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anniegreens

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On “I put pixels in their place” hiatus. Recovering front-end web developer. You might find me in the garden or staring at a bird.
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bw, to random
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I have a chicken and egg problem.

When I publish a blog article I want to include a link to a corresponding Mastodon post. To write the Mastodon post, the article needs to be live. But to publish the blog article, I need the URL to the Mastodon post. But I don’t know the Mastodon post URL until I publish it. Ahhhhh!!

Am I really going to have to deploy my site, post a toot, then turn around and add the link to my site and deploy again? Ugh, there’s got to be a better way.

anniegreens,
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@bw same, I've just resigned to editing the blog post

you could probably do this with some sort of webhook

anniegreens,
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@bw I think @cory is doing something like this, though I don't know the particulars.

anniegreens, to random
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☎️ Waiting for a phone call may be one of the worst things in the world.

anniegreens,
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In classic fashion, stepped outside (phone in pocket!) and missed the dang call!

anniegreens,
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Okay, so, proposal to get rid of the phone part of our pocket computers, go back to having a single solitary place for a call, which defaults to a message/voicemail, and is the expected result of calling said phone, instead of this stupid always-with-you-yet-you-never-get-or-take-the-call game we are playing now.

anniegreens, to random
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Weird content styleguide question: do you provide yourself rules on which <hx> level heading is title-case, sentence-case, etc? or is that just me?

mph, to random
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Are we over these people trying to disrupt intelligence yet?

https://arstechnica.com/?p=2020955

anniegreens,
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@mph Unfortunately, I'm going with "no." (though I have long been over it)

zachleat, (edited ) to random
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Reading this blog post from @dries (creator of Drupal) about the post-pivot definition of Jamstack.

https://dri.es/the-new-old-jamstack-and-mach-journey-towards-traditional-cms-concepts

Dries rightly notes that Jamstack 2.0 shares more in common with monolithic/traditional stacks.

For me—I read this as a huge indictment of the broadened definition—it’s not a healthy evolution of the term if we must sacrifice technical clarity and simplicity to do so.

anniegreens,
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@zachleat @dries Quite a spate of 'CMS' opinions in the past week and they've been interesting to read. I wonder what prompted this, other than "one person wrote one, so others followed by writing their own."

I worked in Drupal for nearly 15 years so this is great to read Dries' take. Haven't read anything of his in a while. Thanks for sharing.

anniegreens, to random
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My apologies to anyone who signed up for while I slept and have yet to show up on the Participators list!

There was an unplanned snafu with the form and I didn't get the additional people added, I'm so sorry!

If you would still like to be added, you can message me here, or if you are an omg.lol member and on discourse.lol add your info to the WeblogPoMo post, or find me in the omg.lol Discord.

adam, to random
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Just noticed a pull request for some new Unicode 15 icons that will be added to Fluent Emoji! These haven’t been merged in yet, but once they are, it won’t take long to pull them into status.lol. Wheee!

anniegreens,
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@adam finally a real pink heart!

anniegreens, to random
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Don't let WeblogPoMo FoMo get you—it's not too late to start!

https://weblog.anniegreens.lol/weblog-posting-month-2024

chriscoyier, to random
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Strum Machine

I mostly play old time and bluegrass music. Particularly in old time and fiddle songs, the songs have a fairly rigid and repetitious structure. That's not to say players don't do interesting things with it, but unless a song is intentionally crooked, the structure of the song remains the same throughout. A typical structure is AABB. That is, play the "A part" twice, play the "B part" twice, and repeat.

https://chriscoyier.net/2024/04/30/strum-machine/

anniegreens,
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@chriscoyier Have you ever been to the Wheeler County Bluegrass Festival in Fossil, OR? I accidentally happened upon it one year while out in the area going to John Day and Painted Hills.

http://www.wheelercountybluegrass.org/

anniegreens, to random
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Catching up on ShopTalk Show episodes today and can't wait to get the answer to "is taking a Drupal job in 2024 a good idea".

anniegreens,
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@starshaped Well, I haven't worked in it for several years, but when I left I felt a shift in how seriously they were taking design and front-end, which had previously going in a good direction. So perhaps my take isn't the most up-to-date, what do you think: https://social.lol/@anniegreens/112357273182137081

anniegreens,
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@starshaped Yes, all those three things were in progress when I last touched it. And since I haven't been involved for a while it is hard to know where things went. But my last encounters with build teams were still more interested in making everything a "make once, use everywhere" as componentized as possible without really thinking about use cases and the purposes of design. Twig was transformative and made front-end a proper player in Drupal, so I'm glad things have continued with that.

anniegreens,
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@starshaped But I do still believe that there is a bias to the engineering core of it. Not sure of how to put that any better. Like so many other tech and web things today, they'd rather hire a full-stack developer to fill that front-end role, than someone who is specialized in design and implementation for the web.

anniegreens,
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@starshaped My issue is probably not entirely on Drupal, but with web tech generally, and I've blogged about that. It just happened to manifest with Drupal because that is what I lived in for so long.

anniegreens, to random
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💖 I have done nothing of value today, and that is okay.

robb, to random
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Timezones https://news.echofeed.app/timezones/

anniegreens,
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@robb 😁

hl, to mastodon
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I've activated two-factor-authentication on my account. That means you can be 53.42% more certain that the nonsense written here is genuine nonsense by me, and not imitation nonsense.

anniegreens,
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@hl thank you for your genuine nonsense

scottjehl, to random
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Spent the past week RVing through Bryce, Zion, Canyonlands, Arches, and camping in Moab

4 rvs parked beneath a giant wall in Zion, moon riding above
A big open canyon filled with salt deposits, possibly from a meteorite
Windows arch at arches. Red sandstone rocks with holes through them

anniegreens,
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@cferdinandi @scottjehl Sorry to interject, just wanted to add some context. The state of Oregon (where I live) is only like 50% owned by Oregon and the rest is federally owned land, including: national park, national forests, BLM land, and some other stuff. Not only are our states giant out here but most of our land isn't even under our control (at the state level). (Image from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_lands_in_the_United_States). This may or may not be interesting to you!

anniegreens, to random
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My status.lol entries are going to be fewer and far between because status.log no longer works on my phone.

anniegreens,
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I used to wake up almost daily, roll over and pick up my phone, and set a status. No more.

anniegreens,
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@robb I didn’t think so either but sometime in the last week it just won’t open anymore.

andycarolan, to random
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Can you remember when you used to be able to hold your phone in one hand, and teach everything on the screen?

It’s like a damn workout now 😅

anniegreens,
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@andycarolan still can, one of the many reasons I haven’t gotten a new phone

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