Yet another new website: mecagorp.com fluffy rambles

Folks were looking for a centralized website for Chorus which wasn’t just the repository, so today I threw together another site, MecaGorp, which will be hopefully where I put all future information about Chorus/Canimus and its related efforts. There’s a lot more stuff to add but in the meantime it’s at least a starting point.

I ended up just going with Publ as usual because I can’t be bothered to learn how to work with anything more light-weight right now. Maybe eventually I’ll try out 11ty or something, but whatevs.

I don’t expect that site to be particularly high-traffic but it’ll be nice to have things be a bit more properly-catalogued there. And since I’m hosting the site files on github it makes it at least feasible for others to contribute more readily.

Futility fluffy rambles

xkeeper posted a blog post about their issues running TCRF.

On a related note, here’s my webserver’s HTTP response code stats for today, across all of my websites:

fluffy@nautilus[/var/log/nginx] fluffy$ cut -f3 -d\" access.log | cut -f2 -d\  | sort | uniq -c | sort -n
      3 408
      4 502
      4 503
     10 410
     20 504
     56 307
     60 403
    165 406
    225 401
    462 499
    662 405
    670 500
    819 202
   1739 304
   2989 400
   6299 206
  16352 302
  32402 301
  52673 404
  83035 303
 192512 200
 308859 429

This is pretty disheartening.

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💬 Re: I joined the IndieWeb, here’s what I learned Notes

In reply to: Re: I joined the IndieWeb, here’s what I learned

One thing I’d point out is that IndieAuth does a lot more than just enabling Micropub and its ilk; for example, some folks support IndieAuth as a simple identity provider, which then provides things like access to private or protected entries (for example this one).

💬 Re: Testing webmentions Notes

In reply to: Re: Testing webmentions

Technically your post should have been posted as a u-repost-of of the original post. Also it doesn’t appear that you have the requisite mf2 data on your page for all that stuff to work. I’d recommend taking a look at my introduction to the IndieWeb since there’s a lot of ways where this could be a lot better!

In particular I’d recommend looking at the full IndieWeb Wordpress plugin which handles the mf2 markup as well as doing all the webmention stuff for you.

Visual snow syndrome fluffy rambles

A few days ago I happened upon this video about visual snow syndrome and I watched it even thinking that it was kinda clickbaity, since I always figured that visual snow syndrome is something that a lot of people have and it’s not a big deal.

But it actually made me realize that there’s a lot of stuff that’s possibly interconnected in my brain. Because one of the things the presenter mentioned is that it’s also linked to tinnitus and heightened pareidolia, which are both things I’ve always had. As well as migraines. And I wonder how much of my other brain shit is also explained by this?

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Liveness check fluffy rambles

Man, I am so tired of being tired.

On the plus side I’m finally working on music again. Hopefully I can keep up a more sustainable momentum this time around, because I really do want to finish Misfits sometime this year. But I also don’t want to do my usual multi-month crunch that leaves me even more drained when I’m done with an album.

I’ve also been working on the next version of the-protocol-formerly-called-Canimus. At present the tentative rebrand name is “Chorus” although I’m not totally sold on it (but my various collaborators like it). Anyway, for now folks can look at the WIP draft branch and maybe comment on it? I’ve gotten some really good feedback from some folks but more eyes would be better, I think.

I’ve also been doing voice training again, this time with a practitioner who knows what the hell she’s doing. It’s going okay.

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💬 Re: IndieWeb, Publ, and Webmentions Notes

In reply to: Re: IndieWeb, Publ, and Webmentions

Nice, I’m really happy to see someone else using Publ! There’s a lot of stuff that I really should do to modernize it, since you may have noticed that it’s stuck on an older version of Python and also that its Markdown engine is kinda… troublesome at this point. I’d also really like to improve the way that footnotes work so that it also supports things like sidebar or inline asides.

Having built-in support for webmention and such would also be nice; I always run into the limitations of what I can do with webmention.io/webmention.js and I have some big ideas about how to make a better comment system.

Anyway hopefully I can get back to working on this stuff. My priorities have been elsewhere but I do want to improve things for everyone.

Things that have me tired fluffy rambles

These past 6 weeks have been quite tiring to me, and I have so many reasons to be so very tired of things right now. I’m doing what I can to enjoy the things I’m able to do, but, oh god do things suck right now, for so many people that I know.

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