Random Thoughts

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