Bro, I can't help but notice your inner monologue has been extremely negative. Why are you being so hard on yourself? I've never heard you speak that harshly to your friends and family. Maybe you can...
"Random, scattered, diverse, subconscious, thoughts and feelings, swirling around, just waiting for the right moment to come along, and coalesce into a solution called creativity. And that eureka moment isn’t only a setting, a place, it’s also a time."
@disassociated wrote about how creative thoughts spark at various places at various times in this #IndieWeb Carnival entry.
Does anyone have a personal blogging setup they are in love with? Just absolutely excited to use it every time?
I want to start writing more again but I have like 4 blogs and my posting rate on them is like 0.25 posts a year on average and I’m not super happy with any of them.
Ideally I want something I can self host (either on GitHub pages or my VPS), maybe statically generated but doesn’t have to be, that would be easy to upload posts and media to from my phone in addition to desktop. I’ve debated a bunch of ideas (notion, docuwiki, Hugo, etc.) and none of them are compelling enough to make me feel like implementing them.
PupperPost provides a super-nice experience for #blogging: from idea to a post you own in no time and without fuss, easily customizable, extremely nice UI on all Apple platforms, and especially great on the Mac.
When I'll get around blogging more, which is something I really want to do 🥺, PupperPost will be my home!
"Thus, an “influencer” could easily post a link to an article written by someone else within their own social media feed. The conversation was removed from the blog post and instead developed in the influencer’s feed. As a result, carefully written articles have become a mere resource for influencers."
Any #Bear users here? I've just started testing it to see if it's better than Apple notes. I've created a couple notes and tagged them, but the tags aren't showing on the sidebar.
What am I doing wrong? This isn't a great first impression…
@asier Just by clicking on the create button at the top. Then added tags like “#blogging” (without quotes). But nothing. Tried restarting the app, still nada.
Figured it out. It seems that “#blogging" isn't supported somehow? If I change it to #blog or #test it works, Bear just doesn't like the “blogging" tag.
@kev Huh, weird! Does “#blogging” show up as a little pill in the note, just not in the sidebar? I use “#blog”, but I just tested and “#blogging” also worked for me.
A screenshot from the Bear notes app, showing the “#blogging” tag in the sidebar.
When many people think of #Phoenix, they think of endless suburban sprawl. And, certainly, that’s part of the story. But here’s something that many are surprised to learn:
Four of the five largest city parks are located in metro Phoenix
"It has a nice side-effect of being a public declaration of priorities. It’s a good link to give people when saying no to invitations and distractions."
(Noting for the idea although not sure how often most would keep this up).
Unsurprising, but good to have explicitly laid out:
"The overall effect of looking at my Substack dashboard is 'wow, Substack is really getting me an audience! If I leave Substack, half of my subscription channel will dry up.' It’s clear that this is the impression other writers, the media, and investors are getting as well, because they praise Substack about it all the time."
Every hashtag on every post on every platform should ALWAYS be pascal case (a.k.a. camel case). I made this to illustrate how screenreaders read hashtags depending on whether they are lowercase or pascal case.
It’s a small thing that all of us can do to build a more inclusive, accessible internet for all. Please take the time to use pascal case.