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god is in the details: Web Design—Adding Text Previews To HTML Details Disclosure Elements

Looking around the site, you might get the hint that I'm a big fan of <details class="detailsClassName"><summary>blah blah blah</summary> even more blah blah blah</details> disclosure elements.

For those unfamiliar, that's this:

Here's a title of a section

Here's where a bunch of information goes. Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah

It's true. I am.

But, I have one issue with them: sometimes I feel like they're a little nonintuitive. It's easy to miss them in certain circumstances, or maybe even not to realize they're clickable.

So, I came up with a way to make them show a preview of the contents.
First, you need the following…

By Mike Kupietz First published December 24, 2024Code & Algorithms1 Comment| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=12537 | Share this | Embed link | Webmentions are: on

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Think... Nah, Not Gonna Say It: Work-In-Progress Preview—#WrappedInPink

They've been doing this "#WrappedInPink Challenge" generative art meme on LinkedIn. Here's just a preview of studies of some things I've been working on for it. Not entirely sure what direction I'm going to go in yey.

By Mike Kupietz First published December 24, 2024Image Gallery| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=12512 | Share this | Embed link | Webmentions are: on

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Generative Mystique: Feminine Stochastique

About This Gallery

This gallery deals with the unavoidable stereotypes of femininity that one encounters using some current generative art tools ca. 2024.

Being trained on a society's art, there are two possibilities for generative visual art software: it can hold an unflinching mirror up to that society, including reiterating its existing biases; or its creators can seek to consciously tilt the output to favor what they deem to be better choices, which opens the whole project up to accusations, and let's face it, perhaps the reality, of introducing other biases. The unfortunate truth is that at the time, people never thought to question making art that almost exclusively reinforced certain notions (of femininity, or anything else). They did not consider themselves to be biased. So too, despite the most admirable intentions, it's honestly a valid question whether or not current attempts to right historical wrongs are undoing bias,…

By Mike Kupietz First published December 23, 2024Image Gallery| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=12455 | Share this | Embed link | Webmentions are: on

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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.

By Mike Kupietz First published December 23, 2024News & Info| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=12499 | Share this | Embed link | Webmentions are: on

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“I Realized Something Disturbing This Morning” by Allison Rossi—Incidental Poetry

Originally revealed at https://www.linkedin.com/posts/allisonmarierossi_allisonwith2ls-copycats-plagiarismgoals-activity-7276604068976816129-tV7b?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop:

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By Mike Kupietz First published December 22, 2024Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=12432 | Share this | Embed link | Webmentions are: on

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Their Generation, Baby: Gray Ponytails

The revolution isn't over.

By Mike Kupietz First published December 21, 2024Image Gallery| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=12399 | Share this | Embed link | Webmentions are: on

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More Wild Styles: By Request, Wild SF & Wild NYC (Work In Progress)

A cousin of mine was helping work on a volume of poetry and asked if I had more images specifically of San Francisco or New York City in the style of “Wild California” Studies — AI Generative Art gallery that they could consider for inclusion. I didn't, but I whipped some up.

I'm pretty fond of how a lot of them turned out, but, as with so many of these projects, I wound up making many that are visually striking but don't really have much artistic value beyond that, and the work remains to be done to winnow down all the striking images to the ones that really are special.

Until then, I'm so fond of them, though, that I thought I'd give a preview. Here's the complete output of those experiments, awaiting the best of it being culled down into the final presentation.

Right now…

By Mike Kupietz First published December 20, 2024Image Gallery| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=12360 | Share this | Embed link | Webmentions are: on

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Here's To My Sweet St. Nick: Rad Santa

Someone on social media asked for AI interpretations of Santa Claus. I couldn't resist such low-hanging fruit.

By Mike Kupietz First published December 19, 2024Image Gallery| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=12317 | Share this | Embed link | Webmentions are: on

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For Web Devs and Other Tool-Using Animals: Scripts to Analyze CSS from Firefox’s Javascript console.

When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary to understand why your wordpress site's freaking menus display fine when you're logged in as administrator but are completely broken when you're logged out, it may be useful to be able to easily compile all the CSS for the affected page elements for both the working and nonworking versions, and compare them to see what might be different.

Let me back up. I had a problem the other day where my Wordpress site's caching plugin, which performs various optimizations on my site's code for non-logged-in users, was adding some sort of broken CSS. When I was logged in, everything worked fine, but when not logged in, something changed somewhere in the CSS that caused some of my menus not to display. I had a rough idea of where the changed code must be, but no more than that, and…

By Mike Kupietz First published December 19, 2024Code & Algorithms| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=12305 | Share this | Embed link | Webmentions are: on

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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.

By Mike Kupietz First published December 11, 2024| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=12265 | Share this | Embed link | Webmentions are: on

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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 Celik

"This is exactly the sort of scenario where I imagine my waffle delivery drone idea would be helpful." —James Gallagher

"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

Humans, Society, and Dealing It All

"If you feel angry, resentful, or bitter... express it because that’s normal.
…

By Mike Kupietz First published December 11, 2024| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=12263 | Share this | Embed link | Webmentions are: on

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Bonus Gallery — Winter Monsters

As usual, when doing my gallery for #SaturdayMonsterChallenge — "Winter Monster", there were a ton of images left over that I liked but didn't make the cut, or weren't quite unique enough, or didn't fit the theme. There are those.

By Mike Kupietz First published December 7, 2024Image Gallery| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=12059 | Share this | Embed link | Webmentions are: on

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Baby, It's Cold Outside: #SaturdayMonsterChallenge — “Winter Monster”

Saturday, Dec. 7, 2024’s #SaturdayMonsterChallenge theme on LinkedIn is "Winter Monster". Here's what I did.

Bonus Gallery: Leftover Winter Monster Images

By Mike Kupietz First published December 7, 2024Image Gallery| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=11949 | Share this | Embed link | Webmentions are: on

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Mo' Bigfoot, Mo' Betta: Bonus Bigfoots

Working on the #SaturdayMonsterChallenge "A Connecticut Sasquatch In King Arthur's Court" I created a lot of extra images that I liked a lot, but which either didn't fit the theme quite right, or were too similar to others, or too different. Here are some of those.

By Mike Kupietz First published December 3, 2024Image Gallery| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=11880 | Share this | Embed link | Webmentions are: on

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You Can Take The Goth Out Of The Club...: Finding Goths in Ungothly Places

My friend Hellena Banner (from whom I cribbed the title of this gallery, with apologies) was doing a project where she was trying to put Goths in the least Goth-like situation possible. I took up the challenge.

By Mike Kupietz First published December 2, 2024Image Gallery| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=11695 | Share this | Embed link | Webmentions are: on

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#SaturdayMonsterChallenge “A Connecticut Sasquatch In King Arthur’s Court”

Saturday, Nov. 30, 2024's #SaturdayMonsterChallenge theme on LinkedIn is "Time Travelling Monsters".

Here's my interpretation: "A Connecticut Sasquatch In King Arthur's Court".

Bonus Gallery — favorite extra images

By Mike Kupietz First published November 30, 2024Image Gallery| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=11672 | Share this | Embed link | Webmentions are: on

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Error 404 — You Done Took The Wrong River

This site has no dang page at this URL.

img {cursor:none;} .si-sidebar-inner >div:first-child {display:none;}

By Mike Kupietz First published November 29, 2024| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=11501 | Share this | Embed link | Webmentions are: on

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Art Waits For No Man: On Time

I posted The Contents Of The Rest Of The World’s Dream Do Not Concern Me (or, Why I Didn’t Turn 40) and Day Nights at around the same time, and in making the featured images, used Stable Diffusion XL to create a bunch of images that I'm kind of fond of, all around the themes of time and calendars. Here's the leftovers.

By Mike Kupietz First published November 25, 2024Image Gallery| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=11374 | Share this | Embed link | Webmentions are: on

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LinkedIn #SaturdayMonsterChallenge — Mustache Monsters

One of the fun non-work-related things that happens on LinkedIn is the "Saturday Monster Challenge", a fun AI art meme where every Saturday this one guy picks a monster-related theme and people make generative art monster images about it. Today, as I write this, the theme was "Mustache Monsters", for "Movember", a global campaign where men grow mustaches to raise awareness of men's health issues.

It seemed like fun. I of course, couldn't stop with just one.

By Mike Kupietz First published November 24, 2024Image Gallery| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=11317 | Share this | Embed link | Webmentions are: on

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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...".

By Mike Kupietz First published November 14, 2024News & Info| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=11185 | Share this | Embed link | Webmentions are: on

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By Mike Kupietz First published November 13, 2024| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=11179 | Share this | Embed link | Webmentions are: on

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2026mar18
- Add fix for sections being duplicated when you have a type but no cat_id in othercatposts
- Added "latest blog posts" to sidebar
- Add admin settings section to specify which custom post types should appear in feed
- Forget custom post types in feed plugin... added to Kupietools custom wordpress settings plugin
- Create "custom post types in feeds" plugin
2026mar17
- added .wideleft and .wideright css classes
2026mar15
- Added webmention info to post meeta line
- Add a loop to dedupe the category list in othercatposts before iterating it; sometimes parent is specified but it's already a category for the post so it got duplicated.
- Add gradient to boxes on archive pages
- Created Kupietools Prettier Excerpts plugin with github gist found at https://gist.github.com/swinggraphics/4ca551447bec03da281424c4ff85dcfd
- Created Kupietools Prettier Excerpts plugin with github gist found at https://gist.github.com/swinggraphics/4ca551447bec03da281424c4ff85dcfd
- Created Kupietools Prettier Excerpts plugin with github gist found at https://gist.github.com/swinggraphics/4ca551447bec03da281424c4ff85dcfd

By Mike Kupietz First published November 13, 2024| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=11164 | Share this | Embed link | Webmentions are: on

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Images Of A Resurrection: May Your Tags Blink In Eternity

I had a lot of fun making the featured image for the article "Resurrecting the <BLINK> tag". Here's some of the also-rans.

By Mike Kupietz First published November 7, 2024Image Gallery| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=11108 | Share this | Embed link | Webmentions are: on

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In With The Old: Resurrecting the HTML <BLINK> tag

Back in the bad old days, there was an HTML tag called [code][/code]. It did this, which everybody hated because it was annoying, and everybody's web pages looked like this:

.blink { display: inline-block; animation: blink 1s step-end infinite;} .oldschool, .oldschool * {font-family:times,'times new roman',serif !important;} .oldschool:not(a), .oldschool *:not(a) {color:#000;} .oldschool a, .oldschool a blink {color:blue !important;text-decoration:underline !important;} .oldschool a:visited blink {color:purple !important;}

Hello! Welcome to Kupietz Arts+Code This is the homepage of Mike Kupietz where you can see all his art, music, writing, and code!

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An interesting bit of history, courtesy of Lou Montulli, early Mozilla engineer and author of…

By Mike Kupietz First published November 7, 2024Code & Algorithms| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=11057 | Share this | Embed link | Webmentions are: on

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Mike Kupietz, Arctic Explorer — Bio

Michael Kupietz (1848-1922) was a pioneering British Arctic explorer best known for his controversial claim of discovering a tropical paradise at the North Pole and his unorthodox expedition methods, which included training polar bears to pull his sledges while playing the bagpipes to "keep their spirits up."

Kupietz began his career as a professional umbrella tester in Manchester before becoming inexplicably convinced that the Arctic contained vast deposits of marmalade. His first expedition in 1880 was funded entirely through the sale of his revolutionary "frost-proof tea cozy," which he insisted was essential Arctic survival gear.

During his most famous expedition (1885-1887), Mike Kupietz allegedly survived for six months by teaching himself to photosynthesize like a plant, claiming the Aurora Borealis provided sufficient light. He documented discovering a colony of Portuguese-speaking penguins (despite penguins being native to the Antarctic) and mapped what he called the "Great Northern Hot Springs Resort," which…

By Mike Kupietz First published November 6, 2024| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=11023 | Share this | Embed link | Webmentions are: on

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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.

By Mike Kupietz First published October 31, 2024| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=10915 | Share this | Embed link | Webmentions are: on

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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…

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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…

By Mike Kupietz First published October 30, 2024| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=10885 | Share this | Embed link | Webmentions are: on

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An incomplete list of my favorites of various sorts of things.

Movies

Network

Musicians Popular:

Pink Floyd
Jethro Tull
The Who
David Bowie
Cat Stevens
Harry Chapin

Classical:

Maurice Ravel
J.S. Bach

Albums

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…

By Mike Kupietz First published October 30, 2024| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=10883 | Share this | Embed link | Webmentions are: on

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Think... Nah, Not Gonna Say It: Work-In-Progress Preview—#WrappedInPink

Generative Mystique: Feminine Stochastique

Waxin' and Milkin' All of Y'all Square Heads: All Articles By Creation Date, from New to Old

“I Realized Something Disturbing This Morning” by Allison Rossi—Incidental Poetry

Their Generation, Baby: Gray Ponytails

More Wild Styles: By Request, Wild SF & Wild NYC (Work In Progress)

Here's To My Sweet St. Nick: Rad Santa

For Web Devs and Other Tool-Using Animals: Scripts to Analyze CSS from Firefox’s Javascript console.

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Bonus Gallery — Winter Monsters

Baby, It's Cold Outside: #SaturdayMonsterChallenge — “Winter Monster”

Mo' Bigfoot, Mo' Betta: Bonus Bigfoots

You Can Take The Goth Out Of The Club...: Finding Goths in Ungothly Places

#SaturdayMonsterChallenge “A Connecticut Sasquatch In King Arthur’s Court”

Error 404 — You Done Took The Wrong River

Art Waits For No Man: On Time

LinkedIn #SaturdayMonsterChallenge — Mustache Monsters

Turn And Face The Strange: All Articles by Last Modification Date, Newer to Older

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Images Of A Resurrection: May Your Tags Blink In Eternity

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