As I continue to slowly dip my toe into LLM/AI, I’m checking out Claude from Anthropic. I’ve been using ChatGPT on and off, and it’s cool, but Claude looks a little more interesting.
Thoughts
Alright… After making some poor decisions yesterday, I’ve got my Mastodon woes sorted out. If you followed my social.lol/@jim profile, but don’t seem to be anymore, here’s your chance to refollow. I promise I won’t put you through this again…
This just came to me… I think the third Tuesday of each month should be declared “Meeting Amnesty” day, where no meetings whatsoever are scheduled for anyone at all – kind of a mini-holiday. Everyone just gets stuff done without any interruptions.
🤢 Oh no… Someone has brought a very potent fish dish into the open office space for their lunch. That’s an office etiquette faux pas, coworker…
Another cup of hot chocolate at work today, this time a double. This could get out of hand if I don’t put it in check right now…
I volunteered to be a “safety leader” at work because, well yeah, that’s the kind of stuff I seem to do without thinking it through, and somehow I ended up as the “head” safety leader of the bunch. Which of course means yet another herd of cats I’ll have to wrangle… Yay me.
On a whim, I made a cup of hot chocolate at work this morning. It’s been years since I’ve had one, and dang, it tasted spectacular.
I wonder what ever happened to Micro @monday? The last entry was more than a year ago. I think it was a great Micro.blog community builder.
What kind of stuff do I like to do on a Sunday morning? Fork Manton’s Micro.blog Recommends plugin so I can update my own Recommends page the way I want it to look. If you’re a Micro.blog user and like the tabular format, let me know. I’ll release it as an official plugin.
I kind of like you can make home screen icons in iOS 18 larger and the labels disappear now, but I really wish there were a way to hide app labels AND keep icons their original size. I feel old(er) rocking the large icons…
I decided to alias my Mastodon account from mastodon.social over to social.lol where all the cool kids seem to be hanging out these days. I lost about 50 followers in the move, but that’s okay. I’m on a better instance this way.
I added my Micro.Masonry plugin to the Micro.blog plugin directory this morning (well, last night and updated this morning). If you’re looking for a nice masonry style layout for your Micro.blog photos page that’s mobile responsive, give it a look.
For reasons unknown to me, my Tinylytics plugin for WordPress has had (what I’d call) a large spike in downloads over the last few days. Not that it matters much… It’s just interesting to see it.
Now that I’ve moved to just one site on Micro.blog, I’m thinking long and hard again about “going all in” and aliasing my Mastodon username back here. If I do, maybe I can make it stick this time. I’ll ruminate on it through the day, and then make a decision tonight.
I shared this nugget a while back, but it’s worth sharing again… If you have a domain you’d like to forward to another domain with just a simple DNS modification, I totally recommend ForwardDomain.net to accomplish it.
The move from WordPress to Micro.blog is now complete…
- Content I wanted to keep has been imported.
- Backup of assets from VPS taken and archived.
- DNS records updated.
- VPS decommissioned and deleted.
- Domain forwarding for .dev to .org TLD confirmed.
I got the core features of a new Micro.blog masonry style layout photos page plugin worked up this morning. I still need to add the ability to set preferences for number of columns and image gaps, but I’m liking the results. Check out my photos page to see the results so far.
Jimmy Vaughan was the opening act for Eric Clapton tonight. So great to hear some good Texas Blues. It’s also great to see guys who are pushing 80 years old still out there doing their thing.
A huge shout out to Aaron Vegh for the quick turnaround on a solution to a Croissant issue (not a bug) I reported after “wedging” my Threads account into a state of inability to delete. Super friendly and quick support responses as well. That’s what I dig about the indie dev community.
I tried using Arc as my default browser for the day yesterday. I don’t think I’m quite ready for it, so I’m returning to Safari. I’ll keep playing with Arc here and there so maybe one day it feels more natural and I’ll make the move permanently.
Well, my monthly call with my mentor got canceled last minute, so I think that’s my cue to go outside and get some fresh air with a walk.
And just like that, I’m back on Micro.blog… 👋
I think the people who produce TV shows have come to realize that, while sex still sells, conflict sells even better. Every cable TV show I flip past seems to have nothing but conflict as a plot line. It’s both distressing and sad at the same time.
Hate to say it, but the pre-recorded Apple events just don’t have the magic of the Jobs era. Whereas we once hung on every word that came from Steve’s mouth, the super-polished sizzle reels Apple tries to pass off as an “event” have become boring and predictable. I stopped watching after 15 minutes.
I feel so empowered when I decline a bunch of meetings because I’ll be on PTO later in the week. It’s my favorite way to start a Monday. 💪🏻
Trying something new for dinner… Broke out the smoker for the first time this year to infuse a little smoke to some chicken breasts before I finish them up on the grill. Pairing it up with grilled corn on the cob.
I picked up an Apple Magic Keyboard with Touch ID today (not the extended model). I’ve been using an Apple extended Bluetooth keyboard forever, so the hand placement feels a little different. I do like the new smaller size under my hands, and thoroughly like the touch sensor being “right here.”
I’ve been weighing the options of sticking with Micro.blog, running my own WordPress server, or going the 100% free route of a Hugo site published on GitHub pages. Cost and effort wise, Micro.blog is the front runner, plus (I’ve said it before) there’s the community. Con is I’m not 100% in control.
Something I do like about the new version of Reeder… When opening a toot from the feed, it gives the full Mastodon thread in context.
I’m going to throw some knee-jerk observations about Reeder out as I evaluate it… A big thing I’m seeing: If you follow someone/something in multiple places (Micro.blog, Mastodon, RSS), you’re going to see the same post multiple times. That makes for a lot of duplicated noise in your home feed.