Links should looks like link. Let’s bring back blue and purple.
Category: Tech
While looking for a way to enable xmlrpc in this Siteground-hosted WordPress installation, I ran into this:
RSS continues to struggle with maintaining traction, and this doesn’t help.
I like to record the weather in my journals. For several years, I’ve used https://wttr.in via curl. Recently, wttr is often unreachable or throws errors, so I took a look at weatherapi.com
Designed for developers by developers, Weather API is the ultimate weather and geolocation API
The free account limits are generous, so I created an account. The default JSON results are very thorough. I created a little shell script that uses jq to parse the JSON and returns only the high/low temps and a text summary of the forecast:
I was skeptical about this tablet’s ability to replace paper. I needn’t have been. It’s a terrific paper notebook replacement.
The Pi-hole was great, but NextDNS makes more sense for me.
I’ve played on and off with twtxt a little and keep the feed out here: http://tilde.club/~jbaty/twtxt.txt. Here’s a snippet of my old twtxt.txt file…
2017-10-15T08:45:06-04:00 Hello, this is a test from twtxt
2017-10-15T08:54:53-04:00 Testing the post_tweet_hook to see that it copies the file to my server
2017-10-15T09:11:16-04:00 Moving my public twtxt.txt to tilde.club/~jbaty/twtxt.txt because it seems fitting there
2017-10-15T16:24:10-04:00 Fun with text tools today https://www.baty.net/2017/some-text-based-things-today/
2017-10-16T07:17:40-04:00 Good morning, several people!
It’s a fun, simple idea; just a text file as social media feed. I’m already spread pretty thin online so it’s only been an occasional toy, but of course someone (James Mills, aka @prologic) is trying to make using the format easier and more approachable by wrapping it in a web UI. Here’s his description from the about page
Trying some new things this week, app-wise.
Should I host my own stuff or not?