Category Archives: Quick Thoughts

by srhuston

A Little More Action

A little more bite and a little less bark
A little less fight and a little more spark

–Elvis Presley, “A Little Less Conversation”

Gonna try something new; way back when I used to have comments turned on all the time, but turned them off when all I would do is get emails about spam posts on everything. Now that I’m trying to put stuff here more often, I made a couple changes that should hopefully prevent that kind of spam from ever landing and turned on comments by default. I also made it so that one doesn’t have to have an account here to comment, which should lower the bar for those who want to have a dialogue.

I also finished my next soldering project, mostly. There’s a few things left to do, and I have to organize the photos into an album and post it, so that’ll be coming soon. Maybe this weekend? We’ll see.

Edit: One other thing, I saw a site recently that had embedded comments from Bluesky, and I think I found a plugin to do that. Might play with it later, but it’s too close to sleepytime now.

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  1. Steve Huston
    Steve Huston @srhuston.net

    Now I just need comments that aren’t me 😛 (admittedly this one is for testing purposes, but still…)

    March 2, 2025
by srhuston

Knobs Sufficiently Twiddled

Yeah, reaching for a title there… anyway, after a few hours of “WTF why isn’t that working” I figured out the stuff I wanted working, namely there’s a new script on my IRC bot that watches for articles here. I guess my thought is, if I’m more “public” about what’s going on here, maybe I’ll use it more? Who knows. There’s another project that I started on though, and has been sitting patiently on my desk since yesterday afternoon as well, so I think I’m gonna push up the volume and turn the chair to the soldering iron.

by srhuston

Fiddling Knobs

Trying out some new things… here’s hoping I don’t break stuff. Then again, it’s Saturday evening before a snowstorm and a holiday weekend, what better time to break things?

by srhuston

Quick Thought..

For the times, they are a-changin’

–Bob Dylan, “The Times They Are a-Changin'”

With the direction things are going over on that blue F site, and a comment from Wil Wheaton who seems to have done similar to me when it comes to use of a website (though I’ve obviously never had the following here that he has had there, I came to the same conclusion – put the things where the people see them and you get interaction)… I’m giving more thought to resurrecting this a bit more. I do post things on that facey-space for a narrower audience than I do here or on other public forums, and I don’t know if/how I would continue that – not all of my thoughts are meant for everyone, and I think most people are that way, but I don’t think people would sign up for something to see those more reserved moments. Maybe I don’t share them? Maybe I don’t share them here? Don’t know the answer, but something’s blowing in the wind. I think I’ll start by creating a new category, and maybe put some of those “quick thoughts” that I’d share other places there. Maybe I even do something with themes and whatnot so only 1-2 “quick thoughts” will be visible on the front page to keep the noise lower or something? More thinking required.