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My Micro.blog timeline is an ambience of its own. A pleasant read-through even when I’m taking a quick break, refreshing and restorative.
Thank you to everybody I follow, and those folks who I discover on a regular basis. 😌
Breaking news from the village.
(testing the fancy new image uploader @danielpunkass put into the MarsEdit micropost feature)
The imminent death of TinyLetter (h/t @ablaze@mastodon.social) inevitably causes me to think about the newsletter feature of Micro.blog, and how valuable it is to have within the greater package of Micro.blog itself. It’s as if the product is insulated from typical buy-and-destroy events like this.
The latest product from the folks at Good Enough, Chicken, looks good. It reminds me of ambient workspaces, which I’d like to try out.
I like the idea of being near but unobtrusive.
Past Me was too cheap to get ethernet included in the iMac and now I am motivated by the desire to upgrade ASAP.
I am somewhat annoyed but mostly embracing the positive energy of having a goal in sight.
I am surprised to learn that you can’t easily copy and/or duplicate posts and pages in MarsEdit. This seems like such basic and obvious functionality in comparison to some of its many tricks.
The idea that people will pay to support a free product is very nice, but largely unrealistic. Most simply won’t.
— Ben Werdmuller, There’s no money in free software
An observation I wish I could tell my younger self.
And my antihistamine has also returned. That was two awful days without it. Phew!
For the first time since first publishing TIL five years ago, I have created the necessary folder and files for theme updates after working on the updates.
My new workflow involves some actual structure in which I no longer just randomly throw new things at the live site. Feels much better.
testing the latest update…
I gave Pixelfed a whirl for my little video and it was fine. Unfortunately the app doesn’t work — it’s in beta — so I had to use a method involving more work.
I’m going to test YouTube, which I suspect will be much easier. If so, I’ll use YouTube for now, and then Micro.blog as soon as I can.
I was looking at the Indie App Sales shared by @maique, found ephemera and immediately thought of @numericcitizen.
Here I am searching for “save as mp4 on mac” because Apple is allergic to assuming some people are comfortable with using their computer to do things.