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Writing helps me think more clearly. This archive is longer posts; quick updates now live in notes.
Topics: AI, blogging, photography, programming, projects, Signboard
Simon Willison, from a clip I created of an episode of Around the Prompt: I love AI as an accelerant of personal productivity improvement. I plan on writing an update to my post from April 2023 about using ChatGPT as an accelerator where I'll say something similar. Here is the clip:
I look back at my first year at NerdPress, what we've accomplished so far, and that I'm very excited for what's next.
A summary of some travel, the addition, the new laptop, and ActivityPub trials.
Manuel Moreale helps remove a new blogger's fear of having no readers by committing to be the first. Count me in too.
We now live in a time where many smaller social networks exist, some of them will likely exist for decades to come, and most of them may never reach hundreds of millions of monthly active users and that is a very good thing for the web. It is a bit messy, somewhat confusing, and totally great.
Jeff Triplett urges us to publish more from our own domains. I agree. But it isn't easy.
Over coffee this morning, browsing my unreads in NetNewsWire, I stumbled on Simon Willison's mention of Alex Chan's "Using static websites as tiny archives" post. And then I saw Jeremy Keith also mention it. So I thought I'd mention it to! There’s no web server, no build system, no dependencies, and no JavaScript frameworks. I’m writing everything by…
Independence, Creativity, Connection.
A few NerdPress team members sponsored/exhibited at FinCon 2024 in Atlanta, Georgia this past week and I thought I'd distill the numerous conversations I had with attendees, speakers, and sponsors into three key takeaways. Own your audience – Creating and distributing valuable content for an audience (whether free, behind a paywall, or a mix of the two) is…
In this post, I’m sharing my personal thoughts on the Automattic vs. WP Engine trademark dispute. These views are my own and may not reflect those of my employer or anyone else on my team. Additionally, this should not be seen as a comprehensive retelling of the events from the past few weeks. Much has happened even during…
Sophie Koonin recommends attending conferences for personal and professional growth. I agree.
In Diversions #6 I write about making grape jelly, canning projects, a trip to Virginia, and share some links.
The idea of trying to paint the full picture of my computing needs exhausts me for some unknown reason. Even this short post has been a chore. But I thought it important to get some of my thoughts down because it helps me to clarify my own thinking and will hopefully help me make some decisions. And I…
Kayaking in July 2024 Few experiences have the serenity of kayaking on a lake. Especially in the evening at sunset. If you haven't kayaked, I highly recommend it. For years I kayaked very regularly. These days, I hardly ever do. But it is something Eliza and I want to return to. I'm hoping that writing it down will…
Tracy Durnell, who is very good at weekenotes: I don’t track anything that could make me feel actually bad about myself. I might be a little embarrassed if I don’t write as much as I wanted to, but no one’s going to judge me as a person for it — creative folks get it. Read the entire post….
As I mentioned last week on Mastodon, I was invited, along with NerdPress CEO Andrew Wilder, on The Food Blogger Pro Podcast. Me, Bjork Ostrom, and Andrew Wilder Here is the episode: It is also, of course, available wherever you get your podcasts. Here are some useful links to the episode in Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Overcast. The…
Diversions is the central hub for news about the membership, behind-the-scenes details of my personal projects, as well as a wide variety of links to people, places, and things that inspire me. A bit of housekeeping: I'm turning Diversions public. While a fair number of people have signed up for both free and paid memberships (thank you!), my…
Craig Mod in Ridgeline Transmission 189 Tōkaidō on Film — People: One of my many todos post-walk has been to dig through the film I shot while walking the Tōkaidō in May. Finally getting to that. To keep things sane, I’ll be batching these photo posts. To start: Here some portraits I took along the way. I shot…
On my single post template I like to show the date the post was most recently modified to make it clear that it had been edited since it was first published. I also do this on my portfolio entries – which you can see on my Where I series of photographs on the bottom left-hand corner. WordPress' Modified…
Manuel Moreale: It’s called The Browser Company but what they make is a wrapper around the Chromium web browser. So the browser company is making everything but the actual browser. Can you imagine starting a company called “the pizza company” and then outsourcing the pizza part to a 3rd party? So bizarre. These days, they are building a…
Diversions is the central hub for news about the membership, behind-the-scenes details of my personal projects, as well as a wide variety of links to people, places, and things that inspire me. Living this far north means that for a quarter of our year we seem to do much less outdoors. The warmer weather brings, among other things,…
M.G. Siegler, writing on his newish blog Spyglass: the Safari browser on iPad has always behaved more like the Safari browser on iOS versus the version built for Macs. Just yesterday I had to log into Eliza's Gmail account via Safari on my iPad. The experience was akin to a 2007 web app with no option to show…
Molly White: Nothing about the web has changed that prevents us from going back. If anything, it's become a lot easier. We can return. Better, yet: we can restore the things we loved about the old web while incorporating the wonderful things that have emerged since, developing even better things as we go forward, and leaving behind some…
Keith Taylor is a photographer and printmaker with over 40 years of experience in the darkroom. His personal work includes multiple darkroom mediums including gelatin silver, platinum palladium, and his passion polymer photogravure. In mid-March we hopped on Zoom for a 1-hour conversation. This isn't an interview. It does not have planned questions. It is a conversation between…