InVisible

One of these “ohh - that’s a nice idea, I should totally also implement that” ideas. I stumbled upon the Dream Plus Hugo theme, that included a little badge that linked to a Travis CI build status. Using CI (Continous Integration) to check the sanity of the template seemed like a good thing to me, so I looked around on how various people do this. I found one template by Vicky Lai that included HTML checking. After a bit of fiddling around, to get the correct command line incantations going, and some more fixing of malformed HTML, the Hugo Chaschper template now is tested, the exampleSite is updated to include some “real” content and a number of niggling issues in the HTML have been fixed (missig alt image attributes, a malformed <script</script> tag). ...

The new version of the Chaschper template that I’m using to power this blog has gained a new capability: Image galleries. I started out with a gallery by VickyLai to see how to do that in general. From there I looked at How to Build a Responsive Image Gallery with Flexbox to do some basic layouting and Fluidbox to style the images and load larger versions. I didn’t quite like the way, the galleries were defined in the original example, so I came up with the following scheme: ...

I wrote about the Intro to Indieweb yesterday. Reading up on it, starting to read the people behind it or using it, I feel a similar rush as I did back in the days when I started blogging. This is the evolution of the Web I remember, this feels right. (And it also feels like a tiny bubble in the huge silo dominated web-simulacron we have around us today). Time to beat the drum, I guess and start on working on making it more accessible for people that aren’t as technology savy as the early adopters. ...

You might have seen references to IndieWeb on this site, specifically in the description of the Chaschper Theme. What then is the IndieWeb? One of the huge problems in todays web-world is that more and more content is a) generated by users (which is good) but b) stored away in Silos like Facebook, Twitter or Medium (which is bad). The IndieWeb movement tries to Take Back The Web and have ordinary people own their own presence on the web (like this site) where they post and control their own content. ...

While we didn’t have much success a couple of days ago, today we got the lights to work properly. Turns out, that I’ve made the beginner mistake number 1 when dealing with Neopixels — I connected the data signal from the Fadecandy to the DOUT pin of the LED strip (there’s also a DIN pin, at the other end of the strip). The “D” stands for “Data”, while I will leave you to guess what OUT and IN mean… To make this work, the data needs to go to the DIN port of a pixel strip… ...

A recent addition to my home studio is the Behringer XR18 digital stage box mixer. It has replaced an old Yamaha mixer. The main feature of it is that it has none of the wonderful faders and buttons. Instead, the mixer is controlled via apps, either from a computer or a tablet or phone. While researching mixers I came across a video on Setting up a Channel on a Behringer XR 18 - YouTube. Even though it shows the Behringer interface, the general principles shown should transfer to any mixer. I learnt quite a lot about configuring a channel. ...