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I’ve been playing around today with Nitro the RAW photo library/editing app for macOS (with an iOS version on the way). It’s really good: a nice workflow, flexible, easy to use, but a lot of power too. It’s also very reasonably priced, with options to pay once or subscribe.
\n", "date_published": "2024-03-24T16:45:57+00:00", "url": "https://micro.rousette.org.uk/2024/03/24/ive-been-playing.html" }, { "id": "http://bsag.micro.blog/2024/03/17/well-this-is.html", "content_html": "Well, this is fun: The Mortimiser, generating names to Bob Mortimer’s formula. My favourite so far is ‘Wolfgang Sideboard’.
\n", "date_published": "2024-03-17T17:41:05+00:00", "url": "https://micro.rousette.org.uk/2024/03/17/well-this-is.html" }, { "id": "http://bsag.micro.blog/2024/03/14/ive-been-off.html", "content_html": "I’ve been off with ‘flu this week, and not for the first time, I’ve wished that there was some setting on the Apple Watch to tell it that I’m sick, to pause all the ring closing nags and somehow put the fitness stuff on pause. Counter-productive when I should be resting.
\n", "date_published": "2024-03-14T11:56:37+00:00", "url": "https://micro.rousette.org.uk/2024/03/14/ive-been-off.html" }, { "id": "http://bsag.micro.blog/2024/03/13/finished-reading-dagger.html", "content_html": "Finished reading: Dagger of Death at Honeychurch Hall by Hannah Dennison 📚Good fun, though a lot of characters to keep track of.
\n", "date_published": "2024-03-13T16:41:27+00:00", "url": "https://micro.rousette.org.uk/2024/03/13/finished-reading-dagger.html" }, { "id": "http://bsag.micro.blog/2024/03/12/ignore-me-just.html", "content_html": "Ignore me, just testing I can post now…
\n", "date_published": "2024-03-12T14:27:10+00:00", "url": "https://micro.rousette.org.uk/2024/03/12/ignore-me-just.html" }, { "id": "http://bsag.micro.blog/2024/02/27/i-love-people.html", "content_html": "I love people, but I find face to face (or Zoom) time exhausting. 5 back to back contact hours yesterday wiped me out waaayy more than 7+ very focused grant writing and budget creation hours today. Both required a big effort but only the first made me want to crawl into a quiet cave afterwards.
\n", "date_published": "2024-02-27T19:01:31+00:00", "url": "https://micro.rousette.org.uk/2024/02/27/i-love-people.html" }, { "id": "http://bsag.micro.blog/2024/02/25/i-made-a.html", "content_html": "I made a /now page.
\n", "date_published": "2024-02-25T12:44:50+00:00", "url": "https://micro.rousette.org.uk/2024/02/25/i-made-a.html" }, { "id": "http://bsag.micro.blog/2024/02/23/i-forgot-to.html", "content_html": "I forgot to post this on Wednesday - it was an incredible sunset.
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2024-02-23T18:19:07+00:00", "url": "https://micro.rousette.org.uk/2024/02/23/i-forgot-to.html" }, { "id": "http://bsag.micro.blog/2024/02/21/finished-reading-all.html", "content_html": "Finished reading: All Systems Red by Martha Wells 📚 Loved this and will seek out the next books in the series. Not what I was expecting, but in a great way!
\n", "date_published": "2024-02-21T18:10:37+00:00", "url": "https://micro.rousette.org.uk/2024/02/21/finished-reading-all.html" }, { "id": "http://bsag.micro.blog/2024/02/20/i-am-wrestling.html", "content_html": "I am wrestling with an irritating tech problem. I have a script which fetches webmentions using the webmention.io API. It works perfectly when run locally. Then a GitHub Action runs this script automatically on a schedule. It errors each time, with an invalid response from webmention.io. I’ve checked that the token is correct, and double checked the scripts till I am blue in the face, but I can’t figure out why it is not working.
\n", "date_published": "2024-02-20T18:47:06+00:00", "url": "https://micro.rousette.org.uk/2024/02/20/i-am-wrestling.html" }, { "id": "http://bsag.micro.blog/2024/02/18/this-is-my.html", "content_html": "This is my solution to Bianca sitting on top of my keyboard mat (and therefore on top of my keyboard). Turns out that if you build it (a cat-sized rectangle), they will come 😄
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2024-02-18T19:15:12+00:00", "url": "https://micro.rousette.org.uk/2024/02/18/this-is-my.html" }, { "id": "http://bsag.micro.blog/2024/02/18/question-for-the.html", "title": "Question for the IndieWeb folks", "content_html": "I have now set up Micro.blog to pull in posts from my main (external) blog via its RSS feed, and auto-cross post stuff from here to Mastodon.
\n\nWebmention machinery is set up using Webmention.io, so should replies to my imported main blog posts here get sent as webmentions automatically? And assuming that the imported main blog post also gets cross posted to Mastodon automatically, should replies on Mastodonn end up as Webmentions too, or do I need to hook up brid.gy for that?
\n\nI am getting there slowly, but there is a lot to get to grips with!
\n", "date_published": "2024-02-18T08:01:56+00:00", "url": "https://micro.rousette.org.uk/2024/02/18/question-for-the.html" }, { "id": "http://bsag.micro.blog/2024/02/17/as-part-of.html", "content_html": "As part of my ongoing tweaking, I have finally entered the 21st Century and upgraded my fruitbat avatar in my profile from a 40px to a 400px version. Still the same original from the 1911 edition of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary.
\n", "date_published": "2024-02-17T16:11:42+00:00", "url": "https://micro.rousette.org.uk/2024/02/17/as-part-of.html" }, { "id": "http://bsag.micro.blog/2024/02/17/ive-been-pottering.html", "content_html": "I’ve been pottering with my site, having a minor revamp (that ancient Twitter link had to go!) and adding IndieWeb features. I’ve also signed up for omg.lol which I will gradually add more to, and their Mastodon instance.
\n", "date_published": "2024-02-17T13:07:58+00:00", "url": "https://micro.rousette.org.uk/2024/02/17/ive-been-pottering.html" }, { "id": "http://bsag.micro.blog/2024/02/16/its-friday-so.html", "content_html": "It’s Friday, so it’s peanut butter sandwich day. I don’t have particular foods I habitually eat on other days, but I like the clear signal to myself that the weekend is approaching. Plus, I really like peanut butter so would eat it every day of if I didn’t artificially restrict myself.
\n", "date_published": "2024-02-16T12:49:10+00:00", "url": "https://micro.rousette.org.uk/2024/02/16/its-friday-so.html" }, { "id": "http://bsag.micro.blog/2024/02/11/ive-been-having.html", "content_html": "I’ve been having a fun Sunday pottering with my ‘macroblog’, trying to add Webmentions. I think have all the moving parts assembled, but trying to send a webmention from here to one of my articles doesn’t seem to have produced anything in the Webmention.io dashboard. Patience, I guess?
\n", "date_published": "2024-02-11T13:30:54+00:00", "url": "https://micro.rousette.org.uk/2024/02/11/ive-been-having.html" }, { "id": "http://bsag.micro.blog/2024/02/10/finished-reading-lolly.html", "content_html": "Finished reading: Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner 📚 Funny, poignant, joyful, and a brilliant feminist book.
\n", "date_published": "2024-02-10T12:08:34+00:00", "url": "https://micro.rousette.org.uk/2024/02/10/finished-reading-lolly.html" }, { "id": "http://bsag.micro.blog/2024/02/04/new-post-productivity.html", "content_html": "New post: Productivity rethink
\n\nIn which I discuss a change in my tools and workflow, prompted by a trial of Sunsama, and the release of OmniFocus 4.
\n", "date_published": "2024-02-04T18:25:31+00:00", "url": "https://micro.rousette.org.uk/2024/02/04/new-post-productivity.html" }, { "id": "http://bsag.micro.blog/2024/01/31/im-really-loving.html", "content_html": "I’m really loving this book. So many bits of wry humour.
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2024-01-31T18:49:39+00:00", "url": "https://micro.rousette.org.uk/2024/01/31/im-really-loving.html" }, { "id": "http://bsag.micro.blog/2024/01/30/finished-reading-the.html", "content_html": "Finished reading: The Puppet Show by M. W. Craven 📚I wasn’t sure if this was going to be too gruesome for me. Thankfully, those parts were not too frequent, and the excellent characters and pacy plot made it very enjoyable.
\n", "date_published": "2024-01-30T20:05:58+00:00", "url": "https://micro.rousette.org.uk/2024/01/30/finished-reading-the.html" }, { "id": "http://bsag.micro.blog/2024/01/28/todays-sewing-music.html", "content_html": "Today’s sewing music is Han’s Zimmer’s soundtrack to Interstellar. Grading seams has never felt so epic!
\n", "date_published": "2024-01-28T13:43:15+00:00", "url": "https://micro.rousette.org.uk/2024/01/28/todays-sewing-music.html" }, { "id": "http://bsag.micro.blog/2024/01/14/new-post-christmas.html", "content_html": "New post: Christmas Crafting
\n\nIn which I talk about my sewing and knitting activity over Christmas.
\n", "date_published": "2024-01-14T18:15:56+00:00", "url": "https://micro.rousette.org.uk/2024/01/14/new-post-christmas.html" }, { "id": "http://bsag.micro.blog/2024/01/07/apparently-ive-adopted.html", "content_html": "Apparently I’ve adopted yet another hobby (English paper piecing), simply in order to use the offcuts and ‘waste’ from one of my other hobbies (garment sewing).
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2024-01-07T17:09:19+00:00", "url": "https://micro.rousette.org.uk/2024/01/07/apparently-ive-adopted.html" }, { "id": "http://bsag.micro.blog/2024/01/02/year-in-books.html", "title": "Year in books for 2023", "content_html": "Here are the books I finished reading in 2023. It’s actually not all of them, as I only recently got more systematic about recording what I have read.
\n\n\n\n\nFinished reading: Murder on Black Swan Lane by Andrea Penrose 📚 This was quite a fun, Regency-set romp.
\n", "date_published": "2023-12-30T16:25:26+00:00", "url": "https://micro.rousette.org.uk/2023/12/30/finished-reading-murder.html" } ] }