vilmibmJul 14, 2023

okay hi I made a new thing and I'm pleased to announce it: https://blackout.tilde.town . It's a tool for making blackout poetry using nine million chunks of text extracted from project gutenberg.

It's both an authoring tool and an exploration tool.

It doesn't really work on phones yet is the one thing. I'll work on that next week ^_^()

I wrote a blog post about it: https://tilde.town/~vilmibm/blog/#blackout

if you make stuff with it lmk <3

#poetry

blackout engine

Show threadSteffi ✨🌒🌕🌘✨Jul 14, 2023
@vilmibm very cool idea. Wondering if maybe it doesn’t like Firefox? (Desktop) it just says “oh no.” When I try to load it.
Show threadvilmibmJul 14, 2023
@witchery huh, i developed it entirely in firefox. i have never opened it in another browser actually.
Show threadSteffi ✨🌒🌕🌘✨Jul 14, 2023
@vilmibm Hrm. Strange then. I’m not sure why it’s not working since it only has the oh no
Show threada very weeny construct 💀Jul 14, 2023
@witchery @vilmibm was working for me until a moment ago, now i see "oh no" with http error 500. maybe we all slashdotted it 😳
Show threadSteffi ✨🌒🌕🌘✨
@pho4cexa @vilmibm the infamous hug of death.
Jul 14, 2023 at 6:31amWeb
Show threadvilmibmJul 14, 2023
@witchery @pho4cexa OK patch shipped, i wasn't explicitly closing DB connections and i am now. hopefully that fixes it.
Show threadSteffi ✨🌒🌕🌘✨Jul 14, 2023
@vilmibm @pho4cexa it’s alive! Thanks! 😊