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.
Walking in the prairie near our home. Found this guy munching away.
Packing for a photo workshop tomorrow at the MN Arboretum on pollinators. They say to bring a >200mm telephoto (ok) and a 20mm+ wide angle (huh?). Throwing the macro in the kit for good measure. Hoping to pick up a few tips.
The new reMarkable Paper Pro Move was an instant purchase. The size is perfect for toting around. Now if Apple could replicate that screen feel in an iPad mini I’d be very tempted, but I don’t see that happening.
Bringing my Tinderbox skills back up to snuff for my Oakes Folks web site. It’s the best tool I’ve found for this work. Let’s me organize the way I want.
Pulled my big full frame camera out of hibernation today. Heavy body & heavy lens but it takes nice shots. Maybe I’ll build some muscles this weekend.
Had the slow leak repaired in my bike’s back tire. Road 15 miles. Time for my G&T.
Just preordered the new Ricoh GRIV and putting off my expected upgrade to the next iPhone. Keeping the 14 Pro Max. May even downsize at some point to a smaller model.