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2024-06-28 19:54:36

Timed the “intro to Smolblog” talk at just under 35 minutes. I should probably shave five minutes off somewhere, right?

2024-06-28 01:47:19

Is a “where’s the beef?” reference too dated?

2024-06-26 18:52:20

Between the coffee and the general environment, I’ve needed this deskmat cleaning guide from Mintlodica for a little while.
https://mintlodica.com/blogs/from-our-desk-to-yours/gaming-deskmat-cleaning-guide

2024-06-25 23:47:13

Got my professionally-done resume back. Great words, but the formatting was incredibly plain (intentionally so, to make it work better with automatic scanning systems).
So of course, I had to make it look good.
https://eph.me/

2024-06-24 21:37:42

"I’m not interested in competing with anyone. I hope we all make it."
— Erica Cook

2024-06-18 04:34:49

I’ve been spinning my wheels on UI stuff for a few days now, so I finally gave up and started compiling my own UI library. No idea if it’ll go anywhere or be useful to literally anyone including me. Based on shadcn-svelte but with my own opinionated layer on top.
https://github.com/oddevan/oddevan-ui

2024-06-16 16:24:58

OK, is there a good tool out there for running multiple containers on a server? I’m trying to do Docker Compose in the CLI, but it feels like I’m having to hold too much context to use it well and I keep shooting myself in the foot. Do I need to just work smarter, or is there a better thing?

2024-06-16 15:12:01

I’m startingting to get good at Keynote animations. Stay tuned for my 1-minute explainer on en💩ification/platform decay.

2024-06-11 18:02:35

I had no idea the market for Intel Macs was so bad now.

2024-06-11 00:20:30

Open questions: How was the model for Apple’s generative images trained? How much energy is the cloud compute using?
Unexpected potential upside: let’s put gen AI in the iPhone and Macs, build it into all that, so that it becomes as cringe as Word Art.

2024-06-08 14:59:20

I can’t remember another time that I’ve avoided reading one of @[email protected]’s articles, but here we are. The way life is for me right now, I need the childlike surprises on Monday.
https://micro.blog/[email protected]

2024-05-29 19:04:38

Just got laid off. Not sure what my immediate moves are, but I’m listening for opportunities.

2024-05-20 23:55:51

My friend’s kickstarter to make a children’s book about South Carolina plants and animals just needs a little bit more support. Anyone interested?
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/goodprintedthings/wild-things-of-the-upstate

2024-05-09 21:41:47

The problem with mic-dropping a zoom meeting is you don’t get to see people’s reactions.

2024-05-06 02:12:51

I’m working on a fictional universe… and I’m thinking of making the website a point-and-click adventure like I don’t have anything else to work on.

2024-05-04 03:41:01

One thing I’m trying to learn: it’s ok to take breaks. It’s ok to be slow. Even if I already feel like I’m behind.
Smolblog isn’t a startup. I’m not burning runway. The features that really matter will still matter a year from now.
Take time and rest.

2024-05-01 05:17:31

I realized what irks me about some tech: the shoehorning of one tech into another (server-side JS, Not-SQL databases, anti-cascading CSS) shows unwillingness to learn the other tech. Experimentation or time constraints are valid, but don’t claim that it “fixes” something that’s not even understood.

2024-04-23 03:46:44

Y’all whippersnappers and your Tailwinds and your server-side rendering like you’re allergic to CSS and PHP. Y’all never had to use font tags inside of every paragraph or try seeing which table property will actually change the background color or transcribe your angst from your YakBak to your LJ.

2024-04-19 15:57:59

Really appreciated this article by Jason Snell on regulation and the App Store:
"Let’s not root for Apple to win—let’s root for Apple to do better."
A good rule to remember with any corporation. See also: Dropout’s adventure with Ticketmaster’s Dynamic Pricing.
https://sixcolors.com/post/2024/04/apples-emulator-about-face-is-good-for-everyone/ https://www.polygon.com/tabletop-games/24130879/dimension-20-ticketmaster-madison-square-garden-ticket-pricing-controversy-gauntlet-in-the-garden

2024-04-19 15:43:31

Messy space, messy brain. Time to clean the office!

2024-04-11 05:33:08

Are there any good electric cars coming out in the USA that aren’t crossovers or straight-up SUVs?
(I know the Mini Electric exists, but I’m hoping for at least 200mi of range.)

2024-04-06 18:49:02

Currently in Smolblog, I don’t like how much boilerplate there is around Content Types (and CRUD operations in general). I’ve gotten close to a good abstraction a few times. But something in my brain just isn’t clicking.
Maybe I just need to sleep on it. Again.
https://github.com/smolblog/smolblog/issues/49

2024-04-05 18:48:48

From Trevor Flowers:
"I wish more people who are worried about FOSS supply side attacks would realize that universal basic income and free healthcare would result in an almost infinite stream of excellent software from people who care more about quality than profit."
I’m increasingly convinced we need this.
https://widerweb.org/@trevorflowers/112215137141805964

2024-03-24 15:40:02

Interesting choice for ESPN to add commercial breaks (“we’ll pick up right where we left off”) to an F1 race that everyone’s going to be watching on DVR anyway (and thus skipping said commercials). What weird kind of contractual obligation is this? 🏎️

2024-03-24 00:04:21

Just sent out the first set of private beta invites for Smolblog. 😬

2024-03-20 23:22:08

I will have made the first public post about Smolblog five years ago this May.
Let’s see if I can’t get to Open Beta by then.
https://oddevan.com/2019/05/28/introducing-smolblog.html

2024-03-16 02:46:08

And it’s not even consistent? Like my logs are full of rejected inbox requests because the Delete messages are signed with public keys that don’t exist because they belong to the account ostensibly being deleted!
I’ve been “almost done” for a month now. 🫠

2024-03-16 02:41:19

ActivityPub might not be complicated, but trying to figure out all the little nitpicks with Mastodon that if you don’t do just right means nothing works is almost enough to make me give up on the whole thing.

2024-03-15 14:00:33

Count me in with people calling large-context machine learning models “spicy autocorrect” instead of “AI.” That being said…
It’s getting to the point where it doesn’t matter how good it actually is, just that it’ll be good enough for lots of people to be out of work. What are we doing about that?

2024-03-09 21:10:05

Did beta work using smol.blog. Production server is Smolblog.com, but with handles on smol.blog…
Except mastodon.social cached the URLs and, even with the webfinger changes, only talks to smol.blog. With the old IDs.
sigh

2024-02-26 16:56:44

TBT to when the internet went out and I worked from a Starbucks (because their internet wasn’t from the local cable company and therefore still worked).
…haven’t worked from a coffee shop since. 🙃
https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/644/2024/d7f611bffb.jpg

2024-02-26 14:54:29

TIL a Time Machine backup can fail because the disk you’re backing up (not the disk you’re backing up to) is too full. 🫠

2024-02-22 15:11:17

Thought I was going to send out some closed beta invites this weekend, but I ran into a snag with my last-pass testing. The good news is, I think this means custom domains and fediverse handles are coming sooner than expected…

2024-02-09 02:50:44

I’m trying to customize the account registration page in WordPress. The hooks for adding fields work fine, but not the hooks for validating. I can only assume that, because it’s multisite, it works differently? Because reasons?
Am I actually going to launch manually creating user accounts?

2024-02-04 04:45:56

Working on a color scheme… I don’t think I need any interface colors besides primary, secondary, error, and neutral, right? I know a lot of the off-the-shelf systems have “success” and “info” and “danger” (not to be confused with “error”), but I also feel like I never use those.
https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/644/2024/screenshot-2024-02-03-at-10.39.14pm.png

2024-01-28 17:02:39

If you’ve been interested in Smolblog and you haven’t signed up for the mailing list, now’s a pretty good time.
Just saying… 😇
https://smolblog.com/ https://eph.me/smolblog-updates

2024-01-20 15:33:30

OK, let’s try this monorepo business…
https://blog.logrocket.com/hosting-all-your-php-packages-together-in-a-monorepo/

2024-01-20 02:03:22

Setting up test coverage checks for the framework behind Smolblog.
Tested lines: 100%
Saw that there was an option for testing lines, branches, and paths.
Tested paths: 38%
Saw how many tests I would need for full path coverage.
Decided to test branches instead.

2024-01-19 14:30:54

File this one under “comically and colossally missing the point.”
https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/644/2024/ed37e90d77.jpg

2024-01-18 02:18:46

Just stop, Apple. https://oddevan.com/2024/01/17/just-stop-apple.html

2024-01-17 01:19:00

IT WORKS IT WORKS IT WORKS IT WORKS redacted because I don’t want you to follow my test account IT WORKS IT WORKS!!!
https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/644/2024/52ba825804.jpg

2024-01-16 15:02:08

All these sports betting apps encouraging me to make sports “more exciting” and “mean more.”
No. I get my heart broken enough as it is.

2024-01-14 03:06:28

Watching the NFL game, they’re showing the temperature difference between Kansas City and Miami. Mike Tirico narrates the temperature in Miami as “70 degrees.”
The on-screen graphic says 69°.

2024-01-12 20:50:48

Sometimes I feel lucky that ADD is so socially “acceptable” these days. Today, though…
My pharmacy is out of the generic.
Insurance won’t cover the brand.
My prior auth expired two weeks ago.
My doc is closed Friday afternoons.
I can’t do any of this ahead of time because FDA.
This fucking sucks.

2024-01-09 19:10:19

We’re not who we were, and I’m so glad we’ve been able to grow alongside and with each other. Happy anniversary, Brittany.

2023-12-25 17:04:35

For those that celebrate, hope you are having a wonderful Christmas. Today’s joy is a six-sided keyboard switch tester that doubles as a fidget toy.
I will try not to annoy absolutely everyone. No promises.
https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/644/2023/b69f198bad.jpg

2023-12-22 01:55:25

Testing time…
https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/644/2023/7eb50b469d.png

2023-12-18 04:57:41

From @brentsimmons’ post on adding Mastodon support to the RSS reader NetMewsWire:
"Such an app could be a nice unified experience. Get your Mastodon, Threads, RSS feeds, Micro.blog and, hopefully, other services — anything that supports ActivityPub, RSS, or some other open format or API — all in one place, in a way that’s already familiar to everyone."
That’s the second half of the plan for Smolblog. It’s under Beta Phase 2. Feedback and help is always appreciated.
https://micro.blog/brentsimmons https://inessential.com/2023/12/17/on_mastodon_support_in_netnewswire https://eph.me/sbkanban

2023-12-17 05:28:31

Just wrote the last sentence of a story that comes in at just under 12k words.
But I like this one too much, so it’s getting edited!

2023-12-17 00:10:52

Bookmarking this article about moving from CRUD to Event Sourcing as it has some of the simplest explanations of the concept I’ve seen.
https://event-driven.io/en/the_end_is_near_for_crud_data/

2023-12-07 21:28:53

Fascinated by this talk by Gary Bernhardt about boundaries in software architecture. It’s validated some of the architecture I’ve used with Smolblog and given me ideas for what I haven’t…
https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/boundaries

2023-12-05 03:15:25

"There are always going to be the free riders – tech companies, perhaps – who benefit from the interconnectedness of the world while refusing to do the work."
— Duke University Libraries in a post aptly titled “Why We’re Dropping Basecamp”
https://blogs.library.duke.edu/blog/2023/11/30/why-were-dropping-basecamp/

2023-12-02 20:23:21

Last year Fortnite did a big in-game event to end Chapter 3 and launch Chapter 4. This year they had even worse queuing (my wife got kicked out an hour before and couldn’t get back in) just to have a few cinematic teasers and… get kicked out anyway I guess? I’m not mad, just disappointed.

2023-12-01 03:35:30

Sometimes you get an error that just makes you want to walk into the ocean.
https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/644/2023/ca06c72a8e.png

2023-11-30 14:21:11

I hate signing into my Google account on my phone. Because Google, a company run by Very Smart People, always assumes I’m signing into my phone for the first time and bombards me with emails and notifications about “setting up” my phone and “making it better” with all of their apps. 🙄

2023-11-29 23:40:42

It goes like this:
Find out my company is using a product.
Look at product.
Find out they have a free tier.
Sign up for said free tier.
Find out that this product allows public comments on a roadmap.
Post the link to the Smolblog roadmap I just created.
Ask people to like, comment, and subscribe.
https://starter.productboard.com/smolblog-starter/1-smolblog-full-stack

2023-11-29 01:23:03

And after resigning myself to just using a raw SQLite database to store my character/setting info, I gave Collections Database a try. So far it’s working well enough to spend the $7 on the pro version…
https://collectionsdb.com/

2023-11-28 14:49:40

Started and stopped several attempts last night at finding some software to use as a character database… Ended up making a SQLite file and opening it in TablePlus.

2023-11-24 15:45:08

Hey Stripe, what’s your black Friday dashboard say about the number of businesses having their “best day ever”?
https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/644/2023/image.png https://bfcm.stripe.dev

2023-11-22 19:28:53

If you want to upload a file through an HTML form, be sure to set the content type to multipart/form-data. Otherwise it will not work.
If you want to upload a file through the JavaScript fetch function, be sure NOT to set the content type manually. Otherwise you’ll be stuck for a week. Like me.

2023-11-16 03:07:31

Not me belting out a line from the song stuck in my head and pulling up to the drive thru window just to be told the mic was still hot. You must have me confused with someone else.

2023-11-13 16:24:02

Some belated Veterans Day words from a colleague who passed earlier this year:
"Please be mindful that there are folks that you know who are holding a lot in their hearts. And this weekend, their hearts may feel particularly heavy."

2023-11-09 18:06:56

Hearing rumblings of Tumblr being put on life support. I’m trying not to let it pressure me…
But come ON! I had two API integrations ready to start with Smolblog. But Twitter doesn’t exist anymore, and now Tumblr?!
Anyway, thanks @manton @jean @vincent and co for the stable platform.
https://www.tumblr.com/paperairplanemob/733528756586741760 https://micro.blog/manton https://micro.blog/jean https://micro.blog/vincent

2023-11-07 15:44:21

I’ve been planning on using the AGPLv3 license for Smolblog and selling exception licenses. It felt like the best way to keep the project Actually Open Source™ without leaving it open to poaching by major cloud players. And now Element (co. behind Matrix) is providing some major vindication.
https://oddevan.com/2022/09/22/building-smolblog-open.html https://element.io/blog/element-to-adopt-agplv3/

2023-11-03 19:23:44

Some days you get an idea. Some days that idea doesn’t last.
https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/644/2023/e5803238c8.jpg

2023-11-02 13:55:51

Redownloaded the Tetris app last night. Opened it this morning, clicked past the login prompt, hit the giant play button, got a few triples, and apparently beat the level?? Which did some bonus animation and then played an ad???
I have uninstalled the Tetris app.

2023-11-01 14:07:13

Finally checked my PO Box after way too long. Thanks for the sticker, @jean!
https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/644/2023/d273121401.jpg https://micro.blog/jean

2023-10-31 13:40:39

“Lisdexamfetamine” scans to “God Bless Americaca.” I need y’all to write the rest of it.

2023-10-27 20:41:00

Something I haven’t seen offered for the Apple “Scary Fast” event: the new whole-console CarPlay they showed off last year.
Another possibility: F1 on Apple TV. 🏎️

2023-10-27 16:19:50

Said goodbye to our dog Toby yesterday. We’ve had him since he was 3 months old, and he’s literally grown alongside us for the last 13 years. The weirdest, strangest, goodest boy. May he rest in peace.
https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/644/2023/3ec70f8d63.jpg https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/644/2023/96d2460d1f.jpg https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/644/2023/0c019dcbf4.jpg

2023-10-22 21:54:10

Nothing like a Sunday afternoon at the emergency vet, but when your normally lethargic dog can’t lie still because of the pain, you go.

2023-10-13 04:05:53

Nothing like getting an alert and seeing that whoever set it up set the threshold level to 9000…

2023-10-12 14:17:54

Anyone know of an end-user friendly cross-platform/cross-browser guide to installing a web app?
Google has plenty of guides… for Chrome. And MDN doesn’t get into the details (and isn’t updated for macOS Sonoma yet).

2023-10-02 16:11:42

My old coworker Lax has been on his own journey of self-discovery and self-improvement, and he’s written a post summarizing what he’s learned so far. Having seen his growth is inspiring.
https://journal.laxmariappan.com/10-keys-to-a-better-life-insights-from-a-journey-of-self-discovery/

2023-10-01 21:24:55

I’ve got a poll running on my Mastodon asking how people are getting long form content these days. Would love your input.
https://mastodon.social/@oddevan/111161390177995753

2023-10-01 15:44:46

So I thought the Toy Story Funday Football was gonna be a fun gimmick, but…
It’s a tech demo. And not a good one at that. There’s some fun ideas here, but the real-time animation is just Not There Yet. Unknown players, bad ball spotting, wonky camera; like watching a Let’s Play of Sonic 2006.

2023-09-29 02:42:44

"That’s How We’re Gonna Win: Not Fighting What We Hate, Saving What We Love."
With that in mind, what do we love about social media?

2023-09-17 15:06:48

Follow-up to a previous question: the WGA tightened their rules for talk shows after 2008:
"…“writing” could mean anything from scripting a monologue to developing and researching questions for guests or putting those words on cue cards."
(via @[email protected])
https://oddevan.com/2023/09/11/genuine-question-how.html https://www.indiewire.com/news/business/drew-barrymore-daytime-tv-under-fire-writers-strike-analysis-1234904657/

2023-09-16 18:17:40

Trying to avoid having a “quick” manual process instead of building another setting panel or extra admin screen.
Another couple of hours now saves me:
The 5 min process
The 30 min context switch
The 10 min of support communication
Et Cetera
Every. Time.

2023-09-12 19:57:45

TiPhone. To go with the TiBook I never had.

2023-09-12 16:02:21

Genuine question: how is Drew Barrymore starting her show back without writers different from Conan, Colbert, and Stewart starting theirs back in 2008? I don’t remember them getting in trouble for strike breaking.

2023-09-11 14:39:47

Hot take: “Don’t Fear the Reaper” actually does need more cowbell.

2023-09-11 01:59:25

Bookmarking for later: Creating a card game in Tabletop Simulator.
https://www.stackup.org/post/creating-card-games-on-tabletop-simulator

2023-09-10 00:05:43

Been a fan of Cory Godbey for years and SUPER excited to see his work in the TCG world!
https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/644/2023/0ab54d2b94.jpg

2023-09-06 01:19:08

Based on Stratechery’s summary of the Disney-Spectrum dispute du jour, I’m actually pulling for Spectrum? To wit:
D: Pay us more.
S: Give us Disney+ where the good stuff is.
D: lol no
S: 😎
D: But we’ll turn off ESPN!
S: We’ll send them to YouTube ourselves.
D: But…
S: 😎
https://stratechery.com/2023/the-rise-and-fall-of-espns-leverage/

2023-09-02 02:59:51

A Stupidly Simple PHP Dependency Injection Container https://oddevan.com/2023/08/31/a-stupidly-simple.html

2023-09-01 15:17:42

TFW you type docker compose stop when offboarding a client.

2023-09-01 03:58:32

I do not have all the time in the world, and my goals for Smolblog pretty much require it to be in PHP right now: it’s efficient, type-safe, well-supported, and a language I and many others know well.
But if I had time… I really wonder what it would look like as server-side Swift.

2023-08-31 00:52:15

There’s a lot of chatter about measuring the productivity of software engineers, especially at work right now. This article gets to the heart of it: most metrics measure effort and output when we should be measuring outcome and impact.
https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/measuring-developer-productivity

2023-08-28 02:07:56

As an exercise, I tried seeing if I could make a quick middleware for adding content provinance manifests to media uploaded to Smolblog. And I think I’ll call this concept proved.
https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/644/2023/screenshot-2023-08-27-at-7.53.06-pm.png https://c2pa.org/specifications/specifications/1.3/explainer/Explainer.html https://github.com/smolblog/smolblog-core/pull/52

2023-08-27 00:46:23

The studios’ (including Apple) behavior in these WGA and SAG/AFTRA strikes is… petty. Vindictive.
I’m really starting to buy the narrative that streaming is an across-the-board bomb. They can’t give viewer numbers to the unions because the shareholders would revolt.

2023-08-25 04:33:39

Smolblog is now (mostly) Micropub compliant. The exceptions are undeleting (may not implement), multiple photos on the same request (can’t get that to work in WordPress) and some incorrect authentication responses (again, WordPress).
https://micropub.rocks/implementation-reports/servers/782

2023-08-23 03:22:24

Building Smolblog: Open https://oddevan.com/2023/08/22/building-smolblog-open.html

2023-08-23 03:06:46

Use Laravel’s Illuminate Database Query Builder With WordPress https://oddevan.com/2023/08/21/use-laravels-illuminate.html

2023-08-21 18:09:38

This can’t be good…
https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/644/2023/9e55297d43.jpg

2023-08-13 16:32:31

Been thinking about streaming services lately
https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/644/2023/01.png https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/644/2023/02.png https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/644/2023/03.png https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/644/2023/04.png https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/644/2023/05.png

2023-08-12 19:23:44

4 years ago I wanted a gaming PC. Bought an Alienware because I didn’t want to go through the hassle of buying/assembling compatible parts.
Now I can’t upgrade because Dell uses proprietary motherboards. So it looks like I’m building.

2023-08-11 04:19:35

Taliesin Jaffe’s face—as Sam Riegel does his weekly ad-read—is the epitome of “It’s so nice to see other people having to hear this.”

2023-08-06 14:47:32

Nothing like getting up at 5:30 AM to clean up your dog’s forceful rejection of last night’s food.
Except maybe finding out he wasn’t done yet.

2023-07-30 03:57:01

Usually you listen to the code style plugin.
But sometimes you need to remind it who’s boss. And disable stupid rules.
https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/644/2023/screenshot-2023-07-29-at-9.53.15-pm.png

2023-07-28 01:12:41

Ok, anyone in my new social media orbit still play Animal Crossing on the switch? ‘Cause I’m hopefully set for some good turnip prices tomorrow afternoon…

2023-07-26 04:51:28

It’s nothing but a mostly-blank Jekyll site right now, but I want to start collecting documentation for ActivityPub, Micropub, and other social web APIs, and I would love your help. github.com/smolblog/…
https://github.com/smolblog/social-api-db

2023-07-24 16:42:37

This isn’t even half-assed. Quarter-assed at best. I’d expect this from a smaller Google or Microsoft project that is under a new director with too much ego desperate to leave their mark and not enough people to tell them “no.”
Which, come to think of it… 🙄
https://oddevan-test.micro.blog/uploads/2023/image.jpg

2023-07-19 15:33:40

It’s all about the little rituals.
https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/644/2023/ba0980d74e.jpg https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/644/2023/259e414ba4.jpg

2023-07-13 01:24:19

The conversation around the impending thrediverse implies there’s this illusion of privacy people expect from Mastodon that just isn’t there. How would you communicate to a new user that content posted may end up on other servers, and there is no way to control what those servers do?