Managed about an hour of "gardening" before the drizzle began. So that's good.

@rosemaryorchard Have you looked at the hibbitts design open publishing space for Gerav and Git?

Absolutely correct. The people are eager and willing to help, and I would not have got anywhere without them. Which is why I am careful to say that I see no deliberate effort to exclude anyone. But as you say, it isn't ready for everyone either. Nor will it be, I don't think.

#indieweb

Is there, anywhere, a definitive guide to how micro.blog truncates posts it receives via RSS?

Strange question, I know, but ... Is there any way I can restrict access to a post in WP without having to make people jump through **any** hoops to see it?

There are lots of solutions that allow only registered users to see a specific post. What I want ideally is a link I can give people that will work for them and not for anyone else. A page hidden from anyone who does not have that link.

The idea is to give email subscribers and other supporters access either exclusively or well in advance of the general public.

Just read a horrible coinage: autonomobile. Cars were never automobile without a driver. We are still waiting for a truly automobile means of transport.

This is worrying. I received a message from Fastmail saying I had reached my sending limit for the day. Impossible. I raised a ticket and 8.5 hours later got confirmation my account had been compromised. I'll say this for Fastmail; the recovery process is superb. The worrying part is that I **know** I did not reply to any phishing expedition. So how did it happen? Brute force, maybe. Pwned, maybe.

Not that he needs it, but let me offer @matigo as my Micro Monday suggestion.

As I start work on my monthly review, it occurs to me that despite having signed up for @belle's excellent roundup of reviews, and checking my spam folder, I've never received a single one.

I am **very** firmly of the opinion that cross posting original stuff from one site to another ought to be a considered decision on each occasion. Yes, that’s just me. It could be you too. Add a little friction; you know it makes things better.

Better download that then, pronto. Thanks for the tip-off.

Best suggestion I can offer is to ask specific questions. There are also some superb introductions, like this one https://adactio.com/journal/7698 that explain the basic ideas.

That reminds me, I should take a look at https://www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/putting-my-house-in-order-phase-2 and see what's changed.

#indieweb

Good going.

In fact a far better answer to the question "Why do bell peppers come in different colors" is "Because plant breeders made that happen by selecting different varieties".

Can't think why a respected organisation would link to this. It is wrong on so many levels. Final colour at maturity is a heritable trait. Different varieties mature to different colours.

This is another test

This is a test.

Upgraded Known to latest build; everything seems to be OK but if you spot anything odd, please let me know.

It is slightly odd to see the mad rush away from Facebook. Everything old is new again.

With a whole two days still to run on the trial, I plunked down good money for [Tyme-app](https://www.tyme-app.com/mac-2/). It is just so much better than one I was using before. Night and day.

Blimey! I just started another Coursera offering this morning, and this evening I get an email imploring me to look at another 24 courses. Who do they think I am?

I haven't done the Micro Monday thing before now; Mondays are often a bit busy. But today, I’m going to suggest @modernlittleme for a different perspective on life.

I'm rapidly coming to the conclusion that IFTTT simply isn't reliable enough to, er, rely on.

I noticed the name @Jack in the credits for The Archive, and wondered: Do you (does he) use the zettelkasten method in full, or just take notes with The Archive?

I thought I read that m.b re-polls feeds from time to time and picks up edits. In fact, I know it does. But what if a post on my connected site never actually made it here? Is there anything I can do to bring it in?

What a ghastly afternoon. Power cut 15 minutes before I was due to record an interview with someone in New Mexico. The power came on a minute later, but the iMac was moribund. Luckily I was able to use the phone to email him, and he was cool about rescheduling. But I was stuck with a dead iMac until I thought of searching support. Turns out this was a thing, and there is a procedure, and everything is alright again. But still,

Just downloaded The Archive https://zettelkasten.de/the-archive/ from Zettelkasten.de and rather hoping it plays nicely with nvALT and 1Writer (because I need iOS too)

So disappointing that @slackhq is giving up on the gateway between Slack and IRC. I wonder why. No reason given. https://get.slack.help/hc/en-us/articles/201727913-Connect-to-Slack-over-IRC-and-XMPP

People of the interwebs: I know someone famous said something about a crank being a little thing that makes revolutions, but can I find it? Can I heck. If you know better -- and I know it was not Abe Lincoln -- please let me know.

Giving tyme-app.com a try. It has to be smoother than Toggl.

I will never understand the special hell in which the people who do not understand Word styles must live.

I may need a new work timer, having inadvertently upgraded the old version of @Toggl. The new one is silly complex.

@dgold if you are in IndieWeb IRC, can you figure out what just happened? Every one left in a hurry. Something about *.net *.split

Odd. Encrypt.me seems unable to secure a connection on this free WiFi network at the airport. In which case, what’s the point?

Doing a little tidying up on my site and wondering whether there's a preferred font-awesome icon for micro-blog.

Oh bother. Newsblur.com is down. Now I'll have to think of something else to do while I procrastinate.

I tried posting from micro.blog (on ios) to my site, and all I got was an error message. Not easy to debug. So now I’m trying from the OSX app. Sorry if I disturbed anyone.

I see @cygnoir has just asked Samuel Clay to add sharing to micro.blog to Newsblur. It would be even better to support any site with Micropub. That would be so worthwhile an addition to a great feed reader.

Great headlines of our time. "A study by the Public University of Navarre wins an award at an international conference"

Prepping for an imminent interview by reading https://newfoodeconomy.org/npis-birds-per-minute/ from @newfoodeconomy.

Diving into diacetyl for this week's Eat This Newsletter. You still have time to subscribe. https://www.eatthispodcast.com/form-view/1

That’s a bit of a disappointment. Daily Kos won’t play nicely with Instapaper.