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  • Initial thoughts on the Arc browser

    I installed Arc today for the first time after hearing about it from a lot of folks over the past month. Here are my initial thoughts:

  • Week of November 27, 2023

    A first for us: We decorated the Christmas Tree at 7am. That is when Charlie got up and was ready to go. We still need to dry the grapefruits to add to the tree. Every morning Charlie turns the tree on when he comes downstairs, and he turns it off before we leave. He loves…

  • Default Apps 2023

    I saw this floating around and thought I’d join in. 📨 Mail Client: Airmail 📮 Mail Server: Fastmail 📝 Notes: Obsidian (longer term working notes) and Drafts (short term temporary notes–nothing lives in Drafts long-term, it is more like Grand Central Terminal). Public notes get posted to https://notes.cagrimmett.com/ ✅ To-Do: Things 📷 Photo Shooting: Daily: iPhone 14 Pro. When shooting photos…

  • Week of November 20, 2023

    I’ve been mostly offline this Thanksgiving. I haven’t checked anything for work, checked Twitter (or Mastodon, Bluesky, or Threads), read my RSS feeds, or checked any news sites. I did play Wordle, text some friends, and research microwave sales (the power supply on ours died). This was good for me, and I think I need…

  • Weeks of November 6 and 13, 2023

    Busy couple of weeks. I didn’t write last weekend because I spent the whole weekend doing work around the house: Putting things away for the winter and mulching in the leaves outside, and moving things in the basement, garage, and attic in preparation for getting foam insulation in those spaces. We were out of the…

  • Notes on making a Digital Garden with WordPress

    Andy Sylvester wrote me asking about my digital garden: I followed links to your site from Dave Winer’s Scripting News site, your digital garden site is cool! I am interested in what theme you started with to create that site. Andrew Shell has developed some tools for creating feeds for Federated Wiki installations (https://feeds.fedwikiriver.com/). I am interested…

  • Apple Shortcuts for posting to WordPress via the REST API and XML-RPC MetaWeblog API

    Jim Willis asks, it seems that the iOS WordPress app’s “Post to WordPress” is no longer working, so I’d like to fallback to the rpc endpoint. Any chance you could share a link to your shortcut so I could take a look what you did here? Certainly! I’m replying as a post because I think…

  • How can we keep domains working long after our death?

    Dealing with your digital legacy after your death is a big issue, and one that requires a lot of thought and a lot of problems to be solved, so let’s break it down into smaller pieces and think about them individually. This post is primarily a collection of thoughts about dealing with the problem from…

  • Week of October 30, 2023

    Back to work. It was a jarring rentry. The very first thing I saw when getting online Monday morning was a ping about an issue that had major customer impact. Talk about getting the adrenaline pumping. It turns out GitHub and Cloudflare both had even bigger issues this week, too. And the time change didn’t…

  • Weeks of October 16 & 23, 2023

    While hunched over in my IKEA Poäng chair looking at my laptop, I thought, “I wish there were a desk for this chair.” So I fired up my web browser and typed in the magic incantation, and Bateman Labs makes one! I bought it, Charlie helped me put it together, and I love it. It…

  • Digital gardens need RSS

    I was emailing with Aaron Young tonight about his digital garden and why I like to follow RSS feeds for digital gardens. Blogs these days are too polished and people don’t post enough on them. Old blogs used to be much more experimental and something that folks posted to multiple times a day without giving…

  • Week of October 9, 2023

    Charlie had a busy and fun week with his parents, with activities ranging from pumpkin decorating, jamming to music, attending a friend’s birthday, and even trying horseback riding. The family also found time for various practical tasks and new interests.

  • Week of October 2, 2023

    When telling a friend that we wish our house had more space, they helpfully pointed out that the nice thing about small houses is that families spend more time together rather than each person going to a separate space most of the time. That is a good way to think about it. Yes, alone time…

  • Setting up PagePark on a DigitalOcean Droplet

    A couple days ago I asked Dave Winer how he was able to point news.scripting.com to a FeedLand news product, because CNAME records have to point to a hostname and can’t include a path. I wanted to point a subdomain at one of my own news products on FeedLand and couldn’t figure it out. The…

  • What non-standard items do you always travel with?

    Our remote team had an online social hour today that I hosted. We used to do a freewrite when I first joined the team (where everyone writes for 30 minutes then shares), so I decided to reboot that with this prompt: What non-standard items do you always travel with? Of course I have the regular…

  • ChatGPT on the 2023 MacArthur Genius Grant fellows’ work

    I saw the new MacArthur Genius Grant fellow list this morning and I only recognized a few names from the list, so I asked ChatGPT what I should be familiar with from the fellows. I mistakenly asked what I should read by them, forgetting that not all of them are authors, but I got good…

  • Week of September 25, 2023

    We are pretty much recovered from COVID, though we still fatigue faster than normal and food still isn’t tasting quite right. This week was a long and tiring one. Amanda had to work in Houston, TX, from Monday to Thursday, so between the COVID fatigue and Charlie’s momma separation anxiety, it was a struggle. Even…

  • Week of September 18, 2023

    This was not our week. We ended a long, challenging weekend of potty training on a high note and felt pretty confident about Charlie telling us when he needed to go to the bathroom and holding it until we got there. Then we hit a wall because Charlie refused to use the potty at daycare.…

  • Week of September 11, 2023

    Wildlife relocation count: Three groundhogs, two skunks. One groundhog eludes us. We had a nice Friday night. We went to the local used book store and Charlie showed some real interest in browsing for books there. Then we ate outside at the new Gaucho’s Steakhouse, which was pretty good. N. Division St gets closed off…

  • Week of September 4, 2023

    New app I’m enjoying: Texts.com, an inbox for all of your messaging apps. Been using it all week and am not looking back. This week I kicked some home projects I’ve been neglecting into high gear. Next up on the agenda: Charlie updates: I didn’t take many photos this week. I was busy at work…