Variety.com: The 100 Greatest TV Shows of all Time - I have definitely watched a lot of these shows, and just finished a binge watch of "Six Feet Under" on Netflix (HBO show from 2001-2005) - it was excellent!
For my two active users (Ron and Andre), I have finished making updates to my MyStatusTool site to allow editing of previous posts - I will reach out to you to see when you would like to try this upgrade.
This is a test of the emergency broadcast system - doing a test edit of a new post
Updated the Github repo for my artcasting/photocasting toolkit, adding a first draft of installation and setup instructions. This is what I am using for my artcasting and photocasting sites. Enjoy! Reach out if you have questions...
Ron, I loved reading your post about YouTube searching, keep it up! (Testing)
Ron, I loved reading your post about YouTube searching, keep it up! (Testing, first time to try to update post 4) (New edit of this post) Another new edit - Yet another new edit - One more time edit - Let's do it again! - One more time! - I think I have it now - trying to edit the main file now - working on part 3 now - had a problem with new code - trying replaceAll change - trying use of var keyword - trying exact copy of example - that worked, now trying my string - that worked, trying to remove slashes - got the first slash - added another line for second slash, switching to new function name - added a calling argument - added second argument for post text - creating directory path - creating rendering - trying final step - updated base URL - making a tweak - last change
Ron, I loved reading your post about YouTube searching, keep it up! (Testing)
Ron, I loved reading your post about YouTube searching, keep it up! (Testing)
Another test post - forgot to enter some text in the last post! (Testing)
Ron, I loved reading your post about YouTube searching, keep it up! (Testing)
Did some work on MyStatusTool today, having trouble figuring out how to pass a string into the medium-editor, seems like I may have to clean up the text first...
My open letter on feed-based social media app development.https://
Ron, I loved reading your post about YouTube searching, keep it up!
Was able to get the text of a previous post into the MyStatusTool editor window, but had tags appear in the post. Did some experimenting, then I could not decode the HTML entities - frustrating! (Did an edit on the imported text, removed tags, added link manually.
<p>Did some work on <a href="https://andy.mystatustool.com/">MyStatusTool </a>today, having trouble figuring out how to pass a string into the medium-editor, seems like I may have to clean up the text first...</p>
Did some work on MyStatusTool today, having trouble figuring out how to pass a string into the medium-editor, seems like I may have to clean up the text first...
Was able to get the text of a previous post into the MyStatusTool editor window, but had tags appear in the post. Did some experimenting, then I could not decode the HTML entities - frustrating!
<p>Did some work on <a href="https://andy.mystatustool.com/">MyStatusTool </a>today, having trouble figuring out how to pass a string into the medium-editor, seems like I may have to clean up the text first...</p>
Did some work on MyStatusTool today, having trouble figuring out how to pass a string into the medium-editor, seems like I may have to clean up the text first...
Did some work on MyStatusTool today, having trouble figuring out how to pass a string into the medium-editor, seems like I may have to clean up the text first...
Made a change to MyStatusTool to read the user posts in the Admin interface instead of the full set of user and subscribe posts. Next will be to use the edit button to copy the individual post text to the editor window....
Updated the Github repo for my artcasting/photocasting toolkit, adding a first draft of installation and setup instructions. This is what I am using for my artcasting and photocasting sites. Enjoy! Reach out if you have questions...
Did a little work on MyStatusTool today, adding code to add edit buttons to user posts. Slow progress, but still progress.
Went ahead and created a Github repo of the files for my artcasting site, will work on the readme file and a blog post later today or tomorrow.
While I was looking at the page for the FeedLand WordPress plugin, noticed this list of feed OPML files...interesting....
WordPress plugin to get content from FeedLand - I should try this out sometime...
Staying away from the shopping crowds, listening to the iHeart Christmas Jazz channel to get in the spirit!
This is a test of the emergency broadcast system (I added the first text within the admin page).
Another test post - forgot to enter some text in the last post!
CNN.com: Election breach in Coffee County, GA part of a pattern, locals say
FunktionalHome.com: 4 tips for problems with toilet floats
ChrisMendiasCorner.com: Quick fix for a sticking Fluidmaster toilet float - Good suggestions, duct tape worked for me!
TheCurbShop.com: Poster of "Save The Manuals" - this is a collection of manual shift patterns for cars, I saw this on a t-shirt recently, my first thought was that "manuals" referred to computer software manual - hah!
IProgrammer.info: Professional credentials to further your career - discussion of nanodegrees
WashingtonPost.com: 8 habits that can add decades to your life
EvanApplegate.com: How to make maps - a great list of resources on how to create maps yourself
Ucsf.org: Announcement of Data Journalism Course-In-A-Box
P2pu.org: Course-In-A-Box open source online course tool
OregonLive.com: The Oregonian to cut print run to 4 days a week
TheFederalist.com: 7 revelations that explode J6 narrative
TheFederalist.com: Republicans investigating J6 Committee say Dems destroyed evidence in coverup
Opb.org: Republican Senators sue Oregon Secretary of State , saying walkout doesn't affect their ability to run for office
Plos.org: Ten simple rules for writing a technical book
Oregonlive.com: Watts Rebellion and the righteousness of Black rage
Hartmannreport.com: The Shocking Voter Purge Crisis of Democracy
I've not touched PHP-MST for so long. I got out of coding for a while. Maybe I can look to get some niggles resolved
Did a test post from my FeedLand feed, it appeared on my instance.
I did some more checking, and my instance is still not updating the subscribed feeds, so I have done a restart, will see if that has an effect.
This morning, I noticed that Dave Winer's FeedLand Feed did not update for my MyStatusTool instance, but it did for all of the other test instances. If anyone sees any other issues, let me know.
Amazing! The website for the Oregonian (the main newspaper for Portland, Oregon) now has a RSS feed! There has not been any feeds for this site in years – glad to see there is at least one feed now…
ProPublica: Close to 100,000 Voter Registrations Were Challenged in Georgia — Almost All by Just Six Right-Wing Activists (via Election Law Blog)
JustSecurity.com: FBI, DHS Failed to Take Jan. 6 Threats Seriously, Senate Report Says (download report here)
I am experimenting with deleting posts manually - I think I have it figured out!
Creating software that is easy to use is hard to do...I am re-learning this as I work on MyStatusTool...
This is a test of the new medium-editor feature in MyStatusTool!
Dave Winer talks about bootstrapping a federated 140-character loosely coupled network. I think MyStatusTool fits the bill! You don't have to get an account on Threads or wait for a Bluesky invite - just download, install, and get started making some news of your own! PS - I already wrote about this bootstrap.
IEEE Spectrum: How the Computer Graphics Industry Got Started at the University of Utah - Adobe and Pixar founders created tech that shaped modern animation - I used image generators from Evans and Sutherland earlier in my career, then they were purchased by Rockwell Collins (now Collins Aerospace) to be part of their simulation business. Exciting times back then!
Zettlekaste.de: Building a Second Brain and the Zettelkasten Method - This post goes into great detail contrasting the "Building a Second Brain" ideas of Tiago Forte and the Zettelkasten Method as practiced by Niklas Luhmann. The author states that both methods can be used simultaneously with little to no overlap (BASB is project focused, ZKM is knowledge-focused. It's worth the time to read!
CNN: A flying car prototype just got an airworthiness certificate from the FAA (Wow!)
I keep forgetting that my Old School blog posts appear here - nice!
Greg Wilson: Eleven Tips for Organizational Change "This was a proposal for the US Research Software Engineer Association 2023 conference, but was rejected.... I recognize that they are incomplete—in particular, that they are strongly biased toward what works in affluent, democratic societies—but if you’re tired of rolling heavy rocks up steep hills over and over again, maybe they will help."
NetLogo is a multi-agent programmable modeling environment. It is used by many hundreds of thousands of students, teachers, and researchers worldwide.
Hmph! The pharmacist said he could not give me a Covid booster because I was not old enough and did not have diseases like HIV or cancer. I think I will look elsewhere!
I saw Ken's Smith's recent post on group activities, and I agree that larger social media may not be the place for such groups to work together. I also think another recent post of Ken's (Choose to affiliate) also echoes this thought. To me, MyStatusTool could be the tool of communication for a small work group or organization, with the added plus of owning your content/work. Since it uses rssCloud as the notification service for new posts, real-time conversations can occur there.
Had a good conversation with Ron Chester yesterday about MyStatusTool. I will be looking at adding better editing features next, followed by the ability to edit subscriptions within the app instead of using a configuration file.
JustSecurity.org: National Security Implications of Trump’s Indictment: A Damage Assessment
It is those national security implications, as evidenced in particular by the 31 counts lodged under the Espionage Act (18 U.S.C. § 793(e)), which we briefly lay out here.
Tidbits.com: Mastodon: A New Hope for Social Networking by Glenn Fleishman (January 2023) - Good overview of Mastodon features
Andy, looking forward to the reworking of MyStatusTool. I need to get back in the saddle as well. I'm going to add enclosure support and work out auto-deletion of old files when the corresponding message drops off.
Almost. He mentions that it should be to "start a record" and "go back through the chain of thought", also "long-lived special-purpose communication apps". MST is semi-ephemeral so doesn't entirely qualify.
I've been thinking to myself that I need to get back to this as well. I still haven't added enclosure support, must get round to that soon.
Agreed. Radio 3 definitely doesn't seem to be sending pings. I don't get any here or to /reader.
I found the problem: I wasn't accounting for things like apostrophes in feed names so it was breaking the link.
Receiving you loud and clear. But for some reason couldn't reply - a glitch preventing me using the reply arrow on the first item. Will investigate tomorrow.
Changes to subscribed items are now updated in items.csv and reflected in the timeline. See the changelog.