Jack Platten

I come up with new and innovative ways to fix computers. j.k. i yell at them until they work Thoughts and opinions my own. You can borrow them though if you want.

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Longform Stories

Test Post

A post that tests

May 6·1 min read·6 words

Self hosting your PDS with Podman

A writeup of gotchas and other fun stuff along the way of deploying a PDS

Nov 24·1 min read·21 words

Comments API

On how I learned something new, and made my comments better in the process

Jan 26·4 min read·724 words

Optimizing Bluesky comments

using @atcute/client to make comments better

Jan 12·1 min read·9 words

Fantastic Favicons and Where To Find Them

Did you know that CSS in SVGs can use media queries?

Dec 30·1 min read·18 words

Verifying verification

alternatively: how I learned to love did:plc

Dec 3·1 min read·9 words

Blog, now with Bluesky comments

A show and tell of my new comments section powered by Bluesky

Nov 26·1 min read·17 words

Analytics Showdown

Some more analytics in play here

Nov 21·1 min read·8 words

Blog updates part 2

Pardon the dust, again

Nov 19·1 min read·8 words

On Bluesky

Some random thoughts on Bluesky (and Mastodon)

Nov 16·1 min read·9 words

Blog Updates

A quick update

Oct 9·1 min read·5 words

Sorry to RSS readers

an apology for the annoying RSS tomfoolery that's been going on

Apr 12·1 min read·15 words

Mastodon Stampedes

"fun" fact: each Mastodon server gets their own copy of your OG card

Apr 9·1 min read·15 words

A new brand

A new domain for the blog and brand

Apr 5·1 min read·11 words

Blog Setup 2024

A brief summary of the newly deployed plttn.me

Jan 28·1 min read·11 words

Pardon the Dust

More to come soon

Jan 27·1 min read·7 words

Editor Setup 2020

A quick summary of my current (at the time) VSCode setup.

May 26·1 min read·14 words

Yet Another Octopress 2.0 and TravisCI Guide

A quick (and outdated guide) on how to use TravisCI to deploy a Octopress blog

Jan 17·1 min read·22 words