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I brought over my research page to Version 4. I'm once again pleased with how (reasonably) straightforward it has become to build nice layouts with modern CSS. Thank you past me for writing good, semantic HTML which made it easy to move the page over from Version 3.
There are also new OpenGraph images which should make for nicer previews on social media platforms.
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Today I worked through the
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Got a new job posting notification from an entity known as, I kid you not, John Galt Staffing.
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Now that the website is at a stable point, I'm finally going to work through Beautiful Racket and properly learn some Racket. And after that, I'll come back to the site and write an ActivityPub server so that I can stop manually posting to Mastodon.
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Had a fresh samosa, hot, crispy and just a little too spicy. Also saw a small dog wearing a pink vest in the back of a car. Good day.
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After seeing a Mastodon post with embedded links, I fell down the rabbit hole of trying to figure out how to actually post HTML to Mastodon. As far as I can tell, Mastodon will accept HTML posts from other ActivityPub servers, sanitize them and display them correctly. But even though the API examples show statuses with HTML content, actually calling the API that way just creates a plain text post. So if I want to republish fleets with HTML to Mastodon, I'll have to run my own ActivityPub server.
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I've been writing a bunch of TypeScript lately, and it's… fine? With Deno and the Deno language server, the developer experience is quite enjoyable, though apparently there are storm clouds brewing.
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Recently I've been able to work 8 to 10 hour days, only really stopping for meals. Even a little while ago that felt impossible. This is good.
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As I've been working on my website, I've noticed there are a whole bunch of non-obvious constraints for what makes valid HTML. This of course makes me think about formalizing the HTML spec in Lean (or something).
Someone please tell me this is a terrible, horrible, no-good idea.
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Version 4 of my website, built with Lume, is now live. Right now there isn't much besides some journal entries ported from the previous version and some shorter stream posts from my old Tumblr. I'll add things like RSS feeds over the weekend.