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Changes

The 'look' of my main site has morphed

Now, when you navigate to the main page of my site here: Urge Central the whole thing is not dumped out. Instead I present a much smaller page with links and no explanation. I think that people can figure it out. Also the various columns can be accessed much easier because I've put links on all of the mobile versions of the pages.

I'd known for a long time that front page was a little bit large. But since noone really comes to my site . . . But I didn't like that posts that I made from 10 years ago show up as if they are relevant and current when one searches my site. So I decided to remove some links that aren't needed anymore. You can still get to the content it's just not available if you don't already have a link to it. Or know how to make a link to it.

I created a link methodology with pages and the request header that allows one to create a page at random and call it, with the naming scheme provided, whatever one would want to call it. And if you ask for what is there, you get that. So if you try and call it by some name that's already been used . . . well ,then , you get that othe page. That other page is already owned. You won't be allowed to edit it except maybe to add to it (which is fine, becuase the old page still, in theory, can be 'receated'. I don't give out edit privledges so that pretty much locks it down.

I've wanted a 'next step' for this architecture where the editing is free and easy. But because it really already is, if you have a brain and know about CSS (and the 'content editible' flag) then you can already do what I could automate very easily. You just go in with Firebug, or some other DOM tool hooked to your browser, and you add that field. And if you don't know what I mean when I say 'just add the content_editible field' (did I spell it right?) if you don't know what that means, or where that field is, then, well maybe then, you maybe, (maybe) shouldn't be mucking around in the code anyway. It's my site and I can edit it easily enough without creating a public interface that allows anyone with a smartfone to do it too.

Sometimes when I'm documenting my efforts . . .

sometimes when I am trying to document my efforts it is easier to create a screen capture of the bash shell with the command typed out so that I can have an accurate representation of what I typed in without worrying about the various markups that are needed to escape characters if I encode them in some other way. For example if I am writing a scriptlet shell thing to do some printf stuff, and then I create a list of commands, if I want to execute those commands I need to mark it up one more level, put in another layer of escape codes. It's tiresome to try and get it correct. And also,you can't just cut and paste the string that works into a text editor and 'save' the markup, because then you need even one more layer of escape codes.

So when I wanted to, for example, document the actual way to use brace expansion I used it, for real, and then I did a screen capture showing the way that the bash shell looked after running the command. Easy. And then I linked this into The Left Column. The image is on my server and if you want to see it you can get it.

Later, while reviewing my logs, I noticed that the image had been fetched by someone. Someone who hadn't gotten any other files. So he got a link to my image without going through my page. So that means that he got a link from somewhere else. Someone else, or some process, got that link and sent the link to some other IP (the 'get' of the file always has an IP associated with it in the logs) and then the different IP fetched the file. Maybe someone sent someone else an email with a link to my original file. In any case, curious. It means that someone, somewhere, is actually reading my stuff.

May 25, 2015

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