Engineering you say? This is an old picture 📷 I took years ago (heavily modified with whatever hipster apps of the time). Though the gears don’t do anything, I thought of this picture right away. #mbmar
Had a lot of coffee, took a nap (coffee makes me calm and sleepy) and then I had to go for a biobreak. Found this fancy floor waiting for me!
March photo challenge 📷 Tile #mbmar day 5
On with the photo challenge 📷: Zip.
my old Israeli slippers, which have zippers. These are sometimes referred to as “Kipi shoes” after the Kipi, the Israeli sesame street’s version of Big Bird who always has them on. #mbmar
My take on explaining Micro.blog
When I joined Micro.blog, I was confused. Coming from Mastodon, I didn’t know how to wrap my head around the integration of the two (to be honest, I’m still learning what works best), and I was struggling with my blog’s CSS and various tweaks. As I learned, I started to take notes which turned into wiki articles.
Now, the MB section on my wiki is good enough to stand on its own. It contains a short introduction and a couple of notes and tricks. It’s nowhere near complete, and I plan to keep adding and changing information as I go. Most importantly, it’s meant to be read as an opinionated guide. It contains information as I understand it and instructions for my own way of doing things. It doesn’t have to be yours. As a matter of fact, if you have a different way of doing things, I’d love to hear about it.
Here’s my contribution 📷 My morning solitude: coffee, notebook to write ideas down, and the first rays of light.
This must be the first time (or the first time in a long time) that I couldn’t launch into my Linux Desktop environment and managed to fix it within 5 minutes. Good job, me.
“Why no RSS?” - an update on why I don’t have RSS on my wiki, and what workarounds I’ve made.
Had a nice social gathering of sorts with a few folks last night 🍺🍷. Thankfully no headaches this morning, just a bit of lack of sleep. Worth it.
Using your blog as a 📔 journal, yay or nay?
You’d think it’s easy to use your blog as a journal, but in reality, it’s not that simple. You don’t say everything you think, and you don’t blog everything you journal.
Say there was a meeting at work. Cosmo, one of the system administrators, was leading a discussion in favor of pushing a desktop shortcut to create support tickets to all computers in our system and phase out our help@compnay.com email address. I had a couple of conflicting points to mention, but I couldn’t bring myself to talk in the meeting. I ended up sending an email instead, raising my concerns.
I will write the above in my journal, making a note of the meeting and what I wanted to say, including the email I sent. Taking this as is though and using it as a blog post doesn’t work well.
For one, using real names is never a good idea. The same goes for the email contents or anything specific. Being too specific is also boring and shrinks the number of people who’d want to read about it. I need to expand on what I have to say first.
To do so, I like to ask myself why. Since posts should usually be short and convey a single idea, I want to focus on one such why. Looking over the above paragraph, I think the here is “why couldn’t I bring myself to talk about it?” Since I’m writing a personal blog. A certain nervousness, a worry of being exposed, is shooting through my brain. Ah! Looks like I hit a nerve, which means this is personal, which means this is good.
I could write how since my high school days I had issues with confronting opposing opinions to mine. I’m not sure why it started and when, but Authority has always been something I don’t deal with too well. I either follow it too blindly or oppose it to the point of confrontation - and let me tell you, it’s not that great when it starts causing issues at work and with friends. These days I’m better because I know I have an issue and I developed ways to handle it, like the email in the above example.
Isn’t this more appealing than the original journal entry? I think so. You’d probably also agree that more people can relate to this topic. As well, there are no security/privacy issues affecting anyone but myself. Nice.
It takes some time to find those personal points and expose them. It takes even more time to write to the point, with a sense of direction. this is something I’m still struggling with at times.
What about you? Do you prefer to use your blog as a journal, and if so, to what extent? Is your “filter” different? Do you have other tricks?
It is here. I’m part of the ⌚ cult now.
Now to get a nato band before I scratch my wrist off.