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Spring Cleaning
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On the Blog
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Categories: Remove category ‘LongForm’ from Film Review Posts
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CSS: Simple Recent Posts - finish styling
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CSS: On a phone close up ‘spaces’ on home page
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CSS: Sort all home page blog styling
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CSS: Get the bullets back
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Functionality - Add the ‘Replies’ page back ❓
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Functionality - Second Archive Page to pull entire Archive
- going to need JSON/Micro.Blog Help
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Import My Instagram. It is time.
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Import The ‘Quotespace’ Blog. (Troubleshooting)
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Search - resolve PageFind, @sod search, categories, archive et al - way too confusin
This Is A Post From Mars Edit
No need to click in - it’s just a pile of ‘lorem ipsum’ - with a quote … BUT - this excerpt courtesy of @danielpunkass and Mars Edit.
Just to say after writing that last post I suddenly realized that Reminders has become my Task Manager of choice.
For years it’s been Things … which still lurks .. but Reminders has always been there because ‘family sharing’ .. and then a few weeks ago I asked Siri to remind me to buy something and Siri dropped it into Reminders - not Notes where the shared shopping lists live … I know I know … sorry … because ‘sharing’.
Not only that .. but turns out ‘Shopping’ has a whole auto categorizing thing going on that I had somehow missed … so I moved my quick lists in there and before you know it - other stuff.
It has come a long way since I last used it with vengeance .. not deleting Things yet though.
Two wishes for WWDC
- however they are doing the shopping thing - let me set up other lists to allow similar categorization
- Introduce time boxing and necessarily tighter calendar integration.
The post 🔗 Slashes by Manu got me to thinking …
If
foo.com/contact
takes you to ‘contact’ - but by using a ‘redirect’ and the actual URL is more like
‘stuff.weirdandcrazy.jcaourincag79q8i6iasicnAYT.com’
… is it still a slash page?
Asking for a friend.
Just updated my 🔗 Using ‘page’ .. no longer just personal usage - now added business.
I’d already playing with them without knowing the name. I was nearly ‘done’ and then Pratik shared this. Menu item added.
Hat Tips to @rknightuk @bjhess @sivers @alastairjohnston @manuelmoreale @goblingumbo @pratik @simonwoods - you have each inspired me on this one.
I tried the Spark introductory Premium offer last year - and while some things are interesting and cool - at a renewal of 60 bucks … yeah - not that interesting and cool … and then I just spotted that they seem to be in the SetApp store.
🎈138/366
If Craft is the Word/Doc online equivalent to what Google Docs had the opportunity to be.
And Airtable is the Excel/Numbers online equivalent to what Google Sheets had the opportunity to be.
Then
What is the Powerpoint/Keynote online equivalent to what Google Slides had the opportunity to be?
Figma, Miro and Canva don’t seem to be it?
🎈136/366 Translating A Transcript
German Language Podcast.
In 🍎 Podcasts - you can see the German language transcription.
BUT - you can’t copy the whole thing.
Looks like you can.
But you can’t.
I use software to record meetings.
Ooh I thought.
Play the podcast - and record - at end of podcast one german transcription. Run that through a translator and voila … or so I thought.
I did an experiment - thankfully.
What the software actually seems to have done is taken the german audio and decided as best it could as to what the german audio was saying - as if it was English.
This was the transcription ..
00:00 Here That’s an idea. 02:05 Like the fruits for real the presidential Here for learn have much of the jobs about completed here in the middle is also provided, you know. 02:50 Silicon Valley can manage to our design I am gonna Valley There are not only isn’t as operating system for startups on invert one in a ropa want to talk about he knows it happens startups of middle stunt or of course team. 03:15 What are all in this one entertain? 03:18 I was eating product on his product and from about yeah. 03:23 I know what linear ball over with design what is supply? 03:28 Put on my mobile phones and Seed talk follow-up disabled and antonym of familial torch and lived in solution in California and Silicon Valley and San Francisco on her off my shoulder and startup boat about under startups of cardboard and get a normal about Cosmopolis this year noises Venture on Cosmopolis is some Lisa has been a community have another Community developers and against Trump his own and hell for some spring on this fits here on this is another Simple so that’s called.
Back to the drawing board.
🎈133/366 Seriously people .. this straight quotes and curly quotes difference needs to be fixed. Am I the only one that gets messed up .. regularly.
🎈131/366 I know this has been raised on the past - and the answer is generally way above my pay grade, but thought I would ask again in case there have been any break throughs.
Is there a relatively easy way to add a ‘nested menu’ / drop down item/menu on to the ‘normal’ Micro.Blog menu?
🎈117/366 You’re taking a picture and just want a detail in the distance. Which produces best quality .. zoom as far as can and crop later or pinch on screen to get what you want and then click.
Or is there no difference?
Does
And (of course) the US and allies drove the nazis to full and complete surrender.
Mean the same \ Have the same conclusion .. feeling(?) \ Correctly reflect history as
And (of course) the allies and the US drove the nazis to full and complete surrender.
If not .. which do you feel is more accurate?
How would you write the sentence?
🎈114/366 Today I discovered and then learned about Scoped Tags in Drafts - only 10 versions later I think - but now I know and thank you @Agiletortoise
I updated the base to include @ameripie and @jedda specifically.
While I was there - I found some peeps in my Feedbin that I had - but weren’t in the right folder - so fixed that and now the list is a bit longer. Discovering some additional anomalies;
@manton - Is there a way to make that list alphabetical ?
@simonwoods I have you - and I also have ‘TIL’ - but there are two different feeds?
@odd - I pulled what seems to be your feed - but these are your replies(?), whilst your real feed is here - raising in case you didn’t know.
Just to make it easier to check - this is a screen capture of the blogs in the system as of the weekend of 20/21 April. Proving it in alphabetical order. LMK if want to be added - or indeed taken off … all good.
🚧 Logged Blogs
Not a big user of MicroBlog bookmarks - so a couple of months ago I went through what I had and brought it all down to zero.
Today - I dropped in there - wrong click I think - and there are a whole raft of bookmarks that were not there before. (All valid - nothing odd - other than they are there.)
Did something get triggered @manton ?
🎈107/366 A Personal Knowledge Repository?
It is lost in the mists of time but I seem to recall a post by @brentsimmons from years ago - maybe even last century? The advice was to reply to emails as a post, so that when a second email comes, you can modify the material on your blog and send the link. (I more than likely have over simplified, taken it out of context, changed the essence if not meaning / idea - but that’s what we do right? The point is that the core thinking has stuck with me … write once - use many.
It’s good advice and indeed many corporate processes follow this idea. Think help desk, somebody asks a gnarly question, it isn’t available in your ‘knowledge repository’, so you reply with original thought and then publish that answer into the repository so that anyone else who has the question can find the answer.
BUT - when it comes to the personal blog, even I - who has this ingrained in my brain, still doesn’t do this as routine and - even more frustrating - when i do .. it gets forgotten about over time because I don’t have a real system to manage such things - and why would I?
So it is about memory - but also I have found the Micro Blog Search-Space PlugIn by @sod absolutely excellent for unpacking such posts'.
All this to say that I have just put up a page on my blog that is the start of attempting to provide help to others that ask.
Enjoy.
🖇️ Getting Started With Your Own Micro Blog
@donnydavis - a little help on your drafts action please.
I have just been reassigning and reorganising my tags in drafts
See image below.
As part of my sorting - I have removed all the posts under your action and starting again.
BUT - whatever I do - I can’t delete that domain:https tag - even though all those drafts that used that have been deleted from my system. I even deleted the action itself. Still there.
Any ideas?