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Thoughts on the 📰 News Feed

Uh, first off, hello to the several thousand new users of the 📰 News feed ! 👋🏼 The last few days have been hectic trying to make sure everything works and that the feed is up to the challenge that's been presented to it. I'm writing

XBlock Summer 2024 Update

Howdy! I figure it's probably not the worst idea to do a quick update on XBlock progress, as well as give some indication what I'm planning to do in the future with it. This will be more roadmap-y than my last post . According to Internect.

Some thoughts on running a screenshot moderation service, one month later

I find content moderation really fascinating, because it's in many ways the locus point of our current social fixation with "cancel culture" as well as online toxicity more generally. I migrated from Twitter to Mastodon in 2017, but didn't give up Twitter entirely until

Happy Lesbian Visibility Week

Part of why I want to start writing more on a platform that's more specifically personal to me than a microblog is so I can talk about my experience as a queer trans nonbinary woman in a space that allows for more of a longform style of writing,

Some notes on migrating to Ghost using Jekyll

Welcome to my newly-migrated blogfolio site! This is the 3rd time I've migrated Ændra.com, or like the 12th iteration of my personal site if you include the versions that were on aendrew.com (I'm not too precious about my most recent deadname, the

My top Bluesky feature requests for 2024

In 2023 my social media consumption changed dramatically after I DM'd a random mufo on what-was-then-called Twitter for a Bluesky invite. At the time, I was floating between Twitter itself and Mastodon for my primary daily social media experience. On one hand, I loathed Twitter

One of very many voids

I get a feeling whenever I travel, and I can't really place it, but it persists no matter where I go or how often I've been somewhere (though it definitely manifests more the first time I add a new destination). It's this feeling as

Some thoughts on memory, the Internet and turning 30

It's been an astonishingly long time since I wrote a personal blog entry. I think in between moving to London, getting my degree and then getting a job, my whole habit of journaling and blogging has fallen off a cliff entirely. This is perhaps best expressed by the

My first year at The Times and Sunday Times

This is the portfolio post to accompany my Tumblog post about my previous year at The Times and Sunday Times. Go here to read my more general commentary. (£) implies it is paywalled and you will need a Times or Sunday Times subscription to access it. KnowItAll server: times/knowitall

aendrew.com version 5

It's been a long time in coming, but I've finally migrated from Drupal 7 to the static HTML-generating powerhouse that is Octopress. This is admittedly a bit of a departure from how I've previously done things — I've always been quite

Migrate from WordTour to OpenMusicFestival

The reason I created OpenMusicFestival in the first place was so that I could migrate MotionNotion.com from WordPress (And its unsupported WordTour plugin) to Drupal 7. While I suspect my original use of WordTour for a music festival was slightly weird (The system was designed for small record labels,

PodSix lives!

After Minehost went belly-up, the communal Minecraft server I played on went dead —and stayed dead — for about 6 months. However, I have revived it, on brand spanking new hardway and several major iterations of Minecraft later! Not only that, but it's running the bad-

New project: GitHub Pages for Drupal 7 (Also: I'm Git vetted!)

Over the last few months working with Drupal, I've wanted to become a more productive member of the community. To that end, I've been working on getting a full project approved in order to get "Git vetted" and thus be able to create full

New project: OpenMusicFestival

OpenMusicFestival is a Drupal distribution enabling music festivals of all sizes to create a rich, semantically-enabled website. Functionality includes extensive artist listings (Complete with Soundcloud and YouTube streams), schedules, venue listings — and because it's Drupal, more functionality like ticket sales and forums are only a module

Help me launch Visualization on groups.drupal.org!

I'm trying to start a group on G.D.O dedicated to visualization with Drupal . We need more members and activity before being promoted to a full group — if interested, please join! groups.drupal.org/visualization