Lately, one of the things I've most enjoyed doing on this site has been expanding on the facets of it that aren't strictly related to the blog. I've been working around the edges on filling out music, movie, TV and book related functionality.
I've made adding links easier and associated attribution simpler. I've exposed a lot of the media-related content I've added, while also adding simple lists in the admin that show me shows and movies to watch, books to read and upcoming albums to pick up.
Is most of this — or any of this — interesting to visitors? I don't know, probably not as much as it is to me. I spent time programmatically generating pages for each show, movie, book, artist and genre. It takes a bit to build and that's ok — though I did remove "all-time" pages in the interest of preventing things from slowing over time.
I've learned a lot doing this and the site has sprawled from a self-contained repository to a repository containing the front end, Cloudflare workers as APIs that get updated of their own accord, a CDN, a database, a CMS. It'd be hard to say it's not all over-engineered. But — it's fun and that's been the most important thing to me.
It's replaced my usage of The Storygraph, Last.fm, Trakt et al. I liked those services — I still do — but that all sits in house now.
This is what I love about the web — you can build what you want, what you want to use, maintain it (or not), have fun with it, throw something out as a novelty or dig deep and keep adding to it. There's underlying infrastructure — that's hard to avoid — but the tools are there and you can build whatever you'd like. It doesn't have to be a blog — it can be — and that can take whatever shape you want it to.
Build what you want and have fun doing it.
- text: Lately, one of the things I've most enjoyed doing on this site has been expanding on the facets of it that aren't strictly related to the blog. I've been working around the edges on filling out music, movie, TV and book related functionality.I've made adding links easier and associated attribution simpler. I've exposed a lot of the media-related content I've added, while also adding simple lists in the admin that show me shows and movies to watch, books to read and upcoming albums to pick up.Is most of this — or any of this — interesting to visitors? I don't know, probably not as much as it is to me. I spent time programmatically generating pages for each show, movie, book, artist and genre. It takes a bit to build and that's ok — though I did remove "all-time" pages in the interest of preventing things from slowing over time.I've learned a lot doing this and the site has sprawled from a self-contained repository to a repository containing the front end, Cloudflare workers as APIs that get updated of their own accord, a CDN, a database, a CMS. It'd be hard to say it's not all over-engineered. But — it's fun and that's been the most important thing to me.It's replaced my usage of The Storygraph, Last.fm, Trakt et al. I liked those services — I still do — but that all sits in house now.This is what I love about the web — you can build what you want, what you want to use, maintain it (or not), have fun with it, throw something out as a novelty or dig deep and keep adding to it. There's underlying infrastructure — that's hard to avoid — but the tools are there and you can build whatever you'd like. It doesn't have to be a blog — it can be — and that can take whatever shape you want it to.Build what you want and have fun doing it. slug: ahmoh --- diff --git a/content/notes/twitter/11889534862/index.md b/content/notes/twitter/11889534862/index.md deleted file mode 100644 index 4827678a..00000000 --- a/content/notes/twitter/11889534862/index.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,7 +0,0 @@ ---- -date: "2010-04-09T16:38:19Z" -tags: -- imported -- from-twitter ---- -What I achieved at [@NottingHack](/twitter/#/NottingHack) #3: yes. It's KITT in an Impreza. But it doesn't drive… yet :P http://yfrog.us/5schhz diff --git a/content/notes/twitter/1213728668/index.md b/content/notes/twitter/1213728668/index.md index 85284892..c0ad40a3 100644 --- a/content/notes/twitter/1213728668/index.md +++ b/content/notes/twitter/1213728668/index.md @@ -4,4 +4,4 @@ tags: - imported - from-twitter --- -JP has been researching: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cox-Zucker_machine](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cox-Zucker_machine). +JP has been researching: [wikipedia.org/wiki/Cox-Zucker_machine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cox-Zucker_machine). diff --git a/content/notes/twitter/1218921121/index.md b/content/notes/twitter/1218921121/index.md index e53ad130..c637ae1b 100644 --- a/content/notes/twitter/1218921121/index.md +++ b/content/notes/twitter/1218921121/index.md @@ -4,4 +4,4 @@ tags: - imported - from-twitter --- -I've thrown some more of my photos up, proud of some of these: http://flickr.com/photos/jphastings/ +I've thrown some more of my photos up, proud of some of these: [flickr.com/photos/jphastings/](https://flickr.com/photos/jphastings/) diff --git a/content/notes/twitter/12709108871/index.md b/content/notes/twitter/12709108871/index.md deleted file mode 100644 index 9181ead3..00000000 --- a/content/notes/twitter/12709108871/index.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,7 +0,0 @@ ---- -date: "2010-04-23T15:43:03Z" -tags: -- imported -- from-twitter ---- -I entered Ebuyer.com iPad Giveaway for a chance to win a 16GB Apple iPad: http://wfi.re/lbho diff --git a/content/notes/twitter/12879666479/index.md b/content/notes/twitter/12879666479/index.md index 056651b7..52cd9db0 100644 --- a/content/notes/twitter/12879666479/index.md +++ b/content/notes/twitter/12879666479/index.md @@ -4,4 +4,4 @@ tags: - imported - from-twitter --- -Genius video parody of European Commissioner's plans to introduce a website blocking in Europe http://cleanternet.org/ \(via [@glynwintle](/twitter/#/glynwintle)) +Genius video parody of European Commissioner's plans to introduce a website blocking in Europe [cleanternet.org](https://web.archive.org/web/20100425010155/http://cleanternet.org/) (via [@glynwintle](/twitter/#/glynwintle)) diff --git a/content/notes/twitter/12899480873/1g5M.jpg b/content/notes/twitter/12899480873/1g5M.jpg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..7d00852b Binary files /dev/null and b/content/notes/twitter/12899480873/1g5M.jpg differ diff --git a/content/notes/twitter/12899480873/index.md b/content/notes/twitter/12899480873/index.md index ab5e73a4..58492f91 100644 --- a/content/notes/twitter/12899480873/index.md +++ b/content/notes/twitter/12899480873/index.md @@ -4,4 +4,6 @@ tags: - imported - from-twitter --- -Haha :P Awesome http://ow.ly/i/1g5M \(via [@mr_ceebs](/twitter/#/mr_ceebs)) +Haha :P Awesome (via [@mr_ceebs](/twitter/#/mr_ceebs)) + + diff --git a/content/reading-lists/web-comics/qc.md b/content/reading-lists/web-comics/qc.md index 800dfdbd..cecceacd 100644 --- a/content/reading-lists/web-comics/qc.md +++ b/content/reading-lists/web-comics/qc.md @@ -3,6 +3,6 @@ title: Questionable Content summary: The Official QC RSS Feed feed: rss: https://www.questionablecontent.net/QCRSS.xml - url: http://www.questionablecontent.net + url: https://www.questionablecontent.net --- A cute and very wholesome speculative near-future webcomic I've been following for _years_. diff --git a/todo.md b/todo.md index 24375f83..e06e12de 100644 --- a/todo.md +++ b/todo.md @@ -28,7 +28,6 @@ Things I might work on within my personal blog's software. - [ ] Remove lychee failing links - [ ] Import Facebook posts -- [ ] Remove http://gowal.la & https://4sq.com links and/or posts that are useless without them ### Done ✓ @@ -70,4 +69,5 @@ Things I might work on within my personal blog's software. - [x] Add shortlink as `` on all relevant pages - [x] Add additional logic to _combine_ the redirects files as needed - [x] Upload new redirects to byjp.fyi repo - - [x] Remove automation 😭 as IPFS can't handle large redirects files \ No newline at end of file + - [x] Remove automation 😭 as IPFS can't handle large redirects files +- [x] Remove http://gowal.la & https://4sq.com links and/or posts that are useless without them