The mastodon-api gem throws an error in Ruby 2.7, but it still works.

18 Free Hosting Providers for Your Static Website in 2020 · Dev & Gear https://devandgear.com/posts/18-free-hosting-providers-for-your-static-website-in-2020/

Now I'm having a Mastodon issue with Ruby 2.7. I'll have to run some tests.

How many ways and how many times can I misspell 'mastodon'? Many times, it turns out.

When something breaks in an app, paranoia sets in

I had one more URI.open change to make in blogPoster, this time in the "ping your blog" portion of the code. https://nokogiri.org/tutorials/parsing_an_html_xml_document.html

Testing URI.open changes in Ruby

I fixed the blogPoster code where Nokogiri uses URI.open to pull a web page's title. I only discovered the problem in Ruby 2.7, which is what Ubuntu 20.04 is running. I have Ruby 2.6 on my Windows laptop and 2.5 in Debian Stable. https://nokogiri.org/tutorials/parsing_an_html_xml_document.html

I am trying to untangle issues with Ruby 2.7 and the Nokogiri gem https://nokogiri.org/tutorials/parsing_an_html_xml_document.html

Zoom towns and the new housing market for the 2 Americas - Planet Money/NPR https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2020/09/08/909680016/zoom-towns-and-the-new-housing-market-for-the-2-americas

If you want to use Racketlang in the terminal to code in "Legacy" Scheme for SICP, this is how you get a REPL:

$ racket -I r5rs

Mike Tyson: 'Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth' https://indygrit.community/blog/2019/2/9/everybody-has-a-plan-until-they-get-punched-in-the-mouth

SICP Distilled: An idiosyncratic tour of SICP in Clojure http://www.sicpdistilled.com/

R U OK? A conversation could change a life https://www.ruok.org.au/

Time.gov from the National Institute of Standards and Technology is still a thing (and better — and less Java-y — than I remember. https://www.time.gov/

Antonio Lauro's "Valse Venezolano: Maria Luisa" played by Saro Babikian on a 2020 Stephen Hill - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNb9-kgQNuM

Starbucks is borrowing money from you — and you're paying them 10% interest to do it http://jpkoning.blogspot.com/2019/08/starbucks-monetary-superpower.html

I did a classical guitar string review on Augustine Gold and Red sets. Nothing too exciting. The strings are nice. https://github.com/passthejoe/classical-strings

I found a 701-page doctoral dissertation on classical guitar pioneer Emilio Pujol. From 2010. In Spanish. https://www.tesisenred.net/handle/10803/5202

I'm reading a "real" book, even though it's an ebook, and that book is "The Fellowship of the Ring," aka "The Lord of the Rings" Part 1.