Chuck Grimmett

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  • 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.

  • After a year and a half, I think we finally found the winning combo for baby puke and poop stains:

  • Forget improv classes. Drive a car with a grumpy toddler in the back seat. You’ll figure out how to fill the silences pretty quickly since the stakes are higher.

  • It is amusing to me that ChatGPT is running on Microsoft’s Azure infrastructure and Microsoft Teams has already integrated it into the product. Every company I know that uses Windows, Teams, and Outlook are the absolute last ones I’d expect to embrace AI in their workflows.

  • The week of 50F (10C) weather has the crocuses popping up! They are in for a rough time when the temperature hits 6F (-14.4C) tomorrow.

  • When ChatGPT is over capacity, it should at least let you log in see your previous chats while preventing new ones.

  • In reply to https://jeremyfelt.com/notes/52281675299548/.

    Mark D and I love jq for quick json processing via the command line.

    One utility script we use often is generating a list of all sites connected to our account from the WordPress.com API:

    curl -sH 'Accept: application/json' -H 'Authorization: Bearer [REDACTED]' https://public-api.wordpress.com/rest/v1.1/me/sites | jq -r '.sites[] | .URL' > sites.txt

    A couple helpful tips we’ve found:

    • use -r (raw) to remove quotes around the data.
    • Use | @sh for transforming arrays into space separated strings

    We also combine it with sqlite-utils to stuff certain subsets of json data we get back from APIs (like Zoho) into a sqlite database for analysis in Metabase.

  • Katz’s Valentine’s Day copywriting is on-point:

    “Impress your beau with two pounds of hand-carved pastrami (the most sensual of all deli meats) with all the fixings, plus our rich cinnamon rugelach and an egg creme scented candle to set the mood.”

  • In reply to https://cagrimmett.com/micro/d26bc5b336/.

    They hung it! Pretty cool. Now I need an excuse to go to Barcelona and visit.

  • The Museu de Matemàtiques de Catalunya (www.mmaca.cat) in Barcelona, Spain, is adding a photo I took of a cycloid to their interactive cycloid exhibit room!

    I blogged about taking this photo in 2008. I won a physics photo contest with it! Since then it has also been published in a magazine in Japan. One key reason, in my opinion, is that I put my photos out under a Creative Commons license.

  • Picked up a book on good hikes in the Hudson Valley for kids and am excited to take Charlie on some of these! I know we are a little ways off, but he walked roughly a mile on Saturday and did great.

  • Note for my future self since I always need to look this up: Here are the formats for tagging users in Slack when you post messages webhooks or the API:

    • User: <@userid>, such as <@UUBE7MDML>. You can find this user ID in the web interface of Slack and going to their profile, then looking at the URL, which is in the format https://app.slack.com/client/clientID/something/rimeto_profile/userID
    • Group: <!subteam^subteamID|@group-name>, such as <!subteam^S0406RGH26B|@chucks-fake-team> – You can find that in the web app, too: https://app.slack.com/client/clientID/browse-user-groups/user_groups/subteamID

  • On AI in blogging: I think I’m more interested in having AI handle things like categorization, tagging, and writing excerpts for me rather than writing the posts themselves. Blogging is personal and it should be from the author.

    Imagine how cool it would be for an AI to consume your content and come up with a categorization and tagging scheme you hadn’t considered.

  • Meyer’s Olde Dutch in Beacon, NY, is excellent. Roadside stand style burgers and fries with really good sauces. Great selection of craft beer and ciders, as well as a craft cocktail menu that punches above this place’s size. Highly recommended.

  • Twitter removed the card preview from the validator tool (https://cards-dev.twitter.com/validator). That is annoying because half of the reason to use the validator tool is that it fetched fresh content from the site, which was a way to force updates on cards that needed updating. I suspect that the preview in Tweet Composer is working off of cached data and there is now no way to force an update. The announcement: https://twittercommunity.com/t/card-validator-preview-removal/175006

  • testing twitter syndication via Bridgy

  • It was a beautiful 50F degree day today, so Jon and I decided to go for a row on the Croton River.

    We went out at high tide and rowed roughly three miles round trip. The water was quite swift today and we had some difficulty navigating a few bends in the river where the current picked up. Quite a workout!

    Me rowing past some reeds in a red Adirondack Guideboat.
    Me rowing past some reeds.
    A man in an Adirondack Guideboat rowing through rapids on a river.
    Jon working his way up to the rapids
    A man in a yellow Adirondack Guideboat looking at some trees on a river.
    Jon admiring the scenery
    A red Adirondack guideboat paused at the side of a river, taken from the vantage point of the rower. You can see the rower's shoes.
    Me taking a rest before heading back.

  • I did some design updates on my blog this weekend during Charlie’s nap.

    • Made new archive templates for the Likes and Microblog sections
    • Made new single post templates for Likes and Microblog posts
    • Updated the navigation across the site to finally include Likes and Microblog
    • Added Likes, Microblog, and regular navigation to the homepage.

  • There is finally a birria truck in Peekskill! Paradise Taqueria Birrieria, parked on Brown St. Saturdays and Sundays. The standard quesabirria + consume is delicious, as are their salsas. Amanda likes the green salsa and I like the smokey red salsa.