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- Instead of an email, I ended up writing a post.
- Speaking of writing, I tweaked my custom AI prompt for “post polish” with Kagi’s assistants (I will expand on this further down the line)
- Due to the above, I also learned that Kagi featured a picture of my blog in their update post.
- The update post itself reminded me how cool Kagi’s small web is, now even better!
- Due to the above, I also learned that Kagi featured a picture of my blog in their update post.
- Playing around with Kagi’s small web, I found another interesting blogger to follow
- Reading the Micro.blog feed, I found out miljko is building an Emacs to Micro.blog package!
- Emacs + Micro.blog + frequnt posts = another person to add to my RSS feeds
- This reminded me about adventures on Micro.blog by Scott. Yet another RSS feed to add.
A good day to have a blog
Since waking up early in the morning (sleep? What sleep?) I’ve been active around my blog and enjoyed dedicating time to this personal work that doesn’t get much attention during my day-to-day.
Here are a few things I got into:
Then, thinking about all the stuff I’ve done around my blog today, I thought about expanding my “blog check list”, adding the few items I’ve learn. It is now divided into maintenance and inspiration parts:
* Blog Stuff to do
** Maintenance
- [ ] check taonaw email
- [ ] tinylytics:
- [ ] most popular posts in the last month (3 places)
- [ ] Insights can be interesting
- [ ] new webmentions (under *Account* on the Micro.blog site)?
- [ ] "On this day" if exists:
- [ ] check for typos
- [ ] check for bad links/broken images/missing emojis
- [ ] check plugins (updates?)
- [ ] delete used bookmarks (Micro.blog)
- [ ] photo page (add 📷 to posts)
** Inspiration
- [ ] Check old blog for posts to import
- [ ] Journal
- [ ] Bookmarks (in Micro.blog)
- [ ] RSS feeds!
- [ ] Kagi small web (in browser) for sites
- [ ] Take a random picture
I feel like a very efficient blogger today 😄
We were sitting at their bar, but we also had a mocha and a cappuccino toward the end. Something about the flag and the security camera above it makes things feel relevant and eerie. 📷
On my way to get some fresh vegetables for my usual soup. It’s a good day for that. 📷
Greenland? Nah, just the Hudson, NYC. 📷
It’s been fun, but would it shock you if I said the part I appreciate the most is the weather? It’s in the single digits in New York, and today it was 60 here, and sunny. 📷
About to head out on short vacation. Hoping for at least some quiet time to reflect on my geek stuff (yes, that’s part of the fun). 📷
Took the bus to NJ today to see a new location for work. GW Bridge Terminal. 📷
Walked in the snow for farmer’s market, amd this nice taco place with spicy veggie tacos and hot chocolate is the reward. 🌮😋📷
It’s good to remind myself that even though I live in one of the biggest cities in the world, I can still take a walk in the woods. 📷
Trying out Affinity Studio
I’m trying out the new free Affinity Studio, but so far I’m not impressed.
The blurry wooden-like fix at the top left is Apple Photos doing its best to hide a piece of paper towel I had in the original photo. To be fair, this is a big chunk of the photo, and this goes beyond “repair”: it requires AI generation. I do have the tools for that elsewhere, which I might be able to integrate (Affinity now offers AI integration, available as a subscription through Canva, for about the same price as Adobe’s Photoshop. No thanks).
The food at the center of the plate looks highly processed, because it is. While Affinity lets me smart-select the food, I need to learn how to blur the mask a bit and merge it more effectively with the background. Still, the exposure adjustment layer in Affinity feels like the dial on it is broken, incapable of soft touches.