/Sandbox
This is a page for playing around with HTML, quick demos, etc.
Subfolders
Latest "home" Articles
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Webmentions
This is a convenience mirror of the Webmentions Receiver page, meant to accept webmentions sent to the homepage or domain as a whole, for technical reasons (ok, it's that the Webmentions WordPress plugin requires a WordPress Page, not a Post, to receive webmentions not directed at an internal article, but I can't add pages to the menus at present.)
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I'm a hog, and you're a frog: At Last, A Blog
Blog Intro
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 Indieweb chat.
Nothing on this site is open for public comment because I don't want to deal with spam, but for now, if you have your own website and are set up to send webmentions to reply to anything here, these posts accept them, with my manual approval before they're made public. We'll see how that goes. But, either way, it means I have finally rejoined the social web for real.
As this page will be my social nub, for now, please direct any site-wide webmentions to this page, https://michaelkupietz.com/blog/. The homepage doesn't accept them.
Blog Post Categories
/Caw
More /Caw pages:
More caw: FractalKitty, Capn James G, Artlung, gRegor Love, Thomas Vander Wal, Reilly Spitzfaden, Naty
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Globs O' Blog: Feed (all articles, by date)
This is (almost*) the entire contents of the site, all articles and blog posts from newest to oldest, with preview excerpts.
- You can see just the articles: on the Articles category page (not to be confused with the /Latest news page, which is more conversational than a list of posts and may include personal news about me in addition to site news)
- Just the blog posts: on the dedicated Blog or nearly-identicalBlog Posts category page.
*Individual movie reviews won't get posted on this page. I write too many of them, it would drown everything else out.
/Now
This is my /Now page, after Derek Sivers's proposal.
I've recently back in San Francisco after a few months on the east coast.
I'm doing a lot of generative art, some (but nowhere near all of which, yet) you see all over this site, as well as having a few pieces published as cover and internal illustrations for a not-for-profit poetry anthology published by UCSF's Poetic Medicine program at the MERI Center for Palliative Care at Mt Zion.
On the music front, for the last few months I've been practicing playing the lyre, as well as still regularly playing guitar, saxophone and clarinet. I have a 24-string lyre and expect to have a video or two posted in the reasonable near future.
Professionally, I've been working doing general business IT support, WordPress and FileMaker development for a local managed services IT…
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AI Policy
A. Overall Philosophy
I recognize the abuses of the companies currently producing the major AI tools, which I agree often crosses the line into plagiarism, and absolutely takes unfair advantage of existing manual content creators; but I also recognize the validity of an enormous number of art forms that rely on repurposing or mechanically reproducing existing content and/or stochastic generative processes: collage (in both the visual and aural forms), Musique Concrete, readymades in the visual arts, "plunderphonics", to a certain extent turntablism, even arguably photography, as well as music compositional concepts used in the fields of algorithmic composition and aleatorical music, such from composers like John Cage, Pierre Boulez, and even the very foundation of modern electronic music with Pierre Schaeffer's Etude Aux Chemins De Fer. A great deal has…
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Links — Mike’s Other Sites, Pages, & Online Mentions
More Kupietz for you? Links to Mike's Other Sites & Pages Site Article Syndication & Social Media Feeds
A good part of the articles on this site get syndicated to Mastodon on https://mastodon.social/@michaelkupietz.com@michaelkupietz.com and to BlueSky on https://bsky.app/profile/michaelkupietz.com.web.brid.gy. You can also follow me on those, in addition to the overall site RSS feed at https://michaelkupietz.com/feed, which you'll need to put into an RSS reader to follow. The site is also marked up with h-feed (info) for following in your favorite h-feed reader (recommended: Artemis or Monocle, with more listed on Indieweb's wiki.
Music & Sounds:GuitaristInProgress on YouTube - my old YouTube channel, mostly me playing sloppy covers on guitar. Once upon a time, some people liked this! I actually got fan mail a couple of times.
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Touch Me, Babe: Contact Information
If you have any questions or concerns, I'm absolutely here to help. To get in touch, come to San Francisco and walk down each street shouting my name. Here's a map.
Kidding.
Your best bet to reach me about my creative work or issues about this site is email.
Michael KupietzCreative Productions, Arrangements, & Operations in Arts, Technology, and Entertainment
Email: website@michaelkupietz.com (but **read the warning below)
Web: https://michaelkupietz.com
Phone: as a minimal disincentive to people calling me, please click over to me consulting business site to get my phone number.
Download vCard Business Contacts
If you want to talk to me about work, check my consulting business site for fuller info.
Warning: Before you email**Warning If you email me at the above address: As an anti-spam measure, you're going to have…
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Pardon My Placeholder...: Social Features will go here… someday
This site started as an archive for my various art projects, previous scattered hither and yon across the web. As I've been working on it, I've come to want to include some other, more blog-like and social features. What will that look like? I don't know yet. This page is here as a reminder to myself to think about it.
TL;DR: This site is about me. This area is the part that will be about talking to you.
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Lord, They're Everywhere: 88×31 Website Buttons
.entry-content img {border-radius:0 !important;}
In the spirit of keeping up with the Joneses I've finally created an 88x31 button for those wishing to link to this site. I characteristically have two nearly-identical versions which nobody but me will probably notice the difference between, I'm not sure which I like best yet. I may make more.
"Built During An Indieweb Meetup" buttons
I strongly suggest, if you use these buttons, that you use an [code][/code] tag to link them to https://events.indieweb.org.
Download PSD template: 
Inspired by something said during an IndieWeb meetup*, this button is, um, a "Holla Atcha Boy" button... built during an IndieWeb meetup, earning this page one of its own buttons.
*They said, "Holla atcha boy".
"Try CLI Mode" buttons
/Tests
This is my technology test page. I have a local instance of changedetection.io pointed at this page to alert me if any of these website features change unexpectedly, meaning that there is a plugin or theme conflict or some other problem causing unintended consequences across the site.
You really have no reason to be looking at this.
Photonic gallery
Cached photonic gallery
Dingbat
Details previews
Summary:
blah blah blah blah blah
Emgithub.js
File dump
Code formatting
/*
* Plugin Name: MK Custom Shortcodes
* Plugin URI: https://michaelkupietz.com/plugins/the-basics/
* Description: My custom shortcodes.
* Version: 1
* Requires at least: 5.2
* Requires PHP: 7.2
* Author: Michael Kupietz
* Author URI: https://michaelkupietz.com/
* License: GPL v2 or later
* License URI: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html
…
/Uptime
Hey there, good lookin'! These are handy uptime stats for all my websites and servers. As of this writing I'm using Hetrix Tools for these, and so far, liking it quite a bit.
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Read All About It: Latest News — What’s Up With The Site & Mike
I have
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All Work And No Play Makes...: HIRE MIKE! Professional Info, Full-Stack Web & Certified FileMaker Pro Development, IT Consulting, etc.
Some info about Mike's day job: certified Filemaker & Full-Stack Web development. Really you want to check out www.kupietz.com for that info.
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Waxin' and Milkin' All of Y'all Square Heads: Directory of Article Titles By Publication Date
This is the list of articles on this site, by the date they were first published, from newest to oldest.
There is also a Feed page, showing all articles in descending order of publication, but in more of a blog format, with article excerpts and greater detail than this list.
A log of all latest site changes & updates, which includes new edits & changes to existing older articles, is available on the Articles By Last Modified Date page.
/Flypaper
This was an old idea I saw on the web 20 or so years ago, and did for myself for a while: the "Flypaper" page, trying to find people you have lost track up by putting their names on a page for them to find if they do a web search for themselves. I had one for a while, too, and I'm going to update it and put it here. For now, this is a placeholder to remind me to do that.
/Quotes
Information Technology
"Prompt in haste, repent at leisure." —Jason Gorman, LinkedIn
"JSON made the web shittier in a way that XML tried and failed." -Tantek Çelik
"This is exactly the sort of scenario where I imagine my waffle delivery drone idea would be helpful." —James's Coffee Blog
"Omnes stulti, et deliberatione non utentes, omnia tentant." —Thomas d'Aquinas, Summa Theologica ("Fools and those who do not think try everything")
"Ergo, omnes stulti Iavascriptum tentant. QED." —Norman Birkett, LinkedIn ("Therefore, all fools try JavaScript. QED.")
"People do not love Slack but rather feel subject to it." —pacifika, Hacker News
"'Open Source is free as in puppies'... Don't adopt it if you're not going to care for it." -Kevin Marks
"“I asked ChatGPT”- ok well I asked the mycelium and it said to plant more trees and to…
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Turn And Face The Strange: All Articles by Last Modification Date, Newer to Older
This is a mirror, for navigation convenience, of the /Changes slashpage, which lists all recent changes to any content on this site, including new edits and updates to old articles.
A list of just the most recently created, brand new articles is available on the Newest Articles page, or in the column on the right-hand side of any page, under the heading "Newest Articles...".
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Hey You Get Offa My: Article Tag & Topic Index
Article Tags Article Topic index
/Devlog
- 2026apr19
- Disable old backwards-compatibility hack of using colons in title to break out titleprefix if no titleprefix meta field is present, from header-page-title-single.php and theme additions plugin
- Create usernote shortcode plugin
- 2026apr18
- Got recent changes to include snippets and their category paths, which was a deceptively huge PITA.
- Change get_the_term_list__if_descendant_of() so leaving ancestor_ids blank returns all
- Update site changes log to include all post types except hidden posts and snippets.
- Redo colon positioning in header-page-title-single.php to ignore http: and https:, since I'm now using them in Link posts. Please note posts use this, not entry-title.php or the wrapUpToColon function in theme additions.
- Make wrapUpToColon function ignore colons in https:// and http://
- Added Links custom post type
- Convert hidden posts to new snippet post type.
- 2026apr17
- Change all em on hero css to rem
- .hover-slide-item:hover > .slide-inner > .cat-links > .mmarker-child-a { font-size:…
/Not
I am not:
- a Master of the Mystic Arts.
- a "morning person".
- reserved about the things I care about.
- named Reg (at least, not yet.)
- out to trick anybody.
- losing weight like I would like.
- likely to put up politely with a huge load of BS. (Small loads of BS sometimes ok.)
There's probably more, I'll update as I figure it out.
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For users: Easily embed this site’s content on other sites
This site allows you to get the content of posts and pages by adding either /embed/ or ?embed to the URL, optionally including the post title, author, and/or tags.
This was inspired by a discussion in an Indieweb Homebrew Website Club Europe/London online meetup. I want to say shadowy web standards advocate Tantek Çelik brought it up, so, as these things tend to happen, I coded it up here while we were talking. It's discussed on Indieweb's wiki at https://indieweb.org/embed.
What do you mean, 'Embed'?Well, for instance, this post's permalink is https://michaelkupietz.com/?p=10887. You can see just the text of this post's content, without the sidebar and menus and other web page "furniture", at https://michaelkupietz.com/embed/?p=10887 or https://michaelkupietz.com/embed/?p=10887&embed, so you can theoretically include this page's content on your own site (long as you…
/Trivia
In college, I once won an ice cream flavor naming contest with "Cannibal Crunch Surprise".
I have solved a Rubik's cube in 40 seconds. I solve it in under 60 seconds pretty consistently.
Enough people have seen me play guitar on youtube to sell out a 2-week engagement at Madison Square Garden.
I have been 14 miles away from the nearest paved road. I walked there.
The longest straight stretch I have ever lived solely on what I could carry on my back, including all food, shelter, and supplies, was 3 weeks.
The longest straight stretch of nights I ever slept outdoors in a tent was 3 months.
The longest straight stretch of nights I ever lived on someone else's couch was 6 months.
The longest straight stretch I have ever been without a fixed address or direct phone number was 7 years.
I…
/Favorites
An incomplete list of my favorites of various sorts of things.
Movies Musicians Popular:- Pink Floyd
- Jethro Tull
- The Who
- David Bowie
- Cat Stevens
- Harry Chapin
- Maurice Ravel
- J.S. Bach
- Pink Floyd, Animals
- Mike Oldfield, Hergest Ridge
- J.S. Bach, Trio Organ Sonatas, played by Wolfgang Rübsam (Yeah, everybody hates this version, it's the first one I ever heard and I stand by it.)
- Special category: Bluegrass covers of non-bluegrass music
- Tim O'Brien - Red On Blonde - Bluegrass covers of Bob Dylan
- Luther Wright & The Wrongs - Rebuild The Wall - Nothing I can say will pursuade you how good this is. The liner notes say, "For 30 years, a great bluegrass album has been held prisoner by rock & roll. We've set it free." Pink Floyd's "The Wall" from start…
