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mattround

@mattround@crispsandwi.ch

Trying to make web more fun with vole.wtf https://crispsandwi.ch/@VOLEwtf and other online nonsense.
You can also hire me to devise 💡IDEAS💡 and turn them into proper plans & lovely web things.

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Edent, to random
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One day, I'm going to get a job at Amazon just so that I can fix their weird pseudo-plaintext emails which, inexplicably, contain invalid HTML.

(Yes, I've seen that meme. No, I don't want your opinion on Amazon's ethics.)

mattround,
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@Edent Can you imagine what the inner workings must be like, probably only eBay contains more Lovecraftian coding horrors

mattround, to random
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Just bought another domain name, but in my defence it's only $8 a year and I may actually use it

mattround, to random
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What would be the funniest animal to have in a game as a dynamite-wielding demolition expert? I'm thinking raccoons & geese are already taken

mattround,
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(It's a game idea that's some way down my list & I'm currently busy with stuff to pay the bills, but it's worth thinking about names/themes in case I realise how to make it super-quickly and decide to go for it)

mattround, to random
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Do I vaguely know any freelance WP devs who are able to help a small former client of mine? They've got in a bit of a twist with plugins, Elementor, etc, as often happens. My schedule's full & I don't really do WP any more, but I can give loads of info to make things far easier

mattround, to random
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I took the pitch detection code from Hit The High Notes and turned it into a Hatch component, not sure I've got the pitch range or sensitivity right in this demo, but if you feel like screeching at a space ship here you go: https://mattround.hatch.one/scream-trek

mattround,
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@simoncox Yeah I might need to add a warning the way I did with HTHN…

mattround, to random
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I suspect catch-up features have been slow to arrive on Mastodon due to wariness of Algorithms, but it’s the least evil way to let people read forwards in time from a saved position without feeling overwhelmed
(skimming backwards has always been a ridiculous way to read a social feed)
https://xoxo.zone/@mathowie/112452438050976160

mattround, to random
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I got to the Big Twist in AppleTV's Sugar (it's no spoiler to say there's one, it's been clear since the trailer, right?) and... somehow they've managed to make it seem like no big deal, weirdly it hasn't fundamentally changed the show

mattround,
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@simoncox some of the other possibilities might've been more interesting in how they could've tied in with the movie stuff, but I like how it's just yeah, whatever, the plot moves on (suspect there may be a second twist, will have to see if I'm right)

mattround, to random
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I'm manually indenting a client project and using emoji 'icons' in comments because it makes the coding more satisfying and might make their tech bods smile

jonhicks, to random
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Presenting first round of logo ideas to a new client, and just as the meeting started, I questioned whether I'd got the company name right. That's a new one on the list of overthinking anxieties

mattround,
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@jonhicks I did this once, 25+ years ago... but in my defence, it was a demo site I had to create overnight for the client to show first thing in the morning, it's easy to miss the 2nd E out of Peugeot at 4am

mattround, to random
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Big news, can we pleeeease have this everywhere? https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/13/24155312/microsoft-word-default-paste-option-merge-formatting

sarajw, to random
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What pattern will emerge from this union?

mattround,
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@simeon @sarajw I've always wanted to do a spin-off site that's 100% daft food stuff like this but so far haven't found anyone to run it

mattround,
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@sarajw @simeon (Oh those are amazing!) Not sure really, would need to be someone who wants to try a load of stuff that'll be fun & creative but may or may not lead anywhere (the vole site has made a decent chunk of money but sort of by accident). Understandably, very few people have the time & motivation to do stuff for little or no money to see what happens

mattround,
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@sarajw The way I'm imagining it is either a separate domain (eg grub dot wtf) or a branded area of site with its own quirky feel (& existing food projects would perhaps get moved over), depending on tone & quantity. See whether lots of easy & fun ideas come to mind (I'm always keen for people to be lazy & do what they find easy & fun)

mattround,
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@sarajw Subdomain might make sense, and it wouldn't be hard to set something up that'd give you ability to control HTML/CSS & deploy from repo without faff if you wanted to do that, while also letting me add some automated nav/cross-promotion & integrate with main site
If you email volewtf@gmail.com I can send some more info

Edent, to wordpress
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I keep getting TrackBack spam in .
But, what's weird, is that the domains don't exist!

This is a typical one. A nonsensical and non-existent domain - R9NpK.com

I can't understand how these are submitted, nor what their goal is.

mattround,
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@Edent I'm guessing they're testing to see if that then shows up on a public site, without the risk of getting the actual spam domains banned..?

mattround, to random
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Out on the weird bike for the first time in ages

Edent, to wordpress
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I'm being a bit thick with #WordPress.

Given an arbitrary URl on my blog - how can I get the query which it would execute?

If you've a mind to help - https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/425043/equivalent-of-url-to-postid-for-non-post-urls - much appreciated!

mattround,
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@Edent @otto42 Could you add/modify an htaccess rewrite rule that puts the extra extension into query string, then retrieve it later to adjust output?

mattround, to random
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Don't get me wrong, this is a real problem, but any content site that doesn’t cache its pages is likely to get knocked over if it publishes something popular. CMSs don't make this as easy as they should, & it's v difficult for some types of content, but once pages are cacheable it's free/cheap to cope with big traffic spikes https://news.itsfoss.com/mastodon-link-problem/

mattround,
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@simoncox CloudFlare doesn't cache HTML by default & I think they're using Ghost, which isn't v cache-friendly out of the box (free CF plan also has limitations with cache refresh that can be a pain for some sites, I've found it OK if configured right though)

mattround, to random
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Had a look through this and it's really good. If you have little or no coding experience but are interested in making art/simulations/whatever with code, go through the whole thing you'll end up with decent knowledge of p5.js & some maths/physics stuff https://natureofcode.com

mattround, to random
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Another brutal chart from an indie content site, oof https://mtnweekly.com/health/google-wants-to-erase-the-mountain-weekly-news-kill-small-publishers-across-the-globe/

mattround,
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(maybe they did something dodgy, who knows, but I've seen several similar stories over the past year or so)

mattround,
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@simoncox Yeah I'm sure it's a whole load of factors, and maybe they were freakishly/unfairly prominent previously, it's one hell of a slope to tackle though

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