Posts - page 21

A listing of all long-form posts published to-date. Herein, you'll find my thoughts on concepts, ideas, politics, and more.

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Back to the Grind

Yesterday I posted about launching a Sharkey instance, and liking it so much, I decided to move to it, and move off of the managed Mastodon instance I had. Now that I’ve done that, it’s time to get back to work in figuring out how I can integrate my Sharkey...
published November 27, 2024
#sharkey #socialmedia #activitypub
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Moved to Sharkey!

Today I was messing around with a Linux VPS, like you do. And I thought to myself, “I wonder what it would be like to launch a Sharkey instance?” And so I did! And, while I have had prior experience with Sharkey … I like to run things myself. I...
published November 26, 2024
#sharkey #activitypub #socialmedia
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Testing Auto-Posting to Sharkey

If I’ve done this correctly … this post should go directly to my Sharkey account after I hit the commit button and the build process completes. Let’s see what happens.
published November 26, 2024
#testing
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Spotify, Finally Useful for Something

As some may know, I have very many releases under the musical id Eyeshadow 2600 FM, and have also started a side-project named PLEXX. While the muse for which I use to create has been a very slow monster, I’ve started to notice that ever since I basically rebuilt my...
published November 26, 2024
#programming #scripting #music #spotify
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Is the Bluesky-Shine Wearing Off Already?

Like I do, I’ve been semi-tracking and participating in the boom of the Bluesky social network, even though it’s not decentralized, currently, in any meaningful way. In my own experience, I’m having a hard time finding “my people.” I don’t even know if I have a “my people” anymore. But,...
published November 25, 2024
#bluesky #socialmedia #mastodon
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Load Up the Gram, and Download It!

Like an absolute madman, I slapped together a little Linux Python app for targeting an Instagram profile, and then downloading its entire contents. After much fussing with the unintuitive Github, and figuring out Twine, I uploaded it directly into the fully public system where anyone can download and use it....
published November 25, 2024
#programming #instagram #app
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Another Test Post

Trying to figure out if my scripts are broken, or if post at exactly midnight two times in a row is why my RSS Python scripts aren’t pushing my newest posts to Bluesky, Tumblr, and Discord. Let’s see …
published November 24, 2024
#test
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Do You like Orgy?

In continuing a trend of visiting teenage me from 1999 and onward, I’m revisiting one of my favorite bands. Of course, I was into Korn, and Nine Inch Nails, and Sonic Mayhem, and TOOL, but then there was Orgy. And in that respect, I’m no longer afraid to say that...
published November 24, 2024
#music #numetal #orgy #nineties
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Digging Up the Distant Internet-Past

Like you do, I was digging around the WayBackMachine, trying desperately to recall the names of my old Geocities pages … much to no avail. But, there is one page I know the name of, that is at least partially archived, and I visit it every once in a while....
published November 23, 2024
#oldnet #thoughts #waybackmachine #internet
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Make Some Noise (on Bluesky)

In my efforts to continually preserve the weird things that I do, and have been doing, and/or am also learning to do, I setup a Python noise generation script, that’s completely procedural (like the other ones), and plopped it onto a Bluesky account. Make some noise! Procedurally generated by Python!...
published November 22, 2024
#python #scripting