Activity Log
hackers.town: 2025-01-03 Fri 08:22
Progress: the little coloring page widget was a Hugo shortcode, then I used static HTML while bouncing SSG experiments for a couple years.
Now it’s an Astro component that figures out image details at build time.
https://randomgeekery.org/post/2020/04/sepia-sunburst/
hackers.town: 2025-01-03 Fri 11:26
Got site local links tested and fixed. 1,283 of them, anyways. Some of the failures were because I’m doing redirects different, but also if anybody should be always pointing at my current links, it me.
hackers.town: 2025-01-03 Fri 13:48
Looking at job descriptions and the companies posting them.
“Attentive® is the AI-powered mobile marketing platform transforming the way brands personalize consumer engagement.”
I love – no that’s not the right word – I am impressed at how they’ve phrased their mission in such a way as to effectively remove humans from any stage in the loop.
Is “consumer” human?
Doesn’t have to be.
hackers.town: 2025-01-03 Fri 14:17
Trying to write an LLM code assistant prompt (look I gotta get all the skills I might need to pay rent, okay?), and seeing what happens if I apply the same rules to prompt engineering that I do with SEO (80% of it is common sense, and the other 20% is jargon-laden reactive ritual BS).
If nothing else, I’ll have myself a nice requirements description.
hackers.town: 2025-01-03 Fri 15:32
She just lubed my hands to help me code faster.
Thanks, @IamMrsGeek!
hackers.town: 2025-01-03 Fri 15:40
@maddiefuzz @IamMrsGeek that would be a reasonable response one would expect, yes.
hackers.town: 2025-01-03 Fri 17:05
currently: trying to make fetch() happen
hackers.town: 2025-01-03 Fri 17:18
https://hackers.town/users/earthshine/statuses/113767204178189099
hackers.town: 2025-01-03 Fri 17:36
@jack Thank you! I was left hanging for so long.
hackers.town: 2025-01-03 Fri 18:20
It’s still going. Takes some time to verify 2,800 links or so.
It hasn’t come up yet, but I think I might set a longer cache threshold on my link checker than 24 hours.
hackers.town: 2025-01-03 Fri 18:24
rewrote and rearranged pretty much every line, and had to add error checking, and add Node.js network functionality that became stable after 2021, but other than that the LLM code assistant was very helpful.
A skill issue, I’m sure.
I just don’t know whose.
hackers.town: 2025-01-03 Fri 20:43
Cached goes through a lot quicker (under a second vs half an hour currently from scratch), so yeah set a long cache lifespan so future focus is mostly on new links
hackers.town: 2025-01-03 Fri 22:03
I tell you what, actually doing something about link rot takes some work. Every single fix will require manual intervention – find the new link, find the old link on the Internet Archive, find an equivalent link, and sometimes remove a paragraph that’s irrelevant without a replacement link – so at least automate its discovery.
And prioritize what to fix.
I’m starting with the 66 timeouts and other exceptions (“no server” kind of stuff more than “no page”). After that, focus the failure reports on top-level pages and recent blog posts, and work my way back a little at a timel.
hackers.town: 2025-01-03 Fri 23:33
@carlton way more interesting to me than the train tangents the Ruby crowd gets, gotta say.
hackers.town: 2025-01-03 Fri 23:42
It’s been some fun Node.js learning too. Successfully fought the urge to write the link checker in Go.
For now.
hackers.town: 2025-01-03 Fri 23:43
@carlton I mean it was a fine movie but very much of its time. It’s not so much that the movie hasn’t aged well as I haven’t.
Oh wait trains right. Not so much, no.