✉️ PicoBlog Archives

Due to (state) exams and things this June, which is now over, I haven’t had the chance to publish articles before [now](./Posts/2023-06-30-Brutture-Irrisolvibili-della-Dock-Nintendo -Switch.html). I haven’t finished my exams yet, but this is what I thought last week; I report from my Telegram microblog:

The two factions of voices in my head:

• “You have to write the article on why the Switch dock sucks and how you did yours with €0. You haven’t posted on the blog for 6 weeks 😭😭😭” (good voices, they care about the growth of my site and my writing skills)
• “You have to repeat maths in 5 days you have the second test 😭😭😭” (bad voices, they are the haters of the sitectt)

To think that there wasn’t even time to honor the anniversary of the site…

To do something epic, and at the same time pleasing to some people but very unwelcome to others, on my page dedicated to the minefield I made something: the [curiosity] section(./Raccolte/Gaming/Minesweeper.html#- Curiosity) is blocked, and to be able to read it you need to complete a game of the game. Don’t know how to play? Too bad for you. 🙃️. Oh well, not totally:

• As you press the squares, they become semi-transparent and reveal the text underneath.
• The game disappears if you disable JavaScript, and the text section is not covered.
• I’ve included an easter egg that skips the game without having to win it. 👀️

Today I finished fixing the graphics of some pages that I started creating yesterday, Minesweeper and Nonogram. When I started the site almost a year ago I planned to do things like this in this way, but I’ve never done much until now. I’ll try to continue like this…

But how long has it been since I wrote on this page? Alright. Today I was trying to add a feature to statistico… I can’t do it, it’s all spaghetti. I made a mistake in programming it as a monolithic program, I should have designed it right from the start as a suite of independent but related programs. And now the damage is done.

After discovering that the ChatGPT preview is completely free for now, I started playing with it and doing things after things, perhaps dedicating too much time to it 😅. I created a site to collect the conversations I have with AI, for research purposes and because there are often situations worth sharing: https://listed.to/@ChatGPT_Experiences

I noticed that the sitectt, even after some of my measures that should have made the search engines happy, just can’t be found… and I don’t have any clear enough idea of what causes the problem. I need to start integrating a function into the generator to automatically republish on Wordpress, Blogger, and stuff like that, maybe the engines will read it better from there; in the meantime, I have started making the script to translate the site into different languages, and this should help spread it outside of Italy.

I tried months ago to host my own ActivityPub server. First Friendica on Altervista… it wasn’t working. Then Misskey, Mastodon, and Pleroma on Switch at home… failures, one bigger than the other. Then, the other day on Raspino I wanted to try again; the problems definitely came out, but this time I was able to solve them within a day’s work, and so now I have my Reign of Terror! 😁 I added my profile to the contacts page here… and I fixed something that I had forgotten to delete practically since August: the mention of the Matrix server , which I no longer have. 🙄

So, absurd. The new Devlogs post? I started writing it Sunday night and finished tonight. Why? I don’t know, I had other things in between, between school and my stuff, and so some days I didn’t write at all. What patience…

Since yesterday, Twitter refugees are landing in such numbers on the Fediverse (sadly, virtually only on Mastodon) that a lot of servers are suffering. The Masto.host network has been on its knees since this afternoon, and it seems that the story is complex to resolve.

On the site, at least in the areas where I use them as icons and not as emoticons, I have a CSS wrapper that allows me to have standardized and always consistent emojis (in my case, Twemoji) on any system. Months ago I forked the project to make some personal improvements and… I literally noticed today that on Home#Special Credits I had never updated the entry 💀

Choosing botsin.space as an instance for my site’s ActivityPub bot wasn’t too far-sighted, as it seems to be blocked on many others due to spam… making the bot completely unreachable. On top of this, Google is still having trouble with indexing. 😐

The other day I discovered the Codex Seraphinianus, a very strange thing that perhaps is about to inspire me. In this thread on Mastodon I linked a video and the PDF of the book… but just look at the images that I add every now and then to (not) understand what it’s about .. 😁

A month ago I created a “Diarylog” section here, like the PicoBlog but to accommodate longer writings than these; not as long as blog posts, but longer. Why? I don’t know, but I just realized the other day that it makes no sense and is difficult to maintain, and so from now on I create normal posts in the MicroBlog section to have the same thing..

On the Diarylog 4 days ago I said how the DSpacc story continued: now I have the flashcart.. and what do I use it for? Well, looking carefully at the DS library, I discover that in fact a lot of titles are playable with only the lower screen! 🌝

Downtime here again, huh? Unfortunately I didn’t feel like it a bit, I didn’t know what to put again in these past weeks… But now a new Blog article is being worked on, and maybe I would have also a few things to write on Devlogs.

The music from Luigi’s casino, despite him being a bastard, is very refined and fits perfectly as an ambience for the apartment. By clicking on the photo below you can listen to it on YouTube.

[](https://youtu .be/QoydhH3xODU)

A lot of stuff is destroying me. My Nintendo Switch is literally falling apart, my very broken mouse has lost a side button, and what the hell, and damn!!… Nothing broke today today, but it’s good to keep your eyes open.

These 4 days I was able to go, despite some messes that have happened recently, to the FantaExpo in Salerno. Maybe I’ll write a little more about this in the days to come. Between this, Splatoon 3, and programming and creating new sections of the site during some downtime, this explains why PicoBlog has been sleeping these days.

Last night the Splatoon 3 ROM was released on the Internet, 3 days ahead of the game’s release date. Up to now I have only played the tutorial, I will try it carefully later. I’ll leave you the hash of the torrent anyway… 🎈🚢👪🐉🎩🤣👝🌭🎥🥅🌟🐅🎦📨🎦🐁🎡🚿🏦🚵🎛🤰🏛🚯👦🔙🐞 🤒🎈🚒👞🌩 :)

In short: I was looking for an original alternative to base64, for one thing. I thought about creating my own system that has to do with ASCII art, but it takes a bit of work and I need the system right away. But then I discovered Ecoji 🙏

GitJournal, tried it for a few minutes yesterday, I think it’s worth it. If you don’t already use Standard Notes, consider this app.

Only today I discovered that by installing this package , I can have an updated SSH client on my Kindle. I couldn’t have known, it wasn’t written anywhere… better late than never though, now from the Kindle I can do things on other machines.

Oh my goodness August! She made my writing plans go a bit awry, I never had enough calm and suitable time for well-done writing. Alright, let’s declare this lunar cycle over, 📈 the new articlectt is out.

And I don’t dare spoil it any further! Neither when, nor how! 🤫️ But just know what stuff is cooking.

For months I’ve been occasionally abusing PicoBlog as a devlog for stuff I make. Bad idea, since the writing here must be limited. So, time to inaugurate the Devlogs section.

The ctt site has been no-bloat and efficient since its creation. Except for one (1) uploaded asset: the Emoji CSS. It wastes 400KB of traffic, it’s not good, but I already have some ideas to solve it.


From what I started writing yesterday, stuff came out that never ends, so it has to be broken up into different articles. I could already publish the first one this evening, but it’s better to leave it to settle for a day, lest I ever get any ideas to add.

Only today I noticed it: 3 months ago (minus 3 days) the sitocto was born - or rather, the postocto. This time has flown by, but when I look back there is a lot to say; expect the articleocto 🙃

Those who browse the site carefully may have noticed that, about a week ago, I included a JS library not updated for 4 years, which should have made the site automatically distributed via BitTorrent. Lo and behold, it’s no longer there: not only did it not work, but it no longer made the site load if activated.

It’s my current state, where I would like to have all my code stuff always perfectly synchronized between all devices, including the Ximi. I asked for advice here and I’ve already got something good, we’ll see what I end up with.

I would like to start importing articles from my old blog, because they are not well preserved there. The first one that I am already reproposing is the last one published there: The unexpected advantages of the Linux stick. Yes, with (almost) the same graphic design that I had on the old blog, rather than that of the rest of the site; with statico I can do this and more.

I’ve been away from home for 2 days now, for a holiday that isn’t a holiday at all. The place is beautiful, I took some photos which I think I will publish later, including some of spacc (!), but there are problems and oh well, I’m more than annoyed… let’s see how it continues, it goes…

What did I do between yesterday and today? R on Miiverse, then I started programming a C library, and then I failed trying to [host a server](https://mastodon.uno/@ octo/108783055408081922) first Misskey, then Pleroma (footer aroma), and then Mastodon.

A YT video brought back Miiverse to my memory, Nintendo’s social network that was shut down. Then it occurs to me that the community tried to recreate it and… I discover that the project rverse is alive . And it works! I have Miiverse again!

Only one letter, but so much trouble. Since the other day I’ve been trying to write this little game, I won’t say why or why I chose C here, otherwise I’ll be a papyrus.

Eh, we’re talking about one of those difficult games, for a few days now I’ve wanted to pick it up again. Luckily, thanks to emulators I can experience the intense everywhere, even when I only have the phone with me.

Today, randomly, the home Internet line went down for like a good 40 minutes, Vodafone is struggling,.,.,

In 2022, it’s still a real mess. And there are dark sides. I will go into more detail in the next blogoctt post, which is already being written.

I only realize now that on this site I never said that I am the Goddess of Spacc. Pretty serious. Spacc in general, however, is mentioned somewhere.. and if you don’t know what it is, now I can simply say: I created a wiki about the topic and everything around it. It still needs to be filled in, but there is already something. Come on, go read WikiSpacc.miraheze.org/wiki/Spacc :)

I said the day before yesterday about the Decretocto, yesterday I finished it and released it. Unfortunately the document has some branding problems: the Repubblica dello Spacc and the statocto do not yet have an official logo, so for now we have used a fork of that of the Italian Republic. According to the terms of the decree, which I invite you to read by accessing the PDF file here, I am already filling the MicroB Archives log .

Today I started writing the new Octo Decree, which will be released when I finish it, eeeeh ohh, it’s the first Prime Ministerial Decree I’ve written in my life, it’s difficult. The decree will clarify some doubts regarding the new “MicroBlog” collection of the site - and I can’t say anything else, there is the State Secret.

Now that I have (I think) arranged everything properly, and the posting function on Statistico’s Mastodon should not cause unnecessary spam for old stuff, I can think about copy-pasting several of my old contents, from the most disparate sources, here on the site.

Ehh, I think I have to start wearing it. Always in an intelligent way and which does not affect the functionality of the site for those who cannot activate it, of course: with one library I will add compatibility to AVIF images for old browsers, with another I will practically make the site available on BitTorrent 👀️

When JS is used well, that is, when it is used to make real interactive apps and not for sites that could very well be static, I am the first to be enthusiastic about this technology. And since the day before yesterday I remembered daedalOS, which I opened a ticket for yesterday and made a pull request today!

It’s something I should do, I have many repos from months ago that are hosted on the servers of a single provider, and it’s not going well. I should write a long article about how I approach the backup topic sooner or later. Luckily, everything that touches the ctt site has been put (public) on 3 different servers since the beginning ✨️

But how long do I have to wait to see the site indexed? What should I do? Today I added my domain to the Google Search Console, and I also implemented initial support for the generation of static sitemaps.. let’s hope it’s resolved immediately 😵u200d💫️

I got a Kindle a little less than a week ago. Of course, I hacked it right then and there. I said this on Mastodon, but I’ll do an in-depth post here sometime. However, this tablet adds to the list of strange devices on which I would like to make sure that the site works 😶u200d🌫️️

Apparently, for a healthy week I forgot my PicoBlog exists! Shit happens. Well, what to do then? Not much, I’m afraid, BUT, I am now accepting donations: 💰 Donations. I figure if I start getting some, I’ll start forgetting less about updating the site in general, lmao xd

Eh eh, oops. The repo hasn’t had any new commits in weeks, dead. What a drag. However, with the ActivityPub integration that the site has now had for 2 days, there is already a sort of comment system for every single post on the blogocto.. so is my job done?

And from today the octocapsule, that is, my Gemini capsule, also exists on the Internet. For now, there you will only find a 1:1 conversion of the sitectt, but, if you want to know further, I refer you as usual to Home # Site Availability.

By now, this is what static is becoming, contrary to my own expectations. Just now I started implementing 2 wacky things: Gemtext generation (expect the sitectt on Gemini..), and publishing new posts on ActivityPub (Mastodon).

That’s exactly what I did! In what sense? This is simply what you do with a program like mkp224o, if you want to obtain an address containing particular characters. The new address, which begins (this is the peculiarity) with “sitoctt”, is linked on [Home # Site Availability](./index.html#- Site-availability).

Now I have a page Collection of Internet Sites where I link to other nice sites, I created an 88x31 PNG that identifies my site and that anyone who wants can use it to link it.. well come on, little by little it’s filling up even better than a simple blog :D

Yep, there’s already a new one in beta since practically yesterday. That its archetype is Mastodon can be seen immediately, but Bonfire promises a different philosophy (?) and… the developers give a damn about progressive improvement, and a large part of the app already works without JS! This alone is enough to make me rejoice.

Statistico finally integrates the generation of Atom/RSS feeds! If everything works, I will write the information on Home # Feeds and notifications, but the metadata is already present in the HTML, so using a browser that still integrates an aggregator feed, like SeaMonkey, a subscribe icon should appear.

I felt like going overboard and implementing a visit counter on the site. Luckily, I found the ready-made free service of contatoreaccessi.com, which works by loading absolutely zero JavaScript, even if it also counts refreshes, not unique visits.. alright.

Between yesterday and this morning I worked quite a bit on the generator, to fix little problems and add functions, and I added some improvements to the CSS of the site. However this PicoBlog is now just a devlog, a bit of a shame, but I don’t know what else to write that’s very short.. 😅

After a month, eu.org gave me the domain I asked for… soon the site will be navigable from sitoctt.octt.eu.org! Technically already reachable, but I have to fix some generator problems, if I want the current domain not to break..

In the end I think I achieved something the way I wanted it. Now in the navigation bar of the site there is a “Collections” section, which is nothing more than a semi-automatic list of categories.

For a few days now I have been working almost continuously on my own comment system to enable for the site. It’s not finished yet and I don’t know when I’ll finish it (and if I finish it.. let’s hope I don’t throw it all away out of boredom).

..that I don’t really know how I want it either. Aside from the categorization of Blogocto posts into themes, I would like the themed collection pages to also include pages that are not strictly posts, but I’m afraid it would create confusion. I’ll think about it for a long time…

Since Tor Browser at the maximum protection setting, set by many people who use it, breaks some CSS components (there is no JS) of my site… I updated the generator to support the addition of a header section on all the pages, at the time of site build. I posted information about the problem there.

I started writing it 3 days ago, then between one thing and another I only had the opportunity to finish writing today, both the article in question and the code for my generator that manages the blog-style posts (on which I still have to make arrangements). Go see it here!

Developing this site builder is proving to be a mystical experience, both good and bad. I don’t even know how to describe it all, it’s absurd.

Finally, I also set up a Tor mirror of the site! You can find it linked on Home # Site Availability. Now everything is safer and more private.

This article is just a test, maybe it will be deleted.

What is this post for? To show me the initial effect and possibly fix the CSS..