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entries from april 2021

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sunday, 25th april 2021

  • We went Geocachingยฎ yesterday. Drank some cider in the park. Good dogs out. Smoky Bacon Cow, Horace, Margaret the Carpet, Little Sausage.
  • I've forked this notetaking app, it's great but i want more
  • Cuba has created at least two potentially viable vaccines, because they knew they wouldn't be able to afford to compete with richer countries to buy them. Cuba needs syringes. It can't trade easily because of USA, and it is currently not making much money from tourism.
  • We found a lovely online cafรฉ nearby that does gluten free brunches delivered in lovely boxes

I've been sick all week, and now Abe seems to have got whatever I've had. It's a really annoying fever-y thing.

Last night I had a dream where I was working on a garden with somebody from work. We were laying bricks and digging holes at the bottom of a residential hill. There were other people from work beside us working on different gardens. I looked up, there was an aeroplane flying overhead. It seemed to be hanging heavily to one side, and I saw steam or smoke escaping from areas other than the exhausts.

"is that okay?" i asked

"yeah, i think that's normal" said my colleage

"i really don't think that's OK," i thought (and didn't say)

Then the aeroplane swung dramatically to the right, up to the top of the hill. It was coming down at us very fast now, parts of it breaking off and nearly hitting folks who jumped out of the way at the last moment.

I looked over at my colleague, who was looking but didn't seem to have registered that we were going to die. Then I looked back at the aeroplane and woke up.

no reason to read into it

British Summer Time GMT+1

today.snoot.club

Last year me and Abe started working on some art together.

It's called today.

the today logo and favicon, made by abe.
it's a black and white plant pot and plant on a pixelated rainbow gradient.

today

Each page has a picture made by Abe with Word '97 in a Windows 98 Virtual Machine, and a looping sound by me.

office '97 logo

old windows logo

I make the sounds with a Nintendo Game Boy, a handheld compact cassette recorder and a teenage engineering op-1.

a game boy with a cat face on the screen

teenage engineering op-1 cow fx. a black cow silhouette with flashing neon pipes

You can view the next sound/picture pair by clicking the picture, eventually you'll loop around.

The most recent one is on the homepage/.

There's an RSS feed you can subscribe to, and you can append .json to any page (including the root!) to get a JSON representation of that page. Feel free to do whatever you want with that. The sounds and pictures are all creative commons share-alike.

day manager

Originally it was just a few HTML files, but when it started to take shape I wrote some scrappy JavaScript to generate the pages from a JSON file.

But that meant it was a manual process to put something live, or even preview a pairing.

So then I put together an app to manage the page. It takes uploaded media and puts it in Linode Object Storage (which is like S3 but without giving money to jeff).

There are three concepts. **sounds**, **pictures** and **days**.

sounds

The page for sounds shows a grid of every sound that isn't part of a day.

screenshot of the sounds page, showing three un-dayed sounds.

you can click one to preview it, and you can drag a .flac file onto the window to upload a new one. It'll get a random name like spooky ocean. (adjectiveish noun).

pictures

The pictures page is a grid of all the pictures, paired or not.

screenshot of the pictures page. two used and one unused picture.

This is where you add the alt text, and also where you can select the Make a day of it button.

make a day of it

The make a day of it page is where you can preview how a particular picture will work with each available sound.

the โ€œmake a day of itโ€ page

When you find something that works, you can give it a name and it will be the new homepage the very next moment.

days

The days page shows a grid of every day there's ever been.

the homepage of today manager showing days

danger mode

It's scary to have delete buttons lying around, so those are hidden behind DANGER MODE, which can only be activated by manually adding ?danger=danger to the URL.

After deleting anything, you're redirected back to the non-danger page.

goodbye

ok, that's all. thanks.

password entry screen. it's the bad ending from bubble bobble.

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