Editorial shenanigans aside, I still subscribe to the digital versions of the Washington Post, New York Times, and Minneapolis Star-Tribune, as well as my local paper, the mostly excellent Rochester Post-Bulletin and will continue to do so.

📚 Finished the “Demon Copperhead” audiobook by Barbara Kingsolver. Book and narration are both excellent. I’ll have to read “David Copperfield” in the future to compare.

📚 Next dead tree book is “Allow Me To Retort” by Elie Mystal. I like to mix up my fiction and non-fiction. This one is a collection of very opinionated essays. It might be a challenge.

📚 Finished “Future Home of the Living God” by Louise Erdrich. It is set in Minnesota so I’m familiar with many of the places. Excellently written, but as with most dystopian fiction it leaves much unresolved at the end.

WORDPRESS TO ZOLA TO TINDERBOX.

I’ve removed all my WordPress hosted blogs. One I pointed here. One I just trashed. One I’m moving to a new technology. I tried Zola for it but it’s not quite doing it for me. Turns out I don’t want a blog, I want a highly linked hypertext since it’s a genealogy site for the branch of family back from my maternal grandparents. I’m using Tinderbox as a static site generator.

📚 About ready to start reading “The Future Home of the Living God” by Louise Erdrich. I have a couple of her other books that I haven’t started yet. This one is from the public library. I’m at the point where I donate books to the library when I’m done with them.

📚 Current audiobook: Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver. About 2/3 of the way through. There’s always a train wreck around the corner at this point.

Doing some cleanup and testing. Please ignore my noise for a bit. Thanks.

Firing up the micro.blog again. Pointing my root domain at it so I can trash the single page WordPress instance I had on the way to trashing all of my WordPress sites. Has anyone here on micro.blog done a WordPress import recently? How did it go? #microblog

RIP Spider John Koerner.

Does anyone else add columns of numbers this way?

Bookmarks. I’ve tried raindrop.io, omnivore, and pinboard. Pinboard is still my workhorse. Compact and easy to search. Dropped raindrop.io – too noisy for me. Keeping omnivore, but not really sure it’s going to be needed.

Backing off of Python back to Ruby and Pharo. I know Python is more popular, but having objects everywhere helps me think more deeply about the nature of programming problems.

I just loaded up KeyboardMaestro a couple of days ago. I have to say it’s slicker than snot.

Tired of getting up at 5:30 to move the thermostat from 65° to 70° so I installed a new Ecobee thermostat I can control while I’m still in bed. It should “learn” our routine over the next few days.

Currently reading: The World by Simon Sebag Montefiore 📚. Borrowed this from our local library. At over 1000 pages I’m only going to hit highlights this time around. Lots of interesting stories here. Will likely borrow again.

A bit chilly today. Might want to put on a jacket.

Thinking that 2024 might be the year I try cultivated meat.

BTW, a shoutout to Shawn King (@KingShawn@mastodon.social) of BC. Professional explainer. Runs excellent and fun photo walks and beginner photography classes. Look him up if you’re in the Vancouver area.

One of my project for the next year is to move from SmugMug back to Flickr. Yes I know it’s the same company, but I think my style fits far better in Flickr for publishing.

Loading up on photo apps. Thinking of trying out Luminar Neo since it is in Setapp. Since the mods are “AI” powered I would not try to pass them off as original. Any experience with this beast?

Pot roast. Cheesy mashed potatoes. Garlicky carrots. Pumpkin cheesecake. What’s not to like?

Chess with my daughter’s SO. He won. I need to brush up.

‘Twas the night before Christmas and all through the hall a soft wimpering was heard The OS failed to install… Sigh.

Currently reading: The Man from the Future by Ananyo Bhattacharya 📚. This is an audiobook. I listen to this while doing dishes or some other chore that doesn’t take a lot of mental energy. Decent narration for the topic. I wonder what he would have accomplished if he had not died at 53.