Web Development

• Hobbies include: searching for cheap web hosting and coming up empty

• Changelog: Default Author Selection

  A longstanding inconvenience posting on my site has been selecting myself as the Author for each post. Now the logged-in user’s profile (me) is the default when creating a new post.

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• Changelog: Updated Notes

  I made some changes to my Notes:

  • Better HTML and plain text output support
  • Only enforce plain text character count and only when publishing
  • See the plain text character count live in the Admin UI

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• Exploring IndieAuth (But I Started With Micropub)

  I’ve spent some time over the past week working on a proof-of-concept integration of Micropub into Django.

  I don’t have anything functional to show for it, but I have a much better understanding of IndieAuth, Micropub, and writing decoupled Django apps.

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• Last night I tried to install a newer version of python on my VPS, and make install kept hammering my RAM and hanging. This is on Dreamhost’s cheapest, 1GB ram VPS plan.

  I finally got it to work by stopping the gunicorn service running my site for the duration of the install.

  I wish I knew enough to know a better way to safeguard against this in the future.