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Bought a photo scanner with an automatic feeder. Back in 2013-4 I paid for a service to scan thousands of family photos. Then I found more. This time, doing it myself. Went through 1200 photos in a day.

Got an email from the place I got my car congratulating me on its two year anniversary. If not for the pandemic, I would have used it a lot more.

Decided to finally dispose of my MSI Wind U100 netbook. I bought it on March 19, 2009 for $299, and immediately added an extra GB of RAM and an extra battery and installed Linux. I haven’t used it in years, and it is time to retire it.

After declaring my intention to help iterate on the Ticket extension to IndieAuth, I built an experimental ticket endpoint, which is available on my test site. I was able to test it using Martijn van Der Ven’s test form for requesting a ticket., after some troubleshooting on both sides. Still have some tweaks to make and questions to answer for expansion, but it turned out that adding support for receiving and redeeming a ticket was relatively easy.

Working on expiring tokens for the WordPress IndieAuth endpoint. This would be a breaking change, as currently, tokens issued by the endpoint never expire. This is a security concern, if you keep issuing tokens without ever expiring them. With the new system, you can renew a token, or even disable expiry in the admin if you need a long-lived token. There is a way to have the client get new tokens regularly that I could implement, but currently no client supports it.

94 Years Ago Today, Charles A. Levine became the first transatlantic air passenger. Levine, certainly a largely imperfect character, has been largely forgotten by history.

In November 2018, we went to Orlando to perform the Parkeology Challenge.  We came close, but did not succeed. We had always hoped to try again, but illness, as well as the pandemic restricting travel, had pushed it off. Now one of the team is no longer with us(the one who took the photo).

I’ve never been particularly good at speaking of those who have gone, and the stories I might choose to tell are probably would not do justice to the memory.

There is little to say when someone is taken from their friends and loved ones too soon. When we were kids, he, being a few years older, was primarily my brother’s friend, but we all did things together…our families frequently got together. It is hard to accept I will not see him again.

The best I can think of to do that would please him is to finish this one thing we never completed someday.

Just began a major reorganize at of my apartment, as I’ve been here very little in the last year. This will take weeks to complete. Anyone have any advice?

Just a few updates from the last week.

  • Updated the Parse This library to optionally flatten the location parameter, as Indigenous and other Microsub readers do not recognize a nested location parameter.
  • Fixed a Simple Location issue where it was not setting the location taxonomy on Micropub post.
  • Simplified some of the Location interfaces
  • Minor bug fixes.

It is Pi Day again, March 14th or 03-14. While arbitrary, I’d like to take a moment to appreciate the Raspberry Pi, the small single board computer that launched a lot of great hobbyist projects. While it running off a microSD is incredibly frustrating at times, it is really easy way to play with small dedicated computing.

Haven’t posted on Facebook since June 10, 2018 because it doesn’t allow me to link back to my own site. Someone created a tool that might allow that again, so testing it with this post to see if I can pull back responses.

As I’ve been backfilling weather on old posts on my site, I’ve also been fixing photo markup so that old photos will show up in the photo grid I added not long ago at /kind/photo. You can also look by year by adding the year to the end of the URL(/2020 or such). May add some links.