📷 #mbApr Day 12
Would you believe this was taken inside at Caesar’s Palace? It’s like magic!
I just updated my ‘MB Photoblogger’ shortcut to version 1.2:
- Adjusted the composition of the final text to display better in Mastodon clients (image on the bottom, thanks @burk)
- Split up the RSS results to make it easier to determine the day’s prompt, and double-check that it’s for the correct day
- Simplified how to customize the title of each photoblog post, which is done upon first setup but can be changed at any point
Get it from the HeyDingus Shortcuts Library.
📷 #mbApr Day 11
My heart lives at the intersection of rock and sky.
🆕📝 Edelrid’s Design Team Is at the Top of Their Game
When you trust your life to your climbing gear, it's nice to know that someone's put a lot of thought into how it works.
I’ve been using Things for — goodness — 7 years now and every time I save a task with the share extension I think, “Surely @things@mastodon.online will add ‘When?’ menu so I can set a due date on this task soon.” And yet, here we are! Line me up for that football kick again, Lucy!
And one more change that I need some feedback on… I figured out how to do the gradient blockquote style I’ve been trying to implement. But I’m afraid it might be “too much”. What do y’all think?
Been playing with CSS today and tidying up some corners of the website.
Very thankful to @garritfra@fosstodon.org who posted about how to implement a DuckDuckGo search bar on your website. I’ve never been happy with Blot’s search tool and wanted to use DDG for a while, but never figured out how. This was drop-in perfect.
Let’s try this again! I just updated my ‘📣 Publish Quote’ shortcut to version 2.1:
- Fixed a couple of bugs related to variables incorrectly converting between text and URLs (thanks @pratik and @ericmwalk!)
- Cleaned up the final actions by reusing the
text-to-publishvariable so it’s more clear what’s getting updated and shared- Vastly simplified formatting the source’s hyperlink during setup
- Fixed a bug regarding checking for the user’s preference for including the author’s name and checking if it’s being run on a Mac to make sure the
author-namevariable is passed along correctly
Took Phin for a walk today and surprised him with his first swim of the year! Water dog = happy dog. 😁 📷
🆕📝 Shortcuts Tips: Size Doesn’t Matter
How small can a task be and still be worthwhile to automate?
📷 #mbApr Day 10
My favorite kind of train: The musical people kind!
I’ve been making some improvements over at oneamonth.club. You’ll see new short descriptions of the member projects there. Thanks to everyone who has sent me one so far. Oh, and we’ve had over 2,000 views on the site, powered by @tinylytics!
🆕📝 I Didn’t Hate Apple’s Immersive MLS Highlights Reel
It wasn't perfect and left me wanting more, but it also wasn't as bad as you might have heard.
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🤣 BasicAppleGuy made a “scratched & stained” collection of FineWoven wallpapers last year.
It’s very easy for me and you to just declare that Apple ought to just foot the bill to offer more storage for over a billion users worldwide, but we’re not the ones making new TV commercials telling iPhone 15 users they needn’t worry about photo storage. If Apple really wants iPhone users not to worry about photo storage, they should offer more with iCloud, cost-to-Apple be damned.
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It was hard enough to make a living as an artist before streaming and it’s nearly impossible to now. Recorded music has become a loss-leader for tours and touring is grueling[2].
Artists were better off when we were toting around iPods, Zunes, Dell Digital Jukeboxes and buying mp3s one at a time. I think we were too.
With all of humanity’s music at my fingertips, I find myself listening to less of it than ever. That can’t be good, right?
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You don’t need to labor over your posts. You don’t need to have perfect grammar or spelling. You don’t need to leave a post in draft for seven months, pouring over research. (Though you can if you want!) You don’t really need to have an idea.
Just write. Then share.
I feel seen.
Also this:
You don’t have to be an essayist. (Though you can be one if you want!) Don’t let those essayists discourage you from blogging.
Just write. Just blog.
📷 #mbApr Day 09
A throwback to my crispy tiger-striped sunburn, a result of an unfortunate application of sunblock. 🐯 🥵
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The company has been steadily releasing research papers on its AI work for years. With Ferret-UI, the company seems to be looking at how AI can help with smartphone navigation
This isn’t the same thing, but it sounds quite similar to the Rabbit R1-style of teaching computers how to use human interfaces. I think it’s super smart.
Anyone else participating in CSS Naked Day? Let’s see those bare blogs!
The Solar Eclipse totality had BIG bouncing-DVD-Video-screensaver-finally-hitting-the-corner energy. 🤣 There’s just something about things lining up that humans simply go wild for!
📷 #mbApr Day 08
Equal parts prevention and welcome.
📷 #mbApr Day 07
The mountains fuel my well-being. (Gah! Can’t believe I missed yesterday. The 30-day photoblogging pin will remain out-of-reach.)
My website is streaking for the next day. Care to join? 😉