btw I have a drafts feature now
so if I never post again please know that I am writing the posts, they’re just not being posted
Welcome to bakerite
Secret Choir is now using bakerite, a new CMS that is still using Eleventy to build static content and progressively enhances with a client-side editor for posting, but instead of its previous form where it leeches off of GitHub's free static hosting service, it runs on a minimal VPS that runs Caddy for the purpose of serving static files and then also proxies to a minimal node.js-based backend to receive data from the editor, writes the relevant information as files on disk, and then triggers Eleventy builds as appropriate. It's... a whole thing.
The important parts to YOU are that you'll start seeing "reblogged" content, there is rich embedded content available for more websites, and you can now hit the "like" button on posts to show some appreciation. There are some other features that I hope to get to soon as well.
My hope is that the Atom + JSON feeds handle this migration gracefully, but as with any website migration... you know how it goes. we'll see!
Anyway. I'm going to work on migrating some other sites to bakerite soon, and if you want to talk about trying it out yourself, I think we might be like one step closer to me being able to offer it to others?
Our incredible journey
topposts.net has been acquired by the bakerite blogging network
this is a weird thing to say but within the contexts of the things I'm interested in, there is currently a sort of uncanny valley between "I have $100 to spend" and "I have $400" where you do not have an amount of money that is worth spending on anything
I keep not buying bandcamp merch because I assume they’re like one USPS delivery time away from turning into a horrible platform that I don’t want to be seen supporting. But I just bought a t-shirt, so I’m sorry in advance everyone
indika is basically straight sayonara wild hearts
Q2 report
I think I'm doing pretty well?
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what do you think is the ideal aspect ratio
I was thinking about how when I was between the ages of like 12 and 22 if you put a book that taught me a programming language in front of me I would totally devour it and now all of MDN is right there. There should be like an MDN book club or something
when something you've seeded at 99% for a few years gets a new peer all of a sudden you should be able to send a little message to that client that just says "welcome to hell"
(making it my hobby to look at problems that are happening) hmm, yes, I think that maybe the people responsible for fixing this problem should think about things a little bit more like me. that would probably make things end up better. for all of us