Getting close with the clippings blog and Zola. I like what I’m getting so far.
Just watched Stiller and Meara: Nothing is Lost. Funny in spots, thoughtful, very interesting.
Evening Note
Got a few things off the list today but still a lot more to work on with Zola. The clippings blog has over 1600 posts which Zola gens in about 6 seconds. Not too bad. Still thinking of how best to do a photography site. I may end up back here at m.b. Farmer’s Market tomorrow. I’m buying for Thanksgiving. No turkey this year; pork shoulder instead for pulled pork ragout over egg noodles.
Back to using the micro.blog cross-posting to Day One.
I’m finding the IFTTT thing I built to be too unreliable. In general I am finding the IFTTT triggers (RSS feed, clock, button) to be a bit iffy.
Morning Note
Attempting to move my clippings site to Zola SSG. Lots of styling to do. Continue writing articles for my company’s site. One more attempt at using an SSG for a photo portfolio. SmugMug does the trick but just feels crazy expensive for how I use it. Housework, shopping, and “nurse duty” for Ann who is recovering from back surgery.
My daughter got married to her long-time boyfriend on Friday. Both of my kids chose minimal courthouse weddings. Neither wanted anything big. I wonder if this is a thing these days?
Playing some more with IFTTT. It’s both fun and frustrating.
Checked out the new Day One cross-posting. It works fine, but I’ve gotten used to the little scheme I worked out with IFTTT and I’m sticking with that.
A "Portfolio" Adventure
Well, I tried to do my (decidedly amateur) photography site on micro.blog. I wanted something super-easy to publish from Lightroom using “smart” galleries; I didn’t want to have to fiddle with finding and modifying a theme; and I thought I wanted just a single page. The constraints were too much for m.b galleries and I ended back at SmugMug which does everything I want for a price. Turns out I wanted several separate galleries.
The beginnings of a squash and bacon soup!
Spending much of the day fixing keywords in a (very) small chunk of my Lightroom catalog. This is a vacuum cleaner for time.
Aurora just north of Rochester MN
I’ve tried living on Linux for about a month. I like the idea of being free of the behemoths, but it is a constant search for software that isn’t half-baked. I’m not afraid of the terminal, but geez, I don’t want to spend my life in the terminal.
I’m consolidating my fediverse presence down to micro.blog. I’m doing all my following, replying, and discovery from here. I’m now off of mastodon. Non-fedi platforms are all read-only. No more posting on them.
Testing a backdated post. This is the last bit I hope.
After a brief flirtation with tiling window managers I’m back to my old UI setup which is pretty much out-of-the-box for both Pop!_OS and macOS. I turn off the automatic edge tiling since I work on wide displays and it’s just wrong there.
Biked 17 miles today. Not bad. I’m on a mission to drop about 60 lbs this year. I want to get back under 200. Bad habits must be broken.
Omarchy and desktop behavior
So I tried out Omarchy on a Parallels VM. This was a non-starter. I could not get a reasonable display and slower than molasses. Installed on a System/76 meerkat (Core i3 Intel NUC with some mods) that I bought at least 5 years ago to play around with. Boots great, runs great, but I don’t see the utility. I think DHH and I just approach development very differently. My old brain just can’t deal with all the key bindings.
Sunflower found during my prairie walk a couple of days ago.
I took another prairie walk yesterday. Sunflowers and Black-eyed Susans are in full bloom providing lots of seed for this chickadee and its friends.