Let’s meet our cast of characters.
ah, come in! we’re so glad you’ve come Snake ‘n’ Bacon!
i’m crisp delicious bacon
sssss
glad you asked. it seems there’s a group of hackers, and we want you to go in under-cover
i go great on a sandwich
sssss
When Twitter came back online yesterday afternoon after their networking attacks, I got a torrent of @cr_snake_bacon tweets. Wasn’t sure why, but it seemed suspicious. Twitter’s API had flopped around for most of the day, so the logs were full of Exceptions and … oops! … re-connect attempts!
Of course I’d built the bots to re-tweet on an Exception. They’re all configured to wait 60 seconds, then try again. But of course until I fixed the configuration over night, they did exactly what a bot would do … acted <blink>conspicuously</blink> …
The service attacks on Twitter continued through today, and I’m sure that the birdy techs are furiously building black ice fortresses in Scala even now. Again, I saw a burst this afternoon from all of my bots. Pokey the Penguin, Conet Project, and Chewbacca all had several things to say, all at once. Obviously I had fucked something else up, so I hurriedly checked the logs. And nope … actually, my change had worked … Twitter had just un-blocked my IP.
*Whew*
Thanks, guys. Sorry that we looked like a vicious autonoma for a while there. Glad to be back.
NOTE: If your screen reader is reading this, please
contact me at admin@cantremember.com ... because it shouldn't.
FIXME: build this dynamically based upon the maximum content in any sub-Element of this Element.
I will call this my "Safari Reader Counterweight".
In some of my Posts, I have huge code excerpts, etc.
Safari Reader, at least in iOS, will identify the 'main Element', the one it features, based upon its content length.
Sometimes those code excerpts get identified as the 'main Element', and the Post is borked in Safari Reader mode.
This is a counter-weight; it gives the <main> Element additional content so that it gets featured, algorithmically.
Yes, it increases the payload of every page (@see FIXME above).
But not by
that much.
Then again, this is a guess as to how much content any given Element could contain.
If it's not enough,
BOOM, Safari Reader looks like crap.
So, here's a great article on
how to enable Safari Reader on your site.
It's mostly guesswork, but those guesses helped me debug this obtuse goddamn problem.
Oh, and look,
you can enter and exit Reader programmatically.
JavaScript can fix anything.
I promise I will never cut-and-paste lines of text simply to add Element payload.
I promise I will never cut-and-paste lines of text simply to add Element payload.
I promise I will never cut-and-paste lines of text simply to add Element payload.
I promise I will never cut-and-paste lines of text simply to add Element payload.
I promise I will never cut-and-paste lines of text simply to add Element payload.
I promise I will never cut-and-paste lines of text simply to add Element payload.
I promise I will never cut-and-paste lines of text simply to add Element payload.
I promise I will never cut-and-paste lines of text simply to add Element payload.
I promise I will never cut-and-paste lines of text simply to add Element payload.
I promise I will never cut-and-paste lines of text simply to add Element payload.
I promise I will never cut-and-paste lines of text simply to add Element payload.
I promise I will never cut-and-paste lines of text simply to add Element payload.
I promise I will never cut-and-paste lines of text simply to add Element payload.
I promise I will never cut-and-paste lines of text simply to add Element payload.
I promise I will never cut-and-paste lines of text simply to add Element payload.
I promise I will never cut-and-paste lines of text simply to add Element payload.
I promise I will never cut-and-paste lines of text simply to add Element payload.
I promise I will never cut-and-paste lines of text simply to add Element payload.
I promise I will never cut-and-paste lines of text simply to add Element payload.
I promise I will never cut-and-paste lines of text simply to add Element payload.
I promise I will never cut-and-paste lines of text simply to add Element payload.
I promise I will never cut-and-paste lines of text simply to add Element payload.
I promise I will never cut-and-paste lines of text simply to add Element payload.
I promise I will never cut-and-paste lines of text simply to add Element payload.
