Developer Diary, Universal Day of Culture
Today, we observe the The Universal Day of Culture under the Banner of Peace, the prepositional phrase often dropped for convenience, promoting the protection of culture in general, and the Treaty on the Protection of Artistic and Scientific Institutions and Historic Monuments (Roerich Pact) as a specific instance. Conveniently, it coincides with World Art Day, celebrating the fine arts.
Over in the United States, Major League Baseball will spend a lot of today patting itself on the back on Jackie Robinson Day, honoring the debut of the sportâs first major-league Black player.
And also in the United States, if you havenât filed your taxes, yet, youâll probably want to either get on that now or file for an extension. If you fall under certain conditions, you can use the IRS Direct File pilot program and save yourself the hassle of working with one of the big providers, finally giving us a baby step closer to the rest of the civilized world. I didnât quite qualify, myself, but the program has gotten good reviews from people who did.
One of those has to relate to my projects, right? No? Well, weâll talk about the week, anyway.
Not-So-Secret Project
I havenât done anything with it, yet, but you can now follow The Lightâs Edge on Mastodon.
The main account will eventually announce new installments of the story, and eventually boost any transmedia aspects to the story. I havenât created those accounts, yet, but I have a few ideas that I think that people will enjoy. If you read along with the Entropy Arbitrage newsletter, then you might guess what at least one might involve and how it could spin off into its own project that I probably shouldnât even considerâŚ
Otherwise, youâll see this main account follow a couple of other accounts soonâprobably in order of the complexity of their web pages on thelightsedge.com
âs domain, so that each account gets verifiedâfollowed by a few that should appear on different Fediverse platforms, as the first story progresses.
Earburn
I made some minor changesânot pushed out to Mozillaâinvolving limiting the debugging output and giving names to every action.
Now, I hope that these changes will make the eventual transition to âManifest, version 3â smoother, though the more that I read that documentation, the more it sounds like the âtransitionâ starts with rewriting almost everything with no guidance.
Entropy Arbitrage
Most of this week has gone to cleaning up the blogâs code. The primary outgoing Webmentions now have specific layouts, and incoming Webmentions have styles. The GitHub and Codeberg plugins now use Jekyllâs standard .jekyll-cache
folder instead of a custom cache. Emoji in italicized text donât show as italicized, since that distorts them. Certain recurring text blocksâwhich I may want to update from time to time, across all relevant postsânow sit in âincludeâ-able components.
I also added the Jekyll Archives, which I donât use yet, but I like the premise, especially if it can replace the clumsy hack that I created to generate tag pages. If I remember correctly, I created that mess of code in case I ever wanted to move the blog to GitHub Pages, which didnât (doesnât?) support most plugins. Since that time, Iâve added a few other plugins and donât seem to have much interest in deploying the blog to GitHub Pages, so Iâll want to look into cleaning that up.
Next
Not much has changed, here. If I can make sense out of what Google wants for browser extensions, youâll see progress on Earburn. If not, I have library updates and changes to Notoboto to push out.
Credits: The header image is Roerich symbol by Kwamikagami, made available under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 4.0 International license.
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