the girly who shall end all girls

I use DW as an RSS reader because i'm old. an exchange in tonight's D&D game reminded me that pepysdiary_feed exists. May 1 1661 was also a Wednesday.

meanwhile, i've given up on the website formerly known as Tor.com since their RSS feed is full of garbage markup. I think it's SVG coordinates? i've been skipping looking at all my feeds because that one breaks everything, screw that, unsubscribe

what are you currently consuming?
reading-wise, i'm on volume 5 of The Apothecary Diaries light novels. i'm so happy to be living in the timeline where we get translations; i remember watching Read or Die *sigh* 20 years ago and wishing for the books.

tv-wise, Game Changer is back and the most recent episode, Deja Vu, was a joy to watch, especially because we were figuring it out along with the contestants. it was partly designed by the guy who did Escape the Greenroom last season. Dropout might be my most loved subscription these days

and tonight we remembered that we never finished Spy x Family. so we're in the midst of the cruise arc and after a long stretch of episodes that lost our interest it's back to serving the premise i watch the show for (Mr & Mrs Smith/fake dating/found family + competence porn and cuteness)

ongoing, Delicious in Dungeon and The Bad Batch. (i kind of watch The Bad Batch from behind the sofa because i don't want deaths, i know they do deaths, and there are very few characters we've seen in this show that we know survive into the Rebellion era.)

what did you recently finish?
OMG The Apothecary Diaries (no links, so many spoilers), very excited they've been renewed for a second season. once i got over the way the characters turn into chibi caricatures when they have strong emotions, i fell in love with the mystery of the week and the ongoing court intrigue and it's often funny. (seriously the character design is so beautiful and then suddenly it's a parody of itself.) while entirely unlike Nirvana in Fire, it satisfies some of my desire for more things like Nirvana in Fire.

what will you consume next?
more Spy x Family.

dhampreysa is doing some DW automation with a Google Sheet. I remembered hearing that the DW API didn’t really exist/was in shambles. Which is kind of true, but Ye Olde XML-RPC is still out there. And there’s a Python library for it, so maybe I’ll do a thing.

I need to figure out my exact use case; probably my own version of a linkspam builder or recreating my old ‘shiny thing’ quick posts that were killed by gmail formatting woes. Other ideas for machine-assisted posting are welcome in comments, if I do anything it will all end up Unlicensed on GitHub.

In other news, I wrote this with a Bluetooth keyboard attached to the iPad. Surprisingly nice - got it for travel to do double duty as a detached keyboard for the work laptop (a Mac from the era of terribad keyboards) and with the iPad as a sort of substitute for my laptop. I’m not expecting to do much personal coding on the trip and I would like to be able to read comics, so I think this is going to be a great compromise even though I may regret the ergonomics after a full work day. It’s a Logitech k480 which comes with a nice groove to prop your touchscreen device in and of all things has satisfyingly clicky keys. I like it so far.

what this is and isn't: dw hacking posts document my experiments with automating stuff i want to do with Dreamwidth, and making DW more mobile. my goal is to do this stuff with off-the-shelf tools, so that it's accessible to more people. i have an Android phone, a PC, a Google account, and Dropbox. i'd love to have a Mac/iPhone tester/co-conspirator. feedback is welcome, sharing is definitely welcome.

the following are instructions to make a linkpost widget button for an Android smartphone.

tap button, paste link you would like to share on DW, commit, and BOOM, fully formatted linkpost.

this method can be used for any set of post settings that you would like to be able to reuse for a quick post. i'll be making one for mobile movie reviews as the local film festival revs up.

Requirements:

• Gmail


• Android device (works on a tablet for sure, i'd love to hear about Chromebook. i'll be saying "phone" from here on out)


• set up post by email and list your gmail account


• install and sign in to IFTTT on your phone
(IFTTT is the glue that sticks services together.)

( instructions,with lots of pictures )

here are the posts that i make with the widget. it's as easy as sharing a link to any other service.

next up, using IFTTT to make notes into a draft post saved in Dropbox.