Tag: Emacs

Whither ActivityPub?

Two things after that last post:

  1. the correct solution to the theme problem is to create a Child Theme of which I looked at the docs and contemplated spending my afternoon crafting that for my short 4-line hack, or just use Emacs Tramp to capture those lines, do the Theme upgrade, refresh, paste back and save. Emacs won.
  2. nothing went out! Or almost nothing. Followers did not receive the post, but they did receive an edit I made to the profile.

So this post is really a test while I follow what logs there are in hopes something shows as having changed since two posts ago…

Hello, Buffer

we do these things not because they are easy, but because we thought they would be easy.

It seemed like a very simple idea. Org-mode already provided HTML rendering that worked quite well for static pages, and while the kits for WordPress posting use the dreaded xmlrpc api, with my server on the same LAN as the author, both behind a firewall, it seemed reasonably safe to give it a go. This would let me bring anything within reach of Emacs into my published works, and with all the lovely options of Org-Mode, while also enabling the wonderfulness of Fediverse presence, structured data and other perks of WordPress plugins.

That led me to Org2Blog as a candidate, promising your first post in 5 minutes, and while it took 15, the result was impressive.

Green cat eyes stare at you from the dark within.

Figure 1: do not stare into the void

So I tried a more complex example…

Everything was beautiful except…