Wednesday, November 13, 2024 →
Ditching the Apple Watch Ultra for a day to break out the Casio GST-S100G. Let’s see if I can survive.
Playing with Google’s NotebookLM this morning, I uploaded a PDF of one of my blog posts and had it create an audio overview without any input from me. The output was a 19 minute podcast-like “segment” that you’d swear was a real conversation between two people. Mind-blowing… I’ll have to post it.
An exhausting and disappointing weekend. The “long running project from hell” was set to deploy this weekend, but we ran into troubles due to vendor licensing. Two days have been lost to it. The rest of today will be about rolling back and regression testing we didn’t leave something broken. 🤬
Hey! Y’all should follow @goblingumbo if you’re not already. His photos of garden variety lizards are off the hook!
Repping Micro.blog on the west coast… Get your own t-shirt!
So I’m giving Reeder 5 another try. It’s starting to grow on me… A little… Maybe… Sorry @canion.
It’s amazing what listening to loud music can do for the soul.
I’ve been pondering starting a punk band out of the OC in SoCal for a couple years. Given recent political results, now would be the time for it. But all the punks from the days of old who are my age and still located in the OC are likely MAGA-heads now…
No Words
Wednesday, November 6, 2024
I went to bed concerned with what I was seeing, but with the hope that democracy would do its thing and a tyrant would be defeated.
There’s a great curation of photos in the Micro.blog Discover feed today. Check them out and follow someone new.
Reading my last post back, it might sound as if I’ve accepted defeat.
Far from it. Make no mistake. I will do everything necessary to stand up against tyranny.
Do not give up. Do not give in. Continue to fight for truth, justice and what is right for all peoples.
The fight has only just begun…
I really dislike daylight savings time changes. Even “gaining” an hour, I’m all sorts of wonky and will be for a week. I hope one day legislation actually passes that does away with it once and for all.
As I teased yesterday, I registered a new domain and set up a site for the resurrection journey of my Mac app Yasu. Follow along there if you’re interested.
I challenged Claude.ai and ChatGPT to create a Python script to convert my Omnivore archive from HTML to Markdown using the same prompt. Claude.ai’s script outperformed ChatGPT’s in terms of functionality and flexibility. Although ChatGPT’s script worked, Claude.ai’s script provided better options.
Well darn. My IT Security brethren (and Legal) have finally given the kibosh to my beloved Fantastical calendar app, revoking the OAuth token to connect to my work calendar. It’s not worth fighting to keep, which means it’s not worth renewing my subscription either. We had a good run, Fantastical… 💔
I have managed to come down with a very slight cold. Nothing like I would get when I was a smoker 30+ years ago, but it is the first one I’ve had in more than five years. I think stress at the day job has contributed to it.
Yay Dodgers for winning the World Series. Boo Dodger fans for behaving like destructive looting thugs, yet again. 😒
Happy to report that after one day, interest in and response to the new Micro.blog tees was pretty incredible. Seeing that totally made it worth making it happen.
My wife (of all people) turned me on to a really interesting podcast series yesterday… American Elections: Wicked Game. I’ve listened to the 2020 episode completely and half of the 2016. It’s crazy how much I’ve forgotten of the events that happened during those cycles.
The Unofficially Official Micro.blog Swag
Wednesday, October 30, 2024
You may have seen my teaser for this yesterday. Or not… 😁
Do you love Micro.blog and wish you could represent the platform while you’re out and about at the grocery store, sporting event, work or nerdy conference?