Another perfect (March!?) day guiding atop Owl’s Head Mountain. We were supposed to climb ice for Levi’s bachelor party, but the rock was pretty great too. 📷
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[M]y personal enjoyment starts when the kids are tired and my wife is content doing something else, I can then relax.
This is enjoyment for me, and just one of the things I ‘signed up for’ when I became a father. I put the whole world first, and I am ok with that.
I see a lot of myself in this post. Not only as a husband, but as a professional and just as a person.
I don’t usually have multiple books going at once, but in an effort to maximize March is Reading Month, I now have a bedside book, a downstairs book, and an iPad book. 📚
Currently reading: Make Something Wonderful: Steve Jobs in his own words by Steve Jobs 📚
Currently reading: Self-rescue by David J. Fasulo 📚
Currently reading: Accidents in North American Climbing 2023 by American Alpine Club 📚
I make a fair number of shortcuts for Micro.blog. I finally got around to making a post that lists them all in the Micro.blog Help Center, in case you want find them all in one place. I’ll do my best to keep it updated!
I just updated my ‘Bulk MB Image Uploader’ shortcut to version 1.1 (sorry to early adopters!):
- Added support to optionally generate image descriptions with the ‘Generate Alt Text with OpenAI Vision’ shortcut
- Added option to copy the uploaded images as HTML
- Added an error check if no images are found on the clipboard for input
- Other spit and polish
Get it from the HeyDingus Shortcuts Library.
I just released my ‘Bulk MB Image Uploader’ shortcut:
This shortcut helps you to upload sets of images to your Micro.blog account and copy the resulting image URLs (optionally as Markdown) to the clipboard for easy sharing or editing. Get items from the share sheet, or run it without input to choose from sources like Files, Photos, the clipboard, and the camera.
Get it from the HeyDingus Shortcuts Library.
I wish more places offered round-ups for local charities. I’ll almost always say yes.
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But I also have an M1 MacBook Air that I use for work. Recently, jumping back and forth between the two, I’ve come to appreciate the wedge more than I thought I would. Maybe it’s just my imagination, but I find it easier to type on. When I’m writing a draft, the sloped edge is more comfortable under my palms. When I tuck it under my arm while walking through the office, it just feels better. […] I still feel the same fuzzy feeling when I unzip my backpack and see that wedge waiting in the laptop sleeve.
Me too 🥺
Whelp, got out guiding rock today, March 4th. What a strange, strange winter. Hard to say goodbye to ice season, but with a Red Rocks trip quickly approaching, it felt good to plug some gear and pull on rock. 🧗 📷
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it’s deeply ingrained in all of us that having children is what we’re “supposed” to do, when our need to repopulate has been overstated for some time. i’d much rather folks be enthusiastic about having children than being ambivalent and doing it anyway.
I don’t face a ton of scrutiny for choosing not to have children, but if I do, this might become my go-to response.
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I sometimes like to use the term “weave the web” to describe people who publish on their personal website. While web-themed, “weave the web” speaks only to one aspect of the web: its interconnectivity. Internet gardening evokes thoughts of the other side of the web: where you are on your own land, cultivating the thoughts on your mind. Letting ideas grow.
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Along with the usual smorgasbord of links, this week marks the 9th album entry for my 52 Albums project. Any other dodie fans out there?
If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.
Today was the first time I’ve ever heard this quote, and it’s sticking with me. It’s quite practical advice! (Origins are apparently unclear.)
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The collection includes big name titles like The Wolf of Wall Street, Saving Private Ryan, Mad Max: Fury Road and more.
There’s actually a pretty good number of movies on this list that I’ve been meaning to watch. Might be just the extra push I needed!
I was feeling pretty motivated earlier to get a couple of blog posts out of my head. But losing a draft really took the wind out of my sails, and I don’t much feel like forcing it. I’d rather one in particular was published today, the 29th, but I dunno.
LOL I love @dmoren@zeppelin.flights’s writing
What a difference eight months makes. That’s in no small part due to Whisky, an app that wraps both Wine, the tool that translates Windows API calls to their Unix-like equivalents, and Apple’s game porting toolkit into one very friendly interface. That removes pretty much all of the work out of the process, to the point where all I had to do was download Whisky and drag it into my Applications folder. It installed all the necessary under-the-hood software, leaving me with nothing but time on my hands.
What a fascinating concept. You might hit the limit and then ask people not actually reading to unsubscribe to open spots for new readers.
The public incentives of social media — likes, hearts, reblogs, follower counts, the metrics that platforms enthusiastically refer to as “engagement” — didn’t exist in email, and especially not on TinyLetter. The platform itself had no built-in recommendations or ways to self-promote, quashing any aspirations for virality. Even subscriber counts were originally capped at 2,000. You couldn’t even pay to raise the limit.
You can usually tell from where I’m microblogging based on the type of blockquotes I use. If it’s a Quoteback, probably I’m committing minor time theft when it’s slow at work. If it’s a ‘🔗 Title - domain // Author’ format with a traditional blockquote, I’m likely using my Publish Quote shortcut.
Yesterday, @rsilvernail wished me a happy 30th birthday by congratulating me on “reaching a new high score” and it totally made my day. 🥳 Gonna keep gunning for the next high score! 😂
What will you take the leap on today?
Every four years, we have a worldwide holiday to celebrate this sort of leap. The leap of choice. Not to suddenly get from here to there, but to choose to go on the journey.
It’s only once every 1,460 days, you can do it.
Leap today.
I’m gonna call a #MykeWasRight to say that “Apple Enthusiast” is my preferred term for my interest and coverage of the company and its products. I am enthusiastic about what they make, and it does color what I think and share. But my enthusiasm also makes me wish for them to do better and more.