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Thursday 2023-03-16 – Link List

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Blogging Intensifies Link List for Thursday 2023-03-16

16-Mar-2023 – Fortnite to expand creation tools with Unreal Engine 5 editor

Brief Summary: “From Save the World to Create the World.
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16-Mar-2023 – Epic’s Unreal Editor for Fortnite is finally launching on March 22nd

Brief Summary: “Image: Epic GamesEpic Games is finally sharing more details about the Unreal Editor for Fortnite, which will let creators use tools from Unreal Engine”

16-Mar-2023 – Persona Accolades Trailer Released, Series Gets Big Discounts On Every Platform But Switch

Brief Summary: “Persona 3 Portable, Persona 4 Golden, and Persona 5 Royale receive high praise and low prices The Persona series has been on a roll lately, with Pe”

16-Mar-2023 – Minecraft’s main Bedrock edition now available via ChromeOS

Brief Summary: ”
Minecraft’s cross-platform Bedrock Edition is now available to play via your ChromeOS browser.

This early access version is currently being rolled o”

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Coding

Ending My Experiment with Flask

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I really like Python, but I have one major gripe with it. It’s a pain in the ass to actually share any projects. Python can’t easily be packaged into an executable, and it doesn’t really work well on the web. I had some vague high hopes of building some Flask based web apps, and I may revisit it at some point, but even just trying to share some of the projects I made during my Python class had become a cumbersome pain to manage.

I had originally set up the blog project over on JoshMiller.net. A domain I have, and don’t really want to dump, but don’t really have a use for. I also do not need another blog. “Traditionally” I would use that domain for “personal blogging” but that’s what this site is for, and I’m happy with the state of things here. The Flask blog was also extremely basic and would require a lot of code work to make workable, with things like image management and an RSS feed and some sort of theme system etc. I could probably do it, but…. why?

One thing I’ve learned after working on many fruitless projects over the years. It’s ok for a project to be kind of pointless, but it’s not ok for it to just be completely pointless. There are plenty of much better platforms for blogging, and frankly, all of them are “Just use WordPress”. Another angle is learning how to run sites with something besides Apache, but that tine would be better just learning Nginx.

Anyway, part of the point was to take the base Flask Blog app, and integrate other Flash Apps into it. The problem is, all of the ones I have built are designed to be stand alone apps. They often reuse some name space so i can’t just copy/paste the code in. Then things start to get screwy with modules and imports. The code itself is also not super reusable. Flask can host HTML code, but it’s all very specifically laid out and structured. I can’t just drop the same code into a folder somewhere and run it on a straight Apache instance.

What does work well for this, is JavaScript. Which is basically entirely intended for web based use. Most of the ideas I have had for projects would be much better suited running as JavaScript sites that are much more portable.

Anyway, all of this is mostly to say, I have disabled the Flask Blog I had hosted on JoshMiller.net and rolled it back to the broken landing page I was building. I don’t really care about this site anyway. Hell even the landing page concept is redundant because I’ve got a nice little Github Page serving that purpose.

Ramen Junkie

Josh Miller aka “Ramen Junkie”. I write about my various hobbies here. Mostly coding, photography, and music. Sometimes I just write about life in general. I also post sometimes about toy collecting and video games at Lameazoid.com.

www.bloggingintensifies.com

Link List

Wednesday 2023-03-15 – Link List

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Blogging Intensifies Link List for Wednesday 2023-03-15

15-Mar-2023 – [Fanatical] Flash Deals: Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Breakpoint – Ultimate Edition (-83% ~ $20.99/£17.49/€20.99) & Warhammer 40,000 Chaos Gate – Daemonhunters (-55% ~ $20.24/£15.74/€20.24) | Spring Sale: Frontier Developments & Foundry Deals an

Brief Summary: “Hello, GameDeals! Flash Deals Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Breakpoint – Ultimate Edition Title Discount USD GBP EUR DRM Metacritic HLTB Tom Clancy’s Ghost”

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Technology

ActivityPub and WordPress

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The whole concept of the “Fediverse” and decentralization has been gaining a lot of traction lately, especially with the recent bull shit around Twitter. I’ve had a Mastodon account for a few years and have tried a few times to get into the whole ActivityPub decentralized thing a few times over the year after hearing it discussed on the TWIT Podcast a few times.

With the recent news of Automattic (owners of WordPress) buying the most popular Activity Pub plug in, I’ve decided to give it another go. So I’ve re-enabled the plug in, and actually made a better effort to look into what it means, and it, was, surprisingly pretty simple. I am sure it can do more, but basically, both of my blogs can now be followed on other ActivityPub based Fedi-verse systems. Specifically, the two accounts, for now, are:

@JoshMiller@lameazoid.com

and

@JoshMiller@bloggingintensifies.com

I followed both, basically, the easy way, is to slap one or the other in the search box on Mastodon or a Mastodon app, and they show up like any other account. I checked, and though the post is very long, and the images don’t show properly, sure enough, it shows up in Tusky.

i could see some fun possibilities here, though I don’t know that anyone cares enough to actually follow any of it in the first place. The first I’ll probably try, i have a system that posts blobs of links that I share via Fresh RSS daily (if there is anything to share). These currently just post with me as the author. However, I could easily change this to another user, say, “LinkBot” and give it a separate feed, so @linkbotLinkBot@bloggingintensifies.com could be followed, just for those links.

I could make other sub accounts like this too, maybe I could have one that’s just a feed of random food photos. I could set up something on Lameazoid for toy photos or video games screen shots.

I will add in that the concept is neat, but I also am not sure I really prefer it to just straight RSS. It seems a bit overly complicated when “Really Simple Syndication” is a thing.

Ramen Junkie

Josh Miller aka “Ramen Junkie”. I write about my various hobbies here. Mostly coding, photography, and music. Sometimes I just write about life in general. I also post sometimes about toy collecting and video games at Lameazoid.com.

www.bloggingintensifies.com

Link List

Monday 2023-03-13 – Link List

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Blogging Intensifies Link List for Monday 2023-03-13

12-Mar-2023 – “Caterpillar” Is Outstanding Documentary at SXSW 2023

Brief Summary: ”
“Caterpillar” was a fascinating documentary at SXSW about a new YouTube fad, changing one’s eye color, which is done, surgically, in India. It sounde”

13-Mar-2023 – Setting expectations before a game – GM Tips & Tricks

Brief Summary: ”
This past week I managed to try out a game I’ve been looking forward to play for a long time: Mork Borg. It was a one-shot with a group of 5 friends,”

13-Mar-2023 – Meta is Exploring Plans to Build a Twitter Rival

Brief Summary: “”Meta, the parent firm of Facebook and Instagram, is working on a standalone, text-based social network app,” reports the BBC.
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“It could rival bot”

12-Mar-2023 – Google Reader shut down announced ten years ago today

Brief Summary: “Comments”

12-Mar-2023 – How to read Hacker News threads with most recent comments first

Brief Summary: “Hacker News displays comments in a tree. This can be frustrating if you want to keep track of a particular conversation, as you constantly have to see”

12-Mar-2023 – Regulators shut down crypto-friendly Signature Bank

Brief Summary: “Two days after the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and four days after the collapse of Silvergate Bank, the New York Department of Financial Services “

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Also, it’s a bot.