I really love how, judging by the fan noise, Windows alone keeps the processor as busy as Linux plus several CPU-based BOINC tasks.
Coffee maker started leaking a few days after we descaled it
Coffee maker started leaking a few days after we descaled it. Just a little at first, then more each day. kid opened it up. One of the water hoses has a crack in it surrounded by mineral deposits. As near as we can tell, the minerals were probably blocking the leak. 🤦♂️
No luck finding dedicated replacement parts, but we found a 5′ length of high-temperature silicone tubing in the right size. Here’s hoping it arrives soon. And works.
More rethinking my website in the #IndieWeb context. The “garden and stream” metaphor…
More rethinking my website in the #IndieWeb context. The “garden and stream” metaphor brings up a good point: Not everything we put online is sequential.
I have a lot of stuff on my blog that doesn’t belong in the middle of a long stream of time-based posts as well as it would in a topic-based collection. Heck, I already reorganized the tech troubleshooting when I mirrored stuff to #gemini
https://indieweb.org/garden_and_stream
gemini://hyperborea.org/howto/
But it’s also gotten me thinking: What kind of approach do I really want to take?
But it’s also gotten me thinking: What kind of approach do I really want to take?
I want a unified, self-hosted, #IndieWeb enabled gallery of the photos I’ve shared on social sites, yes, but are my Instagram / Pixelfed / Twitter / Mastodon photos *actually* that different from the ones I share on Flickr? There’s a lot of overlap.
Would it make more sense to just make one big #photogallery with everything?
I guess the big questions are:
1. How differently do I use IG/Pixelfed/Mastodon/birdsite compared to Flickr (aside from volume)?
2. How differently are the sites structured, and how can I best combine those?
3. Do I want to?
On Flickr, each photo has a title, description and metadata, and you can build collections of as many as you want.
On IG etc, several photos might share a description and tags. And I think Pixelfed is the only one that has an album equivalent.
Back in the day I used Instagram as sort of the rough draft for Flickr – I’d take a snap with the phone, and if I had a better camera with me I’d take a photo with that, and then when I got back to a desktop I’d take whichever came out better, adjust it as needed, and post that one to Flickr.
Then phone cameras got better.
I still put a lot more on Flickr than other sites, but I suspect if I went back through my whole Pixelfed archive and my IG archive from the point when they allowed non-square aspect ratios to the point when I stopped using it, most of the shots on there are going to also be on Flickr.
I’ve been experimenting a bit with ClassicPress, also
I’ve been experimenting a bit with #ClassicPress, also – it’s a hard fork of WordPress from version 4.9, just before they introduced the block editor, so there’s a lot less complexity. If I take the #WordPress approach, I may end up using ClassicPress for it instead.
Well, I haven’t gotten around to doing much with the 11ty based photogallery approach yet.
Well, I haven’t gotten around to doing much with the #11ty based #photogallery approach yet. Just enough to realize the template I started with isn’t the way I want to go. It puts the image list and metadata in one giant JSON file, and I’d rather use individual markdown files with front matter and the caption/comment/description as the body.
I’ve found a couple of articles that are closer to what I want to do with it, so I may end up basing it on one of those or rolling my own entirely.
Saga AND Arrowsmith are back?I need to get back to the comic store.#comics
Saga AND Arrowsmith are back?
I need to get back to the comic store.
I don’t think I’ve been there since summer or fall 2020. I was down to one series at the point that publishing shut down for 2 months, and it was a limited series. I went in during a lull in cases to pick up the last few issues.
At least they managed to hang on. I drive past the place occasionally on my way somewhere else, and they’re still open.
Just caught a glimpse of the monochrome OpenVPN status icon on my work box and …
Just caught a glimpse of the monochrome OpenVPN status icon on my work box and wondered why Target was showing up there.
Western monarch butterflies spending the winter in California rebound to 247,000…
Western monarch butterflies spending the winter in California rebound to 247,000, up from less than 2000 last year!
(Back in the 1980s it was millions annually, but this is still a big sigh of relief after the last couple of years)
https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2022-01-25/western-monarchs-butterflies-rebound
Yay, my visual cortex is done defragging!Or whatever the heck is going on when …
Yay, my visual cortex is done defragging!
Or whatever the heck is going on when I get a visual #migraine
Well, that’s a #finch of a different color! A lesser #goldfinch and a #housefinch are both visiting the #birdfeeder.
Well, that's a #finch of a different color!
A lesser #goldfinch and a #housefinch are both visiting the #birdfeeder.
Two pairs of ducks and three geese seen at the marsh
Breakdown
Squirrel!
Kid caught a Jolteon with stats that match our area code. He named it as …
Kid caught a Jolteon with stats that match our area code. He named it as a phone number that would spell out JOLTEON
#PokemonGo
Short video of starlings flying in formation
Food
I guess there are worse things to stress eat than half a sleeve of Ritz crackers.
Thought I’d try a black-and-white edit of the sunbeams in the park. I kinda like it!
Thought I'd try a black-and-white edit of the sunbeams in the park. I kinda like it!
Looking across the bay toward Catalina Island in the distance.
It’s always interesting when these two apps both send me notifications at the same time.
It’s always interesting when these two apps both send me notifications at the same time.
