Downword – turn your blog into Markdown

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.

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Pride flag wallpapers

I made a set of phone wallpapers with an assortment of Pride flags and hormone molecules

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Knuckle Tats

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!

New Toy: Towne Crier

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.

CheerLights 2024

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 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.

2024, the Great Bot Migration

With the announced shutdown of botsin.space, I have moved my stable of friendly bots over to https://mas.to.

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Statistically Probable Ancient Wisdom

I’m pleased to announce the launch of my latest Mastodon bot, Sun Tzu’s The Art of eBooks . It’s a Markov chain bot trained on (you guessed it) The Art of War.

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Mutual Aid Options in Canada

“We support us”

This is the punk ethos running through so many of the communities I’m a part of or associated with. We take care of each other, and in a capitalist hellworld that means moving money around.

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