Blags

I have well over 100 open tabs on my phone right now. I think I use my phone’s browser as an extension of my working memory. So I’m always afraid to close anything that’s open if I still have active thoughts on the subject. Luckily Chrome automatically archives tabs that have been inactive for a while so my phone can still function in this state. What follows are a few of the tabs I have open.

I’m writing this entirely from my Android phone! I spent quite a few hours trying to figure out how to get a clone of my git repository on here and hit a lot of dead ends. I tried multiple sets of instructions for AIDE and mGit with no success. Finally I found the Termux app which actually supports everything I need! For some reason Termux was not coming up in any of my searches for git clients on Android.

First, for the video itself, the style and visual choices are excellent. Patrik Wallner has created something really special here. The minimal narratives that are mixed in add a layer of depth that give the video a punch not normally seen in these kinds of pieces. We get to see the skaters waking up, setting up tricks. There’s an extra focus on framing and shots of background are interspersed in a way that reminds me of something from Kyoto Animation.

I have a lot of bookmarks. Like a lot. With the exception of the ones in my toolbar I never ever look at them after I save them. I always intend to. Everytime I make a bookmark, I figure I will get back to it at some point in the future. It’s usually something I don’t have time for right at that moment or something I enjoyed so much that I want to be able to find it again.

We’re all finding that the war for our attention is difficult to deal with. This is a key piece to the modern realization of the cyberpunk dystopias promised to us. I’m constantly fighting and losing against the advertisements and feeds and algorithms. Even the things I like are run in such a way that they are as addicitive as possible. They have to be in order to compete with everything else.

I started setting up Hugo to run my site. Hopefully this will decrease the friction for blogging and I’ll start writing more, but I make no promises. So far Hugo seems to be a pretty straight forward site generator. After developing Adobe Experience Manager customizations professionally for 5 years this feels nice and simple. When I was picking between the various blogging platforms I had a number of criteria: Minimal Set Up Full Control Over Design and Markup Minimal Cost (this quickly led me to static site generators) Markdown support Full Control over site structure I also looked at IndieWeb support.

So I finally took the time to set up https on my site. For some reason I thought it was going to be harder. Many thanks to the Let’s Encrypt guys for making this the most braindead simple process in the world. I feel bad for not having done it before. I guess I just expected it to be more involved. I’ve been trying to bite the bullet and actually complete things on my TODO list lately.

I decided a few weeks ago that it is time to remove Google Analytics from my site. I initially included it so that I could mess around with the service because I occasionally use it for work. Since then I haven’t used it at all and I realized that this is just one more source feeding the Google ad machine. No one visits my site now. They have no reason to, but I do want to start creating more content here.

Note: I’ve back-dated this post to the release date of the video to fill in some history in my blog. While doing this is sort of gross, I want the timeline here to be a reflection of my actual activities as much as possible. Hopefully I’ll write a post about my reasoning at some point.

I cut this gif of the Flip Flappers leads freaking out from the end credits of the show: It’s almost, but not quite, a perfect loop! I wanted this to be a quick one and isolating TT-392’s animation was more time than it was worth. I really enjoyed this show! Note: I’ve back-dated this post to the day I cut this gif to fill in some history in my blog. I want the timeline here to be a reflection of my actual activities as much as possible.