I honestly can’t tell if our sky is cloudy or smoky. It’s probably both at this point. Air quality is crap. We get occasional blue but not much.
Sept. 13, 2020
independent software developer, writer, musician, space enthusiast, hiker, coffee drinker, mac user
Constantly
Aaron Parecki
Fine, just not happy about spending 48+ hours in this air, kinda worried about the possible side effects of this a few weeks from now
I don’t doubt it. We haven’t had it nearly as bad, but the fires have done a number here too. Closes reading to me says 158.
I have the same worries. I’ve never really had bad allergies but they’ve been crazy lately.
Sept. 13, 2020
Aaron Parecki
Now you too can watch the AQI inside and outside my house: https://aaronparecki.com/air/
Yikes. Seems like you've found a project at least. How you holding up otherwise?
Sept. 12, 2020
Aaron Parecki
ohhhh this is awesome! So glad you shipped this!! 🚀
Aaron Parecki
Once I upload photos, there's a text box next to each photo. I can type in emoji that I want to use for that photo. If I type an emoji that's associated with another image it removes it from the other image. It's surprisingly quick to set up this way!
btw, not sure if you saw, but I launched this today: Pine.blog: Profiles, Pinboard, and More!
Sept. 4, 2020
If you have any music recommendations to share, I'd be happy to feature them.
Aug. 29, 2020
Aaron Parecki
Once I upload photos, there's a text box next to each photo. I can type in emoji that I want to use for that photo. If I type an emoji that's associated with another image it removes it from the other image. It's surprisingly quick to set up this way!
That’s pretty cool! Simple and easy to use.
Though I will say, you’re not helping me convince myself to not build this.
Maybe this weekend.
Aug. 25, 2020
Aaron Parecki
I don't have photos for every emoji so it uses the first match.
Side note, I am pretty proud of the interface I made to set up the mapping between photos and emoji!
Aaron Parecki
Yessss do it! 👍
If there's more than one emoji in the post, do you use the first/last one, or do you have a better process?
Aug. 25, 2020
Aaron Parecki
Yessss do it! 👍
macgenie
@pine.blog Many audiobooks have been consumed here.
@pine.blog Many audiobooks have been consumed here.
Jean MacDonald
Black-and-white. (Day 9 of the Micro.blog August Photoblogging Challenge) #mbaug
Aaron Parecki
Couldn't take it anymore and didn't want to film a whole several-hour course with terrible quarantine hair 💇♂️
Feels like a different time doesn’t it?
IndieWebCamp Austin was nearly 6 months ago.
Aug. 2, 2020
Vincent Ritter
Not sure if this is specific to iOS 14, but I noticed that “Apple News” links now don’t force you to install it. Instead it redirects to the real URL. Just me?
I hope this is also true for Safari on macOS. I’m tired of opening chrome to get at RSS feeds.
July 31, 2020
Manton Reece
Book search experiment
One of the minor hassles that has held me back from blogging about books I’m reading is finding the ISBN and cover art. To improve this workflow, I’m testing out a new book search feature on Micro.blog.
Type in the title of a book, and Micro.blog will search Open Library. It is no...
Really happy to see this. This is a great feature! I didn't know about the Open Library before this.
July 29, 2020
gRegorLove.com: Notes
Currently reading: Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates (ISBN 9780679645986)
Currently reading: Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates (ISBN 9780679645986)
gRegor Morrill
The other day I was hemming and hawing about whether I wanted to risk it by getting a haircut. Guess that decision is now made. It's been since March for me.
Yeah, I've been in the same boat. I always decided not to. Oh well. It's not the end of the world. I'll just be back to the long haircut I had in college.
July 13, 2020
I could be wrong, but from everything I've seen Puerto Ricans prefer being a part of the U.S. (though some want state-hood and others are not sure). Independence has many ups and downs. Puerto Rico is already a part of the U.S. and it's people have been U.S. citizens for over 100 years. We treat them like they're not though. I'm of the opinion that we shouldn't have colonies in the 21st century and that we shouldn't treat them as some halfway house and instead welcome them as full citizens (should they prefer it).
July 13, 2020
Cambridgeport90
First post from Pine ... let's see how this goes, considering it's a new thing for me until I get my Wordpress site back.
I was specifically referring to housing not business, but you bring up a good point.
I think it’s important to distinguish between normal business failure (i.e. because of uninteresting products/services, etc) and the unprecedented upheaval of a global catastrophe. This kind of scenario isn’t really reasonable to expect them to adequately prepare for something like this and leaving so many businesses to fail only increases the economic hardship to come for everyone. Rent is a foundation of our entire business and residential economy. Letting that fail is like taking the bottom bricks in Jenga.
IMO at times like this it’s important to think about things not from a personal or individual business level but from the perspective of the entire economy. One business failing or one person getting evicted doesn’t really mean anything globally, but tens of thousands per month is catastrophic and can be avoided.
June 29, 2020
Manton Reece
I launched Micro.blog and everything else exclusively on this old 13-inch MacBook Pro. Not fast enough, not enough memory, not enough disk space, no monitor. I think an upgrade after 5 years is going to be amazing.
sonicrocketman
I am entirely down with this. I love weird units of measurement.
If I understand the measurement correctly, 1 corona is ~3.6 cubits.
This also makes it easy to explain to people: Don't come within 1 corona of a sick person or you'll need to quarentine for 1 fortnight.
1 c / 1 fn
June 15, 2020