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Darius Kazemi
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I'm the administrator of this server. https://tinysubversions.com is where most of my stuff lives. I make Hometown along with a bunch of other fediverse software […]

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Just added easy-to-read logs to the ActivityPub Fuzzer! Here's a log of the fuzzer pretending to be Bookwyrm, along with an example of what the Create(Note) and the Article review look like in Hometown.

Note the "read article" link, which is a Hometown feature […]

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A simple "log" page with a "Clear Log" and "Mark All as Read" button. Underneath those buttons are UI cards, each formatted like: title: Bookwyrm basic Article book review Software: Bookwyrm Time: now Content preview: [a longish excerpt from Moby-Dick with header html embedded] And "inspect" and "FSO" links, the former showing you the generated activitypub JSON blob, the latter taking you to the page on the Fediverse Schema Observatory for that particular schema. A Mastodon-looking timeline with a note with a cat picture, followed by a shorter post with Summary: "example bookwyrm basic Article book review (object.name)" And then a "read article >" link
December 4, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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Doing some dev work on Hometown and thought "Oh crap, I need to test in a local environment how Articles will render in timelines. But I'm not running anything locally that sends Articles."

Then I remembered, oh right, I literally released a tool for this last […]

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Screenshot of the ActivityPub Fuzzer. It has options to set a target inbox, send random schemas, emulate a Fediverse firehose, select specific schemas, and to post schemas to an inbox. At the bottom of the screenshot a schema titled "Ghost Article with summary" is selected under "POST to inbox" A Hometown timeline with a few test messages in it from a user called "Fuzzer". You can see the top message is an "example Ghost Article with summary (object.name)" and a "read article" expansion box beneath it.
November 19, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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lol, remembering I gave a talk at Webstock years ago called "Don't Make Stuff"

https://vimeo.com/209324581

I gave the presentation in HyperCard using stock HyperCard clip art. This slide aged well!
Me speaking animatedly next to a slide that says: Obligatory "America is Fucked" Slide with clip art of a US flag and statue of liberty and map of the western hemisphere
October 14, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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Free road sign if you want it. also comes with free bag of trash
A sandwich board from a road construction site, with a full trash bag wedged into it, suspended in a large bush.
October 11, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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@julian yup! here is Hometown consuming spoofed NodeBB Article posts in a local dev environment running nothing but hometown and the fuzzer
October 8, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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obligatory "the two genders"
Photo of the remote for a bidet. Two buttons are labeled "Posterior Rhythm" and "Feminine Rhythm"
September 17, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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So I'm improving Article display in Hometown.
@julian made this post:

https://browser.pub/https://community.nodebb.org/post/105824

`content` and `summary` are ALMOST the same, so my software renders repeated content. I'd like to be able to say "if content and […]

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A post in a Mastodon-like interface where the same content is repeated exactly twice. The first instance is in all italics since it's supposed to be a summary. The second instance is the content itself, repeated, but no longer in italics except the parts that are actually italicized in the original post
September 16, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Ok this is funny, I was reading Today in Tabs and it ended with a link to the story about the Browser Company sale, punctuated by a link to and excerpt from my 2014 satirical talk about how to innovate and get rich

Article […]

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"After creating nothing of value, Josh Miller’s web browser company was bought by Atlassian for more than half a billion dollars. Lol, they’re all rich now. Infinite future lottery tickets!" There is a link to the video of my talk, and a screenshot of a frame with me showing some bad math explaining that the value of community is $5000 a person or some such nonsense
September 5, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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Update: went with the self serve wide format at FedEx because I could same-day test out my concept for $5. When I do it "for real" I'll go to a nice local print shop.

Anyway, here's "Berimbau"
A 24" by 36" portrait orientation poster of the lyrics to "Berimbau" by Vinicius de Moraes. It's in a monospace but cursive font called Victor Mono, and I laid out the words to emphasize the rhythm of the poetry. Black text on cheap white paper, mounted on a blue wall with thumb tacks.
August 22, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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I had to stop everything I was doing today to make this.
Famous panel from Alan Moore's comic "Watchmen". Drawing of an older man coughing up blood on the floor. Caption overlaid, which is obviously edited from the original, says: "Heard joke once: Superintendent goes to principal's. Luncheon promised. Roast planned but ruined." The next three panels in the sequence from "Watchmen." Instead of the original text, the sequence goes: Panel 1: "Smoke explained as steam from clams. Principal sneaks out. Buys burgers to pass off as own cooking." This is superimposed over a picture of a mercenary holding a gun, the past career of the older man. Panel 2: "Superintendent confused. Expected clams. Principal lies: promised hams, not clams. Regional dialect. Misunderstanding." This is superimposed on a first person POV shot of the older man from the original panel, present day, bloodied and held up by an attacker, from the POV of the attacker. Panel 3: "House on fire from neglected oven. Superintendent asks what's happening." Flashback to the older man having killed his lover. Last panel: "Principal says, 'Aurora borealis.'" Widescreen shot, from POV of assailant, where the older man is thrown out a window, glass shattering.
August 21, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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I made this neat little e-ink display for my kitchen with bus arrival times and hourly weather. It uses an ESP32 microcontroller device and talks to Home Assistant.

More details here […]

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An e-ink display in a picture frame. It shows the current temperature and an icon indicating sunny/cloudy/rainy/etc. Below that it shows a row of forecasts for now+3hours, now+6hours, now+9hours. Below that it shows bus arrival times for two different Portland-area bus lines. At the bottom there is picture art of Lanino and Elnina from Deltarune, who are characters that represent the weather report.
August 6, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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I keep getting emails from "Portland Bureau of Trans."

which one of you is sending these
Screenshot of a Gmail notification on an Android phone: "Portland Bureau of Trans. News release: PBOT says failure of state Transportation Reinvestment Package will..."
July 1, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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Okay.
A tiny metal, official-looking sign planted in grass that says "Please keep off the art installation"
June 5, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Less notable but amusing to me is this image and caption, which taken together are extremely representative of me
Photo of a bald man with glasses and a big beard, squinting very hard at a little black notebook. The caption reads "Senior Software Engineer Darius Kazemi considers his notes while leading the panel portion of the first session."
May 20, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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What vibes do I give off?

https://tinysubversions.com/vibes/
A grid of 3 rows of 4 images each. The first row contains: Max Caulfield from Life is Strange, Johnny Gat from Saints Row: The Third, Sarah Kerrigan from Starcraft, Claptrap from Borderlands 2 Second row contains: Ancient greek double reed pipes, a Zhaleika (a Russian wind instrument), woodcut of Tarpa dancers from 1886 dancing to a weird wind instrument, a collection of various woodwind instruments in a museum Third row contains: A Game Wave video game console, an unreleased game console called the XGP, a Retro Duo Portable handheld clone game console system, and an original Nintendo DS
May 9, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Reposting a thing I made in 2017: the D&D alignment of each D&D alignment. (To be read as "Chaotic Good is the most Lawful Neutral of alignments" etc)
A visually confusing chart showing: True Neutral is Lawful Good Lawful Neutral is Neutral Good Neutral Good is Chaotic Good Chaotic Good is Lawful Neutral Lawful Evil is True Neutral Neutral Evil is Chaotic Neutral Lawful Good is Lawful Evil Chaotic Evil is Neutral Evil Chaotic Neutral is Chaotic Evil
May 8, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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@puppygirlhornypost2 visit Portland some time (from Pinball Map)
A map showing literally hundreds of pinball machines geographically distributed around Portland, Oregon USA
April 25, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Something I think about once a month is a poster from what must have been the 1980s that was in a pizza shop in the town where I went to college in the early 2000s. It was faded and blue by that point and featured an all American blond girl smiling and holding a […]

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Faded poster of an all American blond girl smiling and holding up a gyro
March 5, 2025 at 6:10 AM
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If people at #fosdem social web room want to see Hometown's Article support that @matt mentioned... this is it!
February 1, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Come to Portland, Oregon if you want a really wet copy of The Wiki Way
Photo of a soggy paperback copy of The Wiki Way by Leuf and Cunningham that's been left on an outdoor bookshelf with poor rain protection
December 14, 2024 at 6:12 PM