@hjalm Wishing you a very Happy Birthday 🎂

@DiplomaticDiva Oh yuk! Wishing you a swift recovery…enjoy the Olympics in the meantime.

I’ve been playing around with Tinrocket’s relatively new app Cinemin. While admiring what they can do, I do not normally choose to use apps that give photographs a artistic look, this one I am enjoying though. The images that Cinemin produces is,

Inspired by traditional animation art and films

Here are a couple of my first dabbles with the app, conjoined by Tinrocket’s collage app, Photo Tape.

Well it took a couple of attempts, but with the new Tapestry TestFlight build, Micro.blog is now on my Tapestry feed.

@pimoore Hi Pete, it’s good to see you. How are you?

This evening’s sunset view from home.

Between the rainbow this morning and this sunset, the day has felt oddly discombobulated. Slowly productive, but sort of disjointed along the way.

This morning’s rainbow, accompanied by the moon 🌈

🥵 The last couple of days have been very humid. This morning outside it is like walking through a thick bath.

@Miraz Knowing that I had such a treat waiting for me, workouts might feature more prominently in my life! 😆

@pratik Bookmarked for later.

@maique I install that occasionally and a few photos later ask myself if I really need it. How many apps do I need to edit a photo?!

@Miraz Oh, that would be a good way to clear out the cobwebs.

A part of the ruin of the old Sugar Mill in Paia, Maui.

Apparently today is National Ice Cream Day, at least here in the US, and I am sad to report we have no ice cream in the house.

Thanks to President Reagan, we celebrate National Ice Cream Day every third Sunday in July, meaning July 21 this year.

For more information on this important day, click here.

@bryan I got you 😉 Thank you.

I’ve been playing around with muting keywords on two Mastodon apps. I don’t know what is involved with the coding, though I would have thought that catching individual words is not that difficult? However, from my experimenting I’ve decided that each one catches some, but neither catch all.

@camiel I am not on the Reeder beta, and did not know that they were taking a similar direction to Tapestry. I'll be interested to see Reeder's approach when it is out of beta.

@JohnBrady Haha. You are probably right.

Where’s that mute button when I need it?

I was out last night searching for slugs and snails who might be eating our young lettuces, and instead I found this spider standing guard.

@Miraz Thank you.

@maique There’s a place here for you all if you make it. Just saying…

@maique LA ✈️ Maui? Just a suggestion 😉

@kimonostereo @rom I got the same.

@Mtt @pratik An error for me as well.

@samgrover Beautiful light.

Oohh, in the time for the weekend the first early beta build of The Iconfactory’s Tapestry project has just landed on TestFlight.

I’m sorry, no screenshots or specifics to share as per The Iconfactory’s request. For now I am just happy to give this a whirl and see where the project is heading.

@Miraz When I had my last eye test I mentioned that I had a sensitivity to light and the optometrist replied that it might be a sign of cataracts coming on.

The moon casts ghostly shadows over the landscape last night. The images were taken through the windows of our house.

🚘 In other news, my eyes do not enjoy me driving at night. I’ve said it before on this blog, but my aging eyes find the glare of the car headlights, especially the bright LED lights, too bright for comfort.

🔥 I’m back from sitting in the fire of what was my men’s group this evening - at least for me. That’s not necessarily bad, in fact from my experience it is good, though it can be uncomfortable at the time…and require some wind down time afterwards.

@pcora I think that I can see the UK 🇬🇧

@ericmwalk Wonderful.

A boat moored on the River Sado. The photo was taken while out on the River Sado in a more modern boat, powered by solar power and completely quiet.

@ericmwalk Another thought. For the Shortcut to work, especially if you are using Markdown, make sure that that you use the plain text view.

@ericmwalk Here is a link without the file saving part. You should get no error now.

As I say, if you would like to save a copy of your post, just edit the Append instruction at the end of the original Shortcut to point to the folder where the posts will be saved.

@jarrod Yes, I like that.

@jarrod Thank you for your Shortcut. I learnt a lot and wouldn't have been able to complete mine without it. 🙏

@ericmwalk I’m pleased that you managed to post from Tot using the Shortcut.

I’m guessing that the error has been caused by the last section which you actually don’t need. By the last section, I mean a few lines that I added at the end so that the text from Tot is saved to a text file, the filename for the text file being the date and time of the post.

I have since updated the Shortcut (same link) so that it includes an extra comment explaining what is going on at the end.

If you don't want to save the Tot post to a text file, you can delete that last section.

If you do want to save the Tot post to a text file, you will need to specify in the Append action the location for where the text file is to be saved. My guess is that you got the error because the place where the file is saved is currently set to a place in my iCloud Drive!

I hope that this is clear but if not, please let me know.

@mandaris It was the first time that I had used a footnote in a blog post for a very long time. However, in the moment of writing the post, I couldn’t think of how else to point to the source of the quote.

While going through some old notes I came across these few lines:

Who am I when others don’t see me?

Who am I when I don’t see myself?

But don’t let the second be an excuse for the first, because rest assured that the first does happen.

I have no idea where this came from or what prompted this train of thought? However, since finding them these words have been playing in my mind. Not only what did I mean by them, but why did I write them down?

I don’t see these hammer head worms very often. This one I caught a couple of mornings ago. I have since learned that they are an invasive species to Hawaii.

🏝️ Island life. The power went down an hour ago, taking the internet with it. And where we live, the cell signal can be weak. It is improving, but we couldn’t get by without WiFi calling. There is no clear indication when the power will be back on, so it is probably an early night tonight.

Turn the volume up and listen to the bees busy at work this morning.

Looking across to the West Maui Mountains from the Pukalani Community Center as I sat having a bite to eat on Thursday evening.