Category: CompTechSci

Posted on September 15, 2021

Got to say @samgrover, Mimi is **so** good – I use it for most of my Micro.blog image uploads now, especially when I haven’t got a wi-fi connection. Even with a poor mobile data signal Mimi manages to upload where other apps fail!

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Posted on September 1, 2021

I’ve just successfully exported 4453 posts from my Micro.blog hosted blog and imported them into a Day One journal using the macOS Micro.blog app.

The whole process took about 3 hours, most of which was taken up by the downloading of all the blog images.

The Day One journal entries look very good – much better than a lot of those I have been crossposting from Micro.blog to Day One using IFTTT. They would often lose some formatting and only import one image from multi-image posts.

I paused the Day One sync service during the import process – now I’m just dreading turning it back on. I know it’s going to take a very long time to upload all these posts and images to the Day One servers and while the process is underway my (already poor) broadband service is going to slow to a crawl.

Now I just need a way to incrementally export new posts from my blog to Day One. I’d rather not go through the process of exporting and importing thousands of posts each time!

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Posted on August 9, 2021

I’ve just read this article in by Oliver Burkeman _The Guardian_:

At best, we're on Earth for around 4,000 weeks – so why do we lose so much time to online distraction? 🔗

It is an edited extract from his book _Four Thousand Weeks: Time and How to Use It_, published on 26th August 2021.

I recognise and certainly experience a lot of the symptoms of being distracted that he is pointing out.

>Social media is engineered to constantly adapt to our interests. No wonder the rest of reality seems unable to compete

>We mustn’t let Silicon Valley off the hook, but we should be honest: much of the time, we give in to distraction willingly

>When we succumb to distraction, we’re motivated by the desire to flee something painful about our experience of the present

>What we think of as distractions aren’t the cause of our being distracted. They’re just the places we go to seek relief

The title of this post comes from _**Burnt Norton**_ the first of T.S.Eliot’s _Four Quartets_:

>Distracted from distraction by distraction
Filled with fancies and empty of meaning
Tumid apathy with no concentration

Posted on August 5, 2021

I’ve been trying out the photography based social media platform **Gala**. It was brought to my attention by @gr36 here on Micro.blog, in this conversation.

My username/profile there is (as expected!): **thedimpause**

I like the app they’re developing – although it does seem sluggish at times and I have experienced a few crashes whilst using it. Hopefully there’ll be a willingness and time allowed for improvement. It’s the style of app I wish Flickr had, a relatively simple photo browsing experience.

I don’t know yet whether the platform will succeed and prosper so I’m also publishing the photos I upload there to a Flickr album titled _Gala_. At the moment they’re mainly images from my archives which I’m revisiting with a little more post-processing.