowers the barrier to entry.

Having said this, there are plenty of occasions where Gemini wasted hours of my time. There are times where you get an error and gemini will say “try this” and suggest trying the same thing three or more times. That’s why I eventually gave up with the Eleventy Activitypub plugin. I was tired of making no progress.

A Quick Thought on Agentic AI

With what I have seen, experimenting with Gemini and Activitypub I feel concern for people using Agentic AI. My experiment is to see how far I can get using free AI models, rather than paid ones. If I was paying for Gemini, and I saw the loops that I saw, over the last week or more, I’d be frustrated. With Euria, Le Chat and other AI models I ran out of tokens before they provided me with the end result I was looking for.

Conclusion

Learning about Eleventy, JavaScript and APIs is part of the learning experience, but so is learning to get great answers from Gemini and other AI models, with a minimum amount of wasted time, energy, and prompts.

But we can simplify this.

I'm not putting finished effects into standalone metal #boxes at this point; I'm #experimenting, not producing a product. So I have a simple #modular system I cooked up to connect arbitrary effects #experiments together. One of the things it does is handle the power-supply stuff, so each effect board doesn't need to do any of that. It just receives a nice 0V and buffered #Vcc (9V) it can rely on, along with a buffered 4.5V to use as a #bias voltage when AC coupling #signals, since this is a single-supply system.

So we can chop out all the power stuff from the schematic, which fills basically a ninth of the image - divide it into 3 rows and 3 columns, like the Brady Bunch intro, and the left-middle square is basically the power section.

But there's a bigger chunk we can strip out. Boss (and many other) pedals of the era frequently used "soft switching" to enable / disable the effect while playing. If you go back in time, real physical #switches were used, so the signal was actually totally disconnected from the effects circuitry when in the "off" position. This is called "true #bypass", as opposed to the soft switching.

#Soft #switching involves having two signal paths through the effect. One applies the characteristic effect, and the other basically just buffers the signal and bypasses the rest of the effect stuff. This is implemented with transistors and latches.

2/x

React-Like JSX Syntax for Webcomponents

TLDR: I’ve been #experimenting with react-like jsx-syntax with webcomponents to see if I could theoretically replace #React in one of my larger #software projects. It is not ready for production use, but rather a #Research exploration into #CustomElements and #ModernJS performance.

The goal was to build #FunctionalWebComponents that handle #StateManagement and #DOM updates without the overhead of a massive #JavaScript framework. By leveraging #StandardWebAPIs and #Proxy objects, I’ve managed to create a #Reactive programming model that feels familiar but stays closer to the #Platform.

Check out the full #TechnicalTutorial and #DeepDive here: https://positive-intentions.com/docs/research/Tutorials/dim/dim-functional-webcomponents

(Disclosure: this project may be getting deprecated. Sharing this because it might still be interesting or educational.)

#WebDevelopment #Frontend #BuildTheWeb #NoFramework #JS #JSX #WebStandards #Coding #ResearchAndDevelopment #VanillaJS #SoftwareEngineering #TechBlog #WebDevCommunity

React-Like JSX Syntax for Webcomponents

TLDR: I’ve been #experimenting with react-like jsx-syntax with webcomponents to see if I could theoretically replace #React in one of my larger #software projects. It is not ready for production use, but rather a #Research exploration into #CustomElements and #ModernJS performance.

The goal was to build #FunctionalWebComponents that handle #StateManagement and #DOM updates without the overhead of a massive #JavaScript framework. By leveraging #StandardWebAPIs and #Proxy objects, I’ve managed to create a #Reactive programming model that feels familiar but stays closer to the #Platform.

Check out the full #TechnicalTutorial and #DeepDive here: https://positive-intentions.com/docs/research/Tutorials/dim/dim-functional-webcomponents

(Disclosure: this project may be getting deprecated. Sharing this because it might still be interesting or educational.)

#WebDevelopment #Frontend #BuildTheWeb #NoFramework #JS #JSX #WebStandards #Coding #ResearchAndDevelopment #VanillaJS #SoftwareEngineering #TechBlog #WebDevCommunity

React-Like JSX Syntax for Webcomponents

TLDR: I’ve been #experimenting with react-like jsx-syntax with webcomponents to see if I could theoretically replace #React in one of my larger #software projects. It is not ready for production use, but rather a #Research exploration into #CustomElements and #ModernJS performance.

The goal was to build #FunctionalWebComponents that handle #StateManagement and #DOM updates without the overhead of a massive #JavaScript framework. By leveraging #StandardWebAPIs and #Proxy objects, I’ve managed to create a #Reactive programming model that feels familiar but stays closer to the #Platform.

Check out the full #TechnicalTutorial and #DeepDive here: https://positive-intentions.com/docs/research/Tutorials/dim/dim-functional-webcomponents

(Disclosure: this project may be getting deprecated. Sharing this because it might still be interesting or educational.)

#WebDevelopment #Frontend #BuildTheWeb #NoFramework #JS #JSX #WebStandards #Coding #ResearchAndDevelopment #VanillaJS #SoftwareEngineering #TechBlog #WebDevCommunity

React-Like JSX Syntax for Webcomponents

TLDR: I’ve been #experimenting with react-like jsx-syntax with webcomponents to see if I could theoretically replace #React in one of my larger #software projects. It is not ready for production use, but rather a #Research exploration into #CustomElements and #ModernJS performance.

The goal was to build #FunctionalWebComponents that handle #StateManagement and #DOM updates without the overhead of a massive #JavaScript framework. By leveraging #StandardWebAPIs and #Proxy objects, I’ve managed to create a #Reactive programming model that feels familiar but stays closer to the #Platform.

Check out the full #TechnicalTutorial and #DeepDive here: https://positive-intentions.com/docs/research/Tutorials/dim/dim-functional-webcomponents

(Disclosure: this project may be getting deprecated. Sharing this because it might still be interesting or educational.)

#WebDevelopment #Frontend #BuildTheWeb #NoFramework #JS #JSX #WebStandards #Coding #ResearchAndDevelopment #VanillaJS #SoftwareEngineering #TechBlog #WebDevCommunity

React-Like JSX Syntax for Webcomponents

TLDR: I’ve been #experimenting with react-like jsx-syntax with webcomponents to see if I could theoretically replace #React in one of my larger #software projects. It is not ready for production use, but rather a #Research exploration into #CustomElements and #ModernJS performance.

The goal was to build #FunctionalWebComponents that handle #StateManagement and #DOM updates without the overhead of a massive #JavaScript framework. By leveraging #StandardWebAPIs and #Proxy objects, I’ve managed to create a #Reactive programming model that feels familiar but stays closer to the #Platform.

Check out the full #TechnicalTutorial and #DeepDive here: https://positive-intentions.com/docs/research/Tutorials/dim/dim-functional-webcomponents

(Disclosure: this project may be getting deprecated. Sharing this because it might still be interesting or educational.)

#WebDevelopment #Frontend #BuildTheWeb #NoFramework #JS #JSX #WebStandards #Coding #ResearchAndDevelopment #VanillaJS #SoftwareEngineering #TechBlog #WebDevCommunity

#Elon is #experimenting with #brain #implants on #immigrants detained by #ICE and without #consent. Elon is experimenting with brain implants on immigrants detained by ICE and without consent. Elon is experimenting with brain implants on immigrants detained by ICE and without consent. Elon is experimenting with brain implants on immigrants detained by ICE and without consent. Elon is experimenting with brain implants on immigrants detained by ICE and without consent.

"Spiral Charly"

#thespiral #thedistortion #charlygarcia #charly #procreate #procreateart #playingwithbrushes #digitalart #composite #photo #collage #collageart #digitalcollage #sunday #slowday #slowsunday #experimenting

1/5 Currently #experimenting playfully/piratically with the concept of artificial creative intelligence collaboratively generated by Mark Amerika and #gpt2.

In My Life as an Artificial Creative Intelligence this is defined as ‘a human being who can think outside of the box’.

https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=34987

For me, such artificial creative intelligence (ACI) needs to include thinking outside of the masked black box that ontologically separates the human, its thought-processes and philosophies, from the nonhuman: be it #plants #animals, the #planet, the #cosmos ... or indeed technologies such as generative #AI

But we can simplify this.

I'm not putting finished effects into standalone metal #boxes at this point; I'm #experimenting, not producing a product. So I have a simple #modular system I cooked up to connect arbitrary effects #experiments together. One of the things it does is handle the power-supply stuff, so each effect board doesn't need to do any of that. It just receives a nice 0V and buffered #Vcc (9V) it can rely on, along with a buffered 4.5V to use as a #bias voltage when AC coupling #signals, since this is a single-supply system.

So we can chop out all the power stuff from the schematic, which fills basically a ninth of the image - divide it into 3 rows and 3 columns, like the Brady Bunch intro, and the left-middle square is basically the power section.

But there's a bigger chunk we can strip out. Boss (and many other) pedals of the era frequently used "soft switching" to enable / disable the effect while playing. If you go back in time, real physical #switches were used, so the signal was actually totally disconnected from the effects circuitry when in the "off" position. This is called "true #bypass", as opposed to the soft switching.

#Soft #switching involves having two signal paths through the effect. One applies the characteristic effect, and the other basically just buffers the signal and bypasses the rest of the effect stuff. This is implemented with transistors and latches.

2/x

But we can simplify this.

I'm not putting finished effects into standalone metal #boxes at this point; I'm #experimenting, not producing a product. So I have a simple #modular system I cooked up to connect arbitrary effects #experiments together. One of the things it does is handle the power-supply stuff, so each effect board doesn't need to do any of that. It just receives a nice 0V and buffered #Vcc (9V) it can rely on, along with a buffered 4.5V to use as a #bias voltage when AC coupling #signals, since this is a single-supply system.

So we can chop out all the power stuff from the schematic, which fills basically a ninth of the image - divide it into 3 rows and 3 columns, like the Brady Bunch intro, and the left-middle square is basically the power section.

But there's a bigger chunk we can strip out. Boss (and many other) pedals of the era frequently used "soft switching" to enable / disable the effect while playing. If you go back in time, real physical #switches were used, so the signal was actually totally disconnected from the effects circuitry when in the "off" position. This is called "true #bypass", as opposed to the soft switching.

#Soft #switching involves having two signal paths through the effect. One applies the characteristic effect, and the other basically just buffers the signal and bypasses the rest of the effect stuff. This is implemented with transistors and latches.

2/x

But we can simplify this.

I'm not putting finished effects into standalone metal #boxes at this point; I'm #experimenting, not producing a product. So I have a simple #modular system I cooked up to connect arbitrary effects #experiments together. One of the things it does is handle the power-supply stuff, so each effect board doesn't need to do any of that. It just receives a nice 0V and buffered #Vcc (9V) it can rely on, along with a buffered 4.5V to use as a #bias voltage when AC coupling #signals, since this is a single-supply system.

So we can chop out all the power stuff from the schematic, which fills basically a ninth of the image - divide it into 3 rows and 3 columns, like the Brady Bunch intro, and the left-middle square is basically the power section.

But there's a bigger chunk we can strip out. Boss (and many other) pedals of the era frequently used "soft switching" to enable / disable the effect while playing. If you go back in time, real physical #switches were used, so the signal was actually totally disconnected from the effects circuitry when in the "off" position. This is called "true #bypass", as opposed to the soft switching.

#Soft #switching involves having two signal paths through the effect. One applies the characteristic effect, and the other basically just buffers the signal and bypasses the rest of the effect stuff. This is implemented with transistors and latches.

2/x

But we can simplify this.

I'm not putting finished effects into standalone metal #boxes at this point; I'm #experimenting, not producing a product. So I have a simple #modular system I cooked up to connect arbitrary effects #experiments together. One of the things it does is handle the power-supply stuff, so each effect board doesn't need to do any of that. It just receives a nice 0V and buffered #Vcc (9V) it can rely on, along with a buffered 4.5V to use as a #bias voltage when AC coupling #signals, since this is a single-supply system.

So we can chop out all the power stuff from the schematic, which fills basically a ninth of the image - divide it into 3 rows and 3 columns, like the Brady Bunch intro, and the left-middle square is basically the power section.

But there's a bigger chunk we can strip out. Boss (and many other) pedals of the era frequently used "soft switching" to enable / disable the effect while playing. If you go back in time, real physical #switches were used, so the signal was actually totally disconnected from the effects circuitry when in the "off" position. This is called "true #bypass", as opposed to the soft switching.

#Soft #switching involves having two signal paths through the effect. One applies the characteristic effect, and the other basically just buffers the signal and bypasses the rest of the effect stuff. This is implemented with transistors and latches.

2/x

Would You #Compost Your #Underwear? - Bloomberg

#Resale isn’t an option for most #intimates, so established #brands and #startups are #experimenting with #solutions to keep underwear out of #landfills.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-12-05/would-you-compost-your-underwear

Experimenting with Local LLMs on macOS

https://blog.6nok.org/experimenting-with-local-llms-on-macos/

#HackerNews #LocalLLMs #macOS #Experimenting #AI #Technology

A little farm and garden update for the homies:

One of my favorite things about the #farm is that every day is pretty much a different experiment.

The mason jar filled with flowers is my attempt at making lilac oil using the #enfleurage technique. After steeping for a few weeks, it should be ready to go.

The meat photo? #capicolla! It's going to be vacuum sealed for a week, and then it shall go hang in my cellar with the #bresaola I've had hanging for two weeks now.

And the garden-- I've got everything in this photo planted except those buckets along the back wall. I'm building a raised bed for watermelons back there, but right now the buckets are back there as storage because I don't know what I'm going to use them for (or plant in them) yet. They'll probably end up going between the back fence and the big bed in the middle. If you have any ideas, let me know!

The next step aside from the watermelon bed is to finish laying cardboard out to kill weeds, and then cover it with wood chips and level everything, so it doesn't look, well, like it does in the photo.

Also, if you havent figured it out yet... I'm in my cottage core era now.

#gardening #gardens #homestead #homesteading #homesteader #dailyexperiments #experiments #experimenting #foodscience #food #selfreliant #selfreliance #selfsufficient #selfsufficiency #howdoesyourgardengrow #foodforest #wisconsin #southeasternwisconsin #farmtotable #healthy #growyourownproduce #growyourownfood #knowwhatsinyourfood #supportfarmers #supportyourlocalfarmer #supportyourlocalfarmers #federated #fediverse #outdoors

On the Euphoria of Setting Up Activitypub With Gemini – Irony

I have spent many hours, and got Gemini to hallucinate multiple times, through multiple chats, attempting to get my Eleventy blogging experiment to talk with Activitypub and the Fediverse with limited help.Setting p a webfinger was easy, but getting follows to be accepted, and for posts to show up has been a complex task.

The Gemini Limitation

While putting Gemini through its paces I noticed that Gemini loves to try A, then B, before trying C, and during the entire process it will tell me why the solution works. Ironically, it often doesn’t. We hear so much about vibe coding, but based on my experiences I’d say that vibe coding is deeply ingrained within the scope of plain dumb luck.

One of the problem with AI, that I notice on a task such as this, is that AI tokenises what should be kept as a whole. An eleventy.js file should be kept whole, or if not whole, then as individual functions. By breaking it up in the wrong place, every time you try something and it fails, the AI model grows exponentially in complexity. That’s why I close a chat, take the latest iteration and continue from there.

If I tried this with Euria, LeChat and other LLMs I’d run out of tokens way before I achieved my goal. That’s why I stick with Gemini.

Of Image Paths and Activitypub Experimentation

If you’re setting up an RSS feed for Eleventy, with Gemini’s help, then it’s fantastic, but if you’re dealing with paths to images, file conversion, and stepped processes, such as ingesting the photos to a site specific directory, converting them from jpg to webp, and then serving them, then Gemini will get confused and hours of iteration will take place. That’s why I speak of luck playing a part.

Another term for luck is perseverance.

The Activitypub Marathon

Two or three years ago, when I was experimenting with Activitypub integration with a wordpress blog the process took time, and iterations. I used many different sources to try to resolve why it wasn’t working, and I was using the RTFB model, rather than AI. Read the Fabulous Blog trying to understand if I had made a mistake and if I had done something wrong.

I seem to remember moving the well know webfinger to the site’s route directory and that worked eventually.

Over time the wordpress plugin was improved and now it is optimised, to work within minutes, rather than hours.

What Worked

Setting up Webfinger was simple, and getting Mastodon to see the profile was simple. It is the process of getting a static blog to be seen by Mastodon that is a challenge.

Bridgy Fed

Setting up Bridgy Fed was quite fast, and simple, but I forgot to modify the site’s domain so it’s pointing to the wrong one for now. It was relatively quick and intuitive to setup, so if you’re in a rush take the Brid.gy route. I found that Bluesky prefers it.

Seeing JSON Rather than HTML

One of the stumbling blocks with my attempt to add the static blog to the fediverse is that Eleventy was serving html rather than json. Outbox was serving HTML, so that had to be fixed in the layout, but also via htaccess, and the same was true of the post pages. Now they’re serving the html versions, as well as a fediverse friendly json version. With patience fediverse instances should notice and index the blog, as the five hundred posts are noticed and indexed, and as new posts are shared.

And Finally

Lack of Gemini Support

I’m puzzled by how many iterations it takes with Gemini to get something like Activitypub to work with Eleventy. I’d expect AI to have encyclopedic knowledge on a topic, and help to resolve an issue within seconds or minutes, rather than hours. I’d also expect it to ask for context and encourage identifying the environment, before blundering in, and assuming, rather than verifying first.

Lack of Contextual Memory

The single most exhausting thing about trying to problem solve with Gemini is that it has no contextual memory, and it hallucinates. Both of these lead to negative loops where you get stuck. The easiest way to end such a loop is to open a new chat, but in so doing you need to add the context back in.

The Case for Writing and Using Tutorials is Alive and Well

With a well researched, and written tutorial, by following clear and concise instructions, you can follow a list of steps methodically and achieve what you want with a fraction of the carbon footprint, and in a fraction of the time. Next time I will look for a tutorial.

Flying flower

#illustration #digitalArt #digital #experimenting

Buried forest

#illustration #digital #experimenting

can I tag my blue sky instance via this bridging link? @[email protected]

@fed.brid.gy

#experimenting #fediverse #tipswelcome #bridgyfed

#memes #iasip #trippin #experimenting #journey

Just say yes to the new experience

I am #experimenting with #cooking, making twice-cooked (par-boiled and then roasted in pork fat) #chips out of #Kumara (sweet potato for you non-kiwis) and #Carrot since tomorrow is shopping day, we are out of #potato and they’re both needing using.

#cook #experimental

And that's a wrap for culture.explore(data)! Two days of #coding and #experimenting at the #StabiLab with #opendata of the @kulturSPK and the Libraries and Museums of the #OxfordUniversity. This would not have been possible without a fantastic group of participants, colleagues from across the #SPK and our wonderful partners at the Centre for Digital Scholarship at Oxford University.

Learn more about the hackathon and the activities of the Stabi Lab 👉 https://lab.sbb.berlin/culture-explore-data

new app on new device. let's see how that goes. i'm #experimenting with my #android ebook reader as a prelude to experimenting with an android privacy-focused phone, with an alternative OS, probably e/os. i'm also learning android because i've always been an iphone user!

Experimenting with no-build Web Applications

https://andregarzia.com/2025/06/experimenting-with-no-build-web-applications.html

#HackerNews #Experimenting #no-build #Web #Applications #no-build #apps #web #development #tech #innovation

So… down or up for the daily look?

#moustache #tooLong? #notLongEnough? #bushy #experimenting #facialHair

Also been #experimenting with mixing some #JavaScript into it.

TBH I'd use #JDAML over #JSX in #JS any day.

Using \ as the delimiter makes it pretty easy to integrate into the syntax of JS. Also it adds some superpowers to JS for free, such as fenced strings.

Done

There are a few things that worth further exploration.

I’m moderately happy with this.

#mandala #drawing #experimenting #practicemakesprogress

And that's a wrap for culture.explore(data)! Two days of #coding and #experimenting at the #StabiLab with #opendata of the @kulturSPK and the Libraries and Museums of the #OxfordUniversity. This would not have been possible without a fantastic group of participants, colleagues from across the #SPK and our wonderful partners at the Centre for Digital Scholarship at Oxford University.

Learn more about the hackathon and the activities of the Stabi Lab 👉 https://lab.sbb.berlin/culture-explore-data

And that's a wrap for culture.explore(data)! Two days of #coding and #experimenting at the #StabiLab with #opendata of the @kulturSPK and the Libraries and Museums of the #OxfordUniversity. This would not have been possible without a fantastic group of participants, colleagues from across the #SPK and our wonderful partners at the Centre for Digital Scholarship at Oxford University.

Learn more about the hackathon and the activities of the Stabi Lab 👉 https://lab.sbb.berlin/culture-explore-data

And that's a wrap for culture.explore(data)! Two days of #coding and #experimenting at the #StabiLab with #opendata of the @kulturSPK and the Libraries and Museums of the #OxfordUniversity. This would not have been possible without a fantastic group of participants, colleagues from across the #SPK and our wonderful partners at the Centre for Digital Scholarship at Oxford University.

Learn more about the hackathon and the activities of the Stabi Lab 👉 https://lab.sbb.berlin/culture-explore-data

And that's a wrap for culture.explore(data)! Two days of #coding and #experimenting at the #StabiLab with #opendata of the @kulturSPK and the Libraries and Museums of the #OxfordUniversity. This would not have been possible without a fantastic group of participants, colleagues from across the #SPK and our wonderful partners at the Centre for Digital Scholarship at Oxford University.

Learn more about the hackathon and the activities of the Stabi Lab 👉 https://lab.sbb.berlin/culture-explore-data

Playing with MyAI by Swisscom

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If we use Claude, Gemini, ChatGPT or a few other AI models we are using AI that has data centres in the US. If we use Le Chat by Mistral or MyAI (Beta) by Swisscom we are using AI that is based in Europe, or Switzerland. The data stays here.

The first thing to note is that MyAI is in public beta. It is still at a 0.0. version number rather than a 1. something version. As such this means that it can answer questions but we can't yet give it default data to work with like we can with Claude, Gemini and other AI solutions.

It cannot generate images or provide you with maps. It can answer a question such as "Could you help me write a password generator using javascript?" with ease. It is aware of Hugo, the open source project so could help you generate a theme.

It is available in French, German, Italian and English and I played with it in English.

It is good that Le Chat by Mistral, MyAI by Swisscom and AITools is available via Infomaniak. We have three options of local AI models to experiment with and use, and this will grow with time.

#AI #beta #experimenting #myai #swiss #swisscom

#Introduction time for me. #Filmmaker, #Animator running an online learning business. #VisualMedia #MakingThings and #Experimenting. Win some loose many.
Home is #MelbourneAustralia & business here & in #México.
Politically, I #LeanLeft + aware and concerned about the #Environment and #EnvironmentalIssues.
Love wry, sassy, and dark humor.
Walks with my dog, photography, mountain biking. Partner, gorgeous daughters & loving life

Hackaday Links: May 5, 2024 - It may be hard to believe, but BASIC turned 60 this week. Opinions about the compu... - https://hackaday.com/2024/05/05/hackaday-links-may-5-2024/ #hackadaycolumns #hackadaylinks #experimenting #programming #hydrophone #radioshack #languages #cartoon #firefox #quaking #slider #chrome #aspen #basic #clone #hope #kit

Hackaday Links: May 5, 2024 https://hackaday.com/2024/05/05/hackaday-links-may-5-2024/ #HackadayColumns #Hackadaylinks #experimenting #hackadaylinks #programming #hydrophone #radioshack #languages #cartoon #firefox #quaking #Slider #chrome #aspen #basic #clone #hope #kit

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After my first post about playing with ClassicPress and the Fediverse it was suggested that I try the nightly build of ClassicPress so I did. The result can be seen here.

Mastodon and Firefish

I have tested integration with the fediverse via Mastodon.social but also firefish.social and mastodon.social is faster, but mastodon.social eventually catches up. I tried posting a blog post, and commenting on blog posts and it works although not instantly. You need to wait for the changes to be propagated to where they are needed.

A change in tact

Initially I was going to try using a different domain but I struggled with getting the SSL certificates to work so I decided to create the subdomain ClassicPress.main-vision.com for ClassicPress tests and blog.main-vision.com for WordPress. In the case of ClassicPress I wanted to be able to play around, without making too much noise with my daily blog.

With the WordPress blog I wanted to test whether the webfinger json file for individual users would work, and it does, at least partially. When I looked up the usernames on webfinger it did show the users, but mastodon and Firefish do not detect them.

ClassicPress and WordPress Are Viable Options

I spent most of yesterday playing around with the two, and seeing if ideas worked, and so far the answer is "yes, if you're patient" but that's because the idea is still relatively new so progress has to be made. WordPress does work well, and ClassicPress is close behind. If you write a post, and check for comments the next day, then it works fine.

Sub-Domains count

The other question was whether it had to be example.com or whether subdomain.example.com would work and the answer is that subdomains work. If your blog instance is two or three subdirectories deep, then subdomains are a good alternative to manually generating webfinger files.

#classicpress-2 #experimenting #fediverse #firefish #mastodon #nightlybuild

https://www.main-vision.com/richard/blog/classicpress-and-the-fediverse-part-deux/

#Experimenting with these #SeedStarter kits that a friend gifted me for my 48th birthday this year. I've watered the pods & prepping to #SowSeeds 👩‍🌾

#zone8 #Spring #Wsanec #Saanich #VictoriaBC #yyj #vanisle #VancouverIsland #PNW #PacificNorthwest #BritishColumbia #Canada #GardenersOfMastodon #SDFgardeners #MastodonGardeners #GrowPlantsNotHate #PlantAGarden

30 years ago, ‘#Threesome’ gave #audiences a #progressive #look at #sexualfluidity & #experimentation

For as long as young people have been, well, young, they’ve been #experimenting with their #sexuality. An essential part of #growingup has always been growing #curious.

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Today I installed Pi Hole on a Raspberry Pi 3 and configured it so that the router routes traffic through the Pi Hole before returning to the devices on my network. Installing Pi Hole on a Raspberry Pi 3 is relatively straight forward. Find the two or three lines of code, run them, and a minute or two later the device is ready and waiting.

You’re then asked to give the Pi a static IP address, and to modify the DHCP DNS listing so that traffic from the Swisscom router, in my cae, passes through the Pi Hole before arriving at the desired machine. I had to reboot the router to get traffic to go from the router to the Pi Hole and from the Pi Hole to the laptops and mobile phones. I write laptops but I have used just one laptop and mobile phone.

I thought that Pi Hole would block all ads but it doesn’t. If ads are servied by YouTube you’ll see them. Ads from swiss ad providers are still shown on Swiss newspaper sites. For Pi Hole to work best you would need to keep updating the list of hosts that you want to block. Since this requires Wireshark or Little Snitch it’s faster to use other ad blocking tools.

If you want to see a list of everything that is blocked by default you can check this list. At the time of writing this blog post the list was last updated in November of 2023.

And Finally

Installing it is straightforward if you follow the instructionsl, but getting it to be useful requires an investment of time.

https://www.main-vision.com/richard/blog/initial-thoughts-on-setting-up-a-pi-hole/

#ads #blockLists #day391 #DNS #experimenting #piHole #raspberryPi

Also been #experimenting with mixing some #JavaScript into it.

TBH I'd use #JDAML over #JSX in #JS any day.

Using \ as the delimiter makes it pretty easy to integrate into the syntax of JS. Also it adds some superpowers to JS for free, such as fenced strings.

Also been #experimenting with mixing some #JavaScript into it.

TBH I'd use #JDAML over #JSX in #JS any day.

Using \ as the delimiter makes it pretty easy to integrate into the syntax of JS. Also it adds some superpowers to JS for free, such as fenced strings.

Also been #experimenting with mixing some #JavaScript into it.

TBH I'd use #JDAML over #JSX in #JS any day.

Using \ as the delimiter makes it pretty easy to integrate into the syntax of JS. Also it adds some superpowers to JS for free, such as fenced strings.

Also been #experimenting with mixing some #JavaScript into it.

TBH I'd use #JDAML over #JSX in #JS any day.

Using \ as the delimiter makes it pretty easy to integrate into the syntax of JS. Also it adds some superpowers to JS for free, such as fenced strings.

#Experimenting with these #SeedStarter kits that a friend gifted me for my 48th birthday this year. I've watered the pods & prepping to #SowSeeds 👩‍🌾

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#Experimenting with these #SeedStarter kits that a friend gifted me for my 48th birthday this year. I've watered the pods & prepping to #SowSeeds 👩‍🌾

#zone8 #Spring #Wsanec #Saanich #VictoriaBC #yyj #vanisle #VancouverIsland #PNW #PacificNorthwest #BritishColumbia #Canada #GardenersOfMastodon #SDFgardeners #MastodonGardeners #GrowPlantsNotHate #PlantAGarden

#Experimenting with these #SeedStarter kits that a friend gifted me for my 48th birthday this year. I've watered the pods & prepping to #SowSeeds 👩‍🌾

#zone8 #Spring #Wsanec #Saanich #VictoriaBC #yyj #vanisle #VancouverIsland #PNW #PacificNorthwest #BritishColumbia #Canada #GardenersOfMastodon #SDFgardeners #MastodonGardeners #GrowPlantsNotHate #PlantAGarden