Category: CompTechSci

Posted on February 4, 2025

Question about Tapestry @manton –

I can get posts from Mastodon opening in Ivory and posts from Bluesky opening in the Bluesky app. Is there a way to get my Micro.blog timeline posts to open in the Micro.blog app or does that require work from @iconfactory?

Posted on November 24, 2024

Apologies for lots of duplicate posts in the last half hour – an automated service I was using went wild. Luckily I was awake early enough to notice. Service hopefully now disconnected from my accounts and duplicates removed. 😔

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Posted on May 23, 2024

Unfortunately I missed the live Microcamp last Friday because I was away for a long weekend 🙂

Back home now so planning to catch up on the recordings today.

Posted on February 14, 2024

Home screen status update!

I use the first two screens of my phone as easily accessible ‘Home’ screens. The first is now starting to get overpopulated with note-making/taking apps 🙂 🤷‍♂️

Screenshot of an iPhone screen displaying a variety of apps, a widget with a literary quote from Marcel Proust, and a black and white background image of a public square with a person walking and birds on the ground.

My second screen is more of a ‘consumption’ screen 🤓

A smartphone screen displaying various app icons. The background is a black and white photo of a square with people and birds.

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Posted on February 2, 2024

I’m still playing around with Beluga and I quite like the way it works.

I’m sharing my Beluga posts on AWS S3 storage at thedimpause.cloud. This is a url forwarding address because to achieve _anything_ in AWS requires me to do a vast amount of fumbling around until I find something that works. I’m not confident or familiar with using it and still haven’t found the energy to find a way to set up a custom domain yet 😞

I’ve got the JSON feed from my Beluga site importing into my Micro.blog hosted domain and the posts look OK. The main downside is that images do not get imported into the Micro.blog site but are still hosted externally on AWS. I don’t think there’s a way to change that at the moment.

I did notice today was that a link posted to Beluga ends up with a link preview card on the Beluga static site – example here. This card has an image from the linked page which then also gets imported into my Micro.blog site – as here. I do like this but the image that appears is not necessarily predictable – I could end up with some unexpected images on my blog and on the Micro.blog timeline 🫢

One downside of the set up seems to be that photos uploaded via Beluga are quite compressed and do not seem to have the quality I get when uploading to Micro.blog via Mimi, MarsEdit or the web client. Fine for screenshots or casual snaps but not if I really care about the final appearance of the photo.