Category: Tech

Soooo, I’m going to be managing New Lambton FC’s website, along with their social media accounts, and that’s tempted me to move my own blog back to WordPress so that I’m working with the same set of tools for everything…but I’m uncertain as to whether it’s worth the effort as I pretty much use my blog as a diary that feeds into DayOne.

Quick update, I’ve just imported all of my past blog entries from when this was hosted on micro.blog. It’ll take me a couple of weeks to get all the images re-linked and tidied up.

I have a love/hate relationship with building websites. I love building websites for other people, especially when they know what they want. When it comes to building one for myself, ugh, it’s the worst.

After getting my remote pilots license, I figured I better get something together to show that I’m available for hire, the sort of work I do, and some examples of what I’ve done already, so of course, I’m building a website for myself.

In reality, it should be pretty easy to put it together, but of course, it’s not.

When it comes to making decisions as to what element to put where, what to include, what to leave out, and all the other sorts of questions a web designer/developer would ask to get them moving on a project, I just cannot settle on any answers.

So frustrating!

Not 100% sure how to progress, I guess I’m probably best off throwing something/anything on the website and then refining it a little later on…it doesn’t need to be perfect at launch!

Soooo, I’m going to be managing New Lambton FC’s website, along with their social media accounts, and that’s prompted me to move my own blog back to WordPress so that I’m working with the same set of tools for everything.

My plan is to migrate my old posts to the new platform, currently they’re on micro.blog but I’m having a problem with the export file that mb creates. I’ll probably connect it all to Facebook and Instagram, again, this is so that I’ve got the same familiar setup as what’s on the NLFC website.

Has anyone tried exporting their posts from micro.blog and importing them on WordPress? I’m getting a weird error saying there’s “no authors in your import file”.

So happy that we never used Zoom in our office, despite staff requests to change over to it because, “it’s so much simpler to use” blah blah yay!

I’ve gone off on a slight tangent in my efforts to find a replacement to Evernote to use as a CommonPlace book and am testing out Day One and it’s ability to handle various types of info I throw at it, along with being able to recall said info.

So far I’ve been able to capture text quotes and images from websites without any issue, on both iOS and MacOS, I have also intergrated Day One with IFTTT which opens up a world of automated information capture, for example;
– save a daily weather report to Day One
– articles I favourite in Pocket get pushed to Day One
– posts from my micro.blog get pushed to Day One
– checkins on Swarm get pushed to Day One

I’m trying to find a replacement for Evernote that suits my workflow but nothing is clicking so far. I’ve tried KeepIT, Bear, Apple Notes, OneNote, and DevonThink. DT came the closest, but I dislike their UI and the database setup and syncing is frustrating when on mobile.

Yay! New micro.blog WWDC sticker! Big thanks to @burk for sending it to me! 👍🏻

Might have to go back to iOS 12 on my iPad Pro, iOS 13 doesn’t seem to like me using the delete key on the keyboard cover, crashes most apps that I’ve tested it in… Or do I just wait for beta 2, which probably will come out some time in the next week or two?