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post | Developer Diary, Batik Day | 2023-10-02 07:37:05-0400 |
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Progress on assorted projects | /blog/assets/Women-Making-Batik-Ketelan-crop.png | This week's projects include Notoboto, the blog's code, and some library versions. | Notoboto Fýlakas Onomáton Slackup Tcl moai linkdump alexrc Ketelan | true |
Today marks Batik Day, celebrating the recognition of the traditional Indonesian dyed fabric as a Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity. And I can tell you, as someone who went through a phase of gift-giving that focused on artisanal---and I hoped ethical---products from the Global South, it does look fairly nice.
And more material to the blog---I apologize for that one, but couldn't resist---on to the projects...
Notoboto
{% github jcolag/Notoboto %}
I didn't get to do as much, here, as I had hoped.
That said, because I often find myself opening the program shortly before my laptop cuts over to [dark mode]({% post_url 2022-11-09-night %}) for the evening, the program now has an option to start it in dark (or light) mode explicitly, even if that contradicts the current system theme.
At some point, I should dig around to figure out if Tcl programmers have a more standard way of handling arguments, but this seems like it'll do, for now.
Entropy Arbitrage
{% github jcolag/entropy-arbitrage-code %}
I finally cleaned up some minor issues with the blog's code, none of them show-stoppers, but some mildly irritating to me.
You'll find some added emoji names. I discovered that neither the egg emoji {% emoji eggshell %} nor the rock emoji {% emoji pebble %} have unique names. And due to the way that I built the emoji plugin, every time I build the blog, you might get the hatching chick or the fried egg for one {% emoji egg %}, and finger-horns, a rock climber, or a moai statue for the other {% emoji rock %}.
Speaking of emoji, it appears that I have spent all of 2023 to date not realizing that Unicode has a {% emoji mastodon %} mastodon emoji, instead using the {% emoji elephant %} elephant to mark the social media roundup posts.
If you've ever heard me complain about---or have, yourself, complained about---Alex providing you with writing advice like referring to people as "it" or suggesting that nationalities qualify as profanity, then you might appreciate that I finally learned how to configure the tool. Mind you, they don't document it well, so I needed to read through some of the code to figure it out, but if you look at the .alexrc
file, you can see how to turn off the he/she, her/him, and his/hers warnings, and only reserve profanity flags for words that don't come up frequently in polite conversation.
And I cleaned up a couple of the maintenance scripts.
Library Updates
I didn't want the update backlog to fill up again, so I bumped the library versions for Bicker, Fýlakas Onomáton, Renew DB, and Slackup.
Next
I'd like to wrap up Notoboto, so that I can see about adding new features, but I could also get distracted again.
Credits: The header image is (part of) Women Making Batik, Ketelan crop by Stephen Kennedy, made available under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.