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I thought I'd give up on this Shinobi blog soon after I figured out what to do with my main, "normal" blog. Well, I'm still deciding that, I guess, even though I have that Hugo site (https://passthejoe.net) on a new theme, and it — along with this site — on a new server (a VPS running AlmaLinux rather than a Raspberry Pi). There's a simplicity to all of Bradley Taunt's static-site projects, even…
I wasn't expecting a new static-site generator from Bradley Taunt, who created Shinobi, but I should have expected it because he has written a lot of short blog-generating scripts, as he details in *Blogging for 7 years* https://btxx.org/posts/seven-years/ He left Shinobi behind a few years ago. I don't begrudge him that -- it remains good to use and will continue to be so. Shibobi has issues for…
Unicode special characters seem to be showing up on my Raspberry Pi Linux server (using Caddy) but not on the https://tilde.club server (using Fedora and NGINX). It's strange that Fedora, of all distros, wouldn't be fully UTF-8 compatible, but maybe it has something to do with the NGINX web server setup. Maybe I should host this Shinobi blog on https://tilde.institute, which runs OpenBSD ...…
Amateur — or ham — radio seems like a forgotten art in the age of cell phones and the internet (and with my own gear remaining in boxes), though it is far from that. I subscribe to a few great newsletters, including Zero Retries — https://www.zeroretries.org — The Random Wire — https://www.randomwire.us — and Ria's Ham Shack — https://n2rj.substack.com. I should probably look for more. And find my…
I am not sure if I'm imagining it, but OpenBSD seems to run better on my 2017 HP Envy laptop on the 7.5 release than it did on 7.3 and 7.4. I don't know if the project made improvements in the way it runs on my Intel Core i7 7th Gen CPU (and the on-chip Intel GPU), but it *seems* like things are quieter in terms of the CPU load as seen in *htop*, the frequency with which the fans spin up and how…
Shinobi (https://shinobi.btxx.org/feed.xml) is an interesting little blogging system. Bradley Taunt needed only 47 lines of code to create a static-site blog optimized for consumption as an RSS feed. That code in his script.sh file will run without complaint on almost all Unix/Linux systems. It should run fine in every Linux, and on NetBSD. But there's a little problem in OpenBSD and FreeBSD. I…
Shinobi blogs are *meant* to be read in an RSS feed reader. They can stand alone and be read in a traditional web browser, but a feed reader smooths out the rougher edges and makes it easier to follow dozens or hundreds of feeds. I'm probably one of the few readers of content via RSS who never used Google Reader. It sure felt like RSS "died" a bit when Google pulled the plug on that app. At that…
As I explore the world of the ancient Greeks and the language of that time, I'm reading: "The Ingenious Language: Nine Epic Reasons to Love Greek," by Andrea Marcolongo This is a wonderful book about the author's love affair with ancient Greek. It is helping me understand the ways and whys of the language and those who spoke and wrote it in ancient times. I'm reading the digital version on Libby…
No. It's just text. No hypertext (except in the index). Not having hyperlinks is a limiting factor. But if you put a full HTML link into the text of an entry and select it on an Android phone, the browser will offer to take you there. Until I added a few extra paragraphs, this entry rendered with VERY small type on the Chrome browser on Android but looked fine in Firefox on Android. The blog is…
Shinobi (https://git.btxx.org/shinobi) takes minimal blogging to a whole other level. It is a text-based, RSS-focused blogging "system," says creator Bradley Taunt. The home page is an XML feed, and the individual pages are text files that render that way. The system is designed to create blogs that can be read in an RSS reader (Like Liferea in Linux, via the feed functionality of Thunderbird ...…
If you see this, it worked. One of the issues I'm seeing is that the text can look too small on the Google Chrome browser on my Android phone. I'm not sure why that's happening, but it looks like it only affects the shorter entries. To that end, I'm lengthening this entry to see how the phone's browser treats it. Later: That did it. It now looks better on the phone.