Message in a Bottle

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.

Right After Lunchbreak

‘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 …)

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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