Automated updates: 2021-08-09

2021-06-03-gideon.md

@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ However, while I don't want to nitpick an already-questionable plot, if the poin
 
 Oh, and while I said that I wouldn't get into the politics of the premise, "the people of Gideon have always believed that life is sacred," but they're importing a deadly virus to thin out its population.  This is a few years *before* the United States would see significant anti-abortion activity among the political right, so it's bizarrely *not* a satire of the sort of person that we've seen throughout 2020 and 2021, who insists that "all lives matter" or "life begins at conception," but is all too happy to spread a deadly virus...and would also like to exclude many different kinds of lives from "all."
 
-And while the episode seems to be an almost throwaway story, it appears to have been one of the more impactful on the franchise.  After all, in later installments, it's not hard to find instances where we're told that life isn't worth living *unless* it's short.
+And while the episode seems to be an almost throwaway story, it appears to have been one of the more impactful on the franchise.  After all, in later installments, it's not hard to find instances where we're not told that life isn't worth living *unless* it's short.
 
 ## Blish Adaptation
 

2021-06-10-survive.md

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  > **SULU**: The basic substance of this planet is an alloy of diburnium-osmium. It couldn't have evolved naturally.
 
-Diburnium appears to be original to the episode, though [osmium](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osmium).
+Diburnium appears to be original to the episode, though [osmium](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osmium) is not.
 
  > **SULU**: You were on the Enterprise. Keep back! Stop or I'll shoot! I don't want to have to kill a woman.
  >

2021-08-09-indigenous.md

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+---
+layout: post
+title: Developer Journal, Indigenous Peoples Day
+date: 2021-08-09 06:34:23-0400
+categories:
+tags: [programming, project, devjournal]
+summary: Progress on assorted projects
+thumbnail: /blog/assets/Nama-man-greeting-us-3693359757.png
+offset: -27%
+---
+
+![A Nama man playing a traditional greeting](/blog/assets/Nama-man-greeting-us-3693359757.png "A traditional Nama greeting")
+
+Today marks the [International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Day_of_the_World%27s_Indigenous_Peoples), which I admit is a terrible name, given that we're all indigenous to the *world*.  But with development occurring at a rapid pace and so many languages precariously close to going extinct, it's worth taking a day to think about the real cultural diversity that most of us never see.
+
+Anyway, let's make some new culture with weird code...
+
+## Ham Newsletter
+
+It occurred to me after sending out the most recent [**Entropy Arbitrage** newsletter](https://entropy-arbitrage.mailchimpsites.com/) that the month names have been when I *send* the newsletters, rather than the month that the newsletter covers.  I don't know why I didn't notice that before, but [**Ham Newsletter**](https://github.com/jcolag/ham-newsletter) is now fixed, and I apologize to anybody who has been confused by the titles.
+
+On September 4<sup>th</sup>, you will see the newsletter for *August*, as you should.  The newsletter marked for September will go out on October 2<sup>nd</sup>, and so forth.  Again, that's what it should have done all along.
+
+## Entropy Arbitrage
+
+Apart from the newsletter, I also updated the [**Entropy Arbitrage**](https://github.com/jcolag/entropy-arbitrage-code) code's verbiage for signing up to the mailing list *and* finally checked in the adjustments to the [Twitter roundup](/blog/tag/linkdump) post generation script to account for the new semantic plugins.
+
+Unlike the pull quotes, I won't be going back through every Friday post to correct the quote citations, at least not immediately.  There's so many of them, that the only reasonable way to do the work would be to coerce [`sed`](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sed) to find the rogue headings and replace them with tags.  But that's likely to be ugly and error-prone, so I'm going to hold off until I have a day or two to mess around, especially since no post *legitimately* ever uses (or is likely to ever use) a sixth-level heading where the styling of them makes a difference.
+
+Regardless, going *forward*, posts should never abuse headings again.
+
+## Fýlakas Onomáton
+
+I needed to overhaul [**Fýlakas Onomáton**](https://github.com/jcolag/fylakas-onomaton)'s activation code, after stumbling over a couple of conflicts between the website and the app.  Both interfaces should now be able to use the controller successfully.
+
+Speaking of which...
+
+## Doritís Onomáton
+
+It currently requires a manual check---clicking a button on the activation screen to refresh, rather than working silently in the background---but [**Doritís Onomáton**](https://github.com/jcolag/doritis-onomaton) can now check the status of an activation code and retrieve/store the corresponding API key, like it should have *weeks* ago.
+
+At least for the duration, I'm calling the app and server feature-complete.  I may mess around with the code organization, will need to fix any bugs that come up, and may try to figure out Flutter's internationalization feature.  But other than those issues, I don't expect **Doritís Onomáton** to change much, beyond this point.
+
+## Next
+
+This week, I'm going to take care of the styling on **Fýlakas Onomáton**, so that it at least looks somewhat reasonable, toss it up on a cheap server, and start looking into submitting **Doritís Onomáton** to the app stores.
+
+Most of that has nothing to do with code, though.  So, while I'll mention progress in these posts, the final process will get its own Wednesday [tech tip](/blog/tag/techtips) post.  And for the rest of the week, I have some libraries to update, probably some old work that I've forgotten to check in, and maybe I'll try to throw in another project.
+
+* * *
+
+**Credits**:  The header image is [Nama man greeting us](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nama_man_greeting_us_%283693359757%29.jpg) by Greg Willis, made available under the terms of the [Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 2.0 Generic](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en) license.