Checked in at Camp Taylor.
Camping with some family to celebrate my upcoming ██th birthday.
I love the big overlap in the user communities at omg.lol and Micro.blog. There’s something about both platforms that draws a certain kind of geek and I think it’s great.
The sky through the trees (@ Camp Taylor Campground, NJ, USA)
Neil Gaiman announced season 2 of Good Omens on Bluesky today. I enjoyed season 1 which, though it had its faults, was a really pleasant display of the chemistry between its leads, David Tenant as the demon Crowley and Michael Sheen as the angel Aziraphale.
Currently reading: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams 📚
I’m reading this one with the kids at bedtime. I definitely do a bit of light word replacement here and there, mostly where death or sex are mentioned. But it’s fun, especially with the 3-year-old, who can understand just enough of it to be interested but has sufficient trouble keeping up with the weirdness to make it, eventually, conducive to falling asleep.
Please stop inviting heads of state to Bluesky ⟶
The Verge’s Elizabeth Lopatto reports on Bluesky’s refusal, for now, to allow national leaders on the platform.
(This was originally auto-posted via RSS from Pinboard but I had to edit it because the actual link didn’t come through. I’m experimenting a bit…)
🗨️ Re-installing the twitter app… just for a bit so I can complain to Dropbox about their gross downgrading flow dark patterns…
Mandibles, night-blooming jasmine, and in-utero memories. These are the things a great Nic Cage interview is made of.
If You Build It
Sunday, April 30, 2023
I’ve been poking around Bluesky and it seems like they’ve really opened up the gates over there. I’m seeing far more familiar names and avatars. And everyone seems cool, as long as you can avoid the crypto/web3 nonsense. (This isn’t about Jack, or any of weird takes he’s been dropping lately at Bluesky.) And using my domain name as my username is really, really cool. But what made me want to write this is that the Bluesky team is actively involved and genuinely listening to positive and critical feedback, which is probably my favorite part of it so far.
As I said on Bluesky itself: This is… not a good idea at all…
🎧 "It’s a Pleasure to Meet You" by Motion City Soundtrack
Friday, April 28, 2023
You are not alone We’ve all had our battles with darkness and shadows I’m here to let you know It’s a pleasure to meet you Today is all we have So try for a moment to break from the torment And sing this to yourself It’s a pleasure to meet you (find it where you listen)
I’m trying out cross-posting from Micro.blog to Bluesky. Come & say hi if you’re over there. There are more people there all the time, but there aren’t many of my people (read: users of Micro.blog & omg.lol) there yet. (I’m also cross-posting to all the others services I’ve added because why not.)
🟦 If you’re on Bluesky, come say hi. I’ve found some cool people, but it’s a … different vibe than my other communities, for sure.
https://bsky.app/profile/joeross.me
(Shout-out to @maique@social.lol for the invite! I don’t have any yet, but I’ll pay it forward when I do.)
For and Against Bluesky
Wednesday, April 19, 2023
Point against Bluesky: Already it’s recommending I follow crypto bros, as if no one who works on this app has ever read my bio, which states, in pertinent part: I’m giving this place a chance. You all better keep the crypto sh*t out of my face, and my feed. Point for Bluesky: I made my handle my domain name. It involved a new DNS record and everything. Arcane geekery to many, a warm comforting breeze to me.
💻 Of course I'm putzing around on omg.lol
📱 Having fun rebuilding my Drafts app groups and actions from the ground up.
📻 Listening to the National Security Law Podcast
https://www.nationalsecuritylawpodcast.com/episode-233-this-episode-was-not-written-by-chatgpt/
😁 Every time I visit omg.lol or social.lol I find a new fun thing to try. This time it’s status.lol and the neat app status.log by @jmj!
App recommendation: Workflowy
Monday, January 16, 2023
Workflowy is easily one of my favorite #productivity apps. I’ve been using it for years for work and personal stuff and it fits my brain. It’s great for work as a place to keep, for example, a list of causes of action, together with their elements and defenses. It’s also where I keep the cases I most commonly cite, with links to periodically make sure they’re still good law. Personal uses for Workflowy include everything from shopping lists to draft blog posts and to-watch/to-read lists.
Elliot: The Littlest Reindeer, 2018
Monday, November 22, 2021
Turned this off in the first ten minutes