While waiting for my wife, I started Blake’s HTML course and published my first index.html to a Neocities website.
https://estebantxo.neocities.org
Yay!
It’s Saturday morning. I haven’t had a free Saturday for the last three weeks, so I am actually excited. I’m going with my wife to a small museum in a small town in the last corner of my province. It’s raining hard. With this weather most of my fellow citizens stay at home, and there’s not much tourism this time of year, apart from the big cities, so I expect there won’t be much people at the museum. It’s an ethnology, speleology and anthropology museum, dedicated to a prominent scientist (and catholic priest) of my country, from the last century. It’s just an excuse to make a nice field trip and breath some new air. I woke up early and made two potato omelets (tortilla de patatas o tortilla española) so the kids have something for lunch if we decide to stay for the whole day. I’m writing this for no particular reason, just a bit of English practice while I wait for my wife to hop off the shower. We’ll be on our way soon.
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Just recorded a great Overtired with [@kjaymiller](https://micro.blog/kjaymiller). New episode Monday!
Overtired podcast is back. Great news!
Trying to publish a photo using ICRO
A fellow lawyer from the UK found me through @manuelmoreale.com and made my day. He actually wrote me an email to say hello and share how many things we have in common (he’s 20 years younger than me, though 😅). Connecting in this vast internet void feels like magic. I’m really grateful.
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Sale! Today only, upgrade to the Micro.blog Premium or Family plan and get 25% off for the next year. Create up to 5 blogs, video hosting, and more. 🏷️
Do not miss this chance. Micro.blog is much more than a blog hosting service and a POSSE tool.
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So you want to be a typewriter mechanic?
As some typewriter collectors have realized there is a typewriter revolution going on out there. This means that there’s a growing need for people who can clean, maintain, repair, and restore typewriters. If this sounds like something you’re interested in doing, there are a huge number of resources out there that you can tap into to figure out how to do all of this work on your own.
Here’s a comprehensive, thorough and over all impressive guide to the arts and crafts of typewriter maintenance. A rabbit hole I hope I never go through, ‘cause it can be the last hobby of mine that my wife needs to start walking and never look back.
I was explaining Micro.blog to a friend and he was digging it quite well. There was one thing he couldn’t understand: not knowing the follower count. It’s a feature actually, believe me! I tried to tell him. No way, he could not grasp what’s social about not knowing who follows you or not.
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Faith makes no fucking sense.
The first thing I’ve read about faith in 50 years that actually makes sense.
I’m faithless. As faithless as one can be. I get up and work every day for a sense of duty and love for my family. I have no faith whatsoever in an ethereal being, power or energy and don’t miss it at all. I have dreams and no faith at all about them coming to reality by happenstance. Who knows anyway.
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this blog is now ActivityPub enabled.
That’s right — you can now follow this fine and noble digital content emporium in the Fediverse.
Just follow the address below on your fediverse platform of choice and, all being well, you’ll get updates right in your stream.
I love the federated Internet. I just love it. It’s full of free people with nothing more and nothing less than an altruistic will to speak, share and connect. I love it.
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Typora is a super elegant writing tool. Markdown without Markdown. Win a free license this week!
It is a phenomenal tool, really. It’s my everyday markdown note taking app and it’s aesthetically minimal while packed with features. Don’t miss Brett’s offering and, whatever your chances, go take a look at the app.
Which reminded me of this:
For if once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination. Once begin upon this downward path, you never know where you are to stop.
From On Murder Considered as one of the Fine Arts, by Thomas de Quincy.
I have noticed recently that when I message my family and friends, I often forget to end the last sentence with a period. This is how the decline begins. This is how people turn into liars and thieves and how civilizations come to an end.
I just tweaked a Keyboard Maestro macro that I use every day to open a new case and create and hook together the related project in OmniFocus, note in NotePlan, folder in Finder and synced folder in DEVONthink, and I’m humbled by all the hard work that developers do to make my life much easier.
Thank you Peter N Lewis at Keyboard Maestro, the Omni Group, Eduard Metzger at NotePlan, DEVONtechnologies, Luc Beaudoin at Hookmark and so many more.
🔗 Age Groups - Demographics - Research Guides at University of Southern California
There may be some slight variations in the definitions of a specific "generation", but the following list generally reflects the standard years ascribed to each:
- The Greatest Generation – born 1901-1924.
- The Silent Generation – born 1925-1945.
- The Baby Boomer Generation – born 1946-1964.
- Generation X – born 1965-1979.
- Millennials – born 1980-1994.
- Generation Z – born 1995-2012.
- Gen Alpha – born 2013 – 2025.
Turns out I’m not a Boomer, not by a long shot. I’m late Generation X.
Rebar and reinforced concrete by @drdrang
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A recent episode of the 99% Invisible podcast, “Brilliantly Boring,” covers a topic near and dear to my heart: reinforced concrete—more specifically, the rebar that does the reinforcing. The show does an excellent job in a short period. I just want to fill in some details.
“The 99% invisible podcast Brilliantly Boring” must be the best name I’ve ever seen for a podcast. For any kind of show.
Anyhow, Dr. Drang’s post is very interesting and not at all boring. As a lawyer I work with many construction experts, architects and engineers, and I always enjoy listening to their technical explanations.
BTW, regarding this comment about the concrete from Ancient Rome:
It took me a while to write this post, mainly because I kept veering off on tangents about Frank Lloyd Wright’s home and office in Oak Park, strain compatibility, the weird belief among some people that Roman concrete was better than today’s, compression-only structures, rebar size nomenclature, and the tendency for concrete to use the waste products of other industries (like flyash and, perhaps, discarded cable car rope). I hope you appreciate how I managed to edit it down.
I guess they made tons of constructions with concrete and only the Pantheon survives. But the Pantheon is so impressive. I’d like to read a follow-up post by Dr. Drang explaining how was Roman concrete made and what the differences where with todays concrete (apart from the rebar, I guess).
As ever, Lou @amerpie brings us a very interesting tool that I’m going to try right away.
UPDATE after trying it for a while: The UI can be changed to Chinese (traditional and simplified), English, French and Italian. Translation is also available only in those languages. I mainly work with texts in Spanish, and ClickKnow is able to understand them, but it can only give me the output in the above mentioned languages. Hope Spanish is in the works.
Also, the trial period says 30/30. I thought it’d be 30 days, but it’s 30 operations with the app. I’m down to 27 right now. I think it’s fair.
ClickKnow Features
- Translates selected text into the language of your choice (select language in settings)
- Summarize big blocks of selected text, very useful when researching
- Spell check (can be turned on/off in settings)
- Tracks flight numbers
- Pops up a calendar when a time string is selected, allowing you to add it to Google or Apple Calendars
- Calculates the result of a math formula
- Explain selected programming code in plain language
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Thanks to @pratik I found out Write.as is offering free accounts again.
Write.as has thrown its hat back in the ring by re-offering free accounts. I’ve always been curious about it and briefly used it for my LinkingPark blog. It’s federated too.
So I had to run and get myself one, just in case, just for FOMO, just for fun. Here it is, I guess I’ll put it to good use some day:
The Analog Tool meeting was so much fun, @cygnoir @melsoutdoorlife @pratik @jessekelber @takeo see you again soon!