Not a bad week. Nothing disastrous happened (to me -- things weren't so good in Tonga yesterday), and I actually got a few things done. And tried to figure out what I did last year. (I'm sure I forgot some things -- I've been having a little more trouble than usual with my memory the last few days.)
I shipped $writing-gig-6 ( Read more... )

Today the computer curmudgeon talks about how he blogs.
I think it's widely known that I update this journal (and by that I mean both my Dreamwidth journal, which you are probably reading now, and my Computer Curmudgeon website), using a rickety combination of shell scripts and makefiles called MakeStuff. There are several good ( Read more... )

It looks like the basic idea works, but I was using slashes as the delimiter for the sed command that puts the post url into the archived post. Since the url contains slashes, that failed.
[Crossposted from mdlbear.dreamwidth.org, where it has
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This is a test: (The results will be posted in a comment)
### this prints out the URL of the last post you made today: wget -q -O - https://mdlbear.dreamwidth.org/$(date +%Y/%m/%d/) \ | grep 'class="entry-title"' | tail -1 \ | sed -E 's/^<[ ( Read more... )

Following up on mdlbear | Welcome, tumblr refugees: this might otherwise have just been a longish section of next Sunday's "done" post, but the Tumblr apocalypse (tumbling-down?) is happening now and I wanted to get tumblr_backup.py out there. (It's a tumblr backup script, via this tumblr post by greywash, who notes that the ( Read more... )

I don't really expect that many Tumblr refugees will see this post, even ( Read more... )

Last month was National Blog Posting Month, for those of us with smaller goals than writing a novel.
I did not succeed in writing a post every day, however I did have enough days with two posts to bring the count back up to 30. It's been a rough month -- I'm not complaining.
NaBloPoMo stats ( Read more... )

This started out in a comment, but I think enough people may be struggling with DW's relatively new image upload feature that it's worth making it into a post. And it's a good excuse for posting.
(aside: The key to all of this is knowing enough about HTML to be able to ( Read more... )

In comments on "Done Since 2018-07-15" we started having a discussion of mirroring and cross-posting DW blog entries, and in particular what my plans are for implementing personal blog sites that mirror all or some of a -- this -- Dreamwidth journal.
Non-techie readers might conceivably want to skip this post. Where I am now:

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So far I've not bothered posting about the Associated Press's ridiculous claim that a quoting even as few as half a dozen words from one of their articles is a copyright violation, and requires payment. But this one is simply too deliciously ironic to avoid.

Techdirt: AP Quotes Blogger In Discussing Bloggers Quoting AP; Hilarity EnsuesThe ( Read more... )