Tag: blogging
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So... I'm A Podcast
As you might have already noticed, I started a podcast. Let's take a look (or listen!) into how and why I adapted my WordPress installation to double as a podcast host, and discuss what kind of content you're likely to find on it...
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Golf
Andrew Stephens doesn't approve of golf, but perhaps not for the reason you're thinking of.
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Draw Me a Comment!
Instead of typing a comment for me to read, you can now draw one! Please don't make me regret this, Internet (🍆).
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Blogging Like It's 1999
After looking at a 1999 screenshot of my blog, I was inspired to implement an alternate theme for my blog today, that brings back the feel of the Web of the last millenium. And you can try it!
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Blog to 5K
This is my 5,000th blog post on this blog. Wow, that's a lot! Let's look at some milestones along the way.
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Dave Winer kindly let me know about a proposed standard for linking to OPML blogrolls. Given that I added a page containing my blogroll last year, it was easy enough for me to add a tiny bit of code to the header to add support for automatic detection of my blogroll.
<link rel="blogroll" type="text/xml" href="/blogroll.xml" title="Dan Q's blogroll">Now all we need is some tools that can do such detection!
(You'll note I've added a title attribute: as I discovered the other day, some browsers including ELinks will show all
<link>s of unknownrel="..."at the top of the page and I wanted this one to make sense!) -
Does a blog have to be HTML?
Does a blog post need a title? Does a blog have to be delivered in HTML? In launching textplain.blog, I'd like to argue that the answer is... no!
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AI isn't useless. But is it worth it?
The ever-excellent Molly White has wise words to say on the subject of generative AI: specifically - it's actually pretty useful for some tasks, but she's not sure it's worth the cost. This mirrors my thinking so closely I wish I'd written it first!
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Home Page, 50% Off!
By optimising a few bits of my homepage I've halved its size, which incidentally takes me up from the third to the second league of 512kb club members!
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Reply to: Mobile writing, part 2
Clayton Errington wrote:
After a first attempt at mobile blogging, I found a process that works better for my work flow.
Throughout the day, I have ideas and need to write them down. This could be a coding process, a thought to remember, the start of a blog post, and more. I love a good notes … -
100 Days To Offload
The #100DaysToOffload challenge asked personal bloggers to author 100 posts in a year. I've done that a dozen times by accident, but does it count?
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Reflecting on Bloganuary
Well that was Bloganuary! I managed to write a prompt-based blog post for every day in January, totalling about 20,000 words, along with a handful of other posts, and in doing so managed my longest "daily streak" in 25+ years of blogging. So what's next...?
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[Bloganuary] Landslide
Today's Bloganuary prompt... just sucks a bit, alright? So instead, I'm going to answer last year's prompt from the same date and tell you about one of the most meaningful songs I can think of.
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[Bloganuary] Communicate Early, Communicate Often
How do I communicate online? It varies depending on whether you mean publicly, or privately!
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Happy Birthday Matt
Matt's birthday wish is for people to blog more. So here's a blog post, which being my 14th so far this year certainly qualifies as "more"!