I have been using RSS ever since I learned about it twenty years ago, and I am pretty settled with using River5">River5 and NetNewsWire, but I think what Colin Walker has done to integrate his RSS reader with his blog is intriguing and something that I wish micro.blog would incorporate in some way. How I use Pocket and Drafts on my iPad approximates what I want, which is a seamless way to quote or link to something that I've read in to a blog post. Right now no matter the platform I have to use different apps and what I want is the same apps/workflow no matter which platform I am currently using.#

Last month I built a self-hosted server on a Raspberry Pi, and while I built it as a learning exercise I have started to rely upon it for parts of my workflow. For example, I am archiving snapshots of the COVID data shown by COVID Act Now to compare against and that helps me determine how is COVID in my area. All of the apps I've installed on the server are in Docker containers and yesterday in a attempt to troubleshoot a problem I am having with running a particular app I made the mistake of removing all of the containers, causing me to go through the exercise of reinstalling the ones I am using. Fortunately, the data persisted so I didn't lose the data that I have accumulated, but I had a moment of panic. On the gripping hand, breaking stuff and fixing it is how one learns. #