• Bristlecone pines can be thousands of years old, but their lives are not easy. They live in alkaline rock, on the tops of high mountains, where even sagebrush can’t survive. The harsh conditions are evidence in their sculptured trunks. …

• Look at me using microhooks to customise my new blog, like a big-boy. 💻

• @pratik I have written a whole post on underlining links!

• Mimi Uploader is now free for the rest of the year. Great opportunity to do more photo-blogging on Micro.blog.

• Your Writing – Rands in Repose Your numbers may vary but likely not by much.

• Not sure why this just makes me laugh. Probably because there is some truth to it. All Those Meetings, by Kaamran Hafeez and Helene Parsons, New Yorker

• Big shout out to @robb and @adam tonight from my links blog. https://linkage.lol/omglol-is-the-best-thing-on-the-internet/ linkage.lol

• The blogging “community”: Blogging is about the freedom to express whatever and however you want. Also them: It’s only blogging if you post via eerily specific platforms, have a domain name, don’t monetize your blog, share it on places …

• I’ll have more to say about this soon, but I’m thrilled to finally reveal that my big leap this year is to start up my own guiding service. I’m nervous and excited, but most of all I’m eager to share more outdoor adventures in this …

• Risks vs. Harms: Youth & Social Media - “Do some people experience harms through social media? Absolutely. But it’s important to acknowledge that most of these harms involve people using social media to harm others. It’s reasonable that …

• But also. I’m just trying my best to keep improving my nutritional intake, exercise, fresh air, meditation, and creativity. And being in community. I want to get away from forceful ideas of fixing myself. And learn to look after myself …

• This is a universal truth. It feels so good to throw some ass. I did forget my age two weeks ago in Malaga, and does it feel good to dance and dance and dance. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the great, the astonishing, the pure joy of …

• I love this post by @annie so much, that it’s sat in my head since I read it this morning. I love your week notes and day notes and art and lists - annie’s blog And it made me think of this post on Instagram that I saved last week that I’m …

• Chronicling

• I’m trying a new thing: I’ve launched a new site called Tack & Ink, where I anticipate doing a lot more history writing (rather than digital history, which is where my main website tends to spend its time). We’ll see if this grows into …

• An actual text I just sent: > I’m seeing aurora photos again. You might want to swing by the cemetery on your way home.

• I like my notebooks messy

• @estebantxo @JimRain @Annie @bjhess My response is here. There's another part of Mandy's second peice that I want to respond to specifically but I'm not done percolating on that part yet. www.patrickrhone.net

• A peasant woodland | A Working Library The more compelling and interesting reason that most writers seek out readers is, I think, less utilitarian: we receive our writing as a gift, and so it must be given in turn. We write because …

• “The technology is just gonna get better and better and better and better. And it’s gonna get easier and easier, and more and more convenient, and more and more pleasurable to be alone with images on a screen, given to us by people who do …

• I am not in the best of minds at the moment. Work and life stress is getting a little too much and I was feeling overwhelmed. However I grabbed Meditations, went and sat in quiet for an hour and sure enough the book answered me. you are …

• The Static Site Paradox is a great post. I think there are great options these days, but only if you’re willing to get a bit technical. That’s a bit of a bummer. It could be easier. kristoff.it

• /annieok/how-i-made-google-s-web-view-my-default-search-1926234e736

• I spent a lot of time this weekend saving local copies of blog posts from Mythical Type. Partly because it’s been a while since I saved backup copies of posts and partly because I’m thinking about moving my blog off WordPress, so I’m …

• Feeling alive is where it’s at

• 📸 I wasn’t expecting to, but I’ve just spent a very pleasant couple of hours in the sunshine on my balcony. Writing, planning for the week ahead, and doing some basic admin. All the time enjoying the view, while trying to ignore the noise …

• Weird Web October Weird Web October is a challenge to try and make a website every day of October, based on the theme for each day, inspired by Inktober. It’s open to you and everyone! I might not have time to do this everyday but I’m …

• @kaa you are 100% correct. The most heartbreaking piece I’ve read in a very long time is this account from a French surgeon who spent 5 weeks in Gaza. blogs.mediapart.fr/thierry-l...

• Finished reading: Master Slave Husband Wife by Ilyon Woo 📚Excellent non-fiction about two enslaved people who successfully escaped, and how much America and the Constitution stood in their way. I learned a lot.

• My teenage son released his first game on the App Store: Jem Junction. He has really enjoyed learning how to develop a game. I cannot believe the self-discipline he has demonstrated. He definitely got that from his mother. :) …

• Just found the 31 Days of Halloween newsletter. It has already delivered by linking the Lofi Girl Halloween station. Via Waxy.org

• I've missed Sam for a long time (or: Pick Your Battles)

• (Vague agendas. Or: How meetings change and take its own direction if including people that weren't initially assumed to be around. And the challenge to still move into the direction planned without too many detours or intervention. Flow as …

• Blog Inspiration

• THIS CAT SAYS FUCK by Noé

• DOS Days - Typical PCs in 1995

• you should make an ideas book

• SeptemBest: A Quality Blog Challenge

• Creative Currents

• Aaron Vegh's Blog | Say Hello to Croissant

• Glitch: The friendly community where everyone builds the web

• principles

• Helpful and thorough review of Kagi 📺 It covers domain ranking, lenses, quick access from results to the @archive.org's Wayback Machine, keyboard shortcuts, bang shortcuts, sorting search results, and an overview of the iOS app: …

• Let God Speak, Dammit | starbreaker.org

• Attribute selectors - CSS: Cascading Style Sheets | MDN

• Stumbled on Wendy Cope’s “The Orange.” And that poem, it made me so happy.

• I've spent years working on building up my sleep duration and this year am doing pretty well on it. This interesting 9 minute video by researcher Nessy Hill also mentions the importance of other factors such as sleep regularity. The Formula …

• Coming home | A Working Library While one of the reasons oft declared for using POSSE is the ability to own your content, I’m less interested in ownership than I am in context. Writing on my own site has very different affordances: I’m not …

• Automation wins jeremycherfas.net

• This is my name in landsat.

• When writing a blog post, you can now copy a photo to the clipboard and paste it into the text box. Micro.blog will upload the photo and insert an <img> tag for you. (Firefox and Chrome only.)

• I’m tired of tech bros berating people on how to use the internet. Manuel Moreale resorts to cussing and offensive language to get people to post their email addresses on their websites. “Let me use it to send you a goddamn message,” he …

• I like a lot of the ideas around digital gardening, but the the wiki tendency scares me in how serious it all seems. The Pile at Buster Benson’s website I like though. That sounds just about the right amount of serious for me. Maybe I’ll go …

• New post: "How much of yourself do you put online?" https://coyotetracks.org/blog/how-much-of-yourself/

• Inspired by Robb Knight’s, Slash Pages, I added a few to my site, including /about, /feeds, /hello, /interests, /uses, and /log. Many of my pages ericgregorich.com/added-my-… ericgregorich.com

• @jabel Thoughtful writing as always. And appreciated. Also: something germane and something apropos 🤓 (watch that second one to the end)

• A flag gives the man who won’t walk a place to stand

• I wrote about building an attention cottage, literal or metaphorical. blog.ayjay.org

• That was slightly scary Monty (my dog) and I were just attacked by a random pitbull type dog in Southampton. No injuries thankfully. Owner (I think) appeared and pull. Dog off and we legged it the other way. 101 Reported incident was almost …

• Dear, Chat Gee-Pee-Tee Please, take all my drafts, make them readable, and publish them. Your pal, Gabz 🙃

• I’ve been maintaining a links blog since January. I use Raindrop.io’s embedded frames feature to share a collection which makes updating the page a breeze. I make it a habit to add a link a day, adding a little purpose to otherwise aimless …

• 📚🔖 Here is the actual study with the evidence of the correlation between fiction reading and cognition.

• “Crush!” Apple came along and handed us a perfect visual metaphor for one of our most potent fears about big tech right now — namely, that it is crushing the arts and transmuting them into dull consumer products …

• One thing remains the same: we need more things that serve as #Sense8 cast reunions.

• Micro Camp 2024: This Year More Micro

• Would anyone like to sign up for my new arty newsletter? (Photography, doodles, etc). I’m hoping it will help me out with getting back on my feet, creatively. It’s on PencilBooth and I’ll be sending out the first one this evening.. …

• Cicadas 2024: Brood XIX and XIII will impact our ecosystems for years to come - Vox While the insect explosion will be brief, it will shape forests for years to come. The binge-fest that birds enjoy during these periods supersize their …

• 🔗 A Bit Of Resistance Does Wonders // Greg Morris // gregmorris.co.uk Sometimes, we look at people who seem to be advancing rapidly and wonder about their secret. What we often don’t see is the “shelter” around them—whether that’s …

• Link: We can have a different web | Molly White The walled enclosures that crowded out much of that acre of developed land still reside within an infinite expanse of possibility. There are no limits to the web — if it has borders, they are …

• My Obsidian Plug-Ins | Notes from the Underground https://notes.philomath.lol/post/my-obsidian-plug-ins #Blogging #Blog #WeblogPoMo2024

• Last week a friend generalised something I said then used it in a way that undermined me within a group we both belong to. There was more to it than that, of course. I was angrier than I've been in a long time and it's severely damaged our …

• Anyone else doing WeblogPoMo2024? Sponsored by @anniegreens, it’s a month-long challenge to write every day and post when you can on your blog, ideally around a common theme, but not necessarily. Sounds like fun to me and I’ll be missing …

• I wrote about how I decide what literary fiction not to read.

• Weeknote, Sunday 21st April 2024

• @robb @lucapette The secret to reading a Medium post is the Archive Page browser plugin. I just click a button in my browser toolbar and the paywall vanishes. …

• An excellent piece by @doctorow. Not just clear, accurate economics, it also gets at the heart of why I always wanted to be a rentier: By contrast, rentiers are insulated from competition. Source: Pluralistic …

• Statuslog Micro.blog Plugin

• Think often and always of what choices current you can make to have future you be thankful to past you.

• Gregory Alvarez said a lot in Living Like It’s 99: No Social Media, No Smartphone, and I’m not going to quote anything in particular right now. The whole thing is worth a read. (h/t @jamesvandyne) www.alvarez.io …

• This is a favourite page. For Day 13 of the April Photoblogging Challenge. The prompt is page, suggested by Rob, aka @robj. #mbapr   challenges.micro.blog

• @mpmilestogo I do all of my writing as Markdown (like you) in #Obsidian, but I have a Keyboard Maestro script to copy it into Day One because I still enjoy the automation Day One offers in importing social media posts, weather, media …

• I'm a big fan of weeknotes by @latte, @tracy and others. This resource by @gilest might help me develop the habit. 🔗 Doing weeknotes: https://doingweeknotes.com Found via link a post by @robb .

• Completed a coffee run* this morning! *doing Wordle, Mini Crossword, and Connections in the time it takes the coffee to brew

• 🆕📝 Digital Toolmaker In which I wax poetic about what's probably my favorite app of all time.

• "Some people like physical puzzles best, but I found my preferred brain stimulation in being a digital toolmaker." #shortcuts 🚀 Digital Toolmaker - HeyDingus https://heydingus.net/blog/2024/4/digital-toolmaker

• “The most beautiful word in the world is ‘No’ — Chocolate and Vodka” This whole post is very relatable. Esp. the bit about feeling like a financial failure 😅

• April is just around the corner and we’re doing another Micro.blog photo challenge! There will be daily prompts to help inspire posting a photo each day, and a collection so you can see everything together. Check out the details here. …

• With having an invite only system, and making this not a free service, I hope that Scribbles will host good quality content across the internet, whatever small fraction that might be. 🚀 Thoughts on invite only | Scribbles Update Blog …

• ☺️ I love how exhausting a full day is! Sleep at the end of such a day is a sweet reward.

• I don’t know what the secret is to living a good life, but I think it has something to do with going to bed bone tired every night and getting enough sleep to do it again the next day.

• In a cheerful and reflective and oddly emotionally-safe-within-myself place today and I’ve been pondering social anxiety and I realized it’s basically a chord. Like in music! It isn’t “real” in a sense. It’s actually a label for several …

• “We weren’t designed to have the output of all of human history at our fingertips, nor to be contactable at all times — but that is the situation we now find ourselves in, and it’s both a great privilege and a damned curse.” …

• I love reading the latest P&B with Sara Joy. Her blogging adventures are filled with relatable stories and I really enjoy her recommendations of other blogs and sites. The whole series of People and Blogs is worth a read by the way! …

• “The most important goal in designing software is understandability”

• “The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.” A warning from Mary Oliver.

• After @bapsi mentioned Jillian Hess' “Re-Noted: 6 Ways to Use a Diary”, I got completely stuck on Lynda Barry’s basic quick diary format. I grabbed my copy of “Syllabus: Notes from an Accidental Professor” and I’m adapting this format in my …

• Spun out the sidebar I added to my site into a standalone Micro.blog Plugin, called Sidebar For Tiny Theme. This can be used to add a sidebar with your blog-roll recommendations to any blog that’s using Tiny Theme. Click through to see …

• Got a little Saturday morning, slightly bleary blogging tradition developing here. Football this afternoon too. These rituals make us.

• Being a Bilingual Is Like Having a Double Identity