Very small and soft (in the head)

Some­times even I have to in­stall some­thing on an Win­dows serv­er. Late­ly one of these things re­quired .NET 3.5. OK, in­stall it via Serv­er Man­ag­er and you're done, right?

Wrong. This does in­stall .NET 3.5 – but with­out any se­cu­ri­ty fix­es. These will ar­rive by the next morn­ing, so the box was vul­ner­a­ble. The up­dates don't even force a restart, so the box will re­main vul­ner­a­ble un­til some­body restarts ei­ther the new ser­vice or the whole ma­chine. Man­u­al­ly.

Ma­jor facepalm, this.

Fun with InoReader+Tumblr

I'm us­ing In­oRe­ad­er. I al­so like to look at lots of pret­ty im­ages on Tum­blr. (No, not what you're think­ing of. Not just that, any­way.)

That so­lu­tion is nice, but I have a cou­ple of small prob­lem­s:

  • Tum­blr's RSS refers to small pre­view im­ages.

    I want the large ver­­sion.

  • I want to skip en­tries with­­out im­ages.

    In­­oRe­ad­er can do that. How­ev­er …

  • I want to skip small im­ages.

    In­­oRe­ad­er can't do that.

  • I want to skip GIF­s: they're smal­l, low-qual­i­­ty, and rarely in­­ter­est­ing.

    In­­oRe­ad­er can't do that ei­ther.

Thus, let's build a cou­ple of workaround­s!

I've parked the sources in a gist for you.

ino_mark_read.py

This small Python script scans one of my In­oRe­ad­er fold­er­sm mark­ing all en­tries as read which I want to skip.

tumblr-rss-fullsize.user.js

This is a Grease­mon­key / Tam­per­mon­key scrip­t. It re­places all links to Tum­blr pre­view im­ages with the "large" ver­sion.

API keys

The whole thing needs a couple of API keys. There's no API to fetch these, so you need to do it yourself. The start of ino_mark_read.py tells you where to find them.

Another new home page

This time for re­al.

Af­ter a few goes at tech overkil­l, this is go­ing to be a most­ly-stat­ic home­page / blog. No database, no frill­s. In­stead, con­tent. I'm do­ing enough stuff that would ben­e­fit from more vis­i­bil­i­ty.