Computers, Web, JavaScript, Stuff…
Hi, I’m Eddie and I’m an addict.
The specifics don’t matter, the key thing is that my brain responds in a very specific way to certain patterns of triggers, and if I’m not very careful, it affects my behaviour and the choices I make.
Continue reading “On Addiction”
Have you ever needed a nice note from a stranger?
Ever had something kind to say, just to have said it?
https://mas.to/message_in_a_bottle is the bot for you.
@-mention the bot, and it will reply with a nice note left by an anonymous stranger; if you leave a nice note of your own it will be added to the database and shared with a stranger in the future.
If you don’t have a message to pass forward that’s fine, just say “hi” and the bot will still have a note for you.
I curate the messages by hand, and wrote the bot in JavaScript with no “ai”; this is a labour of love by and for people.
‘Twas right after lunchbreak, and all through the shop
Not a dev was stirring; productivity was shot
The suits were all dozing, QA half asleep
No sound of a keypress, nor mouse-click, nor beep
When out of the breakroom there arose such a clatter
I sprang from my office to see what was the matter
(… unfinished …)
As another step toward moving my blog off WordPress, I’ve built a tool to download it as Markdown files.
The tool is pretty rough and ready at this point, but it is ready — it can download a blog to a bunch of MD files.
I made a set of phone wallpapers with an assortment of Pride flags and hormone molecules
Continue reading “Pride flag wallpapers”I made this a while back for a Fedi shitpost, and it’s still fun.
https://roosenmaallen.com/tats
Let me know if you do something fun with it!
Following up on a fedi post, I made a website shell to display random article summaries/links.
https://gitlab.com/eroosenmaallen/towne-crier
Articles are input as text files, the a build script compiles them into JSON and puts them into the site; the repo includes a gitlab-ci script to publish the output to GitLab Pages.
I hope it might be useful to somebody.
After some configuration sadness, the CheerLights fedi bot is back up and running, now at @CheerLights@mastodon.art.
In a Fedi post, mention the bot or the hashtag #CheerLights along with a colour (blue!), and connected RGB lights all over the world will change together.
Remember, even when things seem bad, we are all connected.