Welcome to my notes toots bleets section. What's a bleet? Well, it's a complex series of grunts, gargles and mumbles. Its my microblog, a place where I can blast out a quick post, something that wouldn't necessarily need a larger blog entry. A brief thought, a dumb comment, a joke, meme, animated gif or the like, all very much fair game here.
I've also archived my twitter account, since that website is dead. I've deployed that archive to the web as a way to cross reference some of my game reviews and writing.
NEW TIM SEELEY! NEW ASH WILLIAMS! This is going to be my first introduction to Red Sonja, a comic I’ve seen in the back of every comic I’ve ever read. Always intriguing, but I’ve never imbibed.
April 2025, pretty excited!
I need to come up with a way to photograph the camera collection that isn’t just put on the desk in my wallpapered living room, something more aesthetically fitting for the rest of the site. A few years before the pandemic I had to sell off a part of my collection and the way I photographed them might be the ticket. Reclaimed wood surface, but instead of the white wall behind it, I’m thinking of making a background, maybe a pixelated gradient of some type. Hmmmm…
Okay so what was that previous bleet about? I wanted to be able to quickly pound out one of these microposts so I worked with macOS’ Automator to make it happen.
Even though I’ve been a mac user since GW was in office, I’ve never really dipped my toes into automator. Part of this was to just get a working automator app as practice.
What does it do?
The first thing I did was add a shell script:
#!/bin/zsh
# Change to the CBI Hugo Folder
cd ~/Websites/cyberbuff/
# get date/time for folder name
cdt=$(date +"%Y-%m-%dT%H%M%S")
# run hugo to make new faketweet
/opt/homebrew/bin/./hugo new content faketweet/$cdt
# open new md file
open -a TextEdit content/faketweet/$cdt/index.md
# wait for textedit to close
wait
# move to new folder
cd content/faketweet/$cdt/images
cwd=$(pwd)
echo "$cwd"
Next, I pass that $cwd variable down into automator. The script opens the newly created bleet in text edit and opens a finder window where you can select images. Save the .md file, quit, select any images if you want them and hit choose. Then, the script copies the images into the page bundle image folder, runs hugo to generate the site and pushes it to neocities. The big holdup is that it takes a few minutes to fully publish the site. Maybe’ll I’ll turn hugo into a chronjob or something of the like and just push it out every few hours. Still thinking, but a nice tinker!
Today, on this day, is the stupidest possible day for everyone the world over.
…. And that’s a wrap! It’s tweeting time! I’m happy with this. Let’s fucking rock baby, doll.
HOOO-BOY! I think we’re going get this sucker to operate. I am going to keep the styling minimal, but toss in a little blue as an ode to twitter we’ve all lost. RIP.
Alright the galleries are DEFINITELY WORKING now. Getting these stupid toots to post with the galleries that are created in their .md file was kind of a pain in the ass, and it took me making them all leaf bundles. But cool, it’s working. The layout still needs work. Here’s a couple of images from my desktop.
This is the first of the fakest of tweets. Oh cool, it’s kind of working. This is very nice and I think this is going to work out A-Okay. Here are some images of the boys just to see it working with images.
