Notes

Drinking a Baby Jesus by Brouwerij ’t Verzet.

There’s nothing unusual about this NFT, it’s how the NFT specifications are built. Many of the highest priced NFTs could turn into 💩 emoji at any time; I just made it explicit.

Recently (thanks, https://mastodon.social/@dav) discovered the amazing https://sylvaindurand.org/masonry-photo-grid-in-pure-css/.

Added to my feed reader.

I once created my own domain mapping plugin for (single-site) WordPress, which was fun.

(Disclaimer: It does about the same as “Multiple Domain Mapping on Single Site,” and the (paid) “Landing Kit.” Thought I’d share my take on this sort of thing, I guess. Also, I suck at naming things.)

Interesting. I follow, via RSS of course, exactly one Medium blog that’s now gone CAPTCHA on my feed aggregator (or rather, cURL). Maybe they should clarify, like, “We’ve found you’re using a machine to try and download a feed intended for machines.” No?

Also, if you’re a developer who spends a lot of time curating their carefully crafted personal site, please, please advertise your feed by having, e.g., a <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"> tag in your head.

This happens, uhm, regularly. A site changes URLs and forgets that GUIDs shouldn’t change. (I’ve probably done this, too, at one point.) Also, their feed doesn’t contain the last 15 or so items, but pretty much every post they’ve ever written. Almost always, a static site generator is “to blame” for this.

[T]he mere mention of the year 2022 back in the year 2008 was too much for some people.

That’s what I’ve been doing, too, and it makes total sense. IndieWeb parsers, after all, will gladly determine a post’s type from its actual markup.

Notes will replace all of these taxonomies[.] I’ll keep my [likes] separate, however.

Had a quick look at the new(er) Invoice Ninja (self-hosted!); not feeling it. Anyone out there know of a decent alternative? (InvoicePlane?) Need (highly) customizable templates and (local, preferably) PDF generation that works. PHP preferred.

I seem to have posted 13 “articles” and 220 “notes” in 2021. And 172 “(audio) scrobbles,” a post type I’ve only just added. (And—approximately, I’m still figuring out how to tackle this exactly—30 albums.)

Started with an audio scrobbling endpoint, ended up creating a database of all of my music. Ran everything through MusicBrainz Picard. Then used Mp3tag to clean up the results and create a CSV file (which I had to manually clean up, still, before I could import it into MySQL/MariaDB). The interesting bit is that while mpdscribble submissions contain a MusicBrainz track ID—if there is one, hence my decision to use Picard—alongside artist and album information, it’s not actually that easy to retrieve consistent release (“album”) information—there’s often different versions, with different (bonus) tracks or cover art, etc.—from MusicBrainz’s API. Having my own database, with only the versions I own, should make these lookups a whole lot easier, although it does mean it’ll occasionally need updated.

Bookmarked https://github.com/svgstore/svgstore-cli.

Just now made my feed reader my browser’s homepage. (I’m considering a weather forecast widget, too.)

Drinking a Chimay Cinq Cents by Brasserie de Chimay.