Jan Boddez @[email protected]

It has the infamous “fake” humbuckers, too—ceramic single-coils in disguise. So definitely a budget instrument. (Two reasons I still went for it: (1) it’s old, and (2) came with an aftermarket Seymour Duncan bridge pickup and a set of brand-new Kluson tuners—the original parts are all there, too. Paid for the parts, got the guitar for free, almost.)

Never mind.

Looks like nitter.net is no more.

Bookmarked https://nitter.net/stauffermatt/status/1353483193131925504.

All the while, creating a new Mastodon client is, like, two POST requests. (I make anyone that would want to use my “Share on Twitter” WordPress plugin sign up for a Twitter developer account themselves.)

(https://jan.boddez.net/notes/fea631cd15)

Kind of (but not entirely) like the (early) Ibanez 2354s or Greco SG-360. Except there's the crown inlay, the simpler binding, and the extra fretboard inlays. Or the Avon 3404. https://best-vintage-guitars.de/avon_rose_morris_3404_sg.html

Like the one on this page, except mine's got block inlays at the 19th and 21th frets, too. https://www.tdpri.com/threads/lawsuit-sg-maker.940405/

It's got the rounded fretboard end and off-center rounded block inlays. Single-ply headstock binding. 3-screw truss rod cover. Inside of the tuning machines reads "Japan." The (bolt-on) neck looks like it may be one piece. Body is plywood. Pickguard is the batwing-but-not-quite type of early '70s Asian SGs. Bridge studs are unslotted, saddles nylon.

Anyway, it’s been nearly two years since my last real project guitar … which means I’m about to pick up something new. I _was_ going to order a brand-new but dirt-cheap “butterscotch blonde” Tele _or_ LPJ double cut copy—or both—from one of the huge German online stores … and then this ’70s nameless Japanese SG copy popped up.

Remember the Tele? Just got it out of its case to try and fix a pretty nasty neck bow. https://mastodon.social/@janboddez/101841745532050311

Drinking a Sjarel—Olense Tripel. http://sjarel.com/

#beer

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In reply to https://jlelse.blog/thoughts/2021/01/newsletters-blogs.

I’ve made that exact remark, too. It’s a tech bubble thing, I think, like static site generators and “modern JavaScript build pipelines.”

If anything did greatly reduce blogging’s popularity among the general populace, it would be Facebook and Twitter.

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I was just reminded of this WooCommerce add-on I once made, that'd collect sales stats once a day and send out the results in an Excel sheet. Turns out it's still up and running. I can use this when I finally get around to making my own invoicing app.

Feed Thoughts https://jan.boddez.net/articles/feed-thoughts

Haha! One of my many projects-that-never-saw-the-light-of-day was called Stocklistr. (I only remember because there’s this entry in my password manager, still.)

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Bookmarked https://www.robinrendle.com/essays/newsletters.

I, too, very much prefer blogs over newsletters! But, I mean, _did_ they? Was it newsletters?

> Newsletters killed blogs[.]

RSS?

> Alternatively, websites today […] can’t notify people of new work[.]

Sounds a wee bit like, “These days, _everyone_ is using static site generators.” (Pardon my French, but _no one who isn’t also a dev_ uses an SSG.)

(https://jan.boddez.net/notes/bd6565e2fc)

And update mine instead. (Wait, I haven't gotten a new computer in over 6 years.)

Maybe I shouldn't read millionaires' "uses" pages (or blog posts on the subject).