well, that was a weekend.
I spun my wheel of side projects last night and started playing with a browser extension to discover & do stuff with RSS/Atom feeds while I browse.
It may be a terrible idea, it's certainly a terrible name. We'll see where it goes
Steven Universe / Pokemon cross-over where the trainers don't catch the critters and make them fight - they just keep making friends and fusions like a giant cute katamari ball
@sivy You totally see what I did there
TIL that Grace Hopper had a clock on her wall that ran counter-clockwise. That's amazing
@alanapost Thanks! I'm kind of hoping to make it a quiet little thing that just scoops up feeds as it finds them and then later you can open up an automated combined feed sorted by frequency of visits and some intentional preferences if you care to customize.
mental health; today’s affirmation
@Danhon i appreciate these ideas and would like to subscribe to your newsletter
(oh wait i already do)
@alanapost Yeah, kind of hoping for something like that! And even if I don't build a feed reader directly into the thing, I might find some way to make it stash an up-to-date OPML list as output that you can use in a feed reader
Some good feed readers can actually subscribe to an OPML URL and auto-update the feeds they hit
While there are electricians in my house doing a decent chunk of work to upgrade my house dependencies, I am running my office on an extension cord running up 3 floors and upgrading dependencies on a work project.
I guess the theme of the day is maintenance
Oh hey, my electricians just discovered and accidentally re-energized an old alarm system siren in our basement.
There's some metaphor about forgotten dependencies here but I can't quite come up with it
Holy crap. Okay, so first: I just read a Medium post about this Wayback Importer project on Glitch
https://medium.com/glitch/help-us-bring-back-the-creative-web-6ee232678417
This made me scratch my head and think about where I kept my first website after college.
And I found it.
And I'm embarrassed by it (particularly by the poetry), but not as embarrassed as I thought I'd be
https://web.archive.org/web/19980614224034/http://www.digitalangel.com:80/deus_x/index.html
This also reminds me about my first email address in college:
343gjzl@cmuvm.csv.cmich.edu
Read my email using a green screen 3270 terminal connected to an IBM3090 mainframe until I learned how to dial in with my Commodore Amiga.
Occasionally after college, I used that address as a password because even I couldn't remember it.
My sophomore year, I got an account on one of the UNIX (yay!) machines in the compsci labs and my email address became:
orchard@cps201.cps.cmich.edu
(slightly better)
I'm pretty sure I had some terrible website around 1996 or so on the cmich.edu servers, but neither I nor wayback machine can find it now
HAHAHAHAHAH
I totally forgot I did this for a multimedia class in like 1996 tho
5 games to get a feel for me/my tastes
@ajroach42 Have you played Star Control || / The Ur-Quan Masters?
Also, not really a space game, but Sunless Sea is great. (Sunless Skies will be a space game, sorta)
@sivy Yeah, man, that's some serious photoshop and image map action right there
5 games to get a feel for me/my tastes
@ajroach42 Sunless Sea is kind of an exploration-driven RPG with lots of choice-driven story prose in a spooky alternate-history Victorian England.
Has a "qualities" system where different things you do award you with various currency-like qualities that unlock story paths
If I hadn't asked for this to be done, I might be alarmed
@ondra This is also true :)
And now all these wires go to a shiny new breaker box in the basement. We will close this former fuse box up and never speak of it again
@ajroach42 It kinda is
@jrconlin oy
@pagrus@mastodon.social There's like a weird mix of 20s & 60s stuff going on in the systems of this house