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Some Truly Random Thoughts

I don't have any great categories for this word vomit so I will put it here. Sometimes I think the tool, process, etc that I'm currently using to do a thing isn't the best according to what I know now and therefore needs to change.

It's not broken, but it …

I have comments - Using Mastodon

If you have a Mastodon Account, on any instance, you can now comment on posts in a common thread. I wrote a bot that will create a post where everyone can comment, and own your comments. The neat thing is that if someone already clicked the link it will take …

Text is best

If you have been following this site for any length of time you probably know that I am always trying to simplfy my flow, and to future proof it. The person that has led me on this path more than anyone has been Derek Sivers. He is the creater of …

Just do what though?

The times that I can't think of ways to be creative I end up spending time on workflow or maybe redesigning something that is working realitvely fine, or maybe it is researching tech that I would need if the ideas that I want to develop caught hold.

A walk in the woods

If this was …

I'm Sticking with Wordpress, for now

I've been working on giving Publii a real shot for this site. I used the tool to get all these posts in a project, but it keeps crashing. I tried doing it manually (there aren't that many pages on here) but that started to crash the app too.

There are …

I'm thinking about switching from Wordpress

I have been using Wordpress for a very long time, probably since Mingus in 2004. It wasn't my main CMS at that time, I think I was still using Drupal or PHP-Nuke for my main sites, but wordpress seemed pretty neat.

From 2010-2012 I dropped out of the internet space …

A weekend in November

It was a pretty good weekend as 2020 goes. There was some sun and while there are rising numbers of #sars-cov-2 all around us, and we are looking at being locked down like we were in April for at least the next 6 weeks, we are doing pretty ok.

Walks around Frog Lake

Walks …