For what it is worth, what posts you see here are being written and posted on my iPad. #
I am about to disembark for a roadtrip to visit my mother in the Upper Peninsula. I am not enthusiastic about the trip but I need to see my mom. Going to be a hermit most of the time.#Just timed a video segment on YouTube, and got three minutes between commercials. Given that all commercials are an effort to manipulate the viewer in to doing something (buying a product) we live in a world dripping in world of external subconscious manipulation. Marketing and economics are running amok and the capitalists are fighting for fewer and fewer constraints so that they can make more and more money. #
It is getting more and more difficult to watch video on YouTube. Soon we will be seeing drop-in commercials every minute. It has noticeably become worse, no doubt in an effort to push users towards subscriptions. The obviousness of what is happening is what makes it so obnoxious. #
Tip for when you are interviewed. When you are asked a question do not start every answer with "Great (or good) question." Maybe once or twice because it really gets annoying and frankly, it's not really necessary. The people watching the interview are more interested in your answer than your opinions about the question.#
Weblog nirvana for me would be integration of River5, Pocket, and Drummer. Right now I use Radio3 to bridge between River5 and Pocket to send what I find to read in my RSS subscriptions to my preferred web reading app. On the iPad i can share selections of text from Pocket to Drafts for inclusion into a web post that I ultimately publish to my blog. I think this total integration is where Dave was going with Radio3 at one time. #
Drummer opens well in Safari on my iPad Air. When Dave first released his web-based outliner the iPad did not support a mouse, but now it does and that makes a world of difference. I am writing this with the iPad connected to the Magic Keyboard and this combo works every bit as well as with a laptop computer. From an iPadOS perspective I think a negative of using Drummer in Safari might be that you can’t integrate with Shortcuts. Most of what I write for my blog on the iPad is done in Drafts and published with a Drafts action, mostly because of how well it integrates with apps like Pocket.#Manton has added a way to associate a blog in micro.blog to a OPML file edited in Drummer. Using a separate OPML file from the one used by the Drummer publisher is best. The process includes a script to ping micro.blog to let it know a change has been made. I see no reason why that script couldn't be put behind a toolbar button, just like the one for Twitter. With this step Drummer is closer to the "web publishing switchboard" I have long sought, and for me this moves Drummer from something to watch toward critical for my workflow. A challenge for me is mobile. I don't think we will see a mobile app version of Drummer any time soon, so we have to see how well the current incarnation works on the iPad. #
Good morning sports fans. The Red Sox keep rolling and I lost in fantasy football thanks to Leonard Fournette. #
- Today is the Google Pixel launch event, and much like Apple's event yesterday, we pretty much know what is going to be announced. One big difference with Pixel 6 is how much marketing Google has been doing, I think I've seen more advertising for this PIxel than any other.#
- Unfortunately, I have a meeting at the same time as the event, so I've not been able to watch closely.#
- For me the biggest surprise has been the price. The Pixel 6 starts at $599 and the Pixel 6 Pro starts at $899 and I was expecting these prices to be much closer to $1,000. I've read elsewhere that these prices are only at the Google Store and that it appears the phone carriers are only selling versions with mmWave 5G.#
- Today is launch day for Android 12. Just clicked System Update on my Pixel 4, and an update is available to Download and install. I expect this to be the production update. It's a 3.84 MB download because I already have the Android 12 release candidate, which was the final beta, installed. Update is in progress.#
- The launch video is now getting in to a lot of detail and it's feeling long. I am going to want to know which of these features will be available on my Pixel 4a. Most of what they are highlighting in the video are features that are optimized for Tensor, which is the Google designed processor in the Pixel 6.#
- My first impression having watched the ending of the presentation is that Google has hit it out of the park with this release of Android 12 and the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro. I've been running Android 12 for several weeks and I really like all of the UI improvements. The Pixel 6 and 6 Pro are priced very favorably and is going to put to test the question of whether a well designed Android phone can seriously compete with the iPhone. It looks like Google is all-in on marketing the Pixel 6. The question is, when one walks in to a Best Buy or a AT&T store which phone do people in those stores steer customers toward? Another question is going to be build quality. Google has suffered in the past with defective devices that leave bad impressions so they must step up their quality control game. Only time will tell. #
I added a new script to my shared Drummer scripts that opens a Drummer user's blog in a new browser tab. If you create a toolbar icon to publish your blog you may find the site doesn't open in a browser tab after being published. I created this script to easily open the blog from the Scripts menu.#
Woke up to the coldest temps to date and it is currently 41 degrees outside. Winter is coming.#
- Will Apple ever have another live event? Steve Jobs auditorium becomes a museum? #
- Music and the Mac. How many people really care about what Apple has to say about music? #
- A plan for accessing music via voice? I guess they don't want to call it the cheap plan. But looks like you can't make your own playlists? Seems to me Spotify is better.#
- So, Siri & Home Pod is now on par with Alexa/Echo and Google Home? Seems too "me too" for Apple.#
- Airpods Gen 3#
- Spatial audio#
- Looks like the stem is shorter#
- New low distortion driver #
- Adaptive EQ #
- The coolest thing about Airpods is how it connects to multiple Apple devices. Apple needs to do this with the Pencil. #
- Costs $179. Second generation still being sold for $129. #
- Macintosh#
- M1Pro chip#
- 200 GB/sec memory bandwidth; 3x faster M1#
- Billions and billions of transistors#
- 70% faster CPU performance than M1#
- M1 Max chip#
- Builds on M1Pro#
- 400 GB/sec memory bandwidth. 6x faster M1#
- I wonder how hot these chips run? #
- 14-inch and 16-inch Macbook Pros with same features. #
- Macbook Pro has fans, Apple claims shouldn't turn on too much and is quiet#
- Full function key row, replacing magic/touch bar#
- More ports: HDMI, 3 Thunderbolt 4, SD Card slot, headphone jack #
- Magsafe 3, can also charge via Thunderbolt#
- 120 Hz refresh with ProMotion. Mini LED#
- Camera "notch" at the top; cuts menubar in half. This will be controversial. Full HD camera. #
- 14-inch Macbook Pro: $1999; 16-inch Macbook Pro: $2499. Order today, available next week#
- I think the leaks covered everything announced today, short of a "pro" version of the Mac Mini. #
- These Macs are way out of my price range, but I am not surprised by this. I was hoping that maybe the new Pros would push the price of lower end models lower although I imagine Apple really wants to keep their lowest price Macbook around $1,000.#
I just learned about a web-based version of VS Code built in to github. If you have a repository named https://github.com/userName/repositoryName, use the URL https://github.dev/userName/repositoryName to open the repository in the browser based version of VS Code. You might find this handy to edit files in a repo from an iPad or a computer on which the repository is not cloned.#
- Digital Ocean App Platform provides free static web server hosting that automatically sets up HTTPS, so it is a perfect way to host the Drummer template files for full Drummer blog access via HTTPs. Several weeks ago I used pagePark to test out App Platform and I ran into problems accessing sites generated from OPML because Chrome blocked mixed content with the generated HTML. #
- One deploys applications to App Platform by associating it to a Github repository, and after you set it up changes to the repository automatically trigger a redeployment. I found that App Platform actually builds a Docker container to "host" the deployed application. #
- To test App Platform I forked a copy of the pagePark repo to my Github account and added a package.json to it that was created from another installation of pagePark I had on a computer on my home network, because it is required for the App Platform deployment. I then cloned the forked repo to my home computer, and from that point all of the changes to the web site(s) served by pagePark originated from my home computer.#
- You can look at the domains sub-directory of my pagePark repo to get an idea of how I got it to work. At the time I did not know, or understand, the s3.amazonaws.com versions of the link and script tags in the html so my resolution to the browser mixed content issue was to curl copies of all the associated files and put them in a code subdirectory of the domain. Here is how the opml template text file looked after I made the changes.#
- I realized later that I could host all the "shared" script source files in a free static site deployed via App Platform, which I built and then edited the opml template text file to point to the associated URL that is still available. The site is based on a repo, is still up, and serving files. In my opinion Digital Ocean provides a very easy to use way to share source files for HTML link and script tags that a manager can maintain via github. #
- The problem with what I did above is that by making a copy of Dave's code and hosting it in my own github repo I disconnected that code from any changes Dave may make to them in the future. I now know there is a better way to do this by editing the template files so that they use the s3.amazonaws.com versions of the links that supports HTTPS, but which point to the actual source files that Dave maintains so any changes he makes will be pulled in. #
- The purpose of my testing at the time was more about trying out App Platform than setting up my own pagePark server, and I deleted that implementation rather than continue paying $5 per month. I think App Platform is a nice way for one to deploy their own instance of Nodejs applications because it removes the server OS maintenance (no Ubuntu patches to worry about), the web server software and SSL certificate maintenace (no need to learn nginx or Caddy), and the Nodejs run time maintenance. The imagine you might want more control over which version of Nodejs is used and I expect there is a way to control that in App Platform but I did not take the time to figure that out. #
In my experience to get HTTPS to work properly on a site in a way that web browsers expect there must not be URLS with a http: prefix in link and script tags. My quick review of the source HTML generated for this site shows a few link and script entries that likely will be problematic. #
Question: Is there example Javascript for micropub? I am thinking there might be a way to write a script in Drummer that posts a node to micro.blog like there is one to post to Twitter. Might have to reverse engineer what I have in the Drafts app.#I've created a public outline to share my Drummer scripts. If you use Drummer click here to open the outline file in Drummer, and if you keep it open the icon will turn green indicating I made a change. If you don't use Drummer, but are curious about what it's about, click the link to open the app and file.#
I am getting familiar with Scripts in Drummer. Little Outliner supports scripts, so I am testing ones I have there. So far my word count and find scripts don't work, but the script to make a node a RSS feed entry (useful for creating RSS subscription lists) does work. That means op.attributes.setOne() works. Next I created something useful, a script to insert an inlineImage. #
- The following is the code for my insert image script. I imagine there is an easy way to share script source. Also, it would be nice to be able to change the formatting of the below to indicate source code... perhaps in the future markdown might be supported?#
- var imageFile = prompt("Enter the URL to the image file","Enter URL here");#
- op.attributes.setOne("inlineImage", imageFile);#
- Follow the instructions for creating a Scripts menu file, including the Hello World example. Create a sub under Scripts called Insert Image and beneath that copy and paste the above code, one line for each. #
- To use, place the cursor on the node where you want the image. The text of the node is the image caption. Run the script from the Scripts menu, you will be prompted to enter the URL of the image file. After it's done, publish your blog to see the result. You can also open the node attributes (click the briefcase on the toolbar) to see what the script did. #
- Perhaps in the future consideration may be made to create a node type of image, like outline and tweet, for nodes with inline images that have an associated icon to make it easy to see the nodes that are images. Tip: make the caption bold, it doesn't look too bad on the published blog and that makes the line stand out. You could also insert comment above to tell you an image follows.#
- Next step is to figure out whether one can create their own toolbar icon associate to this script. I don't see a way to call a script from the iconbar.opml, looks like I might have to copy paste. I did that with the camera font-awesome icon.#
- Note to self, you should probably do that for the "Dave" right image format. For extra credit, find the instructions Dave once made for creating one's own small image files, I think he recorded a YouTube years ago. Fortunately there is the Tools, Image browser.#
We are surrounded by rain today, so I am not sure how much walking outdoors is in store for me today.#
I am bummed the Dodgers beat the Giants last night, I prefer to see different teams have a chance to win the World Series and the Giants are very good. #
I see some Drummer user's confused by outlining and blogging. In the case of Drummer, the outline is specific to editing the site, from the blog side you don't really see a difference. Nobody knows you wrote it in an outliner unless you told them. The intersect is that the publisher Dave wrote can read the OPML file that Drummer writes and generate HTML from it. However, pagePark can dynamically produce HTML that works like an outline, the best example I can show you is the single page site that I have for technology I use. Click the bold heads on that page to expand and collapse content. I have the same for my now page and it is what you see in the About tab above.#
I edited a title to a post I made yesterday. The change to the title is included in the feed, you will notice it on Andy's Old School reading list. #
Anyone who knows me personally knows that I talk to myself, a lot. I realize that when I blog, I am writing to myself, a lot. #
Hey dummy... it's copyright not copywrite! #
I am planning on buying a new computer, I want one that can run the latest versions of Mac OS and Windows, thus a Mac. The debate is between a lower cost Mac Mini or a Macbook. The practical side says the Mini is enough, but I want a Macbook.#The picture below is from last time I was in the Upper Peninsula during Fall. #
Need to give thought to the placement of titled and untitled postes. Titled posts on the main blog page do not have an obvious ending and if an untitled post follows immediately it is likely the reading will think that paragraph is part of the titled post and it might not make sense. I noticed that when I originally added the About Links titled post below immediately after, and thus rendered immediately before the paragraph that starts "Added the About tab." Noticing this, I moved the One More, With Feeling picture between the two which makes an obvious break.#
- Radio3 has long been an important part of my reading workflow and what you see in Links is part of that flow. I mainly use River5 as my RSS feed reader, and for articles in it that I want to read later I "share" the link (little arrow by each feed entry) to Radio3 where I post it to my linkblog feed. I have a IFTTT recipe that monitors the RSS feed of that linkblog and adds new entries to Pocket, which is where I then read the item when I have time. #
- So, long story short, Links is a list of items that saved for reading later. You might find them interesting too. #
Added the About tab. Created a new outline, about.opml. This outline is not a blog, so just created regular, non-dated heads. Added a little bolding. Made about.opml public, copied the public URL and pasted that for the value for urlAboutOpml in the OMPL Header of blog.opml. #
Another factoid. I might be running the only instance of fargoPublisher on the Internet. It's serving the content of my blogs built with Fargo that is stored on AWS S3. #
I see a lot of I wonder, do [tags] work? Nope, but that's ok.#
I wonder whether Drummer will end up replacing Little Outliner? I manage my now page using Little Outliner. #
What you see here is in reverse chronological order.#
Good morning, sunshine. Rise and shine! Weather forecast for today has a high of 81 degrees. Make it a great day. #
Good night. I've had my time here of experimentation for one day, time to focus on the football game.#And here I am#
Ok, now this is the second post to the blog. Note that you have to select Tools, Build my blog to publish. Publishing does not automatically happen when the outline file is saved. #
- What happens here? Need to indent to make the above a titled post. I observe that while I indent this content in the outliner, it is not published indented. #
For what it is worth, what posts you see here are being written and posted on my iPad. #
I am about to disembark for a roadtrip to visit my mother in the Upper Peninsula. I am not enthusiastic about the trip but I need to see my mom. Going to be a hermit most of the time.#Just timed a video segment on YouTube, and got three minutes between commercials. Given that all commercials are an effort to manipulate the viewer in to doing something (buying a product) we live in a world dripping in world of external subconscious manipulation. Marketing and economics are running amok and the capitalists are fighting for fewer and fewer constraints so that they can make more and more money. #
It is getting more and more difficult to watch video on YouTube. Soon we will be seeing drop-in commercials every minute. It has noticeably become worse, no doubt in an effort to push users towards subscriptions. The obviousness of what is happening is what makes it so obnoxious. #
Tip for when you are interviewed. When you are asked a question do not start every answer with "Great (or good) question." Maybe once or twice because it really gets annoying and frankly, it's not really necessary. The people watching the interview are more interested in your answer than your opinions about the question.#
Weblog nirvana for me would be integration of River5, Pocket, and Drummer. Right now I use Radio3 to bridge between River5 and Pocket to send what I find to read in my RSS subscriptions to my preferred web reading app. On the iPad i can share selections of text from Pocket to Drafts for inclusion into a web post that I ultimately publish to my blog. I think this total integration is where Dave was going with Radio3 at one time. #
Drummer opens well in Safari on my iPad Air. When Dave first released his web-based outliner the iPad did not support a mouse, but now it does and that makes a world of difference. I am writing this with the iPad connected to the Magic Keyboard and this combo works every bit as well as with a laptop computer. From an iPadOS perspective I think a negative of using Drummer in Safari might be that you can’t integrate with Shortcuts. Most of what I write for my blog on the iPad is done in Drafts and published with a Drafts action, mostly because of how well it integrates with apps like Pocket.#Manton has added a way to associate a blog in micro.blog to a OPML file edited in Drummer. Using a separate OPML file from the one used by the Drummer publisher is best. The process includes a script to ping micro.blog to let it know a change has been made. I see no reason why that script couldn't be put behind a toolbar button, just like the one for Twitter. With this step Drummer is closer to the "web publishing switchboard" I have long sought, and for me this moves Drummer from something to watch toward critical for my workflow. A challenge for me is mobile. I don't think we will see a mobile app version of Drummer any time soon, so we have to see how well the current incarnation works on the iPad. #
Good morning sports fans. The Red Sox keep rolling and I lost in fantasy football thanks to Leonard Fournette. #
- Today is the Google Pixel launch event, and much like Apple's event yesterday, we pretty much know what is going to be announced. One big difference with Pixel 6 is how much marketing Google has been doing, I think I've seen more advertising for this PIxel than any other.#
- Unfortunately, I have a meeting at the same time as the event, so I've not been able to watch closely.#
- For me the biggest surprise has been the price. The Pixel 6 starts at $599 and the Pixel 6 Pro starts at $899 and I was expecting these prices to be much closer to $1,000. I've read elsewhere that these prices are only at the Google Store and that it appears the phone carriers are only selling versions with mmWave 5G.#
- Today is launch day for Android 12. Just clicked System Update on my Pixel 4, and an update is available to Download and install. I expect this to be the production update. It's a 3.84 MB download because I already have the Android 12 release candidate, which was the final beta, installed. Update is in progress.#
- The launch video is now getting in to a lot of detail and it's feeling long. I am going to want to know which of these features will be available on my Pixel 4a. Most of what they are highlighting in the video are features that are optimized for Tensor, which is the Google designed processor in the Pixel 6.#
- My first impression having watched the ending of the presentation is that Google has hit it out of the park with this release of Android 12 and the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro. I've been running Android 12 for several weeks and I really like all of the UI improvements. The Pixel 6 and 6 Pro are priced very favorably and is going to put to test the question of whether a well designed Android phone can seriously compete with the iPhone. It looks like Google is all-in on marketing the Pixel 6. The question is, when one walks in to a Best Buy or a AT&T store which phone do people in those stores steer customers toward? Another question is going to be build quality. Google has suffered in the past with defective devices that leave bad impressions so they must step up their quality control game. Only time will tell. #
I added a new script to my shared Drummer scripts that opens a Drummer user's blog in a new browser tab. If you create a toolbar icon to publish your blog you may find the site doesn't open in a browser tab after being published. I created this script to easily open the blog from the Scripts menu.#
Woke up to the coldest temps to date and it is currently 41 degrees outside. Winter is coming.#
- Will Apple ever have another live event? Steve Jobs auditorium becomes a museum? #
- Music and the Mac. How many people really care about what Apple has to say about music? #
- A plan for accessing music via voice? I guess they don't want to call it the cheap plan. But looks like you can't make your own playlists? Seems to me Spotify is better.#
- So, Siri & Home Pod is now on par with Alexa/Echo and Google Home? Seems too "me too" for Apple.#
- Airpods Gen 3#
- Spatial audio#
- Looks like the stem is shorter#
- New low distortion driver #
- Adaptive EQ #
- The coolest thing about Airpods is how it connects to multiple Apple devices. Apple needs to do this with the Pencil. #
- Costs $179. Second generation still being sold for $129. #
- Macintosh#
- M1Pro chip#
- 200 GB/sec memory bandwidth; 3x faster M1#
- Billions and billions of transistors#
- 70% faster CPU performance than M1#
- M1 Max chip#
- Builds on M1Pro#
- 400 GB/sec memory bandwidth. 6x faster M1#
- I wonder how hot these chips run? #
- 14-inch and 16-inch Macbook Pros with same features. #
- Macbook Pro has fans, Apple claims shouldn't turn on too much and is quiet#
- Full function key row, replacing magic/touch bar#
- More ports: HDMI, 3 Thunderbolt 4, SD Card slot, headphone jack #
- Magsafe 3, can also charge via Thunderbolt#
- 120 Hz refresh with ProMotion. Mini LED#
- Camera "notch" at the top; cuts menubar in half. This will be controversial. Full HD camera. #
- 14-inch Macbook Pro: $1999; 16-inch Macbook Pro: $2499. Order today, available next week#
- I think the leaks covered everything announced today, short of a "pro" version of the Mac Mini. #
- These Macs are way out of my price range, but I am not surprised by this. I was hoping that maybe the new Pros would push the price of lower end models lower although I imagine Apple really wants to keep their lowest price Macbook around $1,000.#
I just learned about a web-based version of VS Code built in to github. If you have a repository named https://github.com/userName/repositoryName, use the URL https://github.dev/userName/repositoryName to open the repository in the browser based version of VS Code. You might find this handy to edit files in a repo from an iPad or a computer on which the repository is not cloned.#
- Digital Ocean App Platform provides free static web server hosting that automatically sets up HTTPS, so it is a perfect way to host the Drummer template files for full Drummer blog access via HTTPs. Several weeks ago I used pagePark to test out App Platform and I ran into problems accessing sites generated from OPML because Chrome blocked mixed content with the generated HTML. #
- One deploys applications to App Platform by associating it to a Github repository, and after you set it up changes to the repository automatically trigger a redeployment. I found that App Platform actually builds a Docker container to "host" the deployed application. #
- To test App Platform I forked a copy of the pagePark repo to my Github account and added a package.json to it that was created from another installation of pagePark I had on a computer on my home network, because it is required for the App Platform deployment. I then cloned the forked repo to my home computer, and from that point all of the changes to the web site(s) served by pagePark originated from my home computer.#
- You can look at the domains sub-directory of my pagePark repo to get an idea of how I got it to work. At the time I did not know, or understand, the s3.amazonaws.com versions of the link and script tags in the html so my resolution to the browser mixed content issue was to curl copies of all the associated files and put them in a code subdirectory of the domain. Here is how the opml template text file looked after I made the changes.#
- I realized later that I could host all the "shared" script source files in a free static site deployed via App Platform, which I built and then edited the opml template text file to point to the associated URL that is still available. The site is based on a repo, is still up, and serving files. In my opinion Digital Ocean provides a very easy to use way to share source files for HTML link and script tags that a manager can maintain via github. #
- The problem with what I did above is that by making a copy of Dave's code and hosting it in my own github repo I disconnected that code from any changes Dave may make to them in the future. I now know there is a better way to do this by editing the template files so that they use the s3.amazonaws.com versions of the links that supports HTTPS, but which point to the actual source files that Dave maintains so any changes he makes will be pulled in. #
- The purpose of my testing at the time was more about trying out App Platform than setting up my own pagePark server, and I deleted that implementation rather than continue paying $5 per month. I think App Platform is a nice way for one to deploy their own instance of Nodejs applications because it removes the server OS maintenance (no Ubuntu patches to worry about), the web server software and SSL certificate maintenace (no need to learn nginx or Caddy), and the Nodejs run time maintenance. The imagine you might want more control over which version of Nodejs is used and I expect there is a way to control that in App Platform but I did not take the time to figure that out. #
In my experience to get HTTPS to work properly on a site in a way that web browsers expect there must not be URLS with a http: prefix in link and script tags. My quick review of the source HTML generated for this site shows a few link and script entries that likely will be problematic. #
Question: Is there example Javascript for micropub? I am thinking there might be a way to write a script in Drummer that posts a node to micro.blog like there is one to post to Twitter. Might have to reverse engineer what I have in the Drafts app.#I've created a public outline to share my Drummer scripts. If you use Drummer click here to open the outline file in Drummer, and if you keep it open the icon will turn green indicating I made a change. If you don't use Drummer, but are curious about what it's about, click the link to open the app and file.#
I am getting familiar with Scripts in Drummer. Little Outliner supports scripts, so I am testing ones I have there. So far my word count and find scripts don't work, but the script to make a node a RSS feed entry (useful for creating RSS subscription lists) does work. That means op.attributes.setOne() works. Next I created something useful, a script to insert an inlineImage. #
- The following is the code for my insert image script. I imagine there is an easy way to share script source. Also, it would be nice to be able to change the formatting of the below to indicate source code... perhaps in the future markdown might be supported?#
- var imageFile = prompt("Enter the URL to the image file","Enter URL here");#
- op.attributes.setOne("inlineImage", imageFile);#
- Follow the instructions for creating a Scripts menu file, including the Hello World example. Create a sub under Scripts called Insert Image and beneath that copy and paste the above code, one line for each. #
- To use, place the cursor on the node where you want the image. The text of the node is the image caption. Run the script from the Scripts menu, you will be prompted to enter the URL of the image file. After it's done, publish your blog to see the result. You can also open the node attributes (click the briefcase on the toolbar) to see what the script did. #
- Perhaps in the future consideration may be made to create a node type of image, like outline and tweet, for nodes with inline images that have an associated icon to make it easy to see the nodes that are images. Tip: make the caption bold, it doesn't look too bad on the published blog and that makes the line stand out. You could also insert comment above to tell you an image follows.#
- Next step is to figure out whether one can create their own toolbar icon associate to this script. I don't see a way to call a script from the iconbar.opml, looks like I might have to copy paste. I did that with the camera font-awesome icon.#
- Note to self, you should probably do that for the "Dave" right image format. For extra credit, find the instructions Dave once made for creating one's own small image files, I think he recorded a YouTube years ago. Fortunately there is the Tools, Image browser.#
We are surrounded by rain today, so I am not sure how much walking outdoors is in store for me today.#
I am bummed the Dodgers beat the Giants last night, I prefer to see different teams have a chance to win the World Series and the Giants are very good. #
I see some Drummer user's confused by outlining and blogging. In the case of Drummer, the outline is specific to editing the site, from the blog side you don't really see a difference. Nobody knows you wrote it in an outliner unless you told them. The intersect is that the publisher Dave wrote can read the OPML file that Drummer writes and generate HTML from it. However, pagePark can dynamically produce HTML that works like an outline, the best example I can show you is the single page site that I have for technology I use. Click the bold heads on that page to expand and collapse content. I have the same for my now page and it is what you see in the About tab above.#
I edited a title to a post I made yesterday. The change to the title is included in the feed, you will notice it on Andy's Old School reading list. #
Anyone who knows me personally knows that I talk to myself, a lot. I realize that when I blog, I am writing to myself, a lot. #
Hey dummy... it's copyright not copywrite! #
I am planning on buying a new computer, I want one that can run the latest versions of Mac OS and Windows, thus a Mac. The debate is between a lower cost Mac Mini or a Macbook. The practical side says the Mini is enough, but I want a Macbook.#The picture below is from last time I was in the Upper Peninsula during Fall. #
Need to give thought to the placement of titled and untitled postes. Titled posts on the main blog page do not have an obvious ending and if an untitled post follows immediately it is likely the reading will think that paragraph is part of the titled post and it might not make sense. I noticed that when I originally added the About Links titled post below immediately after, and thus rendered immediately before the paragraph that starts "Added the About tab." Noticing this, I moved the One More, With Feeling picture between the two which makes an obvious break.#
- Radio3 has long been an important part of my reading workflow and what you see in Links is part of that flow. I mainly use River5 as my RSS feed reader, and for articles in it that I want to read later I "share" the link (little arrow by each feed entry) to Radio3 where I post it to my linkblog feed. I have a IFTTT recipe that monitors the RSS feed of that linkblog and adds new entries to Pocket, which is where I then read the item when I have time. #
- So, long story short, Links is a list of items that saved for reading later. You might find them interesting too. #
Added the About tab. Created a new outline, about.opml. This outline is not a blog, so just created regular, non-dated heads. Added a little bolding. Made about.opml public, copied the public URL and pasted that for the value for urlAboutOpml in the OMPL Header of blog.opml. #
Another factoid. I might be running the only instance of fargoPublisher on the Internet. It's serving the content of my blogs built with Fargo that is stored on AWS S3. #
I wonder, do [tags] work? Nope, but that's ok.#
I wonder whether Drummer will end up replacing Little Outliner? I manage my now page using Little Outliner. #
What you see here is in reverse chronological order.#
Good morning, sunshine. Rise and shine! Weather forecast for today has a high of 81 degrees. Make it a great day. #
Good night. I've had my time here of experimentation for one day, time to focus on the football game.#And here I am#
Ok, now this is the second post to the blog. Note that you have to select Tools, Build my blog to publish. Publishing does not automatically happen when the outline file is saved. #
- What happens here? Need to indent to make the above a titled post. I observe that while I indent this content in the outliner, it is not published indented. #