Dear Siri - when I write ‘shortcode’ - I really do mean ‘shortcode’ … I do not mean ‘shortcake’.
If I do it - it will be 3 hours and 20 minutes of my life that I won’t get back - but then …. it is 🎵 The Velvet Underground - and the information the guy delivers is always interesting and not the usual average ‘fodder facts’.
JSON is very VERY picky
In my testing of the glossary plugin today, I have broken my site a couple of times. All good. I know why and will log with @andysylvester to see if there is a way to avoid breakages in the future. BUT the reason for this post is that as I have rebuilt I noticed that @manton has named his servers after Disney alumni - Retlaw, Broggie and Holliday are the three I have seen thus far - no idea if there are more … and as far as I can see, these names didn’t appear in the logs prior to this month.
Displaying MicroBlog Categories.
Micro Blog categories are badly displayed - there I said it.
In MicroBlog and the New Drafts Plugin - it is unclear - but I think it is oldest to newest created? (In fairness the plugin probably pulls the raw list from the back end somewhere and uses the default.)
The same behavious in the iOS app.
BUT, in the Mac app, categories appear in three columns - and they read left to right on the first line and then the second line etc - NOT down column 1, then column2 etc … who knows which is the right way? Its like a book spine - should you turn your head to read sideways top to bottom OR bottom to top. There is a 99% standard - but still the 1% of spines designed the other way are around.
I read columns like an old newspaper - down first - then across - not across then down as if you are reading a spreadsheet.
In Mars Edit - they are displayed alphabetically - so clearly that is possible.
I have called this out to @manton - and we agreed, I am more than likely an edge case (over 50 categories (don’t judge)), but surely others have this challenge?
It would be good to choose preferred order in settings - but failing that, can we just have them alphabetically like @danielpunkass has them?
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“Joe Biden is planning on skipping the coronation of King Charles III in early May, following the tradition of US presidents not attending such occasions.”
Tradition? … Who’s tradition?
Since the US ‘got started’ there have only been 13 Coronations and 46 Presidents, so roughly only 25% of them could have attended a Coronation anyway and that count would have included just ONE of the 14 presidents that served during QEII’s reign.
So whilst true that US tradition reveals that 13 (soon to be 14) US Presidents did not attend the Coronation of a UK monarch, it is also true that the UK has a longer tradition with over 40 coronations not having a US President in attendance.
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“In Germany, the comparable retirement age is 65. In Italy, it’s 67. And in the U.S., the retirement age is NO,”
💬 John Oliver
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I haven’t thought about this album for years - and then Tedium wrote about it at length ….
🔗 🎵 Jeff Wayne’s War of the Worlds: The Rock Opera That Shaped the Form
I relistened to some of it earlier today. I still enjoyed it - but to my ears it hasn’t aged well. Not yet put my finger on why - but I suspect a new listener might not engage with it in the same way.
Updated 23-04-03 : 20:15
And that’s a wrap for now. Finally
Turns out that ' " ' is apparently not the same at all as ' “ ' !!!
This post is written - and being updated - in Drafts, courtesy of a plugin by @donnydavis
I am using it to test and edit a set of terms that are the start of my new glossary (an @AndySylvester plugin)
Test Glossary
Terms
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identity
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Language is one of the 8 pillars of People First thinking where we explore the subtle art of manipulating conversation and dialogue through the careful choice of words. It’s rampant.
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value
Links
Wondering if 22 MicroBlog App Tokens is too many … or if it simply reflects how central to my workflow it has become?
stick a fork in him, the motherfuckers done
… 🎵 Reminded me of this classic … enjoy.
I just read @colinwalker ’s 🔗 post re Ryuichi Sakamoto’s passing …
Sharing a 🎵 perfectly elegant beautiful piece of music that he wrote over 40 years ago.
Farewell Ryuichi and thankyou.
📽️ Better Call Saul
Back when I posted about how great Breaking Bad was … let me paraphrase @pratik … “if you though that was good - wait till you try Better Call Saul”.
Then @GramrgednAngel@zirk.us talked about The Atlantic who …
published a series examining it through a Shakespearean tragedy lens and making the argument that the ultimate main character wasn’t Walter, or Jesse, but Skyler.
I just started series 3 of ‘Saul’. Oh my. Tragedy? I don’t know my Shakespeare as well as I could, but Saul has to be a contender. The character is heartbreaking. The relationship with his brother makes me tear up.
I love the back story of Breaking Bad and the various characters emerging that eventually appeared in Breaking Bad.
Superb series.
GAH!
Been playing around with a couple of those apps that that allow you to add blank icons and widgets on the iOS home screens ….. mainly looking for a better way to group apps on a page.
They work. BUT …
- way too fiddly
- change your wallpaper and you are back to square one
- move an app … and then you need to regroup
So yeah. Now I know, not bothering.
BUT
How hard would it be for Apple to
- allow transparent icons and widgets
- include them in the core OS, so that anyone can better arrange their screens IF they were so inclined
What do you think?
I woke up this morning thinking that we need more septgenarians in the presidential race … ideally from a red state that routinely attacks the rights of people and then … right on cue … up pops Asa.
I have concluded that there must be an online school out there somewhere that trains people to deliver online help videos purely based on using ‘go ahead’ as the preferred ‘instruction’ at every single stage of whatever they are showing you.
Via Doc Searls
… aims to make individuals become more aware of the risks and benefits of data trading and sales, and take steps to protect their own data … …. is the first step towards unpacking and untangling the complex world of data exchanges. … we hope to provide guidance on how industry groups and associations can develop better codes of conduct and best practices for data exchanges.