Alas, the link to the "really powerful tools" for automation goes nowhere. Or rather, it returns me to the page it is on. @justinmduke

So good to be back home after a week away. I mean, I had a great time and all, but home is best.

Friends of the Fountain Pen: How do you cope with bottles of ink that are wide and shallow? Is a syringe the only option for making use of the remaining ink when the pen filler simply won't work?

I have never, for one second, regretted the money I spent on my chair more than 20 years ago. Not even when I had to have two technicians here to replace the seat. And now that the gas spring is leaking a bit, I might have to have them back. Truly, what's the point of a decent keyboard if you tie yourself in knots using it all day?

Waiting to hear Lawrence Lessing talk about the EU proposals and other stuff. A tick for the life list.

The rebirth of long dormant blogs is one of the great reasons to use a feed reader. There is absolutely no overhead.

Still trying to work out why a photo that includes a hashtag (from Instagram) fails to show as a photo on micro.blog, while a photo without any hashtags shows up just fine.

Anyone have a clue?

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/beneath-the-ballpark/ Now to listen to Chavez Ravine again.

TIL: beets and bougainvillea are a lot more closely related than I ever imagined.

This news of a site for IndieWeb on Textpattern is very exciting. I used to use TXP back in the day for one of my sites, but moved it to WP. Maybe I'll move it back ...

Sorry about cluttering the timeline. Error diagnosed, normal service will be resumed as soon as possible.

"a podcast inspired by an Instagram account, covering the dating lives, drunken escapades, and makeup lines of superstar digital citizens"

Er, no. I don't think so.

I've been subscribing to Craig Mod for a couple of weeks, but missed this, so thanks. One tiny quibble. The footnotes in the quote go to Craig's site, which means that when I'm done reading them, I have no easy way to get back to you. I know, pretty minor. But still.

Note to future self: to clean up single-use tags in Pinboard, go to “manage” under tags and then “used once”.

And good luck with keeping up.

I'm glad you found something that works for you. I tried a similar thing myself (3 podcasts a week) for a while, and used Huffduffer to make the feed, but came across too many walled gardens to keep bothering.

That takes me back.

I'm still getting spam through public comments. I divert the notifications to a special mailbox and keep on top of them, deleting anything I find, and, touch wood, it may be declining.

#WithKnown

<Smacks forehead>

I'm instantly adding the -day-of-week code outlined here into my one-line-per-day journal of sorts.

Forewarned is forearmed; thanks.

Intersecting milk cartons is indeed cool, as Chris noted. Equally cool, maybe more so, is the Miuri fold, which I learned about in the Christmas Economist. https://www.economist.com/christmas-specials/2018/12/18/origami-spreads-its-wings

Dear reporters seeking to impress me,

“Exponentially” does not mean “very large”.

Yours etc.

Chris, I don't know what got you into all this strong names stuff, but I want to take the opportunity to point to my own pet peeve and a fine band, together at https://www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/eagles-point-the-way

I stopped sharing photo posts to micro.blog because they were being duplicated. Pretty sure now that's because the RSS contains the image twice, as part of the CDATA and again as an enclosure. Not sure whether to fix in @WithKnown or ask @help at micro.blog to ignore enclosure.

Quite by coincidence, I'm sure I just yesterday listened to Malcolm Gladwell and Dave Hill talking about Lords of Chaos and the black metal scene. https://brokenrecordpodcast.com/#/episode-7-dave-hill/

I've always fond RSS indispensable. As for tools creating better ways to surface stuff, Newsblur does allow you to train it, which to me seems more useful than using an algorithm to train me.

Absolutely we need more and better tools, but the basics are definitely there for the major CMSs and even more so for people who are comfortable developing their own sites.

Just wondering why @adactio's sparklines contain only 131 points on the x-axis. Maybe because a day on which nothing is posted is not recorded? Getting ready to publish my own first sparkline and want to do the right thing.

Thanks Aaron. I haven't given up yet. In fact, getting another proposal together is high on this week's agenda.

Chris Aldrich's clever solution for not drawing attention to visible but "hidden" links doesn't quite work as advertised, at least not for me in Firefox on OSX.

This post opened a whole can of worms relating to Grav's public comments plugin. Despite being authored by "Team Grav" it hasn't been touched for going on two years and just doesn't work. It sends the notification email correctly, but does not acknowledge the comment and does not save the data.

I've taken a first look at the code, and it seems like I might just be able to wrap my head around it, but I will need hours free to do that. Hours that I do not currently have.

I could disable public comments again, and just accept Webmentions (which this post is intended to test). But although Comments are rare, some are worthwhile beyond mere affirmation, so I am loathe to do that.

P.s. It also raises again the need to fix Known's HTML-escaping problem, and makes me wonder why the comment is truncated when it gets to jeremycherfas.net -- which means looking at the templates there in more detail.

Ton's post about his first edit of Open Street Map is just the nudge I need to start doing more of this myself.

A feed reader that offers control over deletion of old posts is good, I agree. A combination of age of post and number of posts per poster would be great. Like "delete all except the previous five posts per feed". Wouldn't work in MB, of course ...

Because it is an inescapable law of journalism that a simple yes/no question in a headline almost always requires a "No". And in this particular case, I do not believe blogging waned in 2018. QED.

Not a crazy idea at all. And it reminds me that I failed to link to a very impressive presentation by the very impressive David Runciman. https://www.talkingpoliticspodcast.com/blog/2018/129-democracy-for-young-people He would give 6-year olds the vote.

Malformed link to the example slideshow. Other than that, really interesting post.

@cn Re: OwnYourGram I'm all set up for watching logs in real time now, but not seeing a way to either resend or nudge OwnYourGram. Can you tell me what I’m looking for?

I don't follow Dave Winer religiously, so I don't know whether he revisited his predictions for what Twitter was or would become. I do know that @brentsimmons stopped narrating his work there less than a year after he started. YMMV.

Updated to latest HEAD of WithKnown and hoping that might solve the multiple-photo problem. Better create a multiple photo post on Instagram, then.

Another interesting microcast about stuffed animals. I have never seen twins who looked so different.

Great story, Ben. My dog used to eat stuffed animals too. And that's a wrap here.

Tiny bit peeved that for the first time this morning trails.io refused to record my activity. Coincidentally, or not, a popup informed me that my Pro subscription would end soonish. I confess I didn't hear the start countdown beeps, so I should have checked.