Shom Bandopadhaya

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

Collection of photos shot with manual film cameras.

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. ...

I wrote about my bookmark management journey and ended up writing a glowing mini-review of Readeck. Well, it’s been almost a couple months and not only am I still using it (more than any of the previous solutions) but also still delighted despite the hedonic adaptation. ...

See what had happened was, I accidentally saw my Fedi profile not in dark mode (basically how all adventures begin). Now I’ll tell you about a fairly small rabbit hole, in comparison to the other Yak-shaving chronicled here. GoToSocial allows customization through CSS at the instance and profile level. I had customized a few small aspects (borders, layout tweak) but decided to try on a new theme and got carried away with Yak-shaving. Then I was going to just throw the CSS into a gist, got carried away again and here’s a blog post. ...