Could this be of any use with Sunlit?
Printed, framed and hung a couple of the free NASA posters in my study today. Really like these designs.
I joined Micro.blog in January. A lot has changed for the better since then. At first I was running into issues in both the apps and with the backend pretty frequently. More recently I’m finding both to be very solid. I think @manton has really done a great job in a short time.
A speculative piece but interesting. I tend to think any update this year will be minor (up to and including a revised keyboard).
The MacBook Pro we’ve all been waiting for might not launch this year – BGR
When are new MacBook Pros expected? From what I’ve read, not at WWDC (only a cheaper one there). I’m planning to upgrade mine this year but want to hold off until the next gen comes out.
Waiting in the Middle School cafeteria while our 9 year old goes through advanced testing. It’s as quiet as a library in here.
iPod Family Portrait (-1)
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On the left is the disk-based 20GB model, on the right is the memory-based 30GB model. My iPod Shuffle (USB stick) isn’t pictured. The Music folder on my MBP is only 1.5GB (it has copies of my faves, but I do stream a fair amount as well). In terms of capacity these are still viable.
In which I discuss Twitter, Flickr, Facebook and Micro.blog options: My social media conversion
My social media conversion status
- I no longer use the web UI or Tweetbot
- My profile now only contains a link to my site's About page
- I've unfollowed most people/companies here and instead have the ones I most care about hooked into Feedbin.
- I think I'll stop cross-posting soon and stopped posting directly several weeks ago
- I've asked several companies to make their important tweets available via RSS feeds. We'll see.
- I no longer post anything to FB
- I left most groups including the Mac Power User's Podcast group. If they ever switch to a more traditional forum system I'd be interested.
- ...but I still have to check the app periodically since the schools and HOA communicate over FB and a few family members post news as well
- I've stopped posting here
- If there was an ability to cross post out of the box I might do that selectively but I am not willing to put any effort into it
- I've un-followed many accounts but still check in periodically
Flickr
- I used to be a heavy user. If they restore it as a viable social media option with a photography slant I'd be interested.
Last but not least Micro.blog
- I'm on the cross-posting plan as some of the limitations of their hosting and apps remain a significant issue for me - I'm hosting my own Wordpress site
- That said, I'm quite happy with the community. I'll lose contact with a number of folks as part of the transition from the other platforms but I'm focusing here for social type interactions. It's worth it.
- Very happy that Manton no longer sees the world as flat (i.e. square photos bias)
I had forgotten how good Torchy’s Tacos breakfast tacos are. Hard to beat price too at $4 including coffee. If there is one near you I recommend trying it out. (TX, OK, CO locations). Ours opens at 7am.
Being lazy now: watching Real Madrid vs Bayern and the rain falling outside. ⚽️ 📺 ☔️
We have many comfy chairs & sofas in our house. But my son loves to nestle on the floor between the sofa, Fishman guitar amp, Keter toolbox of electronic parts and the desk in my study. I vaguely recall thinking laying on the floor was comfortable.
@macgenie @RosemaryOrchard @kitt Just had a chance to catch up on the two Micro Monday casts. The format is great and I enjoyed learning about you.
I thought this could be of interest to fellow Micro.blog’ers.
Seems inevitable that a nation-state will take out a chunk of the Internet at a time that suits them. There probably isn’t even a “launch” protocol for that switch, unlike ICBMs. A rogue could trigger it.
Suspicious event hijacks Amazon traffic for 2 hours, steals cryptocurrency
XCode project status: Source Control->Discard All Changes 🙃
Firing up Xcode for first time in a long time. Let’s see if I can create a Mac app in Swift…
Well this might be encouraging: SmugMug responded to my comments about Flickr (on Twitter, since I cross-post there). At least they’re listening.
Thinking out loud: ‘Cross-posting’ from Sunlit to Flickr could be interesting. Maybe they’d be open to a IndieWeb type Instagram role in collab w/Mirco.blog. Of course it doesn’t matter unless SmugMug revitalizes it first but the more open approach could really help them recover.
The Flickr news had me looking at my account stats there. I joined December 2007 and posted about 1,500 photos since. I stopped posting anything other than a few family photos in 2011. In the ~3.5 years I posted non-snap shots they featured 126 of them in their Explore section.
Flickr was a great combination of photo-enthusiast and social media back in the day. I made more ‘online’ friends on Flickr than all others combined. There were lots of interactions of substance and a wide international reach. Would love to see the social aspect revitalized.
Since 1942, Some Things Never Change
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I recently came across this family-hand-me-down magazine. Thumbing through it I was struck by how little ads have changed in 76 years.
As to why this is a family item, it contains a story about my great grandparents’ neighbor who poisoned his whole family.
2nd step in a possible move from Evernote to Apple’s Notes complete. After creating a Workflow for iOS to create a PDF from a web page and add it to Notes yesterday, I now have a Keyboard Maestro macro to do the same on my Mac. The Workflow was trivial, the macro not so much.
I was happier than usual listening to today’s Timetable. I don’t have the new version yet but its great to learn the changes to photo posting are coming out real soon now. 📷 Thanks @manton.
I feel like we need a campaign to get companies to provide RSS feeds of their posts rather than them relying on Twitter/tweets. I get some important info via these official tweets. Basically they need their own Micro.blogs that cross-post to Twitter if desired.