is that B-DAMNED a real phone number? itād be so funny if it is
Huh, I wonder why CanvasText is doing that? I tried to compare our CSS a bit, but wasnāt able to really figure it out. I do have color-scheme and no CSS variables for colorā¦
Turns out that it is a real toll-free number, but I doubt the company that actually rents it advertises it as ā1-800-B-DAMNEDā.
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Thanks, but I wouldnāt worry too much about it. Itās probably a better idea for me to stick with my own color variables, if only for consistencyās sake.
hereās an idea if u have spare money lol
RENT it yourself and it u call it its just an answer machine playingnever gonna give you up
Not that Iām not tempted, but itās already taken, and I think my wife would object to me paying $20/month for a joke 800 number. And if I did register this number on a different area code, Iād would use this instead, on repeat:
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ah another good day being single. if i had disposable income a joke 1-800 would totally be a thing Iād do!
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Happy to see that my CSS for external link SVGs has inspired you.
I have noticed that your individual posts do not show any publication timestamp, while your post archive does. Is that intentional?
some small fixes for mobile! cleaned up a bit of css on some pages i havent poked at in a bit, updated the phone zone to link to more places. also i have a /now page now! not sure if iām going to stick with it, though. iāve also had a great idea for a way to make the mobile version of my site more annoying, soā¦ watch out for that, lol!
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Yes, itās intentional. Timestamps on individual pages and posts are in the footer.
Theyāre also in <head> as Dublin Core metadata.
Oh, I see. I donāt think I have seen timestamps on individual posts being placed at the pageās bottom footer before, so I didnāt consider looking at the footer for timestamps. 
Yeah, itās more common to put them in the header, but I think having them there gets in readersā ways. Iām tempted to remove the summaries as well; theyāre more relevant to the description meta tag and in indexes, IMO.
Finally got around to adding a guestbook :) think it may be fair at this point
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i changed up the warning on my index page s bit
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Hereās what Iāve done lately:
- new screen stylesheet
- new print stylesheet (works when printing to PDF, too!)
- style test page
Everythingās on https://new.starbreaker.org
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I may have found a way to easily generate parasocial media preview cards for posts using ImageMagick.
magick -size 1200x630 \
-background white \
-fill black \
-font Berkeley-Mono-Bold \
-pointsize 32 \
-gravity Center \
caption:"starbreaker.org\n\nrock operatic science fantasy (and more)\nby a full-stack thaumaturge\n\noperated by Matthew Graybosch\n\npublished on 2024-12-04, updated on 2024-12-06" \
-flatten \
card.png
This command yields the following.
Itās nothing fancy, but itās more than people on Facebook, Twitter, Mastodon, etc. deserve. 
With a bit of shell scripting I can change the text so that each post gets a card with the post title and summary. But Iāll deal with that later. Itās late.
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I agree ! I have been overestimating that process for quite a long time now. Its like i have ended up being fine skimming trough the process instead of truly taking the time and effort. Id call it the curse of false productivity because i end up stopping even though im in the flow because my ātime is upā and that i should start doing something else to get most things done for the day but it is obv a very anti-productivity mindset.
Thatās nice and simple.
ok me again with the updates lol.
i got a VOIP phone number for my contact page. if it doesnāt get any use ill let it expire, if it does get use Iāll fully rent it out :)
Making things more responsive and mobile friendly and I also updated to a festive edition of my index page. I keep seeing peopleās fun winter and Christmasy layouts and Iām like āsomeday Iāll do that.ā Pfft. Why not today??
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