I've been reviewing all my old projects trying to figure out which were my favourites and as part of that re-found all my "making a thing a day" experiments, including #makevember (make something every day in November) and #mayke (same, but only if you feel like it, and in May):

Ma(y)ke Manifesto
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Grasp the means of production and Make something, big or tiny, every day in May unless You want to slack off for the day. There is no fayle, only Mayke.

The idea is to carve out part of your day for making, to keep thinking creatively even when you have no time or work is feeling like it's subsuming everything else. I did it for a while in 2017 and 2018 having run into @jasonmade's version where he kept it up for entire year (and he's brilliant), and then did a bit more #mayke and #makevember on odd years.

Anyway I had a Tumblr of the stuff I made and Tumblr now makes you login after a few scrolls and also thought 3 or 4 of my makes were NSFW(😞). But Tumblr does have an export, hooray! However the export is weirdly broken - specifically: all media links were a directory below where they should be and all videos were missing a dot before the suffix. Also you don't get a nice index page. A weird and half-arsed implementation, but, I did get all my stuff back, which is nice.

I bodged around with BeautifulSoup to get something I didn't completely hate. Here's some basic python code in case it's useful to someone (there must be something out there already, but I couldn't find it: this code is bad and I had to hand-edit the result a little).

I've put it on my server. A lot of it is missing and exists only on Twitter. Not sure it's worth digging all that out, but maybe.

Here's the one I was most surprised that worked.

(Wordpress won't allow me to embed that video without upgrading). Next I want to move this blog off Wordpress.