Weekly Notes 2024.03

• Even though it’s technically a holiday, I had work on Monday, preparing for our conference, and will instead use it as a floating holiday sometime later this year.
• Tuesday through Friday of this week was Winter Conference 2024 for Precision Planting. The following links include coverage from various agriculture-focused outlets, a few of which quote yours truly, and I’ve thrown in a picture of one of the show stands as well:
  • Successful Farming: Precision Planting launches CornerStone Planting System
  • CropLife: Precision Planting Launches New Planting System
  • Progressive Farmer: New Planting System From Precision
• Over the weekend I spent some time improving my Obsidian daily note setup, mostly adjusting the file location(s)
• To automate some of the work, I used zmv, which was a new tool to me… it’s shockingly powerful

Read

• Author Clock
  • I’m very tempted to either buy one of these, or set up a screen at my home showing off the web version 🤔
• Long Live Webpages
• What Even is a Webmention?
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling (finished)

Listened To

• Accidental Tech Podcast: 570: The Local Mooching Situation
• Clockwise: 537: All I Found Were Three Apple TV Remotes
• Connected: 485: A Mobile Hamburger Menu Three Feet Wide
• Cortex: 151: The Second Best Time is Now
• Dot Social: Pivoting Out of the Attention Economoy, with medium’s Tony Stubblebine
• Focused: 195: The Productivity Field Guide
• Late Night Linux: 264
• Mac Power Users: 727: The Productivity Field Guide
• The Rebound: 478: Skizzy
• Under the Radar: 285: Recreational Computing
• Upgrade: 495: Nothing Can Possibly Go Wrong
• We’re Not Wrong: About the Iowa Caucus

Watched

• Monarch: Legacy of Monsters (2023), S1, E10
• Reacher (2022), S2, E01-04

Weekly Notes 2024.02

• Early in the week, I spent a little time to make my Mastodon account discoverable by searching for this domain.
• This week’s office time was primarily devoted to preparation for our annual Winter Conference.
• On Thursday, I cleaned up the post structure on this website, which accidentally led to me spamming my RSS feed with old posts.
• Friday morning I woke up to the sounds of my battery backups all going off at 3a, due to the loss of power in my neighborhood (really the first time this has happened since I moved here). Thankfully, the local power company was able to find the issue and restore power by about 5:30a, and so I was able to go about the rest of my day as planned.
• This weekend, in my free time, I’ve been playing some of Tavern Master and Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands, both on PC via the Steam store.
  • Tavern Master is a style of strategy game that I normally enjoy, though I’m currently finding it a bit tedious. We’ll see if I continue to play it or not…
  • Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands is an action game that is definitely outside of my normal gaming style, but it’s proving to be interesting so far. I expect that I’ll keep playing it occasionally.
• This weekend also saw a cold snap to negative temperatures in the Midwest, along with some of the first real snow I’ve had to shovel this season. I’m happily staying indoors as much as I can.

Read

• Amazon Is Selling Products With AI-Generated Names Like “I Cannot Fulfill This Request It Goes Against OpenAI Use Policy”
• Migrating from Substack to self-hosted Ghost: the details

Listened To

• Mac Power Users: 726: Journaling Update: Apple’s New App, Day One Updates & More
• Focused: 194: I’d Like to Take a Mulligan
• Upgrade: 494: Copyright Violation Machine
• The Omni Show: How Kourosh Dini Uses OmniFocus - Part 2
• Dot Social: Moderation and Migration for a Better Social Web, with Fediverse Leader Tim Chambers
• Linux Matters: 20: Unfold Your Coding Potential
• Late Night Linux: 263
• Connected: 484: The Rickies (January 2024)
• The Rebound: 477: Brrreeeeoooooouuuuuuuggghhh
• Clockwise: 536: Spay and Neuter Your Pets
• We’re Not Wrong: About the Secretary of Defense Going Missing and DEI
• It’s a Thing: 299: Smut Rising
• Accidental Tech Podcast: 569: Do Grasshoppers Have Tongues?

Watched

• January 13th: A Somber Day In Lithuania
• xXx (2002)

Sorry for the Spam in the RSS Feed This Morning

This morning I made some changes to the permalink structure of my blog posts, which inadvertently caused a number of my older posts to reappear in the RSS feeds. Sorry for the spam!

Enable Mastodon Discovery by Domain

While doing some reading on integrating Mastodon and Hugo this afternoon, I ran across a handy little project by Francesco Maida.

In the past, I’ve considered running my own Mastodon server, but that’s not yet an endeavor I’m ready to take on. However, being discoverable by anyone looking for me on Mastodon using my own domain? Thanks to this python script, that’s easy! Sweet!

For more information on how this all works, see either the README in the GitHub link above, or this blog post by Maarten Balliauw.

Weekly Notes 2024.01

I decided to try something a little different this year. I’ve seen other bloggers (for example, Jamie Tanna) implement a weekly review of sorts on their blogs, and thought it might strike an interesting balance between daily, monthly, and yearly posting, all of which I’ve tried at one point or another. I’ve also attempted weekly posts in the past, but often with some specific topic in mind. These notes will be simple recaps of my week.