Thinking Outloud

Happy today is more mellow than yesterday.

Boy, sure called that one wrong. Today was FAR from being mellow. Replaced the boys keyboard and he turned around and trashed it deliberately and then melted down for HOURS.

Today’s subject of interest: Trieste. 

Deflecting blame will not fix the issue. Own it and move on.

Got some nuts yesterday at Casa de Fruita near Gilroy so of course they’re garlic flavored. They are EXTREMELY garlic flavoroed and INCREDIBLY salty.

Can someone explain please why I wake up extra early on days I can sleep in?

Building the stand alone app for RustPress.

Stand alone RustPress is almost done. Just a few more minor changes.

Still working on RustPress. It’s an intersting thought experiment.

Building in Rust again. Creating a static site generator that imports in WordPress format or database sql and then generates a static site out of it for speed and portability.

Took the day off because the boy has been having a massive meltdown.

Looking into installing Open Oscar Server to get my own AIM server running.

Mowed the law this morning. It’s hot and humid outside from the monsoonal flow they’re blaming on El Nino.

Weed eating the dirty bits totally wiped me out.

Head feels stuffy. Might be coming down with something.

Didn’t really feel like crawling out of bed this morning.

In a parallel universe where Kurt Cobain lives still there is no Foo Fighters and music is boring. Here’s to not being in a parallel universe.

Driving a pickuup truck when nthe only thing you ever haul is groceries or plants from the nursery is like wearing a cowboy hat and wranglers and saying you’re a cowboy and never working on a ranch.

California is the worlds 4th largest economy with a GDP of $4.25 trillion annually preceded by:

1. United States - $30.8 trillion

2. China - $19.6 trillion

3. Germany - $5 trillion

Look out Germany. We’re coming for you.

Also, California accounts for 13.8% of the United States GDP. More than any other state.

I want a pair of Limmer boots. And by saying that it means I’lll be ordering a pair soon.

Slept a little better last night. Still woke up a hell of a lot.

For some reason this app is trying to schedule things on a holiday. Going to have to invest some time into making sure holidays can’t be picked.

NPC’s in Animal Crossing talk too much and too slow. Just sayin.

After years of playing World of Warcraft I think I’m done. The retail game is just something I don’t enjoy or will continue to play. I’ll continue to play classic and anniversary but if they push everyone to retail I’m going to cancel my subscriptions. I tried playing it again and just dislike where it’s gone so much. It’s lost the character of the original game in a bid to bring in more players.

Put new sheets on the bed and didn’t sleep well. 

A firework explosion from a neighbors house then swearing loudly is a clear indication of an impending hospital visit.

Did a 3 mile run with 2 miles walking. Ran 3 miles uninterrupted. First time since I was 12 that I’ve ran an uninterrupted mile. First mile: 10:22. Second mile: unrecorded. Third mile: 9:22. I’m pleased.

It was the 4th of July

No work today. I feel a lot of naps coming on.

I wonder if I could make an addon for World of Warcraft? I wonder if I should?

Hoping for a quiet day today.

Optometrist appointment went well. No macular degenerationa and no diabetic damage. Eye pressure was a bit high though. Felt nauseous for hours after having my eyes dilated.

Trying to fix the keys on my Corsair mechanical keyboard. The 3 and 4 buttons have stopped responding.

Removed the keycaps and blew the key out and the caps. That appears to have worked.

Also I missed posting on Satruday again.

Debating about getting a Switch 2.

It’s Friday. I bet you knew that.

I wonder what mischief will come my way today.

Testing my rust port. It’s pretty good. It’s used a lot of tokens. I’ve had to stop 3 times as I hit the wall. Currently waiting to finalize some things and squish some bugs before building out the installers. That’ll probably be in round 5. It will be completely cross platform for Linux, Windows and MacOS.

Just watched MKB’s video on the slate truck. 

The price is nice but for $24k you can pay a little more and get a nice Honda.

Totally down for a hybrid Honda Element. honda-reportedly-bringing-back-element-as-affordable-hybrid

Creating my ALUT proof of concept music player in Rust really got me excited about Rust. Oh the places we will go!

Rebuilding one of my favorite open source apps that’s a native Mac app in Rust as a cross platform app. Just because I want to see how it comes out.

IF someone were to ask me if I’m better off than 2 years ago I’d point to inflation which is still out of control, wars, gas prices, grocery prices and then shake my head “no”. We’re not better off than 2 years ago.

Burning tokens.

Couldn’t sleep. Will have to go to the eye doctor for a follow up visit as the eye scan was inconclusive in my right eye.

All other tests were normal so that’s good. Still worried though.

Had an interesting idea. Building a PoC.

Here's a peek what I'm working on.

ALUT — Audio Look-Up Table

A portable, content-authored EQ "render intent" that travels with an audio file — the audio analogue of a color LUT in video.

Instead of baking tone changes into a master, a creator (or listener) ships a tiny description of how the sound should be shaped, and any conforming player applies it in real time. Loudness already travels with content (ReplayGain) and dynamics can (MPEG-D DRC) — ALUT is the missing open, codec-agnostic spectral layer.

Went to Yosemite yesterday. So tired I forgot to post anything.

It’s Juneteenth. Do we say Happy Juneteenth or Merry Juneteenth or ?

Trying to score Oogie Boogie Bash tickets today.

Inn the queue.

Tickets confirmed. Oogie Boogie Bash on October 4th.

Took today off for Doctors visit and yearly tests.

Oddly it’s Tuesday but it’s also my Friday.

Scared the cat by blowing dust out of my keyboard. Took a while to coax her to come back.

Well I thought the database duplication had just crashed out harmlessly but in readlity it FUBARed everything. Nice going me.

Did not sleep well. The boy is on about something and my blood sugar might have been really high. Got carb bombed off something.

FedEx: “How was your recent experience with FedEx?”

Me: “Well, since you asked…”

I did end up getting my package last night at 6:30pm. Only a day and 4 hours late. If they had an Amazon style “where is my package” tracker people wouldn’t  be pissed off at them. Instead what they have makes it look like they either lost or stole your package enroute. Not a good look. Defiinitely a fixable problem. They should throw some money at it and get it done. Reputation is everything.

I love the Luna Ultra. I only have one question, what’s this piece of open cell foam that was packed in it’s own little bag for? I don’t see it listed in the included items on the bos or in the instructions.

My Luna Ultra was lost by FedEx after it left Sacramento. I have never had a good experience where FedEx is concerned. If I had my druthers I’d never use them. In fact, they’re part of the reason I buy stuff in stores and shy away from ordering online. Amazon provides a much better shipping experience. You had one job FedEx. One job! Why you gotta be like that FedEx? 

Also, this ends the second full week of sharing something here everyday.

Supposedly my Luna Ultra is out for delivery on FedEx but it’s already changed delikvery times twice due to lateness and now it’s just saying “by end of day”. I have no love for FedEx.

FedEx gave my package to one of their drivers to deliver in the off hours because it wasn’t deliverd by end of day as they said it was. I’m sure it’s never going to get to me now or it’ll be broken.

I’m sure, as many of you are well aware, today is in fact…Friday. TGIF!

Posted that last big and got to wondering, do kids today even know what TGIF means?

Winds have changed direction. We’re getting smoke from the huge medical supply fire in Tracy. The air smells like burning plastic.

So…I did a thing yesterday. A thing being I made a web based version of my app in PHP and JavaScript. It’s exactly like this except you can access it from anywhere and don’t need to ftp anything. It runs right on your web server. It’s also very, VERY small.

If you’re interested in it I’ll be posting it on my github sometime soon for download.

Right now it doesn’t have github backup and I’m not sure that I’ll be adding that. 

It also doesn’t have a combo-key launch nor does it run in the menu bar of your Mac. This is a good setup for Linux or Windows users who want something similar. I’m thinking about adding a template system to the online one so the page template can be edited.

Ever have one of those moments where you go to your Github page and see unexpected things that are public and think, “Hmmmm…I hope those don’t contain anything that shouldn’t be public.” They didn’t.

Ordered the Insta360 Luna Ultra. Possibly the cutest hand held, gimbal stabilized, video camera on the market. It’s got amazing specs too like a 200mp pano image, 8k,/30 4k/120 video, 10 bit, i-log, and a 12x zoom. Don’t forget it’s also cute. 

Watched the live cam yesterday as they tore out the cafe at the Pacifica Pier.

I know people lost their business and it was an icon in the community but, the view is much improved with it gone.

I’m sure I also have the unpopular opinion that removing the pier would also be an improvement.

Why is this breaking? It was working fine and then suddenly it’s become an issue.

Evidently the new Apple software to run AI locally on your Mac runs best on an M5. Having just spent WAAAAY too much on a specced out MBP I am not upgrading to an M5 or anything else for 3-4 years. You lose Apple. Make it more affordable or make it work with the M4 Max’s.

Had to practically throw a bucket of ice water on the girl to get her to wake up and put her work clothes in the wash.

Math says it’ll be 95 degrees plus today.

Missed a day yesterday. Over 300 emails of which 35 were troubletickets, 10 regular emails, 1 from my boss, 1 from the cafe and the rest notification emails from processes that spawn and run. Read and marked them al lbecause Inbox Zero.

Not feeling the best this morning. Not sure what’s going on.

Been burning the candle with a blow torch. Think I need a day to recover.

Didn’t sleep so well last night. Now I want to take a 6 hour nap.

News is saying we might get rain next week. Really.

Athenos roasted garlic hummus is pretty good.

Psss. It’s Friday. Just thought you should know.

Wow! I’ve posted something here 6 out of 7 days this week so far. Maybe I’m on ot something.

When I trigger the quick entry there’s an additional line above but I don’t see it in the output so it must be a display bug that doesn’t affect the render. Good enough.

I have to say, I’ve made a couple of different RSS readers of late and nothing ever felt quite right. They always seemed very “cookie cutter” but the IDE RSS reader is fun and quiet easy to read. I really like it.

Sat outside in the sun for half an hour. I can’t get this song out of my head now.

People think: “Oh well, you’re coding it with AI so it’s super easy.” If it were that easy why the F@#$ am I so stressed out? S#!& goes south just as much with AI as it does when doing it by hand. It just goes faster and farther.

I think if they remade The Princess Bride today, they should cast Shaq as Fezzik.

You can take me out of the designer role but eventually you’ll have me designing something for you.

Now who would make an RSS reader that looked and functioned like VS Code and even used VS Code themes? Oh yeah, me!

Do I want to get my fishing license and take a mental health day to do some fishing?

The girl wanted to make her own cold foam and tried using heavy whipping cream. I tried to explain that it was made with hydrogenated vegetable oil, the same as the filling in Oreo’s. Needless to say it wasn’t the same so I now have heavy whipping cream to mix with milk (efffectively half and half) in my morning coffee.

Serendipity has been running rampant last couple of days.

It’s weird that at this point it’s humans that are slowing me down.

Try to keep up, fleshlings!

Listening To:

“Stone Over Water” by Death Cab For Cutie

Added expanding links to Youtube videos so now a link to Youtube will render the embedded player.

Been trying to get some sun. Vitamin D is good.

Welcome to June!

Is Sklur AI generated?

This is one of my most favorite Youtube streams to have playing in the background. Sometimes it gets too quiet around here.

Now that we got this done I guess it’s time to get back to Sierra Anglers.

Someday people will actually listen to what I have to say. Won’t that be the day?

It's the boys' 24th birthday. Damn I'm feeling old.

Added a quick entry through the toolbar.

Testing the new keybind that allows you to open the quick post editor.

Slight modification to quick posting. 

Just testing the quick post behavior again.

Well it looks like we won’t be integrating it with the Shortcuts.app for Mac as this requires wrapping the project in Xcode. A little annoying you can’t just do it in Swift which is Apple’s own language.

This is a test post after making some fixes in my app.

There was a bug during upload. Checking to see if it's righted.

This is a new test post. We can bold!

Ok, bugs are fixed and new features have been added including a rich text editor, html editing,  adding photos from the editor from the media library or the machine directly, a post inspector and we’re now using Liquid Glass.

Not to mention the sftp bug was fixed and the github storage bug.

Booked Disneyland for this year. Going to try for Oogie Boogie Bash.

We did the Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween 3x but this will be the first Oogie Boogie if we can get tickets.

Man on the radio said we'd be getting periodic thunder storms today. It's been raining solid for the last 3 hours. I'm calling bullshit.

Looks like the server isn't syncing posts.

Listening to 90s Nu Metal/Hard Rock memory music. It always makes me very introspective.

Trying the new release of WordPress 7 and the Desktop Mode plugin from Automattic. Interesting. Pretty clunky that it iframes in the original UI instead of having it's own UI but an interesting concept none the less.

I still love WordPress but I've been feeling more drawn to ClassicPress and Django of late. Django is hard though because you can't run it in a traditional hosting environment.

For those not familiar with ClassicPress, it's a fork of WordPress without the Gutenberg block editing. It's a smaller, cleaner code base that works just the same as WordPress.

Well, unless you're using the block editor. Then it doesn't work the same. It relies on the TinyMCE editing panel of old WordPress from 10 years ago.

I need a Disneyland vacation.

Happy Friday!

Having to remind AI that I am smarter at some things. It just has more knowledge.

You've heard of Murphy's Law well I'm making a Loyd's Law. “As soon as you make your lunch someone will call you.”

72 degrees Farenheit at 7:40 in the morning. It's going to be hot today. 3 degrees/hour * 8 hours + 72 = 96 degrees Farenheit. Simple math.

Here we are waiting for people to read their messages again.

SCOPE CREEEEEEP!

This app works but I think I may need to revisit it. It could use some love.

I changed the title and description but it wouldn't push to the server. I had to go into the rendered copy on the server and make the change there.

Export is broken and the image upload is clunky.

I think I'd also like to create a command line interface for it as well.

I wrote an outline that works online. I wonder if there's a way to connect the two. Maybe some kind of sync for the outliner.

:O - the face you make when your AI says "Time to stop guessing."

Stupid car dealer in Elk Grove thought they were doing me a favor by installing a Karr alarm after they found out I lived in Modesto now every time a bird poops on my car the alarm goes off.

In a very 70's mood today. Listening to “Baby Come Back” by Player.

Listening to: “Lonesome Loser” by Little River Band

My mood was uncrushable because i got the fleetwood mac playing and i had a determined goal for today now i'm on these sidequests and I just want to get a large bag of Sourpatch kids and eat the entire bag

Extra extra coffee kind of morning.

Deciding if I want to deal with the boys behavior issues and book a Disneyland trip. How bad do I REALLY want to go?

Mowed and weed eatered yard. Watered yard. Washed car. Feeling: Accomplished.

Built a pecs board for my son. It's free for everyone to use. Use it if you need it. https://pecsboard.com

Anxiety level: 99% Source: 1 step forward 3 steps back. Solution: Loud music.

Drinking tea with milk and listening to Rage Against the Machine because it's that type of morning.

Sending all your pdf's to pdf jail. Compliance is required. Do better.

Been trying out Django. It's pretty cool. It sucks that you really can't deploy anything to a shared hosting environment though.

Sometimes I just want to throw a rock at people.

Built the latest Ladybird browser app. It's coming along nicely. Still some bugs with Youtube like streaming content that won't play but it'll get there. Just give it time to grow.

Meetings are the deathnail of productivity.

Why do people insist on asking my opinion when they never take my suggestion to heart?

This is what getting up at 3 in the morning gets you.

I like that there are new MacBook Pro's but I've never been happier than with the M4 Max. Save yourself some money and get one if you find one. There's not much difference between M5 and M4.

It's a tappity-tap kind of day. IYKMYK.

Caught this shot of an American Kestrel on the hover of a field along the coast this weekend.

Supposedly doom scrolling is supposed to trigger a dopamine reaction in your brain that makes you feel better. Yeah, no. Not me.

Snow level looks to have dropped to 1000 feet. It was 32 degrees Farenheit when I got up this morning. I hope it snows here.

Tried running Claude through Ollama with Qwen3 as the model. Talk about frustrating.

Five day weekend next week. So looking forward to it.

I wanted to go pet my cat but she was cleaning herself and I realized that she's probably thinking “OMG. I got human all over me. Gotta wash that off before it stains. Stupid humans."

Got a new lens. Had to try it out. Here's a bird sitting on the powerlines that run behind my house. I guess it's a House Finch.

Well, look at that. Suddenly it's Friday and a 3 day weekend.

Wednesday.

Happy Tuesday.

The freeway is very loud this morning. Lots of traffic.

Because of issues I have using ftp with my hosting provider I've added rsync functionality. You now have the option to ftp, sftp, or rsync your static site files to your web host. As always you can use username/password or id_rsa for passwordless connecting.

The Photo Manager has also been moved from the Settings pane to the sidebar as the new Media section.

Working on Mandeep's site. Let's hope I don't break anything irreparably. ;)

Taking forever to download.

Trying to determine if there's still a bug in the app when it tries to upload the static files to the host. I seem to be getting an rsync error about port 22 but if I click the upload site button it works fine. It's hard to diagnose because it could be the hosting provider limiting the port.

Testing the publish feature to see if the bug is fixed, again!

Let's test this again.

Test posting again because you haven't seen this enough have you?

Testing the publish button.

Let's test this again.

Well that's all the bugs fixed for tonight. The next thing to work on will be improving the editor. Currently it's an HTML editor but I'm thinking now a rich text or markdown would be better.

Well hello there.

Making some changes to the app. Your blog can now be saved to Github where you will be able to import and sync your blog. This is useful if, like me, you work on many different machines.

Honestly thought I was going to lose all my posts. Happy I didn't.

Just tried to do a site backup and it failed saying the data wasn't in the correct format. I guess that's ok because the backup will be in Github. In fact, I can probably remove the backup and import from static files feature now that my data is synced to Github. There was only one other person testing the app and I don't believe they have used it at all.

Just fixed a bug with the blog upload. Let's see if it's fixed.

Well, I'm not seeing an error so looks like we're good.

Error was still there. Made an update. Hopefully this fixes it.

Bug testing.

Waiting for the next round of storms. This one is supposed to drop 5' of snow in the Sierra.

Half an inch of rain in 15 minutes. I guess the storm is finally here.

No wonder why Christmas only comes once a year, Santa spends 3 months doing marketing and then does an around the world trip in 24 hours. It'd take me 9 months to recover from that, too!

Went to Target a couple of days ago and there wasn't a Salvation Army bell ringer in front.

My dog's nose tells me that as milk is exposed to air longer and longer the more it smells like cheese.

Turns out the milk was bad.

Some days I think to myself: “I need a bag of gummy bears.”

The Four R's of IT: Restart, Reboot, Reinstall, Recycle.

That moment you look back at an app you made several years ago and wonder, “How is this actually working?”

Fog so thick it registered 0.01” precipitation.

Successfully accomplished everything on my todo list today which had nothing on it.

Out of Splenda for my hot tea so almost Doordashed Starbucks for me and my daughter but after the upcharges and fees and everything I went to Amazon and bought a box of coffee pods and a bag of Splenda for less than the cost of Doordashing Starbucks.

Big storm supposed to start soon. Just had a smattering of rain so far. Got my boots all waxed up and ready to go. I'm ready for the wet and wild weather.

I really shouldn't watch camera videos because then I buy them.

Midweek holdays where you have to work on both sides of the holiday are evil. It feels like this week has 2 Mondays.

Can't sleep and I hope I'm not getting pink eye.

Rough night. Being sick sucks.

Day 2 of the cold. Thought I'd dodged it. I was feeling better earlier but now I'm congested again and coughing.

Also, I didn't realize it's been so long since I last posted. I'll have to try to update more regularly.

I think I have some kind of selective muteism that keeps people from hearing what I say. As an example, when someone asks “how do I do this?” I will respond and they continue what they're doing as if they didn't hear my answer to the point where they get so frustrated they give up.

Today's the day when people realize how vulnerable hosting on Amazon has left them. Too many services are there making it a prime (pun intended) target for widespread disruption of services. Take your stuff in-house.

Trying the Kirkland VitaRain Zero. It's like VitaminWater with less taste and no sugar.

Chopped up the red onion and the gherkins to have a gourmet tuna sandwich for lunch only to realize we gave away all the canned tuna at the last school canned food drive. I was so looking foward to it too. Today's lunch just won't be the same.

Nice little storm. So far we've got nearly an inch or rain. Hopefully this won't be all the rain we get for the season but it's a La Nina year and typically we get a little rain in October and November and then it's dry until the next season.

For some reason we're not able to publish again.

Got lazy and finally added a key from my mac to my host. Password stuff was killing me.

My current go-to drink from S-bucks: venti decaf sugar free vanilla latte with protein milk and sugar free vanilla protein foam and 2 extra shots

Well once again Starbucks messed up and the venti decaf sugar free vanilla latte was not decaf and I'm so wired I'm charging batteries just by walking by them.

That FTP is broke yall.

Thank you Captain Obvious.

Yes, but why is the rum gone?

I'm sure you don't need me to tell you this but…it's Friday yall!

Had a little bit of rain yesterday at only 0.06”. Most of that came from one downpour with some intermittent sprinkles throughout the day. Other places locally had a lot more. We don't seem to get as much from storms that blow in from the west as we sit in the rainshadow of Mount Oso. It's not a big peak for California but it's enough to mess up our rainfall totals compared to the rest of the region.

Bug fixing this morning. This was working before and now it's not. Probably a perms issue as I pushed Dev to Production yesterday.

Got my blood work done on Friday. Everything is good and my A1C is down to 5.0. Super happy about that.

Gashed my shin on my bed. We paid our friends husband who is a wood worker to make us this super beefy strong bed so it's a platform bed with 2x4's that surronund the mattress. They got rounded corners but you slam your shin into it and you still get a gash and bruise.

Realizing that I fit almost all signs of being autistic.

Putting a link to your website from your website is a little redundant. Just sayin'.

I should have known with all the wackiness…it's Monday.

Is it too much to ask that you actually help?

Between bashing my head on the metal porch swing yesterday and sinuses (because they're doing the almonds) my head feels like a giant granite boulder.

As predicted yesterdays lightning storm sparked a large number of fires, mostly in the foothills where it's miles and miles of dry grass. Chinese Camp along Highway 49 to Yosemite was destroyed. Doesn't look like there is much left standing. I'll have to take a trip up after the fire is done to survey the damage.

I wonder how the lumber yard and gold mine fared. The news video only showed Main Street in Chinese Camp.

My tummy has been upset a lot lately. Like easily irritated. No clue why.

Got a bit of thunder and lightning this morning. The bad thing is that the temperature was 75 degrees Farenheit with only 50% humidity. Fire weather. The storm was heading North/North East straight into the dry Sierra.

Excited for the Apple event next week. It's time to upgrade my M1 iPad Pro.

Past the point of having time to mess around with this code anymore. It's time to get shit done.

I have no idea why this isn't working. Stupid ambiguous MS SQL errors.

Well that's not good.

Ha! Monday strikes again.

The truck passed smog with flying colors. Pretty good for a 26 year old vehicle.

No, it's not my everyday drive but it will be what the youngling drives while in college.

Seriously what happened to this SFTP server. I was just here yesterday.

Took a spontaneous jaunt to Disneyland for my birthday over the weekend. It's amazing how something so seemingly innocuous can turn into an adventure.

Unfortunately, this may be our last trip. My autistic son is having problems handling the excitement and stress of the trip and isn't sleeping while there. This is leading to behavioral issues and we feel like he's not enjoying his time there. This makes me sad because the reason we go so frequent was his enjoyment and how much he got out of going. It seems like the last few years however, he's been more stressed and had a harder time relaxing and enjoying the park.

Here's a photo from our visit. This is Tiana's Bayou Adventure from the train platform in New Orleans Square. It was a fun trip overall. 4.5/5.

Having a problem with SSHPASS on my Mac. It seems to work once but then the system needs a restart before it'll work again.

Update: I didn't really need sshpass because I'm using passwordless logon to the linux system so I didn't need to pass any credentials in my CURL statement.

Read something in a book earlier that really resonated with me. Because I grew up on a farm where we didn't have a lot of extra to go around, we'll use the term “disadvantaged compared to many”, I can be very reactionary and have a tendency to move quickly without thinking about the repercussions. That's not always a good thing because it tends to get one in trouble and can alienate people who are more cautious and like to think situations through.

Sometimes I can be very aloof and less focused on the feelings of others and more concerned with the goal. It's only afterwards that I feel remorse and show concern for others.

I'm completely aware that the way my brain works and the way I communicate are completely foreign to most people. And that doesn't really bother me.

Made some major changes to the sftp/ssh functionality and the posts. No longer are there separate posts for each day. Instead the calendar links to the permalinks for that day. There's also a back to top button now so if you hop to a day you can hit that button to quidkly return to the top. Clicking the blog title at the top will also take you to the top also. The RSS feed now also links to the permalinks in the home page instead of the individual day pages.

Made a few more updates to how the pages work. Testing those now.

I was getting a weird error where everytime I'd type in the post field it'd trigger an sftp upload. Simple fix. Missing bracket.

I must say, sftp is MUCH faster than ftp uploads.

Another test post.

Trying out CopyParty on my linux dev machine which is notoriously hard to access files on. So far it’s awesome.

A photo from my walk Sunday morning.

I should probably edit the size of these things down as they're 50mp which is WAAAAAAY overkill and takes forever to upload.

There's been a bug with this post in the app for the HTML rendering.

Is it fixed?

Ok, looks like the bug is fixed. I'll have to export a new pkg and put it up on my server.

I've had Pixelmator Pro or a long time but I use Photoshop more. Adobe has increased the price of Photoshop and Lightroom again so I'm contemplating dumping it. Two years ago I made the decision to dump Creative Suite and go to Affinity apps. Affinity Photo is good but I'm more comfortable with Photoshop and Lightroom.

Here's a photo that was editing using Photomator, the Apple version of Lightroom.

I should note that photo was completely black except for the lights. In Photomator I was able to pull everything up without it looking too overdone and HDR.

Why does that one young lady look so well exposed when other faces are dark? She's standing in front of Ramone's and is lit by the neon sign. If you notice other people in the background have a similar effect by virtue of being under Flo's V8 Cafe's lights. The one group just behind the girl happens to be facing away from the lights.

I've been encountering ftp issues after I uploaded the 50mp files. I reduced their file size then replaced them in the posts and picture uploader. That “kinda” seemed to work but I ended up manually removing and replacing them on the ftp server. They were exceeding the timeout limit on the ftp. This may be something specific to my host.

Anyway, that seems to have fixed the ftp issue.

Just beware if you're uploaing images to scale them properly before hand.

Slow Saturday. The wife gets kids for her class on Monday so this weekend is preparation both physically and mentally.

We’re making changes to the UI. This is a test post.

Well implementing a rich text editor didn’t work. Evidently there are issues with SwiftUI thata make it problematic to have an html editor and rich text editor and then to switch back and forth between them. Maybe someday but not now.

This release has import/export capabilities for settings, posts, and images.

Also, I use Oxford commas. Bite me.

I’m working on speeding up the upload process by only uploading files that have changed instead of uploading everything everytime the site changes.

The youngling just paid for their first semester of college. She had no idea how expensive it was going to be.

Implementing a new feature on the backend. Just testing it now.

Well, I think I’m at a spot where I’m good for the time being.

Ok I was wrong. I’m changing the RSS feed to only show posts from the last 24 hours instead of all posts. That seemed a bit of overkill.

Slightly disappointed the tsunami wasn't bigger. At the same time I'm happy because I was asleep and would have missed the devastation.

My eyeroll is how I nonverbally point out you've just said something incredibly stupid.

Drinking a half-caf this morning where I normally drink only decaf. It's making me sassy af.

Tuesday appears to be Monday part deux.

Happy Monday...said no one ever.

I hate Mondays and Mondays hate me.

Did my 5 mile walk this morning. A little slow at 86 minutes because I was trying out the my new Insta360 Ace Pro 2. One of the main advantages I see over my old GoPros is the flip out screen I did have a hard time trying to get it where it shoots horizontal and vertical video at the same time. I'm going to have to look up how to do that again.

After Dane mentioned Publii I gave it a look. Sad to say I'd never heard of it before. I imported LoydSchutte.com from wordpress and now my site is running on Publii. I did have to do a redirect because the app doesn't support specifying a page as the home page in the theme I was using. At least not that I could find. It's interesting and fun. It gives me some ideas for my app. It's Electron or Meteor based so used JavaScript on the backend. I'm not going to port my app over. I like having a native Mac app written in Swift.

It occurs to me that there is are 2 whole generations who have no idea who this is.

The best thing about Radio Userland was that it lent itself to short form, micro blogging exceedingly well as it had no built in post headlines. Sure, you could add your own but that's not the way it was structured out of the box. Out of the box it was built more for recording thoughts and then going back to expand upon them. Everything that came after was structured more like Blogger with a separate post title and content that was geared more towards long format posting. We live in the age of TL;lDR. I think long format posting is really what lead to the demise of blogging. Short form posting is where it's at baby!

Also the post editing and generation field is a bit buggy in this iteration making it hard to go back very far in a post to correct typos. You'll just have to live with them. Mea culpa!

Here's a sample photo I took this morning from my morning walk using the Insta360 Ace Pro 2. The camera takes 50mp Raw + JPG images. This is from the edited Raw (really DNG format) file that I color corrected in Photoshop.

Good Saturday morning to you!

TGIF!

There's still a few small quirks but I think I have the app about where I want it.

One of the things I need to work on is the editor. I think it could be better. The editor settings doesn't seem to be working. I increased the font but it's not inicreasing in the editor view. I'll have to wait for my next big push to deal with that.

I really want to get the editor nailed down and functioning flawlessly before I start work on the RSS reader. RSS readers are a dime a dozen at this point so I may decide to not implement one at all and to just keep this as kind of an online editor.

Here's a shot of the editor.

As you can see by the screenshot it has the functionality to upload to your ftp or sftp server or generate a static site for backup or manual upload to your desktop.

The settings panel allows you to not only configure your ftp/sftp and blog settings, but also upload photos, edit the sidebar (in html for the moment) and edit your static site's css stylesheet.

Oh, I forgot to mention the website is a static site. The app uses a database on the backend but the generated site is static. Can't beat the speed.

I need to add to my list the ability to edit the head of the site or configurable fields and a way to drop or purge the database. That'll be in a future release.

Hello world