I found the oldest blog I can remember writing in. On its about page, it says this:
I’ve tried making blogs before, but as with most things I’ve done I made a few posts and then was done with them.
There are older ones? Where have they gone?
I found the oldest blog I can remember writing in. On its about page, it says this:
I’ve tried making blogs before, but as with most things I’ve done I made a few posts and then was done with them.
There are older ones? Where have they gone?
#TIL #Friendica auto-splits long posts into threads when posting to #bluesky. Neat.
I tried to write a post/article today about a CSS-only theme toggle I made for my website. But rather than draft it in Obsidian like usual, I wrote it directly in Friendica. Then I tried to attach an image and the whole tab locked up and I lost the lot. Very disheartening. Then I wondered why I'm posting "articles" here when I have my own website. So now I'm finding my old attempts at blogs and newsletters and translating them to Markdown so I can host them all on my website...
I just discovered that #Friendica has a #bluesky connector, and now I've got a combined feed of posts from #atproto and #ActivityPub people. And I can post to both from one interface.
Neat!
Because my OBTF was so ramble-y, I'm going to accept that and even lean into it on my index cards. Then, I'm going to really try and implement a daily review routine, where I skim my index cards at the end of the day, pull out, digitise and re-word any important notes and write myself a special tomorrow index which lists what I need to be doing tomorrow. I don't know how well it's going to work, or how well I will stick to it, but I have the stack of cards now, so here I go.
My new idea for journaling and note taking is old news to most: Index cards! I bought myself a stack of double-sided, lined index cards from Officeworks, and I plan to try and take small breaks throughout my day and just write what's going on in my head. In the past, I've been somewhat resistant to pen-and-paper journaling, because I have difficulty trusting that as a storage medium, and digitising is a pain. But this time I plan to try a different approach.
Small update on my #obtf experiment:
It didn't really go so well. I did use it a little bit, but it was less "bullet journal" and more "rambling mess".
Turns out, when I write, I like to keep writing.
But, a new approach came to mind, this time without even reading something online. And I kind of feel like if that's what my brain wants to do, then I should probably give it a red hot go...
I stumbled across a new app for emotion logging/journalling called "Mojito". You choose from a pre-defined list of emotions, shake them up (literally) and it assigns you a cocktail. Apparently mine today is "Frozen " because I'm in a bit of a slump?
So, I like what I see so far of #atproto But I'm not sure if I like #bluesky itself Does that make sense?
... I might still have to wait a few years(!) before it's really ready...
My current obsession has been thinking about #ActivityPub and owning my own space and data. I've been tossing around ideas for how to host my own identity on my own server/domain while still hosting a static site on the same domain, as well as decoupling that identity from any particular app or instance.
... And you know what? #atproto used in #bluesky seems to solve all these problems (in theory - it's still in the process of being built)
The name for Emperor Palpetine's secret plan to create force-sensitive clones he could transfer his concoiusness into if he "died"...
In #StarWars canon: Project Necromancer.
In the writers room: Project "Somehow Palpatine Returned"
Some random ideas that have popped up are sort of coalescing. Into what, I'm not sure yet. But I fell down a rabbit hole, and this article represents my climb back up. As such, I wouldn't consider this a proper, professional think piece. Just some notes, thoughts and scratchings that I decided to share.
#ActivityPub, #Microformats, #Micropub... These all describe the same set of activities. So where's the service that lets me publish to my own static site via something like Micropub, with built-in interactions (likes, comments, etc) via ActivityPub?
I really should pack my own bathers when taking my child to their swimming lesson. I could wait inthe pool, I stead of sweating it out beside the pool...
I'm playing around with omg.lol, which allows you to purchase your own omg.lol domain, with a nice little markdown webpage builder thing, now page, blog, pastebin, persistent link manager, email and a bunch more. It's an intriguing little corner of the internet to call your own...
I kinda want to write blog posts, but I don't really know what I want to write about ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
If the #AppleVisionPro is the next "iPhone moment"...
Then I'll wait for the 3rd gen.
Or the cheaper, more open Android equivalent.
I could wait for Microsoft's answer, but it would probably be too late and fail to garner support from developers, even if it is better than the alternatives.
Most mood trackers I've seen just rank from negative to positive, and I feel like there's a lot of nuance there that is lost.
If I have a negative day, it doesn't necessarily mean I was ☹️. I might've been angry or irritable or just sick.
Has anyone seen any good alternatives?
It seems like a problem that is likely solved somewhere already.
So, as my own personal portal to the #fediverse, I'm selfhosting a single-user #friendica (friendi.ca/) instance. I'm still learning, but I can easily connect to #mastodon peeps as well as following #RSS feeds (and I'm starting to reach out and explore "forums", like #lemmy instances.
Oh no! My 20-year-old minidisc-capable stereo (https://www.minidisc.wiki/equipment/sony/bookshelf/cmt-cp500md) looks like it might have given up. There was an electrical storm yesterday, and one bolt of lightning did hit quite close to home, but no breakers or anything seemed to be tripped, and nothing else has malfunctioned. But when I try to turn the stereo on, the backlight does not turn on, it flashes "STANDBY" and then turns off again. Hopefully there's something I can do to save it...