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 and media scroll keys on a different layer. I'm kind of used to using it after 6 years and realized "
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 Threads/Instagram account showing all the different trains they’ve run throughout their 119 years. My personal fav, the R33 Redbird is shown with the ⑦ train mark, just as I used to ride it 35 years ago when I was a kid heading to Corona and Shea Stadium with my dad.
Farewell Richard Roundtree
Wednesday, October 25, 2023
Richard Roundtree, AKA "John Shaft". RIParadise, 1942 - 2023
I 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 network right there" simplicity. Just like email is still the most universal messaging app, websites are still the least silo'd SNS app.
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 trail, OF COURSE they want to keep it this way. I’m sick and tired of the false notion that transit BRINGS IN undesirable effects when the exact opposite has always been true.
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. ActivityPub stuff is 70% there; @starrwulfe@starrwulfe.xyz is using plugin and @starrwulfe.
Ok. now the real test.
Do replies in the Friends plug-in show up where they’re supposed to go… 🤞🏾
Good question. Need to turn on NHK and see what’s up…
Izu Tsunami Advisory
Sunday, October 8, 2023
In reply to Steve Herman: "Warning for #tsunami as high as one meter issued …" - Journa.host by Steve Herman. Looks like it isn't going to do any damage... Always a bit vigilant every time I see anything about seismic activity around the Izu Trough.
Testing again.
Hope the activitypub folks cans see this now….
Well I for one am glad you’ve made it back.
I too also had a crazy meltdown involving my lack of skill at writing Go code and paying attention to changes at my VM provider. So here I am back with a Wordpress version of my digs here.
Reblog via Jason L Gatewood
If I had this guys’s job, I’d need several smoke breaks too.
I remember someone once stole the REFLECTORS off my second (third?)-hand mama-chari 3 speed bike somewhere in L5P back in the day. All in the span of the 15 minutes it took me to get a milkshake from Zestos.
REFLECTORS. 🤷🏾♂️
We were on a different set of tracks leading nowhere and everywhere at once.