Happiness and Misadventures

Notes

What Are These?

These are indieweb notes. They are like tweets, toots… small thoughts, as they were supposed to be in 2006. As a general rule, they are shorter than the blog posts. They are kept here and automatically syndicated on my Fediverse instance when I deploy the website.

Nerdy? Yes. Unnecessary? Probably yes, too.

Quite upset because the only way I could find to scrobble listens from iOS to ListenBrainz was to buy a third-party app (Marvis Pro - €10) and then scrobbling to… Last.fm!

Then, using a Python tool, I synced the listens to the ListenBrainz account. It runs on crontab on my Raspberry.

Darn it, Apple. Why make things so complicated?

Lately, I’ve been working a lot outside. We’ve built a pergola, covered a concrete cylinder used as a well with stones and old bricks… and I’ve listened to a lot of music. Metal music. Specifically, post-metal music.

The latest Neurosis album made me (re?)discover a playlist that contains some gems. I hardly appreciate some of them, but definitely have others on loop.

Jesu is one of my favorite discoveries, and Boris were quite a surprise too!

It’s particularly juxtaposing to listen to this kind of music in earphones while birds are chirping a few meters from you, in the shadows of linden trees on these beautiful spring days… but maybe they’d appreciate it. My girlfriend does not, though. For sure.

GoToSocial is great, but until the capability of deleting old statuses goes online, I live in constant tension 😶

Today the disk space on my VPS ran out, and I almost didn’t know what I could clean up. Fingers crossed for the next releases.

I just discovered Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino, a collection of stories set in… space?! By Calvino?! I have to read it!

But I’m already tired if I think about the effort to look for it in local thrift markets.

A cute grey cat sleeping in a weird position on an armchair

Ok, this is my very first post note written entirely from my phone. I’ll make another, longer, one to explain the whole setup — which I don’t know if saying I’m proud of.

It has a huge vantage, which for me is the most important: it is entirely self-hosted. Only devices and machines at my place.

I’m experimenting with POSSE and so you can read this both in my blog and my fediverse account.

I self-built a mechanism for my setup so it can get very complex to keep everything “clean”… we’ll see!

This is a test, the first indieweb note on the blog.