Working on this #PetProject (#OSM, #LeafletJS and #data from the #police) to visualize the #road #incidents of the past 10 years in and around my hometown, where a #bike was involved in the #crash. The project is exciting, but it is frightening to see in whole how many incidents happened. This is scary. I'll post the link when it is done.

In @KelsonV's blog post about link trails he originally posted back in 2018, he describes the process of opening a bunch of articles from his social feeds to read later, and then having a hard time recalling of finding the original post that linked to it so he could give credit.

It's indeed not uncommon for me either, and now I was wondering how effective a browser extension would be that would track the source and context of links you click on, and perhaps extract OP, booster/reposter, datetime and visibility of social media sites whose structure it recognises.

Of course this would also be a privacy hell ripe for abuse if not handled properly... So I think I'll skip on this #PetProject for now; it's not like I need more personal projects anyway. ;)

And in the end it's more about getting important information out there anyway, and less about who said it first, isn't it?

Relevant gemini link: gemini://hyperborea.org/log/2018-02-08-link-trails.gmi

#linkTrails #SocialMedia #meta #metaData

Okay, so I got a rudimentary first version of #TootPortal working, which is yet another #ScratchYourOwnItches #PetProject.

It allows me to create a directory structure with simple #markdown files in it, which will be converted into #HTML, where each list item that refers to a toot URL (for now only Mastodon style URLs with numeric IDs are supported), gets expanded to the bare minimum content of that status, along with (optionally) any replies to it.

#coding #DataMassaging #DataLiberation

Put on some #MGS / #MGSDRV / #MGSEL #chiptune files via #WinAmp because that's the only #MediaPlayer that seems to support this #MSX audio format, plugged some headphones in, and getting ready to do a bit of related #coding on my #MSXplayRipper #PetProject. :)