I’ve been very bad about posting my recent machine knitting adventures, but rest assured that they continue! I’d love to do proper write-ups for these (and others) soon!
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📗 Want to read Quantum Listening by Pauline Oliveros ISBN: 9781739371753
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📗 Want to read To Write Like a Woman by Joanna Russ ISBN: 9780253209832
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Anthony,
I'm glad you finally managed to get your own segment pick from Paul at Bremerton Typewriter. They're really quite lovely and clever. I will say that oddly, since I bought it, none of the typewriters I've gotten since are terribly gummed up as badly as a stretch of them I had gotten before and which were the reason I bought the pick in the first place! The luck of the repairman I suppose...
I must also admit that you seem to be another new member of the typosphere I've noticed who has Webmentions on your site! Kudos on that.
Best regards,
Chris
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cc: Tom Fasano, Ted Munk
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Started building a local LLM server today. An NVIDIA RTX 3090 24gb in an external USB-4 dock connected to a mini pc with 64gb ram. Now the fun begins!
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I went searching at Star Typewriters yesterday for a nice mid-century Adler Universal.
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My son turns 13 tomorrow. How time flies! He had a fun gaming party with his D&D crew this weekend, and his big gift was a new Framework laptop, which we assembled together before installing Linux, at his request. Good taste, that boy of mine!
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Haha, the Christianity Today website 404 pages say “Oops! Looks like this page is formless and void.” Well-played.
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ok I am impressed, only took a few iterations and Claude built this entirely in the browser. My tweaks were things like "make the legs inset from the face, I don't want to print with supports." It made the STL and I'm printing it out now! 😍
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Theft in Denver. On to the next one, but I’m pretty livid. Nothing pisses me off more than officials that suck at their job changing the outcome of a game. Ugh.
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The “but this time Meta seems different” crowd is at it again, doing their best impression of Charlie Brown attempting to kick Lucy’s football. No, I don’t want Muse. No, I don’t care how “cute” it is. I’ve seen this a dozen times and they always show their true colors eventually.
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"text": "Unexpected Game Revival\n\n\n\nA while back, there was this mobile game, Final Fantasy Brave Exvius. It had a pretty decent story and the central conceit of the play mechanic was also pretty nice. The art and music was good for a mobile game. They had a gacha system that was reasonably generous, though as time went on and they continued to need to release new characters, the power creep became super real. It shut down back in 2024 (the Japanese servers went until 2025, but did eventually also close). Kind of a shame, it was pretty fun for what it was.\n\n\n\nWell, it\u2019s back, as Final Fantasy Resonance. They took the story and art and music and cleaned it all up, got rid of the gacha system (while adapting the \u201cvision\u201d system the game had introduced to explain the gacha system, since it\u2019s kind of central to the story), and fleshed out the world map and dungeons, and so now it\u2019s a full fledged standalone 2D-HD Final Fantasy title. I played through the demo (which is the entire first chapter of the game, so the save carries over when the full title comes out), and it was a really pleasant JRPG experience. So, y\u2019know, kudos to the development team for seeing the bones were good and not throwing them out, just because the online service had to close. Good work, and I hope you\u2019re rewarded for it.\n\n\n\nThe Block System Sucks\n\n\n\nWe recently migrated Simone\u2019s site, and it was the first opportunity I had to really dig into WordPress\u2019s block editor system. I can certainly see why they bothered creating it \u2013 you can do a fair bit of customization with just their built in site editor, without having to touch a line of HTML, PHP, CSS, or Javascript. If you want to make creating your own site more accessible, it makes a ton of sense. I also kind of hate it.\n\n\n\nI realize some of this may be me being a curmudgeon and having gotten used to the old system, but it all ends up feeling disjointed to me, where it\u2019s not very clear where you make a distinction between a template, a part, a pattern, or a page. And what\u2019s worse, is it\u2019s super non-obvious where any of those customizations live on your server (answer: in your database, and all the stuff like font and color changes are tied to that specific theme). If you started customizing a default theme and have now decided to turn it into either a child theme or its own theme, good luck getting those settings migrated (even though it\u2019s super easy to start messing with stuff without realizing you run the risk of screwing things up if the theme gets an update). \n\n\n\nSo let\u2019s say you want to export all those customizations you\u2019ve made. Where do you do it? It\u2019s not in the export settings, it\u2019s not an easy link on the main page of the site editor. Answer: it\u2019s on some editor pages if you go to a menu and look for an \u201cexport site\u201d link, which downloads a zip that you can then modify and manually upload. It\u2019s fucking stupid. Like, you\u2019re all too happy to add a link for resetting any style customizations you\u2019ve done on the style page, but not an \u201cexport/import styles\u201d link? Did you even stop to think about the user experience, or that people might want to back things up, or that by making it easy to import, export, and share styles, people would be more willing to experiment?\n\n\n\nI\u2019d been debating making a new theme for this site using the new block editor, but nah. I\u2019ll stick with what I have for now.\n\n\n\nFalling into Fall\n\n\n\nSeptember went by really fast. I was hoping to get out and about more, but that\u2019s just not how it panned out. We\u2019re starting to see some color, which is always a delight.\n\n\n\nWe\u2019ve been planning some trips for later in the fall and winter, so there\u2019s some things to look forward to (important, since the winters here can be a little brutal). If we\u2019re going to be here for another winter (and it certainly looks like that\u2019s the case), we\u2019re also thinking we should double down on the hygge, do our best to live the cozy life while preparing to try and sell the house and move *hand waves* somewhere in the spring. If you\u2019ve got thoughts on how to encourage the cozy hibernation vibe, let me know.",
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Our Mendoza is broken. Give us the other one.
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It sucks that 1-11 seems like a legit possibility for the Jackets this year… 🙁
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Hey, Miami collective — Kamario Taylor would look great in orange and green. I’m just saying.
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The USC defender that knocked out Dante Moore shouldn’t play again for a long, long time.
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Worst officiating I’ve ever seen in my life. Theft of two amazing plays, including an absolutely elite one handed catch from Malachi Toney.
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As I was scrolling along yesterday, a post about the lovely Professional Elite typeface popped up in my feed on Reddit. It linked back to Tom Fasano's website, so I read the original there. I noticed a syndication icon at the bottom and stopped dead in my tracks! Had I run into a fully featured IndieWeb website in the wild?!?
I peeked at the code and saw a Webmention endpoint hiding in there and nearly fell over. Webmention is a web standard that allows any website to talk directly to any other website as if they were social media peers on the same platform.
I immediately fired up my new-to-me 1959 Olympia SM3 which also has a Professional Elite No. 41 typeface to dash off a note to Tom and his typewriter. I posted it to my website as a typecast reply. But most importantly, my website sent a webmention (think @mention/notification) to Tom that I had replied to his post. Voila! My reply was in his comments section just moments later, as if by magic. I've only done this a few times as there aren't many typewriter collector/typecasting bloggers out there who've added the technology to their sites yet, but this certainly opens up a new space for typewriter social networking by way of the web rather than just via post.
The careful observer will also notice that because Tom syndicated his original post to Reddit and included a syndication link, he's getting replies from Reddit back into his website via Webmention using a service called Brid.gy. So if you want to type up a reply to his post, or even this one, and post it to the Reddit thread you can participate that way (if your website doesn't have the capability yet.)
Who else in the typosphere has a website that supports webmention? Let's start a chat.
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If you'd like to go deeper into the subject of Webmention, try this article in A List Apart: "Webmentions: Enabling Better Communication on the Internet".
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