{"id":3752,"date":"2014-05-05T16:06:58","date_gmt":"2014-05-05T16:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/blog\/?p=3752"},"modified":"2014-05-05T16:06:58","modified_gmt":"2014-05-05T16:06:58","slug":"introducing-semaphorify-info","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/2014\/05\/05\/introducing-semaphorify-info\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing Semaphorify.info"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/l-300x250.png\" alt=\"L in Semaphore\" width=\"250\" class=\"wp-image-3765\" style=\"float:right;border:0px;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/l-300x250.png 300w, https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/l.png 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> Quite a few months ago I was joking with Guy Serle of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mymacpodcast.com\" title=\"The My Mac Podcast\" target=\"_blank\">My Mac Podcast<\/a>, and the topic somehow turned to flag semaphore. I think I&#8217;d sent the guy an iTunes review in mores code for a joke, and then Guy challenged me to do it in flag semaphore. I figured it would be easy to find a converter on the net, but, for the first time in a long time, the internet let me down! When I couldn&#8217;t find a converter I registered the domain <a href=\"http:\/\/www.semaphorify.info\" target=\"_blank\">www.semaphorify.info<\/a> with every intention of getting a converter up and running in a few days. Then, real life got in the way, and the domain sat there for months, until yesterday, when I unexpectedly had a free afternoon, and I finally got my converter written!<\/p>\n<p>You can now go to the site and convert text to flag semaphore, play a crude animation of the signal, and even share a link to the signal. E.g. <a href=\"http:\/\/semaphorify.info\/?c=I%20love%20semaphores\" target=\"_blank\">this link<\/a> takes you straight to the conversion of &#8220;I love semaphores&#8221; to semaphore.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-weight:bold;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.semaphorify.info\" target=\"_blank\">www.semaphorify.info<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quite a few months ago I was joking with Guy Serle of the My Mac Podcast, and the topic somehow turned to flag semaphore. I think I&#8217;d sent the guy an iTunes review in mores code for a joke, and then Guy challenged me to do it in flag semaphore. I figured it would be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,12,16],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-3752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-computers-tech","category-programming"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7t9xK-Yw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3752"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3769,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3752\/revisions\/3769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3752"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=3752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}