I bought a 2nd hand gravel bike today because my race bike (Cube Agree GTC SL) is really not well-suited to safely ride in icy/ wet conditions. So happy to show off my new old Specialized Diverge which I will happily also take off-road 🙂
Month: January 2026
w.social invite code
So regarding that new EU social network (which is said to be decentralized but unclear if that implies ActivityPub which would make it more relevant in my book); entering a string in the “invitation code” and clicking “continue” does not result in an XHR request to the server and there’s a lot of JS on the page to handle the invitation code.
This implies the code is checked in the browser so the correct code(s) is somewhere in the JavaScript. So it should be possible to reverse-engineer it, no? 😉
Any takers for this challenge?
blog.futtta.be on the fediverse
Pretty sure no-one is waiting for this, but after having spent a couple of years on the Fediverse (Mastodon in my case) I decided to add ActivityPub support to my WordPress installation via the ActivityPub plugin.
I have the WP Rest Cache plugin active, so I’m expecting things to gently hum along, without (most likely) or with these posts gaining traction.
Kudo’s to Stian and Servebolt for assisting me to get the webfinger endpoint to work, which is … not self-explanatory on hosts that have unoverrideable configuration on the .well-known folder 🙂
Joni’s “Both Sides Now”
I watched a movie this evening which featured the main actress singing “Both sides now” and is was moving until it became too musical-like for my taste. But now I’m in a Joni rabbit hole again, listening to all great versions of Joni performing that song. One of the earliest live video’s I found was from 1969 and on the other end of the timescale there’s the Grammy one from 2024 with Brandi Carlile, but for me the most touching rendition by far is this orchestral one from 2000;
