Can rain get inside and move around in the walls?
Looks like daylight is just too opaque to make it through the windows today, only functional outdoors. I think the mice under the floor are using the rain to disguise a fairly major re-org.
Just had the, until now, uniquely birdsite experience of having to infer a fairly major real world event through vague but escalating contextless posts about it. Twitter Migration fully complete.
Another introduction for the Twitter Migration firehose:
I’m a software developer working on iOS Swift in Big Corporate IT (TM) by day, dabbling in Rust by night, hoping to (one day!) complete my hobby app.
I’m currently way behind my NaNoWriMo target but still moving forward. I’m delighted to see that is a non-empty ‘WeirdFiction’ hashtag on Mastodon and that the incredible @mjohnharrison is a tooter*!
*Apologies if that turns out to be an incredibly offensive term.
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 …