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This page is an experiment in more frequent publishing.
I use my Stream for very unstructured, low-effort posting (capturing quotes, posting work screenshots, and throwaway ideas), and that’s what it’s good for. But I now feel the need to write things with titles and multiple paragraphs.
Revstar
I am now the proud owner of what is the most beautiful guitar I’ve ever seen or played.
For the very fair price of $750 American, it comes with excellent P90s, stainless steel frets, a carbon fiber reinforced and satin-finish neck, and lovely build quality everywhere else.
If that wasn’t enough, Yamaha also ships it with Elixir Nanoweb strings and a well-padded soft case. Good stuff!
Static Sites and Images
Adding images to posts is an…interesting process. It’s not as smooth as drag-and-drop of a rich text editor experience is, you have to manually insert an explicit link to your image within your Markdown. It’s not terrible, but not amazing either.
You also have to add the photo to you Git-tracked site repository, hopefully you have one big folder called “media” inside your static folder so you don’t have to worry about exact URL paths of sub-folders. And now there’s a large blob in your Git tree.
I have switched to doing something else: hosting images on Cloudflare’s R2 object storage. Unfortunately, they are rather annoying about how you use custom domain for buckets.
So I’ve bought the joodaloop.ing domain, and am using cdn.joodaloop.ing as a subdomain for media hosting.