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It seems Amazon decided to “deprecate” their GoodReads API in a very silent way. I use the GoodReads API to maintain my readings page and there’s a bug on the script. Thus, I went to the API documentation just to read the following:

As of December 8th 2020, Goodreads no longer issues new developer keys for our public developer API and plans to retire the current version of these tools. You can find more information here.

I didn’t know! I’ve wanted to drop GoodReads for some time now and this seems the perfect timing! I will probably just try to find some other service with a nice API or build it into my little CMS.

I must say though, that Readng looks quite promising! I will keep a look on them!

Do you have any recommendation?

Found this beautiful Pirilampos Mágicos (magical fireflies) from April 2019.

Blinking lamps circa April 2019.

A bedroom lamp pixelart thingy I did back in April 2019.

As you might have read on my meta page, I inteded to remove support for ActivityPub:

I am considering removing the ActivityPub support from my website. Right now, my website is able to provide posts formatted as ActivityPub entries; post to my followers when I write new content; and receive comments via ActivityPub.

What bothers me is that the logic is a bit flaky and it fails quite often. Besides, I only have 2 followers and one of them is a testing account of mine. Removing it would cleanup the code and possibly not hurt anyone.

I just did it for the reasons mentions above. It’s a bit sad, but it gives me some peace of mind nevertheless. Maybe in the future, there will be a more straightforward protocol that is more massively adopted that I can implement. For now, I don’t see the use for this website.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. － Carl Jung

Valeu a pena? Tudo vale a pena se a alma não é pequena － Fernando Pessoa

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. － Leonardo da Vinci

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. － Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Quartile 4 is practically finished for me. After a week of 4 exams, I feel tired. I don’t recommend to anyone having to do 4 3 hour exams in a week. Nor today, nor ever.

Even though I only had 3 courses, I had to repeat an exam from last quartile which just made everything more stressfull. In Portugal, if I had to repeat the exam, it would be usually 2 or 3 weeks later. Here, I had to go through over 2 months to repeat an exam and do it along 3 others.

I’m hoping these 4 exams were good though and I really hope I passed everything now. It’s been some stressful months and the covid situation is doing everything but helping.

I hope you’re doing well :) I am going to try to enjoy next week. Because in two weeks, more classes again. I wonder how the Dutch students live with no breaks in between quartiles!

Thank you for mentioning that! Just added a line to the post to remember people of doing so.

I just opened my website on Firefox and for my surprise, I discovered that the CSS image-rendering: pixelated works on almost all modern browsers, except… for Firefox. See for yourself:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/image-rendering#browser_compatibility

I’m sorry if you visit my website on Firefox, but almost all my GIFs will be blurry 😭

Edit: just discovered FF supports crisp-edges instead. Should fix it for now!

Hey! Thanks for noticing that. It’s fixed now.

I think you should do it, if you want! I will probably keep going using my “wrapper” and eventually consider a full blown CMS if it doesn’t escalate.

@BunnyCDN is there any way of backing up a storage zone to a local directory without FTP?