My avatar — A pixelated self-portrait in the style of the 'bitizens' in the mobile game Tiny Tower

Death.au's Blog

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I just want to shout out @[email protected] for running a great service with even greater support 👍

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Please ignore this post. I'm just testing something. For SCIENCE!

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Okay. Fastmail is cool. I've been using it for a while now, but I only just realised that the way I have things set up, not only does it not matter what goes before the @, but I can have an unlimited depth of subdomains. As long as it ends with my domain, I'll get the email.

Why, of all things, does #Bluey know how to press my emotional buttons? I don't even know why I'm getting emotional.

Johnny Decimal (Part One)

I've taken a leap and have started organising all the things with a Johnny Decimal system. It's been something I've been mulling over for some time, and with the Johnny Decimal workshop coming soon and an attempt to switch to a new OS, it seems like a perfect time to get organised.

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So, I like what I see so far of #atproto But I'm not sure if I like #bluesky itself Does that make sense?

... I might still have to wait a few years(!) before it's really ready...

OBTF, Subtext, ELF... Oh my!

Some random ideas that have popped up are sort of coalescing. Into what, I'm not sure yet. But I fell down a rabbit hole, and this article represents my climb back up. As such, I wouldn't consider this a proper, professional think piece. Just some notes, thoughts and scratchings that I decided to share.

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#ActivityPub, #Microformats, #Micropub... These all describe the same set of activities. So where's the service that lets me publish to my own static site via something like Micropub, with built-in interactions (likes, comments, etc) via ActivityPub?

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I really should pack my own bathers when taking my child to their swimming lesson. I could wait inthe pool, I stead of sweating it out beside the pool...

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I'm playing around with omg.lol, which allows you to purchase your own omg.lol domain, with a nice little markdown webpage builder thing, now page, blog, pastebin, persistent link manager, email and a bunch more. It's an intriguing little corner of the internet to call your own...

Cube Tube

A screenshot from CubeTube, depicting a blocky image of a voxel train with a sideways tetris game (a long piece is about to be slotted in for four lines).

Nostalgia inducing, 8-bit style, side scrolling tetrominos, ON A TRAIN!

LDToypad.NET

An image of a Lego portal from Lego Dimensions with one of the toypad segments lit up red.

A .NET library for communicating with the LEGO Dimensions toypad.

Sliding Panes (Andy Matuschak Mode)

An animation showing how the Sliding Panes plugin for Obsidian works, opening a few panes, scrolling sideways through them and then closing them again.

A unique way to view open panes in Obsidian.

Procrastinations issues

a "motivational" style image with a black border. The image is simply a blank white square. The main title is "Procrastination". The subtitle is "I'll find a picture for it later".

I barely managed to get this written at all...

Sculpting myself

A statue holding a hammer and a chisel, appearing to be about to carve the rock that makes up his unfinished legs

Oh, that's right, I never introduced myself...