As part of our recent moves toward better fitness, my partner & I picked up a secondhand exercise bike in the fall. Nice enough bike, but batteries were left in the display module when it went into storage, so it was dead when we got it. Enter the Arduino nerd; I set out to build a replacement module.
Continue reading “Bike Display Replacement”Initial Release: Masto-DL
After seeing several people ask about a tool to download their toots, I’ve started building one.
Masto-DL will archive all your toots into individual json files to grep and analyze to your heart’s content.
After seeing several people ask about a tool to download their toots, I’ve started putting together a tool to do just that.
Masto-DL will archive all your toots into individual files (json right now, yaml to come, more as needed/requested).
Continue reading “Initial Release: Masto-DL”Advertising on the Fediverse
It would be mind-bogglingly difficult to build an ethical ad platform that would be accepted by the Fedi community.
But.
(original thread starts at https://tech.lgbt/@silvermoon82/109325175432086325)
I imagine there’s some huge panic going on in the ad industry right now; birbsite was, until last month, one of the major outlets for advertising, but a) advertisers don’t want to appear beside Nazi shit, and b) the eyeballs are moving to the “Lawless hellscape of no use to anybody for advertising”.
Continue reading “Advertising on the Fediverse”Manual: York Fitness 3230 Home Gym
Scored a home gym over the weekend. It came with the OG dead-tree instructions, which is really nice because the manual doesn’t appear to exist online.
So, without further ado, I give you: the assembly instructions for the York Fitness 3230 Home Gym. May it inform you in good health.
First Thoughts: Term-accessibility
I’ve seen a fair amount of chatter recently regarding accessibility of terminal apps, and it has me thinking. There’s been a recent growth of both full TUI toolkits and of lighter cli polish and shine modules, lots of tools to make the terminal more accessible and generally more comfortable for the average user, but it can come at a cost – these kits can make the cli less accessible to some sets of users, especially people with low vision, using screen readers or other assistive technology.
Continue reading “First Thoughts: Term-accessibility”CheerLights: Let’s Glow Together
Not long ago, I read about a cute IoT project, CheerLights. It’s a network of RGB lights that all change colour together, coordinated by a Twitter bot. The idea is that we all rig up RGB lights of some description, then when someone pings the Twitter bot they all change in sync; just a nice little community togetherness thing. It’s adorable and I love it.
Continue reading “CheerLights: Let’s Glow Together”Full 1.0.0 release: Fedi-follow Widget
My Fedi-Follow widget is ready for a full 1.0.0 release!
The widget provides an interface for Fediverse users to easily follow or share a url from their home instance. It’s the first stage in my plan to make it easier to integrate Fediverse sharing and following into other platforms, like WordPress or other site engines.
Continue reading “Full 1.0.0 release: Fedi-follow Widget”Initial release: “Follow on Mastodon” widget
I’ve made a widget to make it easier for visitors to follow federated blogs and such on Mastodon. It presents a dialog to ask for their instance URL and confirm the account they are invited to follow, then sends them to a page on their instance to make it happen.
It’s available for anyone to use; just link your visitor to https://eroosenmaallen.gitlab.io/fedi-follow/?follow=https://roosenmaallen.com/author/admin.
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