My love affair with Beeper was intense and short. It has ended. Deleted my account. The Apple Messages integration was so intermittent, and I quickly grew tired of having to toggle notifications and rearrange my iPhone home screen.
The other night I was particularly cranky about WordPress.com’s annoying prompts to upgrade on top of how convoluted, messy and slow their admin interface is. I was kicking myself for moving from self-hosted to hosted because I couldn’t install a plug-in because I wasn’t paying enough. So I did what any nerd does. First I complained about about it on a social network, then I spun up and configured an Ubuntu instance on Vultr (great service BTW), set up a new A record and successfully installed Ghost on my first attempt with a little help from ChatGPT.
Mike Maskick has a great post on Substack doubling-down on hosting Nazis.
Curious who has migrated from WordPress to Micro.blog with thousands of posts. I’d like to do it, but a little scared 😬
Source: Against Lists by Elena Gorfinkel via S/FJ
Talk paper scissors, anyone?
I have the always wonderful Dense Discovery to thank for introducing me to the weird art of Tim Andraka.
I love Seth’s idea of personal process notation. I’ve been doing more of this sort of thing lately.
I’m on a flight with my family reading research on the intelligence of birds, as one does. My daughter has been training crows in our neighborhood for months now. I exported a 62-page paper to a PDF and asked ChatGPT to write an article for a high school newspaper (for my daughter). Results were pretty good, but took a little effort, which might have to do with the custom instructions I’m currently using, which likely aren’t the best for this sort of prompt.
Sad, but it will live on! Long live Usenet.