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Chuck Grimmett
@cagrimmett
On the Special Projects Team at . I don't have a newsletter, subscribe to my RSS feed. Mastodon: @[email protected]
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Creative way to paper windows in a closed shop. Tarrytown, NY.
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Posting an image with a note:
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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.
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Examiner, CNN, Politico, Gizmodo, Reuters, MSN, USA Today, Boston Herald, and Fox News, to name a few more.
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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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Finished product.
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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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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.
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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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Making Paul Clarke's Falernum number 10
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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.
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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.
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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%
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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.
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DALL-E is getting better at making images of humans, but isn't quite there yet.
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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:
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When was the last time you went through your 404 logs and added redirects?
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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
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Weekly update. I've been at it consistently for a year now!
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How do you start version controlling a project?
British dev: "Use git innit"
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Wth is init? Like cockney Python or something? ![😏](https://webcf.waybackmachine.org/web/20230212222238im_/https://abs-0.twimg.com/emoji/v2/svg/1f60f.svg)
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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.
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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.
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I have some birria broth leftover from tacos. What is a good way to use it?
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$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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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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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?
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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.
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When ChatGPT is over capacity, it should at least let you log in see your previous chats while preventing new ones.
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