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Probably the most disobeyed sign in all of South Melbourne. 😏
Green grass in summer.
One other thing I did was finally address how galleries were being rendered in RSS. If you use the Glightbox plugin, the titles and descriptions get stripped from the RSS. Or at least it does in Feedbin, where all the JavaScript gets remove and, thus, Glightbox doesn’t get a chance to initialise. I’m guessing the vast majority of RSS readers out there do likewise.
So I added an alternate shortcode template format which wraps the gallery image in a figure tag, and adds a figcaption containing the title or description if one exists. This means the gallery images get rendered as normal images in RSS. But I think this sacrifice is worth it if it means that titles and descriptions are preserved. I, for one, usually add description to gallery images, and it saddens me to see that those viewing the gallery in an RSS reader don’t get these.
Here’s the shortcode template in full, if anyone else is interested in adding this:
<!-- layouts/shortcodes/glightbox.xml -->
<figure>
<img src="{{ .Get "src" }}"
{{ if .Get "alt" }}
alt="{{ .Get "alt" }}"
{{ end }}
{{ if .Get "title" }}
title={{ .Get "title" }}
{{ end }} />
{{ if or (.Get "title") (.Get "description") }}
<figcaption>
{{ if .Get "title" }}
<strong>{{ .Get "title" }} {{ if .Get "description" }} — {{end}}</strong>
{{ end }}
{{ .Get "description" | default "" }}
</figcaption>
{{end}}
</figure>
I’ve also raised it as an MR to the plugin itself. Hopefully it get’s merged and then it’s just a matter of updating the plugin.
A grey and wet visit to Hastings today for lunch and coffee. Met someone at the cafe who bought his two cockatiels along with him, both in little harnesses.
Oh, it turns out it’s an older style of referencing targets and is no longer supposed to be used. That’s a shame.
Slippery when wet.
Seriously, watch yourself when walking through that subway on a wet day. That tiled floor is treacherous.
Upgraded my work laptop to Sequoia. “Love” the experience that this new version provides, especially the mouse-and-patience exercise I get in the morning. 👎
Now this is cool: Hetzner has opened up a region in Singapore. The tyranny of distance is starting to abate.
A good indication of how busy the work week is is the number of biscuits packets I bring home with me, rather than eat at lunch time. We’re at two packets this week.
The house guests have returned. Rico is settling in quite well, considering it his first time here. 🦜
Smack bang in the middle of the automation smiling curve for my current task. 😩
It’s done! Cyber Burger, the Pico-8 arcade game I’ve been working on for the last few months, is finished and can now be played online in a (desktop) browser. Check it out here.
Now that my 1Password subdomain woes with Android Vivaldi has been tamed, it’s time to turn my attention to Safari:
Behind the MAS.
Removing personal identifying information from logs is a laudable goal, but it does make troubleshooting issues in prod rather difficult.
📺 Howl’s Moving Castle (2004)
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Day trip, but a lot closer to home. Took a train to Hurstbridge and walked the trail alongside the creek to Eltham, around 12.5 km in total. Also took a small break at the tram cafe. 🌲
Title design this morning. Trying to get as close as I can to the Cyberspace Raceway font as my pixel art skills will allow for.
Trentham Railway Station, and the start of the Domino rail trail. 🌲
