I still wish I could batch all of my blog posts for a day into one titled batch, with the title being that day’s date. Perhaps I am being too picky, but when I scroll down my blog the dates above each post don’t look good. Titled posts aren’t much better. I could manually make it appear the way I want, but that is too much friction. I guess what I am saying is that I miss my old blogging format.
I got an idea. If you look at the Discuss link on this post, you see that it points back to the discussion thread on micro.blog. What if when you tapped that link on iOS it launched the micro.blog app? Right now it just opens the thread in a web page. On Windows if you are logged in to micro.blog you can actually reply and participate in the discussion.
You see, I think of micro.blog as a blogging platform and not as a Twitter alternative so I envision the blog is a starting point and not the micro.blog timeline. If one starts on the blog and I want follow up discussion, I should be able to make it happy. Adding a link like I did is easy enough.
Is Trump’s smartphone the most infamous in history?
The iPad and Drafts is evolving into my preferred blogging platform due to a shortcut I created that quotes text from web pages in the exact format that I prefer. I use Omnibear in Chrome on my notebook computers but doesn’t automatically grab the web page title, address, and selected text like the shortcut. I think I used to have a bookmarklet that did the job back during my earlier blogging days.
Oh, and the fact that Drafts makes it easier to link to pages doesn’t hurt.
The problem is, I don’t only use my iPad, so when I am reading on another computer it is a bit disruptive to have to switch computers to write a blog post.
It’s About The Thing, Stupid,
It seems to me the only way to change a thing is to find new people who are just focused on the thing and not on how to get rich from the thing.
Source: It’s About The Thing, Stupid - Writing By Frank McPherson
Jonathan Chait,
Judging by Niskanen’s overview of the landscape, it is difficult to identify any aspect of public policy in which the Republican Party is making the world a better place.
Source: I’ve Seen the Future of a Republican Party That’s Not Insane
Winner Of The The Nobel Peace Prize – People First John Philpin,
And when I ask myself ‘what can I do to be like them, I look at Xanthe … to all intents and purposes, growing up in the same village, knowing the same people, going to the same kind of schools …. I was like ‘them’. It’s just that Xanthe focussed her life in that direction. I didn’t.
Source: Winner Of The The Nobel Peace Prize – People First
If you like to read stories, and open to learning, I recommend John Philpin’s People First project.
It would be really cool if I could print a shipping label directly from Google Contacts.
Started the day drinking Peete’s Holiday Blend and now i am listening to Christmas music. I guess the Christmas has arrived.
It probably starts with listening to hear rather than listening to respond.
True today, true tomorrow.
Now that I my micro.blog has rolled over a year I am seeing the benefit of On This Day and it is one of my favorite features because it reminds me of what I wrote about in the past.
Does one need to quit Facebook or merely change how one uses Facebook? It’s like nobody has self control. When my smartphone rings I am capable of not picking it up to answer it, truly. It’s not that hard.
Chrome OS 71 is now on my Pixelbook. Most noticeable feature is the partnering of my Pixel 2 with the Pixelbook and the simplification of messaging as part of that set up.
Decades of data suggest parenthood makes people unhappy - Big Think
I see a couple of problems in this article. First is an assumption that happiness is “the goal.” Another is that the article seems to equate being happy and having a meaningful life and the two are not necessarily the same. I submit that there is more.
Came close to a repeat and rematch fantasy football super bowl, but close only counts in horse shoes and hand grenades. Another ffb season is in the books.
The Yoda of Silicon Valley - The New York Times Siobhan Roberts,
With more than one million copies in print, “The Art of Computer Programming” is the Bible of its field. “Like an actual bible, it is long and comprehensive; no other book is as comprehensive,” said Peter Norvig, a director of research at Google. After 652 pages, volume one closes with a blurb on the back cover from Bill Gates: “You should definitely send me a résumé if you can read the whole thing.”
At first this background image removal tool looked cool but then I tried it and found it only works on pictures in which there are people.
According to Spotify these are my top tunes of 2018. The problem with the list is, there are some songs in it that I don’t recognize, so I don’t know how Spotify creates it. It looks like a mix of some songs I do play frequently and potential matches. It’s an eclectic mix.
I’ve been groking Federated Wiki and building my site, but I am starting to wonder whether it is still actively in development.