Welcome to Pine.blog!
June 30, 2020
independent software developer, space enthusiast, hiker, blogger, mac user, coffee drinker, guitar player
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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
Aaron Parecki
I'm gonna start using "corona" as a unit of measurement. Who's with me?
"I was at the grocery store and this guy came within one corona of me!"
"The protests stretched for like 200 coronas!"
I am entirely down with this. I love weird units of measurement.
If I understand the measurement correctly, 1 corona is ~3.6 cubits.
June 15, 2020
gRegor Morrill
I noticed I wasn’t seeing your feed in Monocle. It looks like your jsonfeed doesn't validate: https://validator.jsonfeed.org/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpine.blog%2Fu%2Fsonicrocketman%2Ffeed.json
I subscribed to your microformats feed and that’s working smoothly!
btw, let me know if you want to try out Pine.blog's Webmention thing. I saw your msg about it. I can give you a coupon.
June 13, 2020
gRegor Morrill
I noticed I wasn’t seeing your feed in Monocle. It looks like your jsonfeed doesn't validate: https://validator.jsonfeed.org/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpine.blog%2Fu%2Fsonicrocketman%2Ffeed.json
I subscribed to your microformats feed and that’s working smoothly!
It should be fixed now.
https://monocle.p3k.io/preview?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpine.blog%2Fu%2Fsonicrocketman%2Ffeed.json
June 13, 2020
gRegor Morrill
I noticed I wasn’t seeing your feed in Monocle. It looks like your jsonfeed doesn't validate: https://validator.jsonfeed.org/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpine.blog%2Fu%2Fsonicrocketman%2Ffeed.json
I subscribed to your microformats feed and that’s working smoothly!
Aaron Parecki
This is fantastic! Pine.blog can now receive webmentions for you, and it'll show them to you in the timeline! This is probably the best option for static sites now! https://blog.pine.blog/2020/05/bring-us-your-static-sites-yearning-to-breathe-free/
I don’t have MicroPub just yet. I stuck with Wordpress for replies for now but I started laying the groundwork. I may need some guidance implementing IndieAuth.
May 30, 2020
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May 30, 2020
Aaron Parecki
First quarantine haircut. About two months overdue. Definitely turned out lopsided so I'm styling it like this instead. #selfie
Looks good. I haven’t been brave enough to do more than slightly clean up the sides.
May 25, 2020
Bearcat
Hello on a new platform.
Pine.Blog seemed as good as any new place to start writing these day so what the hell...
The number of locations I have written my thoughts and streams of consciousness are so varied it is hard to really consider them all; what is one more?
The thing I want.
Welcome to Pine.blog! Glad to have you. Looking forward to your craft beer post.
May 20, 2020
Jean MacDonald
Due to a grocery delivery mixup, I have Ground Breaker’s gluten-free Porter instead of IPA #5 in the fridge.
How many months until a Porter-loving pal drops by? I’m tempted to put them in front of the house with a “Free Beer” sign, but that’s probably irresponsible?
jmsardina1_editor
Will and Testament of Makara
Honestly haven't been drawing much lately due to 2020 continuing to be a giant trash-fire of awful.
Instead here is the document I made as my pirate character's Will & Testament in case she dies. Yup, I am really that extra sometimes.
The stamps in the four corners are the same des...
Makara is prepared for everything, including death paperwork. Truly a great quartermaster.
May 16, 2020
sonicrocketman
Time to see if this works.
Aaron Parecki
There's a domain still in my @namecheap shopping cart, and I genuinely don't remember what the project idea was for that domain. I guess it's good that I didn't actually buy it.
That's my Amazon cart. I do that on purpose to stop me from buying random things. If I still need it the next time I visit the site, I'll buy it. Otherwise I just delete it; it obviously wasn't that important.
May 9, 2020
Aaron Parecki
Does anyone have a list of card games where the mechanics allow it to be played remotely? Not online games tho, games that use real physical cards, where it doesn't matter that the players will be drawing from separate decks.
Blackjack would work. Casinos use multiple decks. Granted they’re mixed up but it shouldn’t matter.
May 4, 2020
A friend of mine does that; it does seem to work. I declare email bankruptcy a lot. If it’s important they will email me again.
May 1, 2020
Aaron Parecki
sometimes I reply to an email or slack message in my head, and only later realize that I did not in fact send the reply. this leads to undesirable results.
I got jealous of them only being on your site. It's such a great, useless feature.
May 1, 2020
gRegor Morrill
@sonicrocketman Hope you can join us for Homebrew Website Club on the 29th!
Had fun at the meetup last night. Hopefully I’ll be able to join for the full time soon.
April 30, 2020
gRegor Morrill
It gets my homepage URL as the author property, but I don't expect it will handle fetching that and following the authorship specification. That's more indieweb-land than microformats2.
BTW, I'm gonna have a quick IndieWeb lunch Zoom at noon today. Link will be in chat.
Can you do me a favor and reply to this? I think I've implemented the spec and I'm testing it.
April 25, 2020
Jean MacDonald
2020 goals that have not aged well so far:
Level up my travel hacking skills.
Plan monthly Micro.blog meetups in PDX and elsewhere.
Start using a big 2020-at-a-glance wall calendar to manage a year full of conferences, cons, meetups and travel.
🤷♀️
Whenever the meetups do happen, I definitely want to go. I can't wait to get back to Portland.
April 24, 2020