It's 2024 in Nippon!
Sunday, December 31, 2023
Do you have your ticket to ride? 明けましておめでとうございます。 今年もよろしくお願いします。2023
メリクリ🎁🎄🎅
Sunday, December 24, 2023
メリクリ🎁🎄🎅 May you and yours enjoy all 12 herbs and spices during this season of joy. Also on "ABC🌟🐺XYZ" The Week ending 12.24.2023
Sunday, December 24, 2023
The week before Christmas — not much going on except the twice checking of lists and making sure of naughty or niceness. The Tribe: celebrating one week since school holidays began, they mostly got into their Christmas shopping/making. I’m really glad Wifey and I made point of instilling making …Content Creators: Substack's dumpster fire should also be the one lit underneath your @$$
Saturday, December 23, 2023
If 2010-2020 was the Great Social Media Consolidation, looks like 2022 and beyond are gonna be the Great Innanet Decentralization, and I’m 1oo% present for it. Thanks to our friends #indieweb and #fediverse, you already know how easy it is to plug into some great communities on the interwebs …What are post kinds?
Tuesday, December 19, 2023
I needed a way to have a decent taxonomy for my posts on this incarnation of the blog, especially given its social features. A few places I hang out in online were using a dead-simple method for categorizing their posts and making it easy to find the stuff they saved later on, called Post Kinds. …Rudolph's grades won't be having his parents shouting out with glee...
Sunday, December 17, 2023
[embed]www.instagram.com/p/C09Rgbg…[/embed]When Mastodon Met Threads 🐘➕🧵🟰❓
Wednesday, December 13, 2023
It has started: Mark Zuckerberg announced social network Threads will be starting its activity pub interoperability testing now. 🔗 I have been saying for a very long while now that ActivityPub as a protocol and within it Mastodon as the flagship app need to separate themselves from the fringe in …Good news everyone! Georgia has federal passenger train study funding!
Saturday, December 9, 2023
In combination with some great news about funding a lot of sorely needed railroad projects and studies at the federal level, Georgia's U.S. Senators Jon Ossoff and Rev. Raphael Warnock announced new grants to explore three new Georgia passenger rail corridors made possible by the Bipartisan …Seriously? Elon was trying to get a tax break for X here in Atlanta?!
Friday, December 8, 2023
As the [AJC](https://www.ajc.com/news/fulton-board-to-consider-10m-tax-break-to-x-formerly-twitter/4V66VOJ73RCFPA5DI54FAFVLBA/) reported, X (formerly Twitter) appealed to the Development Agency of Fulton County to try and grab over $10 million in property tax breaks on their data center here in …Atlanta Beltline Loop Saga: The Man with the Original Plan drops big facts/FAQs
Friday, December 1, 2023
Over the past few days, the “Father of the Beltline” himself, Ryan Gravel, created a massive 70-something-odd long FAQ in response to the NIMBYist action group that popped up opposing the transit portion of the Atlanta Beltline. His post is massively detailed and as pointed as one would …ATL is the transit Bizzaro Land we need to fix
Tuesday, November 21, 2023
Last time in this series, I talked about an organization called Better Atlanta Transit that counter to its name, wants to end all talk of having light rail alongside the Beltline Trail, the very popular, used-to-be-murder-tracks encircling central Atlanta that’s now a multipurpose trail, linear …Vivaldi's Mastodon instance appears to be down and I have some advice for SNS users
Sunday, November 19, 2023
Yikes 😬 My second-most used Mastodon instance is @starrwulfe@vivaldi.net… I hope its scheduled downtime and not a DDOS or worse. The good thing about federation is they're not the only game in town. My main instance is @starrwulfe@starrwulfe.xyz (which is actually a Wordpress powered blog as well). …RCS slated to launch in iOS 18
Thursday, November 16, 2023
Its_happening.exe just got loaded! Later next year, we will be adding support for RCS Universal Profile, the standard as currently published by the GSM Association,” an Apple spokesperson tells 9to5Mac. “We believe RCS Universal Profile will offer a better interoperability experience when compared …Party like its 1700000000
Monday, November 13, 2023
A rollover event is about to take place and geeks, nerds and neckbeards around the world will be refreshing their datecommands tomorrow evening to check out the counter tick over from 1699999999 to a cool 1700000000 seconds. The current Unix epoch time as I slave over a hot keyboard is: Unix date …Doin' too much": 💥😖 Time for a micro/macro blog rethink?
Sunday, November 12, 2023
At some point yesterday, my Wordpress instance (thus the place where the thing you’re reading right now came from) ran out of memory. 🤔 I suspect it’s because I’m asking it to do too much: Basic Blog stuff Webmention/Indieweb/Microformats stuff ActivityPub/Mastodon stuff And …Overnight crash
Saturday, November 11, 2023
Dropping a note here to make sure my site is back up – Things got crash happy overnight with the database eating all the RAM for some reason. Bad garbage collection or a missed chronjob maybe. The joys of wordpress adminning. So as soon as I’m done with the day job (where I actually do …If this is the case—
Wednesday, November 8, 2023
Then how is that wacky NY Times poll from last week correct?!Return of "Return to Atlanta"
Tuesday, November 7, 2023
I really hope the author of this blog indeed does come back to chronicle the changing landscapes of Atlanta’s Beltline. While I don’t have any “before” pictures to pull, I may consider doing this sort of series myself to at least give feedback from my memories as an …Federating the fediverse: BlueSky alpha version
Monday, November 6, 2023
ICYMI: There’s a way for you to crosspost to BlueSky from your own #indieweb enabled website thanks to Joel’s (@joel@otter.garden) additions to Bridgy (created by Ryan (@snarfed.org@snarfed.org). Also, I’m actually doing it right now and have been for about a week or so. So …Halloween
Wednesday, November 1, 2023
Hope everyone had a frighteningly good Halloween yesterday! 🎃👻Any way to practice a layout using a regular nonprogrammable keyboard?
Monday, October 30, 2023
I want to jump into the world of ortho keyboards and start trying to learn a more ergonomic key layout. I happen to have a small foldable bluetooth keyboard that is around a 40% size, is regular QWERTY layout but only has 60 keys so there's a Fn later that puts some of the symbols, all the F keys …In the spirit of POSSE, I just spent 3 hours trying to get some backfeeds from silos like Instagram and Facebook going… I made it work before, but I can’t remember what I did with my last website that made it work.
It's a real head scratcher. I guess I'll need to ensure crossposting is turned on here at StarrWulfe HQ then I won't have to deal with this foolishness again.
If anyone has some experience with Brid.gy and how to do this effectively, please give me a shout. 🙇🏾♀️
#WebsiteWoes
Microtransit: what happens when you add ride hailing to regular city transit bus service.
In parts of Gwinnett, there’s no waiting for a bus at a predetermined stop or route and the fare is just a flat $3 to go within the zone.
(BTW @gwinnettgov, any ETA there?)
…and it works like 🧈.
Can’t wait until we get it in our part of the county
Happy Belated Subway Day
Saturday, October 28, 2023
Yesterday was NYCMTA’s Subway Day– On October 27, 1904 the New York City Subway started running it’s then total length between City Hall downtown and 145th Street uptown past Harlem (which was literally countryside back in those days) Here’s a video they posted on their …Farewell Richard Roundtree
Wednesday, October 25, 2023
Richard Roundtree, AKA "John Shaft". RIParadise, 1942 - 2023I really hope Chris doesn’t mind me borrowing literally 90% of his layout, formatting and general overall aesthetic from Boffo Socko when I’m ready to smooth out the edges of my site here.
They way it looks and how information is presented is just what you’d expect of a person who is rather efficient at capturing and categorizing information.
🧑🍳💋
Vergecast: Musings on POSSE, SNS and Indieweb vs ActivityPub
Monday, October 23, 2023
My whole presence in the #fediverse is predicated on POSSE (and PESO) principles along with federated posting and SNS. I'm a semi-active part of the Indieweb community where this grassroots methodology sprang forth. It's one of "build your own website and have others comment on it -- that's the …I usually go and buy a new computing device once every 6 years or so. This year my trusty Late 2017 Apple MacBook Pro i5 8GB/500GB is officially sunsetted. While I’ve been eyeing a new Macbook to take its place, it would be one of the newer Apple Silicon M2 joints. But I really want to jump back into doing all my computing in Linux full time and also game more so… I’m taking a chance here.
I’ve always dreamed of a modular laptop since it’s kind of the only way I can get the specs and ports I want. Framework makes it possible by having this form factor that should never be obsolete; all the parts are user serviceable and replaceable including the motherboard, ports, screen, keyboard, and so on.
My config is the 16 inch Ryzen™ 9 7940HS - Radeon™ RX 7700S - 180W. That’s right, there’s a kick-ass discreet graphics card in there and it’s user swappable! Whenever the new hotness comes along, or other modules like an extra battery or whatever is needed, its a simple 10 minute swap out needing only a screwdriver (which is also included).
The bad news: I gotta wait until Spring 2024. The good news, I can save up the rest of the money by Spring 2024– this thing IS NOT cheap; about $1000 more than my current Mac was when I bought it new in 2017. BUT it will basically become the workhorse PC as I plan on using it for work, home-labbing, and gaming. Any tool you use to make your livelihood off of should have no expense spared (within reason.)
You can check out more here: https://frame.work/products/laptop16-diy-amd-7040
Suddenly a new ATL transit NIMBY group has appeared! 🫢
Tuesday, October 17, 2023
www.youtube.com/watch The whole reason the Beltline even exists is because it was meant to be a transit corridor. A multiuse trail was also part of the design, so both need to be constructed. But also, since the land developers jumped into the fray and built their car-oriented buildings off the …job done
Monday, October 9, 2023
Well that does it for me tonight. I got a lot done on this here ol' site. I’ll continue to kick the tires and fill in the gaps but so far so good. Indieweb stuff seems to be working as seen at micro.blog and tested with some good friends. Will run thru the tests tomorrow to make sure. …