Jer Warren

Could someone explain to me what the deal is with these blocks of multiple posts I'm seeing all in one contiguous box are? At first I thought maybe it was like a thread, showing replies together, but that does not seem to be the case. Is it boosting a post that was also boosting a different post so all 3 end up visible?

Text cross-posting from Twitter to cohost via IFTTT webhook successful for text posts. Going to have to get a little fancier with images, though. Someday.

I'm trying to avoid touching the Twitter API, so I'm using If This Then That to send a webhook to my server, where I'm using cohost.py to post to cohost. IFTTT doesn't handle the images, though, just leaves in a t.co URL that redirects to the original tweet URL. Right now I'm just skipping any tweet that has a link in it, but I have implemented following redirects on links so I can check whether they represent an image or something else. The problem is there's just no good way to scrape the actual image URL without running an ass-load of Twitter's JavaScript in a headless browser.

This is just a stopgap; I'm working on a standalone composer that will let you post the same content directly to Twitter, Mastodon, Cohost, [Whatever], but I just wanted to get some content flowing here until I have the time to finish that thing.

We had a massive amount of rain yesterday. Kalama River was very, very swollen, Kalama River Road got blocked by a mudslide, we lost power for a few hours last night around midnight. (Lots of wind, too, so presumably downed trees.)

Figured it's about time I actually posted on this thing properly, so here's a project of mine from earlier this year that I think y'all will appreciate -

-> http://tiredand.gay/wordle/ <-

It's a Netscape 1.0-compatible implementation of Wordle, complete with the rules page, a high-contrast colorblind mode, and an ASCII-art score system for e-mailing to your friends! It uses the wordlist from the original pre-NYT version of Wordle.

It's all powered by about 600 lines of absolutely atrocious cgi-bin python, of which I am both incredibly proud and deeply ashamed.

I started out developing it for Netscape 4.04, using features like tables and inline styling with the <font> tag, but kept pushing myself to support further and further back. The colored letters eventually got replaced with pre-rendered images, and while the layout tables are still present, Netscape 1.0 doesn't support them, so there are some wonderfully hacky <br> tags inside each row to ensure the correct layout.

I'm particularly fond of the smaller non-technical details to make it period-appropriate:

• The exclamation point after the name, to add a little '90s whimsy
• The use of e-mail as the suggested way to share scores, as well as the deliberate hyphen in 'e-mail' — in my experience 'email' is the preferred spelling nowadays.
• The comment alongside the <meta viewport="..."> tag to lampshade its anachronistic nature.