Test, test, test.

All my life's a test. Sunrise and sundown.
testing through the evening 'till the daybreak rolls around

Once upon an Indieweb dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten CSS,
While I coded, nearly hacking, suddenly there came SYN ACKing,
as if packets gently attacking, attacking at my firewall ports,
"'Tis some webmention", I muttered, "SYN ACKing at my firewall ports,
only this and nothing less."

Eagerly, I wished the morrow, for in vain, I hoped…

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Once upon an Indieweb dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten CSS,
While I coded, nearly hacking, suddenly there came SYN ACKing,
as if packets gently attacking, attacking at my firewall ports,
"'Tis some webmention", I muttered, "SYN ACKing at my firewall ports,
only this and nothing less."

Eagerly, I wished the morrow, for in vain, I hoped…

Once upon an Indieweb dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten CSS,
While I coded, nearly hacking, suddenly there came SYN ACKing,
as if packets gently attacking, attacking at my firewall ports,
"'Tis some webmention", I muttered, "SYN ACKing at my firewall ports,
only this and nothing less."

Eagerly, I wished the morrow, for in vain, I hoped…

I've just posted an alpha of a small new WordPress plugin to my Github: KupieTools Usernote Shortcode.

Basically, I wanted to leave myself a note in a post, so I can see it on the front end when I view the post, but nobody else will. Now I can do this with [usernote]Note to myself here[/usernote]. It also allows specifying visibility by username or WordPress account role, like this: `[usernote…

Kindly pardon this test blog post, seeing if it gets pulled by #stream.

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Yes, here it is! I have started a blog page for thoughts a little too timely to be perserved as articles but a little too long-form to be spewed in…

The post At Last, A Blog appeared first on MICHAEL KUPIETZ ARTS+CODE.

This could be the last time, this could be the last time, maybe the last time, I don't know

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Long story short, I got a message from a user that audio playlists were working in Firefox but not Chrome. The Chrome console had an error that "jQuery" wasn't defined,…

The post Playlist shortcodes not working in Chrome because Lightspeed cache is set to defer jquery appeared first on MICHAEL KUPIETZ ARTS+CODE.

2026 May 9

Mike, Now With More Money

I'm working full time. As of a few weeks ago I've taken an employed position as a FileMaker developer for a large educational nonprofit.

I'm still freelancing a little on the side, keeping a few of my long-time clients happy in my evenings and weekends, but mostly trying to focus on the full-time job and getting life back on track after a prolonged…

#7 testing fed.brid.gy/ yo yo yo

trying to figure out how to get this thing to work.

Fediverse

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2026 Apr 4

This website is no longer accessible via direct links or webmentions from any sites listed by the personalwebsit.es "Personal website directory" sca^h^h^h, er, project, as that seems to me to be run by trolls. While I don't know these people and have never spoken to them, this weekend they went out of their way to personally insult me. A few weeks ago on a whim I made a move to…

Please forgive the spam. test 123.

#indieweb

_Once a month, someone in Indieweb hosts the "Indieweb carnival", a monthly theme which a bunch of bloggers all write about the same theme, and the links to posts are collected in a page together. This month's theme: Museum Memories (see the announcement post, and the roundup and recap of all submissions.)_

Like many people, I have many fond memories of museums. Here are some…

Slightly-better-than-it-should be tale of a mother and daughter breaking down on a lonely road and stalked by a monster. There's nothing here the experienced horror fan hasn't seen before—yet, for an assemblage of vaguely familiar horror tropes, it's a skillful assemblage, and the direction makes it stand out beyond what it might have been. Not a great movie by a long shot, but much better than…

News that seems Indieweb-adjacent: according to a study reported on by investment strategist Joachim Klement, among commodity imports, only oil, LNG, and iron ore shortages have a higher impact on EU inflation than coffee shortages. https://klementoninvesting.substack.com/p/which-imports-really-matter-for-inflation

_Source: Consonni and Magerman (2026) via Klement On Investing_

No word on…

Reddit collapses comments from blocked users so you have to click to read them, but does not hide them.

Add this custom rule to uBlock origin to completely hide…

The post Hide comments from blocked users on Reddit with uBlock Origin appeared first on MICHAEL KUPIETZ ARTS+CODE.

this is a bridgy test testing fed.brid.gy/ yo yo yo

testing fed.brid.gy/ yo yo yo

Coming from an alternative education background, I'm saddened to hear that Hampshire College is closing. I looked at attending Hampshire, and the friend of mine who I heard the news from went to the same orientation as I did and wound up going.

I didn't end up going there but always felt an affinity for the place. I believed in the model and in the need for small, funky schools, offering more…

Run this on the server for sql tuneup recommendations to my.cnf.

wget http://mysqltuner.pl/ -O mysqltuner.pl perl mysqltuner.pl

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A note to the very small handful of people who read and occasionally even repost the website blog items and articles that I've been syndicating from my website, where I'm currently writing this, to a small clickable link on a Mastodon post or a somewhat more human-readable excerpt on Bluesky:

As of today I will no longer be syndicating my content to my current Mastodon and Bluesky accounts at…

Here are some additional images I created while working on the featured image for March 2026 Indieweb Carnival piece "Museum Memories".

~ Click any image to enlarge ~ AI image copyright infoUnder current US copyright law, unaltered AI-generated images are not copyrightable. However, all AI-generated content on this site has been subjected to a subsequent creative process of manual human edits…

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