The Cardinals have a rough May. They’ll be playing a lot of games versus good teams. ⚾️
I just got around to watching Long Gone Summer. I loved it. I still remember that summer vividly. 🍿
There’s a Never Not Funny member’s only live stream tonight and I cannot wait. A great way to end a terribly long week. 🎙
My Friday is so packed. Whatever happened to Fridays being easy?
This is why I got rid of my Echos: Researchers find Amazon uses Alexa voice data to target you with ads
This Today’s Chill playlist from Apple Music is the perfect background music for concentration. 🎵
This has been a really long week and it’s not even close to being over yet.
Did some redesign work on shep.online. Changed the link color, added profile image, changed some other CSS. It’s getting there, I think.
1Password is having issues today. Unable to save new logins from the browser. Sync from the app to the browser is broken. The app is useless right now.
I have the urge to watch Deadwood again. 📺
Starting off the day with a ton of sinus pressure is always fun. It’s going to be a long one, that’s for sure. But at least there’s day baseball today.
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I love Rich Eisen’s rant about Angel Hernandez. ⚾️
I was playing my Switch every day for a couple of weeks and now it’s been a week since I’ve touched it. I really need to get back into Kirby. 🎮
Returning to Micro.blog
For the last six months I’ve been debating on whether or not I would return to micro.blog. For one reason or another, I never did. After the news of Elon buying twitter broke, I decided to give it another go because my time on twitter had essentially become doomscrolling, with only a portion being devoted to interactions with others. I used to love the discussions and random thoughts from interesting people on twitter, but as time went on they were drowned out by retweets, hot takes, and whatever the current outrage of the moment is. I was guilty of it too. And it’s not healthy.
I’ve also wanted to get back into blogging. I’ve had a blog since college and have been running WordPress the entire time (over 15 years now!). WordPress has outgrown my needs as they move towards a more Squarespace-like experience. I miss the days of a simple publishing platform for creating blog posts. Micro.blog helps solve that issue. The focus is on the writing. I don’t know what the future of my current blog is, but I think this will be the place for my thoughts, quick and long, going forward.
The other thing that I love about Micro.blog is that I own the content. It’s my blog that I publish on my site. When I publish, it posts the content to the micro.blog timeline. The conversations take place on micro.blog with a great and welcoming community and appear directly on my posts. I can also cross-post the content to twitter, which I am for now.
What I find when starting from micro.blog is I don’t check in on twitter as much because the discussion is here. Less time on twitter is better for me. I’m excited to see what the future holds with micro.blog.
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Is there an iOS app similar to macOS’ MarsEdit that will work with micro.blog? Looking for an app that is more suited to longer posts.
I can’t wait to get my Playdate. Best Games for Sideloading on Your Playdate.
Apple TV+ is killing it with prestige titles. This looks good. The Essex Serpent 📺
I really hope the Apple TV/HomePod/sound bar rumor is true. I’d love a device like that for my living room.