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Dec 1, 2022

Blogrolls are back, and important in our time of online social diaspora. Here is mine with 155 blogs I follow, with a focus on indie sites.

A curated list of who I follow, with a focus on indie sites. Number of links: Table of Contents Indie bloggers I likeDigital GardensArt & DesignFood & DrinkBooks, Literature, and WritingEco…

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Creative way to paper windows in a closed shop. Tarrytown, NY.

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Posting a Note with a Shortcut added to your Home Screen:

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Here is a video of how easy it is to Like an article with the Shortcut:

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I made them because of how few options for interacting with Micropub there are on iOS. Shortcuts seemed like a natural solution.

I created some Shortcuts for #Micropub posting on iOS. Supports Like, Bookmark, Reply, Repost, Note, and Note with Image. #indieweb

iOS Shortcut Actions for Micropub posting

I recently lamented about how few options there are for Micropub posting on iOS now that Indigenous was pulled from the app store. I had a hunch that the Shortcuts app could be a solution since Mic…

Examiner, CNN, Politico, Gizmodo, Reuters, MSN, USA Today, Boston Herald, and Fox News, to name a few more.

I hate this trope. I learned about this from the news and have seen story after story this week. NYTimes, AP, WaPo, ABC, CBS, PBS, and more!

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What if I told you that government incompetence just caused the equivalent of a major chemical weapons attack in the center of the United States, and none of the newspapers, tv channels, or blogs are reporting g it.

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Went to Peekskill Brewery for dinner and had a tasty sour brewed with black currants and spruce tips. "River Currant" - Would drink again.

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Here is the updated Shortcuts link:

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And here is how easy it is to use on iOS

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Good news! I refactored this to work with the Share Sheet. Here is how easy it is to use on macOS.

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I made an Apple Shortcut to upload images to the WordPress Media library. It auto converts HEIF to JPEG so you don't have to. Just select the photos you want and they get uploaded. Check it out: cagrimmett.com/development/20

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Feb 11

Charlie and I went on a walk in the woods and noticed the Skunk Cabbages starting to pop up. Last year we noticed them on February 10.

@Bricin @[email protected] RSS owes it all to its parent, XML.

Dave Winer

@davewiner

Feb 11

RSS 2.0 which was 20 years old last year salutes it’s parent, XML, which is 25 years old today. A powerful family of open technologies for interop

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RSS 2.0’s 20 year anniversary was last Sep 18. http://reallysimple.org/twentyYearsAgo.opml

Authentication | REST API Handbook | WordPress Developer Resources

Feb 10

Making Paul Clarke's Falernum number 10

I put in a PR to update the Authentication section of the WordPress.org REST API docs that was approved and merged: github.com/WP-API/docs/pu Here is a link to the new section:

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Cookie Authentication Cookie authentication is the standard authentication method included with WordPress. When you log in to your…

Wow, the new Apple MacBook Pro with the M2 Pro chip looks and feels like the MacBook Pro I had in 2008, right down to the body and MagSafe connector.

Times and temperatures matter less than you think they do, too. So much variation between stoves, ovens, and environments. You'll stress a lot less once you learn to recognize when something is done.

Long Now Foundation

@longnow

A quote from Octavia Butler, reading "There's nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns."

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I don't know who needs to hear this: You don't need to measure with any kind of precision in most types of cooking. Some blogger made that recipe up. Eyeballing is totally fine. Baking, other than fine pastry, doesn't need precision either. But you aren't ready to hear that yet.

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Google's new AI tool Bard make a factual error in its first live demo Google pulled the video from YouTube and the stock is down 7%

Tonight I asked my wife if anyone at her company has mentioned ChatGPT. Not a single person. We work in such different worlds. I don't think I've gone a day without talking about it or Copilot with someone at work.

DALL-E is getting better at making images of humans, but isn't quite there yet.

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Sam Altman

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hello from redmond! excited for the event tomorrow

I'm on a Shortcuts roll tonight. Uploading media AND micropub posting.

I made an Apple Shortcut to upload images to the WordPress Media library. It auto converts HEIF to JPEG so you don't have to. Just select the photos you want and they get uploaded. Check it out:

Apple Shortcut to upload photos to WordPress Media Library

Tonight I sat down and figured out something that has been in my head for months: Uploading photos to my WordPress Media Library with an Apple Shortcut. It works on both macOS and iOS. I use the RE…

If you use WordPress, I highly recommend using Redirection (redirection.me) for your redirects and enable 404 logging. You can group the 404s by URL count and occasionally triage the top 404 URLs.

When was the last time you went through your 404 logs and added redirects?

After a year and a half, I think we finally found the winning combo for baby puke and poop stains: - Spray with Puracy while still fresh and let sit - Regular detergent + Oxiclean odorblaster + 20 Mule Team Borax - 30 minute pre-soak cycle, hot water - Extra rinse

Feb 5

Weekly update. I've been at it consistently for a year now!

After I posted last week’s update, we went to Beacon, NY, and had a nice family day exploring parts of Main St that we haven’t gone to yet. Charlie walked almost a mile on his own and o…

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Feb 5

How do you start version controlling a project? British dev: "Use git innit"

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George Mount

@gjmount

Feb 5

Wth is init? Like cockney Python or something?

Feb 4

Forget improv classes. Drive a car with a grumpy toddler in the back seat. You’ll figure out how to fill the silences pretty quickly since the stakes are higher.

Year Progress

@year_progress

Feb 3

Even if the price (which we still don't know, by the way) turns out to be something symbolic, like $5 a year, I'm not going to pay. To be clear: I have the money. I'm not asking for your help in paying it. No. It's just that the Twitter management can eat shit.

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It is amusing to me that ChatGPT is running on Microsoft’s Azure infrastructure and Microsoft Teams has already integrated it into the product. Every company I know that uses Windows, Teams, and Outlook are the absolute last ones I’d expect to embrace AI in their workflows.

Feb 3

I have some birria broth leftover from tacos. What is a good way to use it?

Christina Warren

@film_girl

Feb 3

$100/month for API access is a joke. I’ll never pay that for personal projects. You know who will pay? Scammers. With stolen credit cards and IDs.

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Elon Musk

@elonmusk

Feb 2

Replying to @BillyM2k and @ericnakagawa

Yeah, free API is being abused badly right now by bot scammers & opinion manipulators. There’s no verification process or cost, so easy to spin up 100k bots to do bad things. Just ~$100/month for API access with ID verification will clean things up greatly.

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Tiffany Bridge

@tiffany

Feb 2

Your sporadic reminder that backups of your website are a belt-and-suspenders situation. It's not enough that your host backs it up. You have to also back it up yourself. What if your host's backups are compromised in some way? What if you lose access to your hosting account?

The week of 50F (10C) weather has the crocuses popping up! They are in for a rough time when the temperature hits 6F (-14.4C) tomorrow.