https://elenarossini.com/2025/07/my-adventures-in-self-hosting-day-203/

Hello Fedi friends!

I’m currently experimenting with the POSSE method of publishing (“Publish [on your] Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere”) on my federated WordPress site (this one) so that I can more easily organize posts and retrieve them in the future. This is the first of such posts.

I have created a “micro” post category and edited the functions.php file of my WordPress blog to exclude such posts from the main blog.

Here is the code I’m using:

function exclude_category( $query ) {
if ( $query->is_home() && $query->is_main_query() ) {
$query->set( ‘cat’, ‘-2132’ );
}
}
add_action( ‘pre_get_posts’, ‘exclude_category’ );

Where -2132 is the number assigned to the category “micro”.

You can find the category number by hovering over it in the Categories menu.

I also plan to tweak my site’s navigation menu to make “micro” appear under the blog category.

At some point in the future that will replace the “blog”… otherwise it’s too confusing to follow how many blogs I actually have.

I am also debating whether to migrate my GoToSocial account to WordPress using the MOVE function. What’s holding me back for now? I will need to be able to implement Serdy’s blocklists here before I do that. I experienced some terrible trolling and abusive messages when I didn’t have blocklists in place on my GoToSocial account last month, so I learned my lesson.

And I’d like to see how “social” the Friends for WordPress plugin by Alex Kirk is, before I consolidate my two accounts.

Anyway, this is all really exciting, made possible by the magic of #ActivityPub and the ActivityPub for WordPress plugin by @pfefferle. Thank you Matthias!

Onwards and upwards!

#MySoCalledSudoLife

Working on a new long-form #composition and using the original #Mood #micro-looping #effects #pedal again. Love this thing. The grit and dirt that appears when clocked down adds such a lovely lo-fi vibe to #music. Chase Bliss significantly cleaned up the #sound engine when mk2 was released and for my ears it does not sound that nice, sorry.

If you're interested in #retrocomputing I've been experimenting with running my #RaspberryPi 3 as a console only (terminal) system to do modern work.

Browsing the web is possible with elinks, and I'm exploring different editors than just #vim including #micro which has a modern feel.

I'm able to write with markdown and view high quality PDF output (at the frame buffer) just like I normally would.

Snow Crystals | Wilson Bentley via Iconic Photos [Shared]

When Wilson Bentley died in 1931, his hometown newspaper eulogized him thus: “Longfellow said that genius is infinite painstaking. John Ruskin declared that genius is only a superior power of seeing. Wilson Bentley was a living example of this type of genius.”

A fine accolade for a photographer. Born in Vermont to a family prosperous enough to gift him a microscope at his 15th birthday, Bentley, for the next half a century, would go on to perfect a process of photographing snowflakes on black velvet...

https://welchwrite.com/blog/2025/05/12/snow-crystals-wilson-bentley-via-iconic-photos-shared/

Tiny Pogo Robot Gets Wings, Does Flips - Most robots depend on controlled environments, because the real world is hard to g... - https://hackaday.com/2025/04/12/tiny-pogo-robot-gets-wings-does-flips/ #hoppingrobot #robotshacks #one-legged #micro #wings #pogo #mit

As this LinkedIn post says: the magic of micro cameras.

In a short video, you see several 'wonders of the miniature world' passing by.

Amazing.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/vitor-hugo-guerreiro-092a8984_technology-innovation-microcameras-activity-7304829778899968000-bRoD
#Nature #Micro #MicroBiology

 
Fungi Cosmology

❛❛ #Artists, #scientists, #curators, #anthropologists, #chefs, carrying out cross-sectional, #feminist, #Queer and #biocentric research, as wide as the micellar #network formed by #fungi, who inspired us to establish a connection between #Brazil, #Chile & #Switzerland and stimulating to open up to the #micro #world. ❜❜

https://vimeo.com/837074976 2023 Jun 16 | 4-min.
https://LabVerde.com/fungi-cosmology

One of the reasons I love Pratt Lake trail is all the micro waterfalls in the springtime. It's almost like you could drop a forest fairy in there and it would feel right. #waterfall #micro #hiking #trail #washington #photography #landscape

Random Thought:

Dudes who like having big penises should be into #Micro partners, because every #penis feels huge when it's taller than your partner.

Just wanted to show y'all I'm doing my #human #biology #research before I write things, and since I'm going into #micro / #macro #TF stuff with the #HardScifi of #Modders, I need to know what natural biology is actually capable of in order to build a plausible explanation...

...so I'm finding out how short or tall a human can be without issues.

The height for "Dwarfism" is under 1.5 meters (5 ft), though I don't think that's very short. Simone Biles is well under that. Poking around, I'm seeing people saying 1.25 m (4 ft), so let's say that's a good start.

The record holder for shortest woman is Jyoti Amge, a 31 year old indian actress who is 62.8 cm (2 ft) tall, and the record holder for shortest man was Chandra Dangi, a Nepalese weaver who lived to 75, at 54.6 cm (1 ft 9in) tall. He could walk and survived 75 years, so I assume there was no life-threatening complication, which would mean a human only needs to be about half a meter tall to be "healthy"...

(Continued in thread)

The 6809 8-Bit Microcomputer: A Father-Son Odyssey - If you’re nostalgic for the golden age of microprocessors and dream of building yo... - https://hackaday.com/2024/12/06/the-6809-8-bit-microcomputer-a-father-son-odyssey/ #retrocomputing #microcomputer #classichacks #motorola6809 #micro-lind #kicad #µlind #8bit

#LeapMicro 6.1 Alpha is here! Ready your systems for the #future as #Leap #Micro 5.5 approaches End of Life. Explore what's new & upgrade today! https://news.opensuse.org/2024/11/20/leap-micro-61-alpha-availability/