Apache/2.4.59 (Raspbian) Server at bofh.org.uk Port 443| bofh.org.uk
Apache/2.4.59 (Raspbian) Server at bofh.org.uk Port 443| bofh.org.uk
Way back in 2016, I [migrated this site](https://bofh.org.uk/2016/06/19/static-migration/) from its [Publify](https://publify.github.io/) incarnation to a static site generated from markdown files by [Hugo](https://gohugo.io). In that migration, I fucked up and truncated a buttload of posts and didn't realise what I'd done until long after (about a week ago now) I had misplaced the database that the site had originally been generated from. Oops. However, the Internet is still a marvellous pla...| bofh.org.uk
Apache/2.4.59 (Raspbian) Server at bofh.org.uk Port 443| bofh.org.uk
Apache/2.4.59 (Raspbian) Server at bofh.org.uk Port 443| bofh.org.uk
Apache/2.4.59 (Raspbian) Server at bofh.org.uk Port 443| bofh.org.uk
When last we left off we had worked out how to grab all the mentions of this site that Webmentions.io knew about and now we want to write that out to the data/ directory in a format that’s easy to deal with in Hugo.| Just a Summary
I've reinstated webmention processing here and have semi-automated it with a pile of Emacs Lisp and a `Makefile`, so I thought I'd write up some of the gory details. Part 1 of… some?| bofh.org.uk
I spent a few hours reducing a small annoyance related to the way I use Emacs to maintain its literate configuration file by incrementally implementing slightly better processes until I reached the point where it was Good Enough to spend several more hours writing it up for the blog. Not an elevator pitch for Emacs.| bofh.org.uk
Piers Cawley practices punditry| bofh.org.uk
This is intended as a quick guide for anyone who comes on as a Friday night Song Swap guest, but anyone who’s thinking of using Zoom (or doing their own streams) to share music with folk might find it useful, so I’m making it public.| Just a Summary
It’s common practice in music production that, when you’re layering your vocals with harmonies or doubles, you pan everything but the lead vocal around the stereo field. That gives a sense of physical separation between the voices and it feels more realistic – or artificial, if that’s what you’re going for. With loopers though, you’ll more usually have your overdubs all in the same place, which is fine at the local open mic, where the front of house PA is often mono anyway, but fo...| Just a Summary
I’m not quite sure where the time went these last couple of weeks, but here we are at another Sunday. We’ve spent quite a bit of the time watching a new family of kittens that have taken to playing on the flat roof of our garage. They’re almost obscenely cute scraps of black and white fur and just delightful to watch.| Just a Summary
Another quiet week. Streamed tired on Friday night, so quite a bit of pilot error with the looper, but folk still seemed to enjoy it. Scrooby show was lovely on Saturday. Nice to catch up with a few folk I’ve not seen in quite a while and the weather was flat out gorgeous. I took some modelling balloons, planning to do a few balloon animals and hats, had something like a 60% burst rate with the Sempertex 260Ss that were all I could get hold of at short notice. Won’t be using those again. ...| Just a Summary
A bit of a mixed week, mood wise. Capped by a great day’s singing and chatting in Peterborough yesterday. It’s great to get out of the house sometimes. Gill coped really well by herself too – I’m a full time carer, but it’s definitely good to know that I can have the odd day off without it completely buggering things up.| Just a Summary
A quiet week. Had to cancel Friday night’s singing session with Emily – initially because Emily’s still recovering from COVID, but on the night itself, my diabetes meds decided to give me hellacious indigestion. Ozempic/semaglutide might well do wonders for my HBA1c readings, but it can’t half mess with my guts as well.| Just a Summary
Oops, missed a week; seems I didn’t have anything interesting to say, or I was too busy doing stuff to write about it. Probably the former. Not a bad week, this week. My step daughter and her family called in on their way back from holiday on Friday night and we spent a pleasant evening with them and a few Cawleys who were knocking about, sat outside the Wool Market. Mostly good food, but apparently the Greek place isn’t that good. Rustic Pizza is still good though.| Just a Summary
Three weeks on the trot. Definitely calling that a win. Also, Good Omens 2 is a delight. Still enough of Terry’s character hanging around it, and the new writers help it not feel too Neil-y.| Just a Summary
Small victory of the week: Actually got off my arse and did something about selling off my old Magic the Gathering cards. For my next trick, I hope to do the same with my collection of [mostly card] magic books.| Just a Summary
Small victory of the week: I’m starting to get on top of the washing| Just a Summary
Back when lockdown started, for all we were both classed as ‘critically vulnerable’, we did pretty well. We had each other for company, the house is paid for, we have some private outdoor space, Doncaster Market remained open and I’d got a 25kg bag of flour. Life was… tolerable. Except, as any musician will tell you, making music needs company. At least it does if you catch the magic that happens when a group of people are together making something beautiful. Which is why I started si...| Just a Summary
There’s a certain frustrating joy in fiddling with the details of a thing so as to improve the formatting of the new thing you’ve just added to your site, and discovering that a side effect of the change is that a couple of niggles that you’d not quite got to the bottom of on the site itself are fixed in passing. I think I’ve got the crossposting to Mastodon looking less awful, and I know I’ve got my front page looking better. Isn’t that lovely?| Just a Summary
Twitter, eh? Elon bloody Musk! In the happier timeline, Elton John bought Twitter and it became even more fabulous with every passing day. In the far more depressing timeline we find ourselves living in, Elon seems to be determined to tank the company and fuck the community. So I’ve buggered off to Mastodon. At the time of writing, you’ll find me at @pdcawley@mendeddrum.org and, you might even be reading a version of this via Mastodon rather than directly on the site.| Just a Summary
Sometimes folk ask why there’s a Raspberry Pi in the rack case that holds my streaming rig and I admit that the primary reason is that I had one kicking about the place, and the rack unit that holds my M1 Mac Mini is designed to hold a couple of Pis in the space that isn’t holding the Mac, so I might as well attach it. I had the feeling it would come in handy.| Just a Summary
Back when I first started streaming on the internet, I used a Logitech webcam and some lights I had picked up for doing product photography and such for the Loafery and some audio gear I had because, well, recording stuff is just fascinating. It was okay, but even with decent lighting and audio, the webcam was frustrating to control (basically, there was no control), so I picked up a cheap capture card from Amazon and drafted my Nikon D810Absolutely not the camera I would recommend if you’r...| Just a Summary
I’ll get back to the gory details of my webmention catcher later, but I’ve been doing a bit of site gardening. Hopefully this means that our index page is looking much nicer, and things are a bit more parseable by IndieWeb tools. Also, I hope, I’ve added some gadgetry that means that brid.gy will automatically tweet a link to this page once I’ve posted it.| Just a Summary
The beauty of using a static site generator to build your website is supposed to be that it's all delightfully simple. Simple markdown formatted files go in at one end and a slim, fast and easy to serve website comes out the other end. All that remains is to upload those files to the appropriate directory on your server and all is well. But never underestimate the ability of a long time Emacs user to complicate things.| bofh.org.uk
Taking one more step on the road to full IndieWeb citizenship or whatever it's called, [Just A Summary](/) now displays webmentions.| bofh.org.uk
In which Piers attempts to explain why he's not been blogging in years, and makes vague noises about getting back to it again, in the hope that this time his [IndieWeb](https://indieweb.org/) inspired enthusiasm will last longer than a couple of weeks.| bofh.org.uk
If you’re at all like me, you have content on a bunch of different sites (Instagram, Youtube, Flickr, Soundcloud, Bandcamp…) and, especially for multimedia content, it’s great to be able to link to ’live’ versions of that content. Of course, all those sites will let you ‘share’ content and usually have an ’embed’ option that hands you a bunch of HTML that you can paste into your blog entry. But screw that! I’m a programmer for whom laziness is one of the cardinal virtues ...| bofh.org.uk