Due to last month’s SSD failure and being too busy to properly maintain the exozyme server, @a decided to discontinue the server on 2024-12-20. Actually, as of 12-12, the exozyme server is down due to unknown reasons, but @a will make sure it boots up one last time before 12-20 so people can migrate their data off of the server.
But, don’t feel sad… the exozyme community and domain name are still alive and doing just fine! Seriously, just look at our Matrix and voice calls. SSD failures can kill machines, but they can’t kill communities. Or at least, not this one. Anyways, our repos and sites are now hosted on Codeberg.
@ersei is back with another fun post about playing Bad Apple over RSS. The idea is simple: make an RSS feed (technically Atom) that returns a new frame every time it’s requested. But now you need an RSS reader that can smoothly refresh 30 times a second, which @ersei implemented using an existing RSS reader written in JavaScript after many hours of blood and tears.
@a: One of my IRL friends is working on a project to convert Bad Apple into an audio signal that both sounds like the song and shows the outline of the music video when displayed on an oscilloscope. Doing either one by itself is easy, but we’ll see if he figures out how to do both at the same time! I also did a computer vision project involving Bad Apple a few months ago. (And technically the song’s name is “Bad Apple!!” with two exclamation points, but whatever.)
@daudix moved his website from Codeberg pages to Vercel and made a informative post about the process.
@cloudyy: @daudix’s website looks amazing. Maybe we should get him to redesign exozine.
@ersei: I have a strong urge to redo my website now…
It’s @daudix’s blogging workflow. About creation of new blog posts. DeepL Write is mentioned.
@a has a new domain that is fun and much more pronounceable than to a.exozy.me: unnamed.website! (Don’t forget to update the RSS feed URL if you’re follow it using one.)
@d-rens wrote a post about consuming news via RSS but only forming shallow opinions and being distracted by it, so they stopped using RSS for now.
@a: For me, I mostly just follow a bunch of blogs in my RSS reader. I don’t read much news, not even tech news, other than the low-volume “In the news” section of Wikipedia’s home page. I’m from the US, so it’s nice that Wikipedia’s “In the news” features a lot of global news instead of just US stuff. I can understand the value in being well-informed in world events, but I also agree with @d-rens’s “For the most part I really don’t care about what is happening and then I don’t need to feed my brain with stimulating opinions and things to worry about that I can not realistically influence.”
Congrats to @vnpower for learning Colemak!
@a: Originally, the post mistakenly only contained a title and no other text so I thought, there’s definitely some irony in making a post so short that I could also probably type it in a minute if you secretly switched my keyboard to Colemak… although I’m sure @vnpower did actually learn Colemak and might expand the post in the future.
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