richard
richard
@admin-richard@www.main-vision.com

I am a media asset manager, camera operator and more. I hike, cycle and climb in my free time. During the COVID-19 pandemic I am blogging on a daily basis to keep a record for future generations.

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  • ClassicPress and the Fediverse – Not Quite Ready

    Reading Time: 2 minutesYesterday I experimented with migrating my blog from WordPress to ClassicPress to see whether ClassicPress plays nicely with the fediverse. It does but there is room for improvement. If you want instructions on how to migrate from wordpress you can find the instructions here. Summarised, you download the switch to ClassicPress plugin,…

  • A Markdown test

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteI want to see how well **markdown** works so I am writing a few lines This is a subheading * and one item not another item and a third item and a fourth A sub heading Hello Goodbye I say hello and you say goodbye

  • This blog has been migrated to Classic Press

    Reading Time: < 1 minutePlaying with ClassicPress now, in production, because I am silly.

  • Fearless Netflix Documentary

    Reading Time: 3 minutesFearless is a documentary produced by Netflix, exploring the life of bull riders that come from Brazil, to the US to compete in 26 competitions to see who is the best bull rider. This documentary is interesting because, for the most part it is in Portuguese with English subtitles. Big in Brazil…

  • AI, Film, and Social Media

    Reading Time: 4 minutesI like to experiment with Bard and chatGPT. I like to see what their limits are, but with time and effort I like to get beyond their limits and get them to do what I want, without failing too often. DJI and other brands have had self-editing options for years now, so…

  • Mainstream Fediverse

    Reading Time: 3 minutesI started writing a post, but felt that it was too negative so I stopped, and now I’m writing this one. I want to explore the way in which Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Twitter and Reddit are still front and foremost on The Guardian Website, as well as many others. As I write…

  • YQ, FrontMatter and Jekyll

    Reading Time: 4 minutesFor two days I have been trying to understand how to use Jekyll, a Ruby version of Hugo. It is a Static website generator that is similar to Hugo but rather than being written in Go, it is written in Ruby. I find that it renders sites faster than Hugo, but that…

  • Twitter X-Roads – Twitter Crossroad

    Reading Time: 2 minutesWith the change in name from Twitter to X, and with the destruction of a recognisable brand mentioned in tens of thousands of podcasts, podcasts, episodes and millions of web pages I was curious to see how Twitter was, with the new logo. It took more than 24 hours to change the…

  • X-Istential – Podcasts and Where We Find People

    Reading Time: 3 minutesYesterday Twitter decided to re-brand as X. X.com redirects to Twitter.com. Within the next few days, weeks, months twitter will change its name and brand, and the URLs will be wrong. All twitter links, all embedded tweets, everything will become dead links. When we look for something on Twitter, we will be…

  • Garmin Instinct Solar Low Battery

    Reading Time: 2 minutesYesterday just as I was telling the Garmin Instinct to start tracking I noticed that I had 20 or less percent of battery left so I considered turning around, to swap to another device. I didn’t, and I just went for a 12km walk. During the walk I was more focused on…