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

Death.au's Domain

deathau

Gordon Pedersen

a.k.a. death.au

@[email protected]

I am a software developer and tinkerer based in Melbourne, Australia. Check out my CV

Where you can find me:

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I'm testing calls to the omg.lol API again. Don't mind me

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I think my next hyperfocus is going to be building a multiplatform status.log equivalent.

I have a desire to try and build a #MAUI #Blazor hybrid app, and working with the #omg.lol API seems pretty fun. Plus, I'm a bit jealous that the current app is apple-only

I couldn't see any docs on the #some.pics API, and I'll have to figure out the OAuth flow, but surely it shouldn't be hard?

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It's not static, but I've added JavaScript to load replies to my weblog.lol posts (the ones that are linked to a friendica post, anyway). So you can visit the the weblog and see the conversation as a comments thread, then link off to interact with the conversation on your own instance (if you "log in" first).

I really should do a full write-up of what I've done with my site so far... Maybe after I commit to putting it on my main domain.

OMG! A new website!

I've been exploring building my own little space on the web, trying to bring in some content from the Fediverse and/or make my own website ActivityPub powered. I've not given up on that entirely, but I also wasn't getting anywhere with it. And…

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A new version of #Wavebox has afforded me the incentive to reorganise all my apps/tabs.

In doing so, I realised something: apart from numbering, it's organised like a #JohnnyDecimal system! I've got Spaces for Areas, Groups for Categories and "Apps" and/or pinned tabs as individual ID points. All other tabs are temporary and will be trashed when I close the browser.

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I've done some pretty fancy stuff with #CSS in the past, but nothing quite on the level of DOOM Scroll: https://codepen.io/cobra_winfrey/pen/oNOMRav

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Sometimes I just can't help myself. My https://deathau.weblog.lol site now has a fediverse "login" — you enter fediverse handle and it will look up your avatar and subscribe link via webfinger, saving those to local storage.
Then, it replaces all the links to my friendica instance with links to that same post in your instance (as per the subscribe link).

I just need to figure out how to get the reply/reblog/like counts of my posts in there, too.

List-Layout-Log

Just going through some old notes and discovered an idea I'd had for a list/layout/log approach to task management which included, from left to right: * a List of all tasks (a backlog) which would have its own management, filtering, etc (out of scope for the current…

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Hooray! I've managed to rig things up so that future posts from status.lol post directly to https://deathau.weblog.lol/
This is part of a wider effort to both migrate my website to omg.lol and consolidate my online presence.
There is still a lot of work to do in this regard, but this felt like a solid step in the right direction.

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(The previous post was supposed to also be a test of my new workflow for adding status.lol posts to my blog, but I messed something up with env variables, so I'm going to use this post to test instead)