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Regular blog here, 'microblog' there

Many of my traditional blog post live on this site, but a great majority of my social-style posts can be found on my much-busier microbloging site at updates.passthejoe.net. It's busier because my BlogPoster "microblogging" script generates short, Twitter-style posts from the Linux or Windows (or anywhere you can run Ruby with too many Gems) command line, uploads them to the web server and send them out on my Twitter and Mastodon feeds.

I used to post to this blog via scripts and Unix/Linux utilities (curl and Unison) that helped me mirror the files locally and on the server. Since this site recently moved hosts, none of that is set up. I'm just using SFTP and SSH to write posts and manage the site.

Disqus comments are not live just yet because I'm not sure about what I'm going to do for the domain on this site. I'll probably restore the old domain at first just to have some continuity, but for now I like using the "free" domain from this site's new host, NearlyFreeSpeech.net.

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Sun, 13 Sep 2015

I build an app, Part 1: Hashes (aka key-value pairs) are easy in JavaScript (and even in Java) ... plus my coding bio

I like to learn by doing. I'm reading and typing in code and futzing around with it. But I had an idea, and I'm betting I can learn what I need to make it happen.

The idea is a "What is this acronym?" app, where there's a web page, the user types in an acronym (or partial acronym) and gets in return a list of possible full names for that acronym.

Nothing too crazy, and I'm going to keep it as simple as I can.

I want to do it as a single-page JavaScript app. Call it "just a web page with some interactive JavaScripty elements." Is that an "app"? (Don't know, don't care).

I'm choosing JavaScript for this project because I want to keep it simple. And I want to learn JavaScript.

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Posted: Sep 13, 2015 11:14am UTC

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Tue, 08 Sep 2015

Playing with Java arrays and JavaScript objects

Today I started playing with Java arrays.

I'm also trying to figure out JavaScript objects at the same time.

(The Javascript is for a project I'm cooking up. I'll focus when I'm ready to focus.)

Posted: Sep 08, 2015 7:12pm UTC