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My new website (again) - 11ty+Friendica

So, I've re-jiggered my website *again*, and moved away from Ghost, back to 11ty, with a Friendica instance along for the ride...

Going on Safari (Chapter Two)

This is part of a series I'm writing documenting my efforts to establish native messaging communication between my MarkDownload web extension and a native app. Go check out the motivation or my previous efforts

Going on Safari (Chapter One)

As mentioned in my previous blog post, I went down a bit of a rabbit hole regarding native messaging. I couldn't figure out how to communicate properly via stdin/stdout from a MacOS Swift app. If anyone has any pointers, that would greatly simplify the process; because oh boy is this a process.

Going on Safari (Prologue)

I'm currently working on a complete rewrite of my browser extension, MarkDownload. In the current version, most of my logic and processing takes place on a persistent background page. An invisible webpage, just sitting there taking up memory, waiting for someone to click that button and get the process started.

Johnny Decimal (Part One)

I've taken a leap and have started organising all the things with a Johnny Decimal system. It's been something I've been mulling over for some time, and with the Johnny Decimal workshop coming soon and an attempt to switch to a new OS, it seems like a perfect time to get organised.

OBTF, Subtext, ELF... Oh my!

Some random ideas that have popped up are sort of coalescing. Into what, I'm not sure yet. But I fell down a rabbit hole, and this article represents my climb back up. As such, I wouldn't consider this a proper, professional think piece. Just some notes, thoughts and scratchings that I decided to share.