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  • Learning by Trial And Error

    Learning by Trial And Error

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    Reading Time: 4 minutesEvery day or two I see people post about how the Fediverse should be simplified to welcome new people. It’s a shame. Signing up for a fediverse server is easy. It’s the same process as for every site. The biggest difference is that you’re signing up for a privately owned, crowd sourced…

  • Blogging and Medium

    Blogging and Medium

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    Reading Time: 4 minutesDuring the early days of the pandemic I wrote for at least one days every day. I was blogging the pandemic experience from my point of view. More recently I have kept up another blogging streak. This time I am reaching day 274 as I write this blog post. Developing a Writing…

  • Three Hundred and Sixty Kilometres in Trail Glove 7

    Three Hundred and Sixty Kilometres in Trail Glove 7

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    Reading Time: 4 minutesSince the Seventh of May 2023 I have walked more than 360 kilometres in the Merrel Trail Glove 7 and the experience has been good. For a long time I enjoyed wearing normal shoes but recently they started either to rub the front of my feet, or the heel would get worn…

  • Social Media Glossy Magazines via Facebook and Twitter

    Social Media Glossy Magazines via Facebook and Twitter

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesRecently I spent time on Twitter and Facebook and I was reminded of that horrible feeling you get when you’re looking for posts and tweets by friends, to interact with, and see crappy adverts instead. Imagine if you walked into a pub or conference and instead of having personal conversations you were…

  • Generating Images with Bing AI

    Generating Images with Bing AI

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesYesterday I played with Bing Chat, which is Microsoft’s AI engine and I noticed that I could play with generating images. I spent quite a bit of time generating a multitude of images, in part for fun, but also to get a grasp of the limitations of the opportunity presented by software…

  • The Unquantified Self and the Garmin Etrex SE

    The Unquantified Self and the Garmin Etrex SE

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    Reading Time: 4 minutesSince boyhood I have liked watches. There was a period when I wore none, but eventually I got the habit back and now I regularly wear two watches. I don’t wear two watches because I like to wear two watches. I wear two watches because Apple sends to one database and Garmin…

  • A Markdown test

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    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

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

  • YQ, FrontMatter and Jekyll

    YQ, FrontMatter and Jekyll

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    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

    Twitter X-Roads – Twitter Crossroad

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    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…