Incidental Remarks

@wyliecoyoteuk yeah that sounds like a real page turner, that one.

I’ve re-read very few books. Slaughterhouse Five one of a few exceptions.

Turns out the dog was reasonably well behaved on my pub crawl yesterday. Fingers crossed that as she gets older she accepts her fate as a pub dog.

Resistance is futile.

@rochelimit alas, I don’t have the penmanship for a fountain pen.

A while back I was gazing at epaper devices. So I corrected myself by getting a new notebook.

@pieceofthepie freedom to play around and leave bits unfinished on a toy website. 😄

But I think better versions of simpler implementations are only a matter of time. There’s quite a few people that want this. 🤞

@pieceofthepie I never found anything for mine so I hacked something together using gotosocial as an ActivityPub wrapper around my static site.

It’s needlessly over complicated but I could find anything that did what I wanted.

@bananabob 😅 a thousand apologies.

@kev I’ve been chewing this over for about 15 years.

The throwaway, low friction immediacy, and non-permanence of a microblogging stream and how that lends itself to random interaction is where I’ve always found value.

This enjoyment I have of microblogging means that the idea of a tumblelog (to use a very classic term) gets quite squeezed out in-between a blog and a microblog

I’ve experimented with a hosted tumblelog / fediverse crossover on this account and whilst I like it, I’m hitting that same squeeze.

@robert I did imagine that would be the case, thanks.

@ghostdancer I might just send them an email asking for clarification on the contributions policy. As a Millennial, directly contacting people formally causes me physical pain, but I will manage.

@ghostdancer yeah, I was hoping not to involve those 2 juggernauts. So I have to decide how much I want to do it.

Thought I could use the open library covers API to retrieve book covers with an ISBN. Which, in theory, I can.

But the vast majority of what I’ve searched for so far have no cover, so it’s kind of not worth it.

The data is editable, so I could contribute the covers myself… But the site gives zero guidance on what is acceptable.

Can I just download the cover from the authors website and upload it, because fair use… Or is that a no-no?

https://openlibrary.org/dev/docs/api/covers

@davidrevoy this is the way 😃

@robert thanks 🙂

@robert I think I fixed it, but I don’t really understand why it was broken, or how I fixed it.

’twas ever thus.

well… I think I’ve fixed it. I’ve no idea why it was broken and no clue why the CSS I’ve changed has fixed it. Moreover, it’s not exactly the fix I was looking for but it’ll do.

Ah, hubris. It would seem that the code blocks, on the list page, knacker the content widths at certain resolutions.

And after trying to figure it out for 90 minutes, I’m still completely bemused by it.

@robert thanks, I’ll take a look.

Every time I do this:

CSS isn’t so hard these days.

Hours later

Oh my god, why am I so bad at this. 😅

Mermaid diagrams in Hugo wasn’t ootb but painless to set up. Huzzah.

We dug this out of the vegetable bed yesterday. We didn’t even plant garlic there this year.