Tag: blogging
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On Investing Time Writing a Daily Blog Post daily
Reading Time: 2 minutesFor years, spending time on social media was an investment that paid dividends. One of my UN jobs was connected directly with responding to a tweet about them looking for an archivist. Within a day I had an interview and within a few days I was working. That was back in 2014…
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A Simpler WordPress Federation Process
Reading Time: 2 minutesYesterday I spent some time looking into why my WordPress blog was de-federated. My suspicion is that when I switched from FTP to rsync, to upload the latest changes, it modified the .htaaccess file or the .well-known/webfinger file. That’s why my blog stopped posting to the Fediverse. I blamed Jetpack because I…
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MyAI Written Tests for Eleventy JavaScript Files
Reading Time: 2 minutesI followed several JavaScript courses. They taught my about the process, and how to think about functions, but they rarely touched upon writing tests to ensure that the functionality remains when you refactor or make changes. While experimenting with Eleventy and refactoring I tidied up some code whilst in the process removing…
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WordPress, AI, and the Human Niche
Reading Time: 3 minutesEvery day I spend one to two hours thinking about what to write for my blog. Yesterday I noticed that WordPress wants to get AI to draft the first version of posts using the AI model of our choice, as long as it’s American, and take away the hours of blank page…
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Learning by Blogging
Reading Time: 2 minutesA few days ago I was asked once again why I wore two watches and I gave the usual answer of “this is my GPS watch and that is my Smartwatch”. People still fail to understand so I elaborate and that’s where I saw that blogging is useful. When you write blog posts…
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Experimenting With the Pi5
Reading Time: 4 minutesThe Raspberry Pi 5 is twice as powerful as previous Pis according to various sources. For the last 24 hours I have been using a Pi 5 running Ubuntu and the experience has been good. Despite being a small computer it feels as comfortable as some of the computers I have been…
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Blogging for Three Hundred and Sixty Six Days in a Row
Reading Time: 2 minutesFor three hundred and sixty six days I have written a blog post daily. In some cases I wrote two posts, and scheduled the post to appear the next day. This is when I was driving for thirteen hours, or if I knew that my morning was busy. In the process I…
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NaNoWriMo and Blogging
Reading Time: 3 minutesNovember is the month when a group of people try to write 1667 words per day for a month. they have write-in events, word sprints and many other gimmicks to encourage them to break the challenge into less daunting challenges. I didn’t even consider participating this year for a simple reason. This…
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Blogging with VS Code and Hugo
Reading Time: 2 minutesYesterday I had no inspiration. In the end I did write about something but only after hours of staring at a hypothetical blank page. When I did start writing I used Frontmatter to generate the page but I forgot to open terminal and write the blog post using VIM. I used VSCode…
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Blogging and Medium
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…