2020: 344 posts.
- 06-Jan-2020Emails from people who want SEO juice.
Do you accept press releases? Will the article be accessible from the main page of the site? (How much does it cost?) Do you put links from the main page of the site? (How much does it cost?) Do you sell banners from your site? (How much does it cost?) What are the standard prices…
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last.fm report for 2019.
Interesting to see the raw data of my listening into graphic summations.
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Hello, World (2020)
<goofy>Well garsh!</goofy> I am sitting at the Homebrew Computer Club meeting of San Diego and we are in the portion of the meeting where we presumably would actually blog. I generally loathe the meta-commentary blog (e.g. I am sorry for not blogging more, I am thinking of quitting blogging, does anyone even read this) but…
- 16-Jan-2020IndieWeb Events
RSVP yes to Homebrew Website Club San Diego February 2020!
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How have I never heard of Picrew before?
It’s pretty nifty. To be able to make all kinds of different avatars. It might all not be in English, but it’s nifty. Picrew.com
- 15-Feb-2020Love is a skill
Stumbled on this quote which feels both right 100% but massively not believed in the world. “Love is a skill” Check this out: Alain De Botton — “Love isn’t just an emotion, it’s a skill.” from THE RAY D’ARCY SHOW Who is this Alain De Botton person? I think I dig. Oh, he’s got 0.8…
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Adam Bosworth’s Talk at 2005 MySQL Users Conference
In 2007 I wrote on this here blog: I found his talk at the 2005 MySQL Users Conference inspirational. It’s one of a few talks I return to every so often because it’s so packed full of ideas. I have done some transcription on this file. It might be useful to you. First, here’s the…
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Happy Birthday ArtLung Blog!
Nineteen years ago I started this blog! “Happy Blog Day” says gRegor Love to me at the San Diego Homebrew Website Club event here at Subterranean Coffee. Simon Prickett is also here. It’s lovely to be able to sit and discuss the web. In an era of ubiquitous social media: Instagram Stories, the Facebook Feed,…
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Skyways and transit
In February I attended an interesting webinar put on by sdmts.com. It was part of Elevate SD 2020. Given Sorrento Valley’s peculiarly hilly topography, they mentioned using skyways as part of a plan to bring transit. That seemed a rather novel (and to my intuition, fragile) solution. As it happens there are a number of…
- 03-Mar-2020About Covid-19
Instantaneous global communication without nuance is a perfect carrier for amplifying panic. As a web technology cheerleader for 2-1/2 decades I find myself filled with ennui about this. As a former health care professional I urge cautious research and consultation with your own physician and local public health authorities. That instantaneous global communication response added…
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I ❤️Trash Robot!
I do heart the Trash Robot in Baltimore Harbor. Here’s the story about it, from 2017: Googly-Eyed Trash Eaters May Clean a Harbor Near You: Baltimore’s success with Mr. Trash Wheel and Professor Trash Wheel may spread to other cities As you can tell, I do enjoy robots a-plenty. And I love recycling and cleaning…
- 03-Apr-2020Yahoo Groups – goodbye.
For some reason I failed to post this in December. Grumble. Sorry. Dear Group Moderators and Members, Thank you for your commitment to Yahoo and for helping us define the power of digital communities. Eighteen years ago, we combined the functionality of a site called eGroups.com with a precursor community platform called Yahoo Clubs to…
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Star Trek Conventions
I think I went to a my first, very small, Star Trek Convention in San Diego in 1986 or 1987. My memory on this is squishy. I know I was at age where I could drive. I know it was on Mission Bay — I think it was at the Bahia Resort next to Mission…
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Kelly and I in a GIF
You can see Kelly and I in this. It’s kind of cool. For the San Diego Comic-Con Museum newsletter this past week.
- 11-May-2020Gary Groth on the bizarre time for comics and books
Quote of the week, er… last week: Question: Have you put contingencies in place — as far as publishing goes — as this crisis drags on? Absolutely. We’re assuming depressed sales. We know sales are going to go down. The problem is nobody knows how much. 10%? 20%? More? Nobody knows the answer to that…
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A year of drawing and drinking with my friend
Yesterday my phone spat out at me a screenful of “On This Day” photos. That’s the day I attended my first Long Beach Ink & Drink. I live in San Diego. Long Beach is 110 miles away. I have been attending San Diego’s Sketch Party since 2017. It’s close! And I have drawings which document my attendance…
- 26-Jun-2020Hot Tubbing an Online Community by Caleb John Clark, 1999
Some years ago I read Caleb John Clark’s essay (blog post, really) about online community and it has stuck with me ever since. It’s currently not easily searchable on the web. A shame. I am extracting it from the Internet Archive and placing the text here. “Hot Tubbing an Online Community” Caleb John Clark, January…
- 27-Jul-2020Flash Game History
Wow. This is cool. flashgamehistory.com. I remember Flash like crazy. Here’s some real old work in Flash I did.
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HBO MAX still not on Roku. Bye bye HBO GO.
Man, so frustrating. I really like Roku as a platform. I can of course use an HBO MAX app on an iOS device and stream to my Chromecast but what a pain. Dear Roku Customer, As you may know, HBO discontinued the HBO GO service on July 31, 2020. HBO GO had previously enabled cable…
- 03-Aug-2020Peanut Butter Cookie Grief
A few weeks ago I made the Better Homes & Gardens cookbook peanut butter cookie recipe. Now, this is the same cookbook which was gifted to me when I moved out of my parents’ house. I gathered the ingredients, and started making the cookies. As I was stirring the mixture I suddenly found tears were…
- 03-Aug-2020Long time since I’ve referenced Thomas PM Barnett
I remain a fan. Good thinker. On 28 July he posted a pithy piece: How badly US performs on COVID compared to rest of G20, here’s a quote: Now the underperformers ranked by severity (defined as the biggest gap in percentage shares): EU: 27% COVID – 4% world pop = 23 percentage pt. gap United…
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Comic-Con@HOME
From SDCC: We sincerely hope you enjoyed Comic-Con@Home this past weekend on the previously scheduled dates of Comic-Con 2020 (July 22-26). And for those of you who took part, thanks for making it such a great success: As of Sunday evening, YouTube, the platform which hosted the majority of our programs, had received over 2.5…
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Depthcharge
Depthcharge is the first game I would seek out at any arcade. Looking at it now, I can see how slow-moving it is. It’s rather uncomfortably slow in the same way Lunar Lander was. When I was between the ages of 8 and 10 I thought Depthcharge was amazing. I’m delighted to see that the…
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Graph of the Day.
From Professor Galloway‘s newsletter: No Mercy / No Malice.
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On misgendering
I was wearing my red sweater and was misgendered this morning (November 4, 2019) at the drive-through. Writing here in 2020, I can’t remember whether it was “ma’am” instead of “sir” or whether I merely overheard someone refer to me as “she” rather than “he.” But it’s immaterial. I am fascinated by the change in…
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Open Graph Protocol Tools updated to version 1.91
It’s been 10 years since I first wrote the Open Graph Protocol Tools WordPress plugin. It was first published to the WordPress Plugin repository on April 28, 2010. It’s a tool that embeds metadata into your WordPress blog so posts and pages that can be parsed by social media. It’s not a particular popular plugin,…
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“The Problem”
I used to be a party to walking through software engineering candidates through answering this question. I answered it myself, as part of my own hiring process, with several other programmers there. Part of the prompt from them was to “think of us as your team, feel free to ask questions or get clarifications.” That…
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San Diego Weather
I originally drafted this on June 10, 2019. My earliest memories of San Diego weather are this weather. Driving from Los Angeles in the back of my parents VW late at night. CBS Mystery Theater on the radio. I wake up on the couch at my grandparents THIS is that weather. Dew on the lawn…
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“Archival Magic” seminar.
This morning I attended a presentation Dustin Renwick about “Archival Magic” via the FieldTrips effort by Creative Mornings. I like the idea of using archival public domain resources as part of creative endeavors. I appreciate that he’s turned a good deal of research into a handy list to find treasures of the past that can…
- 14-Aug-2020Rebecca Sugar: Steven Universe
I had to thank my friend Brianna for introducing me to Steven Universe several years ago. And here’s a great interview/conversation with Rebecca Sugar about the difficulty of producing shows which strive to tell stories we’ve not heard in new ways. Steven Universe is an amazing show that manages to produce a unique science-fictional fantasy…
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Service change email of the day
Another day, another change in service: Hi artlung, Thank you for being a LinkedIn and SlideShare member. We’re excited to announce that SlideShare is joining Scribd. Like SlideShare, Scribd offers an endless supply of content gems to feed your curiosity and advance your career. We look forward to SlideShare and Scribd coming together as the…
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Instalooter to WordPress
I’ve been importing my Instagram posts for my @artlung account using IFTTT for 7 years with good results. But there was a set of several hundred posts from 2011 and 2012 that I never bothered with. To be honest looking back at the posts, and thinking of that time, those were the two years after…
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No love for San Diego in AFAR’s favorite California independent bookstores.
AFAR’s Our Favorite Independent Bookstores in California contains no love for San Diego despite us having some great bookstores. I would easily put Verbatim Books on this list and give Mysterious Galaxy strong consideration. But I’m nitpicking, it’s a fine list overall. The list brings to mind my favorite bookstores of the 1990s in Los Angeles: Midnight…
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Set permissions for all WordPress wp-config.php files to 600 on shared hosting
A solid security recommendation from the company I host with that I have turned into a cron job:
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Remembering Comic Gallery
THE COMIC GALLERY “Everything in Comics & Fantasy” New & Collector’s Comics — Fantasy & Role Playing Games Miniatures – Japanese Animation Sports and Non-Sports Cards 4224 Balboa Avenue, San Diego CA 92117 9460-G Mira Mesa Blvd. San Diego CA 92126 322-J W. El Norte Parkway, Escondido, CA 92016 I went to the Balboa Avenue…
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Image Maps like we did it in 1997!
Behold! Image Maps that are server-side! Absolutely ridiculous and enabled by Apache. Check it out.
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Email of the day: Announcing the Shut Down of Yahoo Groups
Following up on websandiego’s shutdown: Dear Yahoo Group Moderators and Members, We launched Yahoo Groups 20 years ago to connect people around their shared interests. We helped our users navigate new towns, keep in touch with college friends, learn new skills, and most importantly, build connections they may have lost or never had in the…
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I voted.
Got my notification from the San Diego Registrar of Voters. “Your ballot for the 2020 General Election was received and will be counted.” I hope it works out well.
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New Yahoogroups Email Clarifying Last Yahoogroups Email
Following up on the following up of websandiego’s shutdown: Dear Yahoo Group Moderators and Members, We recently announced that groups.yahoo.com (Yahoo Groups) and its list service will shut down on December 15, 2020. We would like to clarify that there will be no changes to other Yahoo properties or services. For example, your Yahoo account…
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Goodbye, Flash
I have a long history with Flash, so seeing my Mac pop this up about this shutdown hurts a little. Thank you for using Adobe Flash Player. Adobe’s support for Flash Player will end on December 31st, 2020. Please see the Adobe Flash EOL General Information Page for more details. If you do not need…