I’ve been experimenting a bit with #ClassicPress, also – it’s a hard fork of WordPress from version 4.9, just before they introduced the block editor, so there’s a lot less complexity. If I take the #WordPress approach, I may end up using ClassicPress for it instead.
Category: Wandering.Shop
Well, I haven’t gotten around to doing much with the 11ty based photogallery approach yet.
Well, I haven’t gotten around to doing much with the #11ty based #photogallery approach yet. Just enough to realize the template I started with isn’t the way I want to go. It puts the image list and metadata in one giant JSON file, and I’d rather use individual markdown files with front matter and the caption/comment/description as the body.
I’ve found a couple of articles that are closer to what I want to do with it, so I may end up basing it on one of those or rolling my own entirely.
Saga AND Arrowsmith are back?I need to get back to the comic store.#comics
Saga AND Arrowsmith are back?
I need to get back to the comic store.
I don’t think I’ve been there since summer or fall 2020. I was down to one series at the point that publishing shut down for 2 months, and it was a limited series. I went in during a lull in cases to pick up the last few issues.
At least they managed to hang on. I drive past the place occasionally on my way somewhere else, and they’re still open.
Just caught a glimpse of the monochrome OpenVPN status icon on my work box and …
Just caught a glimpse of the monochrome OpenVPN status icon on my work box and wondered why Target was showing up there.
Western monarch butterflies spending the winter in California rebound to 247,000…
Western monarch butterflies spending the winter in California rebound to 247,000, up from less than 2000 last year!
(Back in the 1980s it was millions annually, but this is still a big sigh of relief after the last couple of years)
https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2022-01-25/western-monarchs-butterflies-rebound
Yay, my visual cortex is done defragging!Or whatever the heck is going on when …
Yay, my visual cortex is done defragging!
Or whatever the heck is going on when I get a visual #migraine
Kid caught a Jolteon with stats that match our area code. He named it as …
Kid caught a Jolteon with stats that match our area code. He named it as a phone number that would spell out JOLTEON
#PokemonGo
Short video of starlings flying in formation
Food
I guess there are worse things to stress eat than half a sleeve of Ritz crackers.
It’s always interesting when these two apps both send me notifications at the same time.
It’s always interesting when these two apps both send me notifications at the same time.
Fake COVID testing sites (at least one chain, anyway) appear to be a multilevel marketing …
Fake COVID testing sites (at least one chain, anyway) appear to be a multilevel marketing fraud, not a data harvesting fraud. (As Schneier points out, there are much easier ways to harvest data.)
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2022/01/are-fake-covid-testing-sites-harvesting-data.html
This looks helpful: someone compiled a list of where the #Fairphone 4’s network bands overlap …
This looks helpful: someone compiled a list of where the #Fairphone 4’s network bands overlap with various US carriers, so if you manage somehow to get one across the pond, you have an idea of how likely it is to work on your carrier!
While messing around with IndieWeb, I’ve decided I want to build a consolidated PESOS gallery
While messing around with #IndieWeb, I’ve decided I want to build a consolidated #PESOS gallery of my photos at Instagram, Twitter, Mastodon, Pixelfed etc. I’ve got current archives for all (including from a dead Pixelfed instance).
Specs:
* Gallery, individual, and tag galleries
* Include captions and descriptions (I can add descriptions to the old photos)
* Links to wherever it’s posted (may be several sites)
* Light page code. I’d rather things load quickly than act fancy.
1/3
I’ve made a prototype in #WordPress so far, and it looks nice, and I already know how to automate new posts using IFTTT. But it feels heavy. And of course it’s one more instance to increase my attack surface & maintenance.
I’m going to give #Eleventy a shot next. I’ve worked with it before, and I can optimize the templates however I want. The image plugin can generate different sizes, thumbnails, etc. The main drawback: I haven’t researched ways to automatically import to 11ty yet.
2/3
Long-term I’d like to add #POSSE (selectively) to make it easier to cross-post. I had a set of 3 photos yesterday that I wanted to post to Flickr, Pixelfed, my blog, and my gemlog, and while it was mostly copying and pasting, it was also time-consuming.
Some of the stuff @stringerblog and @dansup have been talking about kind of overlap with this space.
3/4
Oh yeah, Flickr…the way I use it is different enough that I don’t want include my zillions of photos in this project. I might try a more full-featured gallery like Piwigo at some point. It’s less linear and more collection-based. But for photos I’ve cross-posted, I would like to link to it same as I would to Pixelfed or wherever, and it would be nice to include it in the outgoing posts once I get that up and running.
And I do like the idea of just federating the photos out directly!
4/5
OK, this got way more complicated and should’ve been a blog post.
So: building a personal #IndieWeb capable gallery of my sociallly-shared photos from various sources, keeping it light, pulling in new posts automatically (#PESOS) and eventually posting on my gallery and auto-posting it to Pixelfed/Twitter/Flickr/etc. (#POSSE) on a per-photo basis. Probably using #eleventy.
Anyone have any recommendations on tools that might be better than WP/11ty, or that would work well with this workflow?
Ooh, I could also generate a Gemini gallery! I remember @FiXato came up with some ideas on how to format one. I’d probably want to break it into categories or do it by tag or something
I wonder how much storage this will end up taking up. I probably won’t need to use S3 (finally started setting things up on DigitalOcean instead of AWS!) for this gallery unless I really want to CDN the images. By the time they’re scaled for whatever social network, it doesn’t take up any more space than by blog storage.
If I ever make my own Flickr mirror, though, that’s going to have to be a consideration!
Silhouetted Finches
And for kicks, I converted the silhouetted #finches and tree to a stark black and white image. I kinda like it.
Don’t feel so bad, Duo. None of the rest of us can either.
Fowl Language: Life Lesson so true…
Fowl Language: Life Lesson
https://tinyview.com/fowl-language/2022/01/12/life-lesson
So, so true…
why did I think docker would *simplify* this?????
why did I think docker would *simplify* this?????
morbid, death in news
I was really confused by a headline I just saw that said “Diver dies after crashing into San Pedro apartment building”
My first thought was, are there any underwater bits of Sunken City?
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/sunken-city
Then I looked again and realized it said “Driver,” which makes a lot more sense.
Turbulence in a Baltic Sea algae bloom and storm clouds on Jupiter
Nice comparison of turbulence in a Baltic Sea algae bloom and storm clouds on Jupiter showing the same structures
Planetary.org: Algae and Storms
#space #ocean #turbulence #physics #nasa
COVID, weird
It turns out the person I caught it from also tested negative for Covid during their illness…and then came down with actual Covid after they recovered. Fortunately they seem to be on the mend from that now too.
That means (a) whatever I caught from them wasn’t Covid and (b) we haven’t been around them in long enough that we don’t have to worry about it having been a Covid exposure too.