I've made a significant change which will hopefully make it easier for
me to update this site more often. I've re-implemented traditional blog
categories and grouped most existing posts into long-form "articles" and
short-form "notes". This gives me a category where I can publish short
pieces like photos, recommendations, links to albums, links to videos,
and so on without feeling like I need to write a thousand words or
whatever. (That's a pretty low bar for "long-form" writing, I know, but
writing scares me.)
This matters because there are new browsing and RSS feed options
available. Articles (RSS) and notes (RSS)
both have their own chronological pages and feeds. The main page
and main RSS feed will continue to display all posts as normal.
If you're currently subscribed to the main RSS feed of this blog and
still want to receive all posts then you don't have to change anything.
There's also a unique (and hopefully podcatcher compatible)
RSS feed of just the Movement Through Thought mixes. These
different feeds and views are available so you can choose how much of my
nonsense you want to read.
Think of the short-form "notes" as something like a microblog
in the style of tumblr, a place where I can link videos and do other
lazy posts.
I'm thinking about moving to another mastodon instance. This would be my second move, after going from SDF to mastodon.social. It's been on my to-do list for a while, just haven't gotten to it.
Shopping for instances is hard.
It turns out Audacity runs fine in Wine. i386-wine 5.0.4, Audacity 2.4.2. It takes longer to start than usual and parts of the UI seem slow but I was able to record and edit audio. I'll give it a real test this week.
Posted as a follow-up to my complaining yesterday.
I should run Audacity in Wine at this point. Get a windows build of 2.4.2 and never think about it again. I wonder how well that'd work.
I'm untangling my software upgrade mess from yesterday. FreeBSD now thinks that wxgtk31 requires wayland. And it wants to update Audacity. So...
First step, pkg lock wxgtk31. Next step(s), download Audacity 2.4.2, patch and otherwise massage it until it compiles, then never upgrade again.
Tried to upgrade youtube_dl, accidentally started upgrading half the software on my system.
A big mess.
Fast-ish breaks and electro today, hot weather music and some recent
purchases. This one features new tracks by Client_03, Distance,
London Modular Alliance, and Overmono.
This mix is no longer available for download from this website. It is
however available at mixcloud.
A common downside to static websites (like this one) is that there's no
easy way to handle user interaction. Comments, likes, trackback /
pingback / mention, etc. . A bunch of third-party systems exist that
solve this problem, the most popular probably being Disqus.
Disqus relies on browser javascript (which I strongly dislike) and has a
rocky history with user privacy, so it's not something I'm
willing to use. Most of the other comment systems available also require
javascript so, again, not willing to use.
But I still kind of want a way for visitors to leave comments and,
more broadly, for my site to interact with other websites. Enter the
IndieWeb community of web developers and their associated
standards and projects, notably Webmentions.
CW: PNW Heat Wave
The heat pump at my house broke last night. This means our central air conditioning no longer works.
I am a quietly laughing lizard. hhhehehe.
Doing some music shopping today and found the Bassbin Twins bandcamp page. Picked up the Beats Are King EP.
Paging @b.@t.z. , you might be interested in this, new Bassbin Twins in the classic style.
The Egyptian Lover / Keep It Hot
Posting 226 early so I can sleep. Not my best work - a couple transitions are kinda badly phrased but otherwise it's OK. I dunno.
I'm happy I got to dig out my copy of Terran Invasion of Alpha Centauri Year 2794.
Watching Death Guild at DNA Lounge from home tonight. It's really going off - good music selection, good crowd.
I need to get out and go dancing soon.
And now that that's done I'm going to take a break and chomp on some garlic bread. Try not to think of all the wrong words I just lined up.
An hour of relaxed melancholic electro and IDM floating around 120 BPM.
This set features new tracks from Brokntoys, CPU Records,
and another piece from Mariska Neerman's Finding Our Way Back Home EP.
This mix is no longer available for download from this website. It is
however available at mixcloud.
