Jan Boddez @[email protected]

I’ve been using Mastodon for quite a while now—since #DeactiDay, give or take—but have never posted a proper #introduction.

So, I’m a thirtysomething mechanical engineer and lousy guitarist. I work in the semiconductor industry, spend most of my spare time developing for the web, and own quite a few affordable (!) electric guitars, a handful of Raspberry Pis, and a couple hacked together MAME—I know—cabinets. Also, happily married, father of two, wannabe investor.

#introductions

What I’m saying is, interests include #PHP, the #IndieWeb, #PunkRock, #HomeRecording, #art, and personal finance.

Bookmarked https://wptavern.com/it-is-time-for-wordpress-theme-authors-to-step-up-their-block-pattern-game.

While part of me still wants to build somewhat complex layouts using nothing but HTML and CSS, these WordPress block pattern examples are really, really nice. I mean, in a WordPress context. Sure as heck beats shortcode wizardry.

(https://jan.boddez.net/notes/34d986eb72)

Does my feed reader, a responsive web app, really need Micropub integration? I mean, I can simply long-press-to-Indigenous. On desktop, there’s text expanders, bookmarklets, or both.

(https://jan.boddez.net/notes/17c50c872f)

(Those captions shouldn’t really be there, I guess. And I forgot to properly fill out the alt text in WP’s Media Library which is why it wasn't crossposted.) Also, not actually a question.

Which one is better?

A Microsub reader.

A feed aggregator and reader (and Microsub server).

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Bookmarked https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/someone-has-to-run-the-fabs.

> We shouldn’t stop kids from taking hard STEM classes just because we’re worried that they’ll have a better chance of becoming rich STEMlords; instead, we should just tax the STEMlords more[.]

(https://jan.boddez.net/notes/084150ffad)

My feed reader’s “timeline” moves really slow, so I’m not at all interested in anything “infinite scrolling” or optimized for “real-time” updates. It’s to do with marking new items as read, which using traditional pagination will “bump up” remaining items from, e.g., page 2 to page 1, meaning the (previously generated) link to page 2 may now lead to an empty page and those items might stay overlooked for a little while.

(https://jan.boddez.net/notes/0affc8da58)

Adding cursor-based pagination to my RSS reader, to get rid of some (very) minor annoyances. (Note that Microsub’s paging—https://indieweb.org/Microsub-spec#Example_Paging_Workflow—works a bit different, still. Yay.)

(https://jan.boddez.net/notes/5c95a6da7e)

Bookmarked https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/why-has-climate-economics-failed.

> [T]he number of papers at top journals dedicated to climate economics is miniscule.

(https://jan.boddez.net/notes/ec04f63724)

Reading https://darekkay.com/blog/avif-images/ and, interestingly, my RSS reader shows “This image is not supported in your browser” for the WebP image, too. But it is; I’m using the latest Firefox. (What I think is happening instead, is that my reader strips away `source` tags.)

(https://jan.boddez.net/notes/062d5d2b50)

Considering having my “Share on Pixelfed” plugin for WordPress added to the “official” WP.org repo.

(https://jan.boddez.net/notes/6103423edb)

Was asked to add a social media link to a client’s site and I was pleasantly surprised to see the correct icon added in front automatically. Turns out I once wrote the three lines of JavaScript that made that happen. Turns out I also used slick—I know—to rotate (Jetpack) testimonials on the front page. I mean, a slightly tweaked CPT, a custom shortcode, and the default JS library: that’s all it took. No need for “feature-laden,” 3rd-party plugins.

(https://jan.boddez.net/notes/9a31071251)

No photo? Yes, I’m like that.

(https://jan.boddez.net/notes/2ef4fc03a7)

Assembled and stained a sandbox.

(https://jan.boddez.net/notes/b7b581031c)

Kinda just went for it with thinned down nail polish. Doesn’t look too horrible from the right angle.

A similar model (and some history): https://www.premierguitar.com/trash-or-treasure-eko-sparkle-top.

The finish isn’t lacquer, it would seem, but celluloid, a thin layer of (highly flammable) plastic. The fretboard binding’s loose, too. Not sure if the electronics function, either, but that’s kind of the least of my worries.