Having said that… already being at 10% of my total goal for the month seems crazy!
Five days into NaNoWriMo and I’m probably two full days behind where I should be but three full days ahead of where I normally am…
“You’ll die. There’s always a chance… but in all honesty, you’ll die.” …
I had no idea feed reading was starting to properly evolve again. Feedbin now supports Twitter as a source alongside email, rss/Atom/json and directly enables link/quote-style microblogging!
“It’s not an actual written language. He was French. It’s the phonetic spelling of something he overheard.” …
I’ve never liked the overhead of dealing with responsive image sets in Markdown when writing for the web. I’ve now set up the current version of this site to expect any image links as a simple list as part of the yaml header, rather than within the main body of the post, which is processed further by Jekyll at compile-time …
2017, the year of the handwritten, artisanal tweet.
So @ulyssesapp@social.ulysses.app goes subscription–after reading their reasoning, I think it’s a great idea. Easily the best writing tool I’ve ever used.
Chicago broods.
😛👍 @ulyssesapp as Twitter client! @workflowhq adds @jekyllrb yaml, posts to @workingcopyapp, rss read by @microdotblog, ‘Goal’ set < 140.
Hmm, is this new with the iOS 11 beta? Apple have added Dropbox-like collaboration for non-iWork arbitrary files stored in iCloud Drive?
The single most terrifying thing I can recall from my childhood: The Owl Service.
Lovely day for a walk (for at least 45 minutes, suggests @darkskyapp).
The new .textpack support in @toketaware’s iThoughts imports well into @ulyssesapp.
Not everyone makes use of the existing ‘Lion-style’ full-screen mode in os x—if you have a particularly large monitor, or just prefer having multiple overlapping windows visible at the same time, then you may see it as a waste of screen real estate—yet the tech world has seen a real growth over the last few years in applications and tools which are built with the goal of reducing distraction and increasing focus …
One of the main reasons to use [Markdown][#markdown] is to avoid any issues of layout, visual composition or rendering until after the actual content has been written. Unfortunately, when publishing something for the web, issues such as how content will display on different categories of devices do eventually need to be thought about. Image syntax in particular can be cumbersome in Markdown if you need to do something more complex than just specifying a single image and alt text …
This is a static website—the content you’re reading now is generated once, for all visitors, then presented in the same way each time for each browser request. That’s slightly different from the (current) internet norm of generating content as it’s requested, possibly on a targeted per-user basis, and probably using a database or some server-side business logic. Think of Wordpress and its plugins as examples of the latter, while Pelican, Jekyll, and Octopress would be examples of the former …
You rouse yourself. You limber up, as best you are able, bouncing and jiggling yourself in place, still supine, still sore. You walk yourself using shoulders and back so that you move in a little pinwheel, reorienting yourself within the nook. It is tiring and hideous but not unmanageable. You wheel yourself to your left, to your right then back again, as fast as you can manage, enjoying the sense of motion …
You wonder what you might become yourself given sufficient time, enboxed here upon your back, in darkness except for a crack—still visible—at the other short-end of the room. Some floor-oriented shape; some human matting. Perhaps, bamboolike, you will find yourself slowly shooting towards it; your legs extending outwards with rhubarb-forcing cracks, or with new shoots forming, budding out of the heel and soles of your husk …
You can recall only two members of that dialogue, bulb-lit or otherwise. It was the only one you had with that group of people, you are sure of it—some of these sureties are intuitions as much as memory—as though you are sometimes able to see a counter or tag associated with a given event in your internal catalogue which shows at a glance its number or relevance, regardless of the content recalled. Memory metadata. It is not an outcome of repetition; this was a single occurrence more clearly intuited than those with many. The thin lady and the one with a hat: the combination of impressions associated with them are significant enough to unconsciously mesh with your own sawtoothed internals …