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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.)
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.
More /Caw pages:
More caw: FractalKitty, Capn James G, Artlung, gRegor Love, Thomas Vander Wal, Reilly Spitzfaden, Naty
I'm currently doing a major refactoring of scripts on the site for performance.
At the moment, many features may be erratic or nonfunctional. Expect problems, things to not work when you click on them, etc.
I'll take this notice down when I'm sure everything is working again. Until then, apologies.
This is (almost*) the entire contents of the site, presented in blog-like form. This is all articles and blog posts from newest to oldest
*Individual movie reviews won't get posted on this page. I write too many of them, it would drown everything else out.
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…
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 art forms that rely on repurposing or mechanically reproducing existing content: collage (in both the visual and aural forms), readymades, "plunderphonics" even arguably photography. A great deal has been written about postmodernism's use of juxtaposition, rather than raw creation, as a form of artistic expression.
I make every effort to utilize generative AI for its ability to generate new, novel combinations or to quickly generate original content from precise directions, rather than as an autonomous content author or simple regurgitator of existing media. Most of my AI tool use starts with specific finished output already in mind, with the AI…
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.
Michael Kupietz on Bandcamp - My bandcamp page, where my albums will be released if I ever finish them. Nothing there now but some demos.
GuitaristInProgress on SoundCloud - My old soundcloud page, mostly rough demos. Does contain an early excerpt that I'm very fond of of "The Cadaver's Pavane" from "Five Themes In Uncertain Times", from all the way back when it was still "Three Themes In Uncertain Times".
Mike Kupietz on Discogs.com and Michael…
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 KupietzIf 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…
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.
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: 
built-during-indieweb-button.psd
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" buttonsThis 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.
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/*
* 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
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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.
This is the list of articles by the date they were first published, from newest to oldest.
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.
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.
"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…
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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I am not:
There's probably more, I'll update as I figure it out.
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…
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…
An incomplete list of my favorites of various sorts of things.
Movies Musicians Popular:
For confused first-time visitors and other people still acclimating, here is a description of these little tabs to the left, as well as some other features of the site.
Open "Expert Mode" CLI Navigation - this give you the option to switch your browser's display to an old-fashioned terminal mode where you may browse this site, view pages and images by typing text commands. Just like how we used to browse the web back in 1978!
Open Visual Settings - This gives you controls to customize the visual display of this website to your liking: turn up or down the brightness, contrast, color temperature, hue, saturation, dark mode, and earthquake. Settings are saved per browser tab, so they will be remembered for your whole visit.
Open My Eyes - Have you ever been engrossed in your work, when you suddenly realize someone is staring at your screen, watching everything you do over your shoulder? If not, this simulates the experience.
Open Help - This help popup, silly! You just clicked it! Do you not remember?
New - Draggable elements! Several elements on this website, including these tabs, this popup message, and the "Hire Mike" badge in the lower right, can be dragged around with your mouse, to avoid them blocking content. Positions are remembered per tab, so as you navigate around the site, they will stay in the same place for your whole visit.
Enjoy!
Are you sure you want to switch to viewing this website in the "expert mode" command-line interface?
This will switch to a terminal emulator, load this page, and allow you to browse this website and view its contents by typing text commands.
Plus there might be, y'know, some fun stuff hidden in there. Just for geeks.