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I am, once again, a man who cares about JSON-LD

I am down a deep, deep rabbithole where I'm about to consider deploying a graph-db in order that I can build my band's static website send help

This seems like it would be an unsupported configuration on Netlify

Chekhov's JSON

I have just normalised (mostly by hand) dozens of YAML files. This endeavour is either very stupid or fiendishly clever (or maybe both). It's certainly way out of hand

Whatever, there's certainly an entertaining blogpost in this

And probably an @emf talk

We may discover, as we so often do, that my primary purpose is to serve as a warning to others

This is proving to be a very stupid idea, but rarely have I let that thwart me in the past

Doing some fucking arcane shit over here, lads. Summoning demons with #JavaScript

Turns out referential integrity is really hard to keep track of with hand-crafted artisan YAML, and there's a reason why we have databases

And now I am knee-deep in #schema.org and #StructuredData. What else would I be doing the day before Christmas Eve?

Attempting to find out if Netlify can handle content-negotiation for my static site (I'm aware this is a profoundly stupid notion), send help

I have solved (hah!) this intermediate problem by building a bespoke #Python SSG purely for the #LinkedData

https://github.com/rawfunkmaharishi/data/blob/main/README.md

And now I get to generate the JSON-LD for our recordings

https://schema.org/MusicAlbum
https://schema.org/MusicRecording

There's every chance the actual website never gets completed because I've burned all my energy on all this #LinkedData

First rough-cut of the website https://rawfunkmaharishi.netlify.app/ (based off the data here: https://json.rawfunkmaharishi.uk/gigs.json)

The design is a bit ropey, and will change massively when we decide on the cover art for the new record, but all the content is there, I think

The OpenGraph tags are working, though

Let's try another one: https://rawfunkmaharishi.netlify.app/gigs/2023/01/12/luna/

Shit, just thought of something: my new fancy multi-tier arrangement is going to make our legendary Book The Band By #PullRequest workflow a lot more complicated https://github.com/rawfunkmaharishi/website-2018/blob/master/gigs/_posts/HOW_TO_BOOK_THE_BAND.md

I hasten to point out that nobody, in the 8 years this has been live, has ever attempted to book the band by #PullRequest

We did once get on the front page of Paul Graham's Awful Orange Website, though https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11149584

Man, fuck those guys

Fuck I really hate JavaScript

Love to type `image` in CSS then wonder why nothing's working as expected

Been playing around with https://flickity.metafizzy.co/
https://rawfunkmaharishi.netlify.app/

So, today, while I've been staying indoors recovering from a cold, I have built:

"Share on #Mastodon" buttons:

https://rawfunkmaharishi.netlify.app/records/re:designed/
https://rawfunkmaharishi.netlify.app/gigs/2023/03/09/luna/

https://github.com/rawfunkmaharishi/website-2023/blob/main/rfm/src/components/ShareThis.astro

And some Calendar Feeds:

https://rawfunkmaharishi.netlify.app/gigs/
https://rawfunkmaharishi.netlify.app/gigs/qr/

https://github.com/rawfunkmaharishi/website-2023/blob/main/rfm/src/pages/gigs/rss.xml.js
https://github.com/rawfunkmaharishi/website-2023/blob/main/rfm/src/pages/gigs/calendar.ics.js

I have a question, though: on mobile, when I click one of these buttons, they acquire the `:hover` pseudo-class (and hence change colour), and then they retain it until I click somewhere else. Is there any way to make them give it up automatically after a timeout?

I need something like `element.removeHover()` at this point here where I hide the tooltip https://github.com/rawfunkmaharishi/website-2023/blob/main/rfm/src/components/CalendarLinks.astro#L49 but I've tried a lot of things following a lot of Googling and nothing worked

Started writing a #blogpost about this whole ridiculous endeavour