By @edent · RevengeOfTheMutantAlgorithms WritingMonth · 1 comment · 2,800 words
Saint Chibubalah held the unique distinction of being canonised by the Catholic Church before his death. Although it was undoubtedly an unprecedented honour, it was of very little use to him while stuck within the confines of a miserable cell. Technically, it wasn't a dungeon. The UN's special rapporteur had been given a tour of […]
Continue reading →By @edent · api HowTo php rss Threads · 550 words
Threads is Meta's attempt to disrupt the social media landscape. Whether you care for it or not, there are a lot of users there. And, sometimes, you have to go where the audience is. Here's how I build a really simple PHP tool to post to Threads using their official API. This allows you to […]
Continue reading →By @edent · RevengeOfTheMutantAlgorithms Sci Fi WritingMonth · 1 comment · 1,750 words
Throughout November I'll be releasing new weird sci-fi short stories. Each one is a campfire horror yarn, with a technological twist. Your feedback is highly appreciated. Everything you read is possible - there's no magic, just sufficiently advanced technology. Chapter 4 - The Guerilla Information Team The GITs didn't mean to cause all this trouble. […]
Continue reading →By @edent · NaNoWriMo RevengeOfTheMutantAlgorithms Sci Fi WritingMonth · 1 comment · 2,250 words
I gently lowered my face into the autoshave. A hundred AI blades started re-sculpting my beard into this month's mandatory fashion. The snug rubber vacuum seal held tight against my skin while the microbots collected the discarded hairs and applied antiseptic to the few areas where the blades had misfired. Johanna, my partner, thought they […]
Continue reading →By @edent · NaNoWriMo RevengeOfTheMutantAlgorithms Sci Fi WritingMonth · 2,150 words
Throughout November I'll be releasing new weird sci-fi short stories. Each one is a campfire horror yarn, with a technological twist. Your feedback is highly appreciated. Everything you read is possible - there's no magic, just sufficiently advanced technology. Chapter 2 - The Myth of the Fall of Icarus Icarus had quarrelled with his father […]
Continue reading →By @edent · 5 comments · 300 words
With the sad news that BotsIn.Space is closing down, I needed to find a new way to host some of my automated accounts. I didn't want to spin up an entirely new instance, or self-host anything. So here's what I ended up doing. RSS → BlueSky → Bridgy → Mastodon RSS to BlueSky I set […]
Continue reading →By @edent · NaNoWriMo RevengeOfTheMutantAlgorithms Sci Fi WritingMonth · 1 comment · 1,900 words
Throughout November I'll be releasing new weird sci-fi short stories. Each one is a stand-alone story. Think of them as technological campfire horror yarns, each with a little twist. Your feedback is highly appreciated. Everything you read is possible - there's no magic, just sufficiently advanced technology. Chapter 1 - Are Memories Made Of This? […]
Continue reading →By @edent · furniture gadget review usb-c · 600 words · read ~244 times.
People like to send me gadgets to review. My motto is "if it has a USB-C port, I'll review it!" So the good people at Flexispot have sent me a chair with a USB-C port. Fair play! This is the Lotus XR6 Recliner Chair - the electric variant of the XC6. Here's what it looks […]
Continue reading →By @edent · email HowTo newsletter php rss WordPress · 2 comments · 650 words
Some people like to receive this blog via email. I previously used JetPack to send out subscriber messages - but it became increasingly clear that Automattic isn't a good steward of such things. I couldn't find any services which would let me send a few thousand subscribers a few emails per week, at zero cost. […]
Continue reading →By @edent · HTML markdown programming syntax · 3 comments · 550 words
Markdown is, I think it is fair to say, a frustrating "specification". It's origins are a back-of-a-fag-packet document and a buggy Perl script - and we've been dealing with the consequences ever since. There are now multiple Markdown parsers, each with their own idiosyncrasies. To make matters worse, there's a set of extensions popularly known […]
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