Driving across a bridge while out running errands, I looked out to the river and saw a friend rowing a Guideboat we made together! I’d recognize that boat anywhere. Made my day.

Creative way to paper windows in a closed shop. Tarrytown, NY.

Are spambots now using GPT3 to create spam comments? I’m seeing an uptick of comments that look like a real person wrote them, but with email addresses and author links that make me think they are spam.

Pinecone!

Testing posting an image with micropub via shortcuts. These are cornmeal griddle cakes.

Testing micropub reply from Shortcuts

Finished product.

I put in a PR to update the Authentication section of the WordPress.org REST API docs that was approved and merged: https://github.com/WP-API/docs/pull/149

Here is a link to the new section: https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/using-the-rest-api/authentication/#basic-authentication-with-application-passwords

Initial thoughts on upgrading to an M2 Pro MacBook:

• It looks a lot like my old 2008 MacBook Pro
• The Migration Assistant is much better than the Migration Assistants of Yore (I think I first used one in ~2004), but it still failed on the first try, just like it did on my iPhone last month.
• Using a Thunderbolt cable connected to both machines was the right move. Very fast migration.
• This machine is stunningly fast. I can’t believe how much faster it is than my 2019 Intel i7. UI changes are instantaneous.
• My Google Chrome Extensions didn’t transfer. Also, no surprise here, Chrome didn’t respect any of my previous preferences.
• I miss the Touch Bar.
• Keyboard is better.
• Booting up from sleep is instant.
• It drives two external screens much better than my 2019 machine.

Wow, the new Apple MacBook Pro with the M2 Pro chip looks and feels like the MacBook Pro I had in 2008, right down to the body and MagSafe connector.

I don’t know who needs to hear this: You don’t need to measure with any kind of precision in most types of cooking. Some blogger just made that recipe up. Eyeballing is totally fine.

Baking, other than fine pastry, doesn’t need precision, either. But you aren’t ready to hear that yet.

This little town with 8 indie bookshops is only 2.5 hours away from us in the Catskills. Seems like a great summer weekend getaway destination.

Testing posting a micropub note from Shortcuts.app!

Testing posting a micropub note via curl!

When was the last time you went through your 404 logs and added redirects?

If you use WordPress, I highly recommend using Redirection (https://redirection.me) for your redirects and enable 404 logging. You can group the 404s by URL count and occasionally triage the top 404 URLs.