Shom Bandopadhaya

Long form guides on esoteric topics like themeing, keyboard mapping, etc.

Collection of photos shot with manual film cameras.

Aside from being a cyclical hobbyist I don’t blog as much as I potentially could because I end up posting something on Fedi and repeating myself feels weird unless it’s something completely bonkers that I want to capture for posterity. Last week I thought about writing an application that did just that and link it to this here blog. But the last few days I’ve been preoccupied with littleFedi. ...

The Fediverse is exciting, I’ve formed genuine connections with interesting people. GoToSocial got me hosting my own presence. And I hope littleFedi is what gets to hosting a community. ...

I’m NOT a morning person, never have been. I’m at my best from 10 pm to 2 am! Somehow morning larks get all the glory when historically it was us night owls who kept your butts unmonched by wolves! But, there are a few things I like about the morning… ...

… and I’m finally okay with it! ...

The story of The Hummingbird and The Hound, originally told in a series of posts on the fediverse. ...

So without making a conscious choice I’ve been using and loving some excellent Go-lang software: Hugo, GoToSocial, and Readeck. I don’t know Go but I’ve picked up some templating from customizing Hugo (which powers this blog), is it time I learned more? Let’s Go!!! ...

In an EPIC bout of yak-shaving I have reduced the build time for this static site infrastructure running on a puny VPS by a factor of 5. Come along on this undiagnosed journey. ...

Phanpy is an excellent front-end client for Mastodon compatible Fediverse instances that I use with GoToSocial. Here’s how I build the Progressive Web App (PWA). ...

I have a blog post titled “Photos meta data: the disjointed state of EXIF, XMP, IPTC in tools” that’s been a draft with talking points since June. The whole landscape is maddeningly inconsistent and eventually I’ll sort out my thoughts and harmonize my little part of the world and rant blog about it. But until then I finally have a workable solution. ...

From the very get go, this site has been written in markup and then built and deployed via CI/CD. As of today, through several iterations, the exact same thing is happening but all of it is happening on my own infrastructure via Forgejo. ...