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#100DaysToOffload

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Christopher Himes

Got some time to post last week's notes. It was an unexpectedly busy week.

#100DaysToOffload #WeekNotes

christopherhimes.com/blog/2025

christopher himesWeek 18Applied to some jobs. Revisited the lighthouse score for this site and posted about it here. 🎥 Saw Sinners in IMAX with my brother. This is a movie that sticks with you afterward and definitely worth checking out. Created /hundred a dedicated page for 100 Days To Offload posts. Created a plugin for jekyll in ruby to count the number of pages for 100 Days To Offload and wrote about it here. Updated the code highlighter for this site so future posts that include code will be easier to read. Added Open Graph images that are automatically generated when a post is created. 🍿 watched A Complete Unknown the Bob Dylan movie with my wife. It was an enjoyable watch with Timothee Chalamet doing some incredible work. Took my wife to urgent care and eventually we missed her graduation to have surgery. Whether she walked or not she’s just completed her Master’s in Social Work and I’m so proud of her. Marathoned the first season and a half of True Blood with my wife while she recovered from surgery. Late posting this because I’ve been taking care of my wife.. This is day 15 of #100DaysToOffload.
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R.L. Dane :Debian: :OpenBSD: 🍵

Lordy, I'm behind.

@joel!!! HALP!!!

content $ ./100dto-progress 
23 / 40.8
content $ cat 100dto-progress 
#!/bin/bash

cd "$(dirname "$0")"

#deadline=365    #full year
deadline=304    #end of october

published="$(cat 2025-*.md |grep -ci "^[[:space:]]*Status:[[:space:]]*Published")"
expected="$(echo "$(date +%j)/$deadline*1000+0.5" |bc -l |cut -f1 -d. |sed 's/\(.$\)/.\1/')"

echo "$published / $expected"
#rlDaneWriting#100DaysToOffload#100DTO
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Christopher Himes

Posting primarily to test out the new open graph images that are generated automatically when I create a new blog post. This post in particular is simple and meant to generate an image that is also used for any non blog page on the site. I think they turned out pretty well for a first attempt. Let me know what you think!

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christopherhimes.com/blog/2025

christopher himesHi thereI’m Christopher Himes, an accomplished Product Owner seeking new opportunities for transformation and adding value. I’ve been working on adding generated open graph images to the site. I think they’re in a good place at the moment but they only apply to blog posts. In order to create a generic one for the site as a whole I wanted to have a simple post that would create one with the correct content. So, that’s what you’re looking at here. Sorry there is not more here but stay tuned for the details on getting the open graph image together that is coming soon. The image associated with this blog post in open graph is also the one associated with any non-blog page on the site. I think it makes it a little nicer. Not that anyone is sharing my about section but the the proof of concept is neat anyway.
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Andy Piper

I’ve worked in tech for many years, and one of the events that has been a constant part of the calendar is SXSW. I remember signing up for Twitter back in 2007 just after I heard about it while chatting in Roo Reynolds’ office at IBM, from a visitor who had been at SXSW where it first took off (referenced in a post back over here).

That was nearly 20 years ago now – and in all of that time, I never had the opportunity to go to SXSW for the tech part1 of the festival…

This year, our friends at Flipboard created a side event they called Fediverse House, as a eye-catching label for a series of talks and sessions around the open social web

[yes, it was broader than the Fediverse; some other platforms and topics were represented, too. It was great to be able to talk about the Fediverse]

Image credit: Brooks Lawson @brooks

I was excited to be able to join the event2, and even more so, I was honoured to be asked to join a panel moderated by the wonderful Mia Quagliarello all about building communities on the new social web. I briefly mentioned this trip on the most recent Mastodon blog post update for our updates during March, but I’m now able to include more about the content here.

Here’s the video of our panel discussion, available on Flipboard’s PeerTube – or, on YouTube for those of you that are not yet Fediverse-enabled, or who want to watch on your TV or something 🙂 I hope I did an OK job, representing the good people of the different communities on the Fediverse. I know that my own experience and perspective is not a universal one and I do my best to reflect that when I talk about our spaces.

As well as this panel, the event included some fantastic talks from folks such as Molly White and Cory Doctorow (clips are on PeerTube); it gave me an opportunity to learn more about the ATProto ecosystem from chatting with the nice folks from Bluesky; I was able to meet writers from one of the best publications on the web today, 404 Media; and, it also provided a chance to spend time IRL with friends from the Fediverse – including the excellent Jeff Sikes, and also people I greatly respect and appreciate from WeDistribute, Sean and Damon.

Guitar sculpture titled ‘Vibrancy’ by Craig Hein, located in downtown Austin

Anyway… I still haven’t actually been to SXSW 😄

This year, I did something better than that. Thank you to the Flipboard team for all your work in putting Fediverse House together!

  1. I was in Austin one year during the music festival, and managed to get to a couple of sessions, but I wasn’t in town specifically for the event, that was a surprise bonus. ↩︎
  2. Thank you to the Social Web Foundation for making my trip to Austin possible. ↩︎

https://andypiper.co.uk/2025/05/01/fediverse-house-at-sxsw-2025/

Andy Piper from Mastodon sitting on a couch alongside Rose Wang from Bluesky
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