Think globally, microblog locally

Sun, 11 Jul 2021

Twitter sends me a LOT of ads for video games. Do they know I have zero interest?

Posted: Jul 11, 2021 11:31pm UTC

I need to set up my blogPoster app with the newer version of the Twitter gem and no mastodon-api gem. If that solves the issues with Ruby >= 2.7, I might leave the unmaintained mastodon-api on the side of the road and make the app Twitter only. https://github.com/passthejoe/blogPoster

Posted: Jul 11, 2021 11:27pm UTC

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I read a book. It was "The Big Sleep," by Raymond Chandler. I had never read it before, though I have seen the movie.

Posted: Jul 11, 2021 11:23pm UTC

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Hello, world

This is my Updates archive of social-media-style posts. My main sites can be found here and here.

My original Ode site lives! You can find it here.

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Social updates, or why this site exists and how it works

This site is dedicated to social-media-style updates. For longer pieces, see links to my main sites above. In this microblog, I am using a command-line script written in Ruby to feed this site and my Fediverse account on Mastodon.

In February 2026, I fixed this microblog and changed my configuration in the blogPoster script so I could start posting to it again. Even though I'm a regular Fediverse user, I see some value in keeping my own microblog in this simple form. It's basically a blog that can be easily fed and which doesn't show post titles (though every post does have a title, the blog HTML hides them).

Goals in 2026

I'd like to begin work on a new blog-posting GUI app that makes it easy to write and post to a Hugo or Zola blog. I have sites using both static site generators, but the Zola site is where I'm writing these days.

No databases were harmed in the making of this web site

You're seeing this blog, powered by Ode, through the magic of the Perl programming language and the Common Gateway Interface. Also involved: the Apache web server and Linux operating system.

The Ode project website has been down for some time, but you can find what's left of the user base at Gitter.

Ode does not use a database to store content. Instead, every entry exists on the web server as a "flat" text file.

Due to the nature of the Perl CGI program that powers Ode, it does *better* with an Apache web server due to the way the URLs are (re)written. NearlyFreeSpeech.net still offers Apache, so this is where the blog stays for now. I could always get a VPS and put Apache on it, but for now, in 2026, this still works. And so it remains.

Counter: Thanks to Rob Reed for the Ode system that runs this blog as well as his help on the Counter addin that provides the post-count feature seen above.

What happened to the Ode project?

I don't really know.

The Ode project website has been down for some time, but you can find what's left of the user base at Gitter.

Contact me

E-mail: stevenhrosenberg@gmail.com

Who am I

and why am I here?

My name is Steven Rosenberg. Journalist. Programmer. Husband. Father. Fixer of the broken. I currently run desktops with Debian Bullseye and Bookworm.

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