Why I Blog the Way I Do
Sebastian ruminates on what he wants his blog to be. This is my answer to that, sharing what I think a blog is for. At the end of the day, my blog is for me and no one else.
Hey, I’m Jim Mitchell. I'm a wrangler of nerds, herder of cats, butcher of code, and abuser of ellipses... Chances are, I probably like you.
I’m trying a content consumption experiment using Reeder, reading a curated list of Indieweb bloggers I follow — and nothing else. I think this might be a great way to block out the noise and focus on the thoughtful musings of others.
For a brief moment I was tempted to re-register the jimmitchell.social domain name and spin up a new single-user Mastodon instance. Thankfully, my pragmatist self talked my ADHD self off the ledge.
This is one of the earlier photos in my Apple Photos collection. More as a test of my site work to add Pixelfed federation than anything else.
I just added my Pixelfed profile to my site. Now to find a good photo to be the first I federate…
Hey! It’s National Left Handers Day today. Don’t forget to celebrate all the left-handed people in your life who are in their right mind!
#lefthandersday
I love when I browse another blogger’s site and find them using an appealing web font. I especially like when that font is available to use freely. Thanks to @bstn@social.lol, I’ve updated the faces on my site to DM Sans and I think it works pretty well in the overall design.
If you have a blog and you publish content regularly, you really should include an RSS feed of some kind. It’s readership lost otherwise. I tried subscribing to a site that looked interesting today but it had no feed. Sorry friend, I probably won’t be back. Just saying…
This is a quick note published from my new Micropub client app on a Mac different than my development machine. I’ve been testing the iOS and iPadOS versions on my hardware too. All three are coming along nicely. If your site is Micropub enabled and you’d like to try my app, get in touch through socials or email.
My OmniFocus Task Sync plugin for Obsidian has officially hit 200 downloads on the community site, with nary a peep from anyone who’s downloaded it. That’s a good thing, right?