While not common, today marks Siblings Day in a variety of countries. While I realize that holidays like this always have some difficulties in celebration, because not everybody wants to or even can honor the relationship that they have with a given sibling, much like the original, non-commercial version of Mothers Day, take a moment to care for the people hurt in that way.

A photograph of three similar-looking young children running through a field holding hands, with a sketched-in question "vamos celebrar?" beneath them

On to the projects.

Mastodon Tool Trunk

GitHub - jcolag/tool-trunkTools for (John's) Mastodon workflow. Contribute to jcolag/tool-trunk development by creating an account on GitHub.

I needed to patch the Scheduler, again. The changes that I made last week appear to have caused a slight problem, in that it would check the ā€œquoteā€ section for a bad message, but might not have a quote listed. Therefore, the default parameters now include an empty quote, instead of checking. No matter what type of toot that Iā€™ll want to schedule, itā€™ll include some arbitrary quoted text, after all. I havenā€™t posted a bare URL to social media without any context in years.

Work has mostly progressed on the Rummager, though. We now have a loading screen, some rough structure to the page, some management variables, and a function to make web requests. To date, I have only tested it with the public timelineā€”I need to learn how to authenticate using XMLHttpRequest objects, so Iā€™ve stuck to the tasks that donā€™t require authenticationā€”and it looks promising as a proof of concept.

Boring CSS

GitHub - jcolag/boring-cssA set of CSS files (for me) to use for prototyping - GitHub - jcolag/boring-css: A set of CSS files (for me) to use for prototyping

Since creating Boring CSS, I have noticed occasional irregularities in using it, like colors not showing up in either dark mode or light mode.

After finally poking around, I realized that I had a typo in my Solarized definition, calling the central color --base00 instead of --base0, but only for the light-mode styles. I apologize if anybody else ran into this issue. If you call that neutral color --base0 from now on, everything should work consistently between stylesheets.

Next

I expect that Iā€™ll mostly continue working on the Mastodon Tool Trunkā€™s Rummager, now that I have something like a viable proof of concept.

Credits: The header image is Cartaz Dia dos IrmĆ£os 2016 by AssociaĆ§Ć£o Portuguesa de FamĆ­lias Numerosas, made available under the terms of the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication.