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title: Developer Journal, Lā Kūʻokoʻa
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date: 2022-11-28 06:54:05-0500
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tags: [programming, project, devjournal]
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summary: Progress on assorted projects
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thumbnail: /blog/assets/HawaiiNoRedLine.png
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Today, or rather in this day from 1843 -- 1898 or so, Hawaii celebrated the recognition of its sovereignty and independence by England and France, as [Lā Kūʻokoʻa](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independence_Day_%28Hawaii%29). Mostly vanished since, adherents to [Hawaiian sovereignty](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaiian_sovereignty_movement) do still celebrate it as a recognition that Hawaii became...oh, "significantly less independent and sovereign," let's call it, in the 1890s.
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![Satellite image of the windward Hawaiian islands](/blog/assets/HawaiiNoRedLine.png "I honestly had no idea that we had satellites in 2003 that took color pictures with enough detail that you can ALMOST make out individual trees on some islands.")
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Since we in the United States celebrated Thanksgiving on Thursday, that also makes today---if I can keep myself from giggling---[Cyber Monday](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber_Monday), the magical day every year, when journalism spontaneously becomes an infomercial for Amazon, still somehow supported by ads. Maybe of mild interest, we can also celebrate the *anniversary* of Cyber Monday, today, since the industry first tried to push the clunker of an idea in 2005, when it fell on November 28<sup>th</sup>.
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All of that feels like a downer. Let's talk about software, instead, or at least go back and look at that satellite image again.
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## Quick Thanksgiving Dinner
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Capotain the Thanksgiving Goblin granted my wish of a low-stress holiday, this year, so I whipped up a quick seasonal meal without any meat, though it could've gone nicely with a small serving of turkey. As usual, I don't quite have a recipe, since I improvised.
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I started out shredding a sweet potato in my food processor, though if you'd rather not haul out heavy machinery or don't have one, I've cooked similar dishes by dicing the yam to (rough) half-inch cubes. Then, I toasted some chopped pecans in a skillet with ground cumin and garlic powder, and diced an onion. I had a red onion on hand, but any would probably work fine.
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After that, the sweet potato and onion went into the pan, along with about the same volume of black beans as yam. I soak dried beans and freeze them, myself, but canned should work fine, too, with preference guiding whether you want to include the starchy broth.
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As that cooked, I added some fake chorizo pieces---if I used actual sausage, I would have started it cooking with the pecans, to render the fat, but if it got left out, I doubt that anybody would seriously notice---half a can of chipotle sauce (chipotle peppers in an adobo sauce, puréed, usually in tiny cans in the supermarket), an eyeballed quarter cup of corn kernels, and a quarter cup of diced tomatoes.
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I stirred it every so often, and cooked it until the bits of sweet potato seemed soft enough to eat, since nothing else needed much cooking. I served it in bowls, topped with avocado. It came out great, though I regret not making cornbread to go with it.
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If I feel ambitious, I may cook the leftovers into (apologies to any Southern readers for whom this term has a more specific meaning) hand pies, but it could also make an excellent though crumbly burger. I've used pretty much this "recipe," minus the chorizo, *for* burgers, in fact, though I put everything in the food processor to get a homogenous mix.
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## Social Media
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I don't have much to say about it, because I haven't explored much, but I signed up for---proprietary, but developed and run by a worker collective---[Cohost](https://cohost.org/). I haven't gotten fully approved, though, so I can't post, yet.
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Similarly, I got on the wait-list for [Post](https://post.news/), but haven't seen the inside.
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I wouldn't bet on either of the sites becoming my "social media home," but if enough of a community forms there to warrant getting to know people, I'd rather have an account than not.
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Oh, you might also notice a *face* attached to many of my social media accounts, or at least a simplified face. I ran through a quick process:
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* Take the original headshot,
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* Load it into Inkscape,
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* Run *Path*/*Trace Bitmap*,
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* Fiddle with the settings until it picked up the face's major contours,
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* Delete the original headshot,
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* Break up the resulting path into individual pieces, as many times until each "island" has its own path,
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* Delete any piece of the image too small to care about, and
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* Use the node tool to hack out pieces of the images that had nothing to do with the face,
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* Simplify the remaining paths to get rid of the jagged edges.
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That all gave me an SVG that I could further simplify to abstraction---which I may use for something, someday---but also exports to a straightforward avatar. Could one find such a face genuinely attached to my head? Did I produce a fictional face with a neural network? Did I pick some ancient celebrity's face to replace my own? Do those lines under the nose show the shadows under my cheeks when I smile, or a cheesy mustache? If you haven't already met me, I can't imagine how I'd convince you either way. And more importantly, if you *have* already met me, why haven't you used a blog post as an excuse to try to get back into contact...?
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## Library Updates
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I needed to bump library versions for [**Dash**](https://github.com/jcolag/dash), [**Uxuyu**](https://github.com/jcolag/Uxuyu), [**Bicker**](https://github.com/jcolag/Bicker), [**slackup**](https://github.com/jcolag/slackup), [**Miniboost**](https://github.com/jcolag/Miniboost), [**Fýlakas Onomáton**](https://github.com/jcolag/fylakas-onomaton), and [**Replybrary**](https://github.com/jcolag/library-twtterbot).
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## Next
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Since I almost have the library updates cleared out, I'll probably return to working on **CPREP** soon.
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**Credits**: The header image is [Hawaiian Islands](https://web.archive.org/web/20110608065020/http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=16470) by the MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, in the public domain as work produced by NASA.
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