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title: Obscure features of JPEG
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author: Chris Hodapp
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date: November 24, 2011
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tags: Technobabble, jpeg, image_compression
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*(This is a modified version of what I wrote up at work when I saw
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title: Hello, World (from Jekyll)
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title: Hello, World (from Jekyll) (then from Hakyll)
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author: Chris Hodapp
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date: June 4, 2016
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Here goes another migration of my sparse content from the past 8 years. This time, I'm giving up my Wordpress instance that I've migrated around 3 or 4 times (from wordpress.com, then Dreamhost, then Linode, then tortois.es), and completely failed to migrate this time (I neglected to back up Wordpress' MySQL tables). I still have an old XML backup, but it's such a crufty mess at this point that I'd rather start fresh and import in some old content.
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I started this post in February 2014. Actually, I might have started
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it in July 2013 (while sitting in a Bruegger's Bagels on the same day
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that I met up with two people from Urbanalta in what would later
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become my full-time job, to be precise). I really don't remember.
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Wordpress is a fine platform and it produces some beautiful results. However, I feel like it is very heavy and complex for what I need, and I have gotten got myself into many train-wrecks and rabbit-holes trying to manage aspects of its layout and behavior and media handling.
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Here goes another migration of my sparse content from the past 8
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(er... 10) years. This time, I'm giving up my Wordpress instance that
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I've migrated around 3 or 4 times (from wordpress.com, then Dreamhost,
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then Linode, then tortois.es), and completely failed to migrate this
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time (I neglected to back up Wordpress' MySQL tables). I still have
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an old XML backup, but it's such a crufty mess at this point that I'd
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rather start fresh and import in some old content.
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My nose is already buried in Emacs for most else that I write. It's the editor I work most quickly in. I'm already somewhat familiar with git. So, I am giving [Jekyll](http://jekyllrb.com/) a try. Having a static site pre-generated from Markdown just seems like it would fit my workflow better, and not require me to switch to a web-based editor. I'm going to have to learn some HTML and CSS anyway.
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Wordpress is a fine platform and it produces some beautiful results.
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However, I feel like it is very heavy and complex for what I need, and
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I have gotten got myself into many train-wrecks and rabbit-holes
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trying to manage aspects of its layout and behavior and media
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handling.
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(I phrase this as if it were a brilliant flash of insight on my part. No, it's something I started in July and then procrastinated on until now, when my Wordpress has been down for months.)
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My nose is already buried in Emacs for most else that I write. It's
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the editor I work most quickly in. I'm already somewhat familiar with
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git. So, I am giving [Jekyll](http://jekyllrb.com/) a try *(later
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note: now using [Hakyll](https://jaspervdj.be/hakyll/) instead.)*.
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Having a static site pre-generated from Markdown just seems like it
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would fit my workflow better, and not require me to switch to a
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web-based editor. I'm going to have to learn some HTML and CSS
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anyway.
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A vaguely relevant [issue](https://github.com/joyent/smartos-live/issues/275) just steered me to the existence of [TRAMP](https://www.gnu.org/software/tramp/) which allows me to edit remote files in Emacs. I just did *C-x C-f* `/ssh:username@whatever.com:/home/username` from a stock Emacs installation, and now I'm happily editing this Markdown file, which is on my VPS, from my local Emacs. For some reason, I find this incredibly awesome, even though things like remote X, NX, RDP, and sshfs have been around for quite some time now. (When stuff starts screwing up, M-x tramp-clean-up-all-connection seems to help a bit.)
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(I phrase this as if it were a brilliant flash of insight on my part.
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No, it's something I started in July and then procrastinated on until
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now, when my Wordpress has been down for months.)
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I collect lots of notes and I enjoy writing and explaining, so why don't I maintain a blog where I actually post more often than once every 18 months? I don't really have a good answer. I just know that this crosses my mind about once a week. But okay, Steve Yegge, you get [your wish](https://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/you-should-write-blogs) but only because I found [what you wrote](https://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/tour-de-babel#TOC-C-) about C++ to be both funny and appropriate.
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*(And then procrastinated another 2 years for good measure.)*
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Here's a script I was using to convert links from some other failed-Markdown-conversion from earlier:
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{% highlight python %}
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import re, sys
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A vaguely relevant
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[issue](https://github.com/joyent/smartos-live/issues/275) just
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steered me to the existence of
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[TRAMP](https://www.gnu.org/software/tramp/) which allows me to edit
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remote files in Emacs. I just did *C-x C-f*
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`/ssh:username@whatever.com:/home/username` from a stock Emacs
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installation, and now I'm happily editing this Markdown file, which is
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on my VPS, from my local Emacs. For some reason, I find this
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incredibly awesome, even though things like remote X, NX, RDP, and
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sshfs have been around for quite some time now. (When stuff starts
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screwing up, M-x tramp-clean-up-all-connection seems to help a bit.)
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def repl(m):
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return "[%s](%s)" % (m.group(2), m.group(1))
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urlRe = re.compile(r'<a href="([^"]+)">([^<]+)</a>')
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for line in sys.stdin:
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n = 1
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while (n > 0): (line, n) = urlRe.subn(repl, line)
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sys.stdout.write(line)
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{% endhighlight %}
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It mostly just turns HTML links to Markdown ones. Simple, but I find it useful. Someone else probably knows a Python one-liner to do it. Whatever.
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Test code stuff:
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{% gist 8874941 %}
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To-do list items:
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- Learn some freaking CSS. (Or [SASS](http://sass-lang.com/)?)
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- Read [Building a Blog with Jekyll](http://flippinawesome.org/2013/10/28/building-a-blog-with-jekyll/)
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- Install markdown mode for Emacs.
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- Figure out how to sensibly get image thumbnails. (Or, [do it from Flickr](http://blog.pixarea.com/2012/07/fetch-images-from-flickr-to-show-in-octopress-slash-jekyll)? Or [here](http://www.marran.com/tech/integrating-flickr-and-jekyll/))
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I collect lots of notes and I enjoy writing and explaining, so why
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don't I maintain a blog where I actually post more often than once
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every 18 months? I don't really have a good answer. I just know that
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this crosses my mind about once a week. But okay, Steve Yegge, you
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get
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[your wish](https://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/you-should-write-blogs)
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but only because I found
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[what you wrote](https://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/tour-de-babel#TOC-C-)
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about C++ to be both funny and appropriate.
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