We are pretty much addicted to Himalayan Dumplings by Kyikyi in Beaverton, Oregon. The noodles, the dumplings, the hand pies…all so good.
The dog days of summer, hopefully coming to an end.
Ultimately, what it’s going to boil down to for me in terms of social media platform adoption, is the moderation tools. Both Threads and Bluesky have the ability to hide replies for everybody and detach quotes. It’s awesome for de-platforming trolls and mean people!
The new routine. She insists on carrying his backpack.
There’s this spot on my bathroom floor where, if I move my scale there before hopping on, I weigh like a pound less. What can I say, I love lying to myself!
S: I was born in August, I’m a Leo.
P: What’s a Leo, mom?
S: It means I’m bold.
P: You’re not bald mom, dad is!
I wish the west coast would get on with that whole high-speed rail thing. Tijuana to Vancouver, and all points in between, we want trains.
Beautiful morning in the northwest, but time to button up the house until this evening. These temp swings are pretty drastic. #pdx
Happy to have found some #detroit dad hats in 3xl made by ‘47 on a specialty site for the cranially endowed.
Some meetings just require you to put on your best Cillian Murphy.
The phrases “rock music” and “rock and roll” seem anachronistic enough now that I don’t think we need to throw “classic” in front of them anymore.
Pretty nice that you can accept tips & donations natively in ghost now.
@jsonbecker tumblr has only half of the thing I want. I wouldn’t have a website I own, and it doesn’t have ActivityPub. Maybe though once it’s integrated fully with Wordpress, it will have everything. I don’t know.
@jsonbecker I’m pretty new to it, going on two years now, and also not a dev, but I’m in your camp for the most part. I have a few gripes as a newcomer, however.
Mostly that it’s actually not that easy to get a fully functional engagement platform on a self-hosted blog. I like Micro.blog, but I want likes, I want reposts, I want article previews in the feed, I want post quotes, I want more moderation tools. I basically just want fully functional Bluesky/Mastodon from a CMS perspective, but then a Hugo blog on the back end. That doesn’t exist in a convenient format (although some services are getting close).
I’ve spent the last several weeks migrating my blog to Ghost in anticipation of ActivityPub because it looks like it will be a more complete implementation. Also, Npub is looking very cool.
Spun up a GoToSocial instance in Docker to see how it works. Surprisingly easy. Not as feature-rich as Mastodon, but it's supposed to be a lot lighter on resources.
@brauhze.bsky.social asking the wrong person, but I’m sure there is. I’m on the far west side of
Here we are on Labor Day and my kids (5 and 2) are already so excited for Halloween that they’re begging us to take them to a store to buy decorations. 🎃
I Think I Like When it Rains - Willis
https://music.apple.com/us/album/i-think-i-like-when-it-rains/1674901168?i=1674901173
Little friends at the park.
I need to make more friends on the westside of Portland. Time to get back on Meetup?
Civil War (2024) has got to be one of the most boring movies I’ve seen in years.
Saturday Market
Trying to reduce my subscription and other misc. costs so last night I migrated several hosted software applications over to my home lab. Going to give Actual envelope budgeting a try as well.
I’ve been stuck at 49 states for a few years now, with the last state being Alaska. Starting to think about knocking it off the bucket list next year, even if only for a long weekend. But where to?
#fensterfreitag #photography
Looking for a new memory foam bed. Anyone had any luck with an affordable mattress-in-a-box? 🛌
@justinpecott I went to both Michigan and MSU, it’s definitely going to be more entertaining for me.
@maique did you know Apple now has a passwords app where you can setup family/shared passwords?
@gregmorris bookmarked to revel in this later, at some random time.
@patc looks good. I made ribs today, and I’m also on a diet, but I save up during the week for a little indulgence on the weekends.
@writingslowly it was not bad at all. A bit of rain, bit we managed.
@HaelusNovak you should! I recently switched so I’ve been shooting a lot more.
@prealpinux bene
@crossingthethreshold I’ve found on Micro.blog that the muted words are case sensitive. I had to stick a capital “T” in one of the words, if you catch my drift.
@ablerism Wonderful. There’s also urban design and landscape architecture, if the curiosity continues :)
@riversidebryan I miss last.fm
@jsonbecker For all the time I spend worrying about my sites and tweaking them, with all the tools we add to subscribe to JSON, RSS, links to social accounts, etc., I sure don’t think people actually spend any time over there on my actual blog.
I guess the point of all this cross-posting and federation stuff is that no one has to spend any time there, even if they are interested in the posts.
And why would they, I guess? There is no shortage of thoughts out there. Gone are the days of our teens and early 20s when we’d post to Live Journal or MySpace when everyone was fawning over the daily discoveries of interesting, far-off people. Now that we all have mortgages and kids and most eyeballs are on 30 second TikTok videos and Instagram celebrities, no one cares.