A Header Image for my Bandcamp Posts

While writing up bandcamp I decided I needed a header image for all my bandcamp blog posts so I created one; a combination of my profile image from bandcamp, the bandcamp logo and because I wanted it wider, an xplanet view centred on home (or at least the nearest airport)

image one – download my profile pic. from https://bandcamp.com/ajft as bandcamp-ajft.jpg
image two – find an SVG bandcamp logo and save it

Then investigate how to stick them together side-by-side and found montage(1) instructions, then realised I needed a third image, and them all to be the same dimensions. Image one is 640x640, so resize images two:

convert -geometry 640x640 1280px-Bandcamp-button-square-aqua.svg.png bandcamp-logo.png

For the third image, I used xplanet(1) and some ancient snippets from scripts used to created the images for my “where” page.

xplanet -config $HOME/.xplanet/config -geometry 640x640 \
	-color white -num_times 1 -date 1200 -radius 200 \
	-lat -37.933333333333 -lon 145.03333333333 \
	-output mbw.jpg

Then stick them all together:

montage bandcamp-ajft.jpg bandcamp-logo.png mbw.jpg \
	-tile 3x1 -geometry +0+0 bandcamp-hdr.png

…The Site

Vanity site? Technology experiment? Learning tool? Blog? Journal? Diary? Photo album? I could tell you, but then I’d have to kill you…

I experiment. I play. I write and I take pictures. Some of the site is organised around topics, other parts are organized by date, then there’s always the cross-references between them.

Its all been here a fairly long time. Like the papers on my desk, or the books on the bedside table, the pile just grew… and it all grew without much plan or structure. I try not to break URLs, so historical oddities abound.

Long ago it started as a learning experiment with a few static HTML pages, then I added a bit of server-side includes and some very ugly PHP. A hand-built journal/blog on top of that PHP, then a few experiments in moving to various static publishing systems. I’ve never wanted a database-based blogging engine, so over the years I’ve tried PHP, nanoblogger, emacs-muse, silkpage and docbook before settling on Emacs Org mode for writing and jekyll for publishing. But the itch remained… I never really liked jekyll and the ruby underneath always seemed so much black magic. So now the latest incarnation is Org mode and hugo.

A Header Image for my Bandcamp Posts
@ Adrian Tritschler · Saturday, Jun 17, 2023 · 1 minute read · Update at Jun 17, 2023 ·

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