After another hour of work, all of my historical Instagram posts are now also replicated on my website as status updates! At some point I’ll probably make them easier to browse, but for now the /status feed will have to do.
My goal for a while now has been for my personal website to be the primary source for anything I post online, past or present, and today I finally began adding historical entries. So far, all of my Mastodon posts have been copied over, and about half of my old Instagram posts. ☑️
I’m going to be pulling many of my older Mastodon posts onto my website over the next hour or so. I’ve disabled posting via EchoFeed while I’m working on this, so hopefully this doesn’t create too much spam. Apologies to anyone whose RSS feed gets inundated…
This morning I was thinking about how much I wish there was a full FOSS (or even proprietary but self-hosted) replacement for Evernote. I’m mostly happy with my current note-taking setup, but nothing has yet fully replicated the “everything app” nature of Evernote for me (notes, important emails, web clippings, pdfs, etc)…
Weekly Notes 2025.16
- This week was my first week back in the office after spending the last week and a half visiting family.
- Monday was mostly spent either in airports, in the air, or preparing to fly… for the first time ever, I flew home from visiting family in Ohio instead of driving, which meant I had to go through ORD on my way back to central Illinois. Overall the flights went well, but I definitely don’t enjoy sitting in airports. I was ready to be home.
- Wednesday morning I had the pleasure of giving a tour of our ops center to our AWS reps while they were onsite for a visit. I’ve given tours off and on to various vendors over the past year, and was requested to step in once again. I find it fun and engaging to explain what our products do, and how they are manufactured.
- Thursday and Friday I primarily spent helping a team at work track down a customer issue. I think by Friday evening/Saturday morning we came up with a good solution, and I spent part of the day Saturday doing testing from my work-from-home setup (I never fully tore down my test equipment from during 2020-2022).
- Saturday morning, after coffee, it was time to start catching up on yard work, followed by work around the house. A downside of travel is definitely the number of things that pile up!
- Over the weekend I also decided that I need to watch my diet more closely again. I noticed myself gaining a few extra pounds over the past two months, and I want to get back to what I consider a healthy, comfortable weight.
- Sunday, after church and shopping, I decided to try out RuneScape: Dragonwilds. I’ve been an on-again/off-again player of RuneScape (now RS3) for years, and whenever Jagex offers a new game I normally at least try it out. I can see how Dragonwilds could be fun, but I’m not sure if it’s a game I’ll keep playing longterm. It seems to me to take longer to progress than I really have time for with my current workload.
- Inadvertently, Sunday afternoon I also found a useful new piece of software. I was planning to use my trusty ScanSnap to scan and file mail from while I was gone, but the scanner refused to work right on my Mac. I could have attempted to use my Windows machine, but let’s face it, I try to use that as little as possible, and primarily for gaming if anything. So I did some research, and after a little experimentation, landed on using NAPS2 on Arch LInux, which worked like a charm. I may actually move to using my Linux laptop for this work going forward, as I’ve been unhappy with my macOS-based workflow for a while (ScanSnap -> File System -> DEVONThink).
- … And, it looks like we might be getting some bad weather this week (hello Spring storms)… 😞
11 Years with Todoist
Today is an interesting anniversary for me, one that I never thought to keep track of until about a year ago. You see, on a fateful (but otherwise mostly forgotten) day 11 years ago, I began subscribing to Todoist Pro.
I don’t entirely recall at this point how I stumbled upon Todoist, though I do generally remember why. At the time, I was working for InSource Technologies as an embedded software developer, and I was finding that the amount of tasks & projects that I was keeping track of at work, along with those at home and at church (where I was heavily involved as a volunteer), were making me feel like I was constantly forgetting things.
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