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This Micro Monday, Iâd like to recommend @jcburns, survivor of the dawn of digital technology, who kicked off the new year with a bevy of posts reflecting on the the history & state of (broadcast) journalism from a behind-the-scenes perspective.
(My previous recommendations: đď¸)
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I am thankful every time we come through a big storm event like this unscathed, & always hopeful it will be the same the next timeâŚđŚâĄď¸đ¨
Every time, so many others are not so lucky, & severe weather remains a sword of Damocles hanging by an ever-fraying thread due to climate change.
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@eurobubba Frustratingly, thereâs nothing on the Help site (or on @til or even Mantonâs blog, that I can tell) about this, but you can toggle cross-posting off, make the post, and toggle cross-posting back on.
Thatâs in the âgearâ button on the post screen in the iOS (and I presume Mac) app, or via the web at Account, Edit Feeds and Cross-posting.
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@macgenie @Nataliekayh Really fun episode, thanks! It was a whole different perspective having someone (relatively) new to Micro.blog on the podcast. (Believe it or not, @Burk already has the đś emoji on his list as a suggestion for a tagmoji; I thought đ had made an appearace at one point, but maybe not. And it is funny how there are all those sports tagmojis, but theyâre not as active as books/music/movies/tv are on a regular basisâŚ)
Glad to see the transcript appearing again, too (thereâs a missing Jean: right after Natalie tells you not to edit the AppCamp stuff out, and another one later where you say "Yes, I knowâ. And I think âtag motifâ is transcription-speak for âtagmojiâ đ).
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@Miraz Amazing shots! What a lovely bird. (I donât catch the Great Blue Herons very often anymore, but theyâre always a treat.)
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@Miraz Lovely to see your river (I assume the bridge in the second photo is the footbridge you sometimes mention?)
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@Ron Also, glad you made it back, and hereâs hoping you can get the jetlag under control some before the Forty Niners play :-)
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@Ron đ Yes, I am at least a 4th generation gardener. My grandmother had this enormous, nearly floor-to-ceiling window in her living room (with 10' ceilings), which gave her a great view of all the avian goings-on in the front yard, including at one of the feeders. One of her favorite things to do was to just sit there and watch, and it was always a delight for me, too, when I would visit đŚ
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@VicsVita Certainly no one on Micro.blog. Caturday is one of the best days of the week here ;-)
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@artkavanagh I am very much of the Siracusa school of Classic-with-occasional-new-style Mac windowing, so this is great news for when I finally make it to Catalina. Thanks for the heads-up!
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@macgenie Haha! That was a but before my time (although I did live through the ânationalizationâ of the campus phone system by the proto-IT department as an undergradâŚneedless to say, that did go well, and I doubt it was a good long-term investment, considering whatâs happened to phonesâŚ).
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@klandwehr Ah, thanks (âtwas just curious, given the Grantham in the name).
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@strandlines Good deal!
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@johnjohnston đ
Itâs a sheltered clump of brown-eyed Susans thatâs still blooming despite the winter!
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@paperclypse đ
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@DTSteele What do you mean by âlink the timeline of my Micro.blog account to my WordPress blogâ?
Do you want your posts that are on dtsteele.micro.blog to show up on 2020nature.wordpress.com, or something else?
If the former, there are two different options (both dicey because of the WordPress.com plan/fee structure, alas):
1) sidebar.js can show your posts in a sidebar (or some other spot) on your WP blog (this is what @JohnPhilpin mentioned; itâs display-only)
2) Feed Importer for Micro.blog from @michal fetches your posts and imports them as posts into your WP blog
We have a bunch of resources for using WordPress with Micro.blog in the wikiâthough mostly theyâre geared to self-hosted WordPress sites (or top-tier WordPress.com plans where you can actually customize things and install pluginsâŚ.)
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@Ron Safe travels! Iâd noticed youâd been quiet the past few days and was about to ask if it was because you were on your way home :-)
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@Mikehendley Lovely! :-)
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@muncman I thought that was one of the things that the old HTML5 Forms spec was designed to fix, but I guess not :-( Or maybe this form is really just dumb and chose not to specify the requirements�
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@DiplomaticDiva Oooh, great shot of the birds!
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@garciabuxton Thereâs a fun story!
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@bradenslen Good to see people reclaiming the web for useful things like that (especially as the yellow pages have gone extinct).
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Thereâs some kind of terrifying time-devouring anomaly in my recent past that makes the 1990s feel like last week
Same here.
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On the first Micro Monday of 2020, Iâd like to recommend Bob Wertz (@sketchbookb), a designer, instructor, grad student, and creator of the Fav8, who often writes (and has interesting perspectives on) the state of the web and design topics.
(My previous recommendations: đď¸)
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âIsnât it a bit early to be checking out houses?â
âWith apologies to @Mikehendley, but I think Iâll hang out here for a while.â
Eastern bluebirds
White-breasted nuthatch
Sparrow, bluebird, and downy woodpecker
Brown-headed nuthatch and downy woodpecker
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2019 Fav8
(You can read more about each photo in the longform My favorite photos of 2019: a retrospective published earlier today, featuring these and the top other photos that did not make the final 8.)
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Blog posts I havenât written this month:
In-progress posts I havenât completed:
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As an end-of-year, end-of-an-era bonus Micro Monday (re)recommendation, if youâve wondered what goes on behind the scenes of a stage production, what exactly the craftspeople do, check out @Bruceâs posts from the last few weeks to see a lighting designer at work.
(Previously: đď¸)
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This final Micro Monday, I recommend legendary indie Mac developer @brentsimmons, who writes about software development topics of interest to humans & has a gift for explaining the same. Ever wondered about your feature request, or the likeâheâs written about it.
(Previously: đď¸)
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All politics is cosplay, but in Taiwan it really is.
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