https://death.id.au/ Thoughts, stories and ideas. en-AU Mon, 23 Mar 2026 05:11:12 GMT https://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification https://death.id.au/b4.0017/ So, I've re-jiggered my website *again*, and moved away from Ghost, back to 11ty, with a Friendica instance along for the ride... Mon, 22 Sep 2025 00:33:00 GMT https://death.id.au/b4.0017/ https://death.id.au/b4.0015/ 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 Fri, 06 Sep 2024 00:00:00 GMT https://death.id.au/b4.0015/ https://death.id.au/objects/0e03068e-2466-dfb1-4167-b95934026045 https://death.id.au/b4.0014/ 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. Thu, 05 Sep 2024 00:00:00 GMT https://death.id.au/b4.0014/ https://death.id.au/objects/0e03068e-1166-d946-7a9f-8b5955914727 https://death.id.au/b4.0013/ 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. Tue, 03 Sep 2024 00:00:00 GMT https://death.id.au/b4.0013/ https://death.id.au/objects/0e03068e-1966-d66c-75a3-dba221071836 https://death.id.au/b4.0012/ 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. Tue, 09 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMT https://death.id.au/b4.0012/ https://death.id.au/objects/0e03068e-8066-14ce-bc7b-9b9403334690 https://death.id.au/b4.0011/ 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. Tue, 20 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMT https://death.id.au/b4.0011/ https://death.id.au/objects/0e03068e-1465-d3ff-6e99-355724502149