Author: sjwillis
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Series: Bodies on Netflix
Bodies, 2023 – IMDB – (4/5*) Enjoyed the sci-if/crime drama/mystery combo here. Terrific job weaving the various timelines together. Compelling and engaging enough that we watched all 8 episodes over 4 nights and couldn’t wait to see how it ended. Every night we turned to each other to say how much we hoped the ending…
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Deciding Between Shaarli and Reader: A Personal Taxonomy Approach
Following several weeks of digital housekeeping, I’m determined to do a better job about being consistent about where I’m storing links, online articles, resources and various “read later” type stuff. My tools of choice are Readwise Reader and Shaarli. I’ve been pretty lax about what goes where so I spent some time thinking about how…
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Bulk import WordPress posts into Day One
This export/import process requires bouncing back and forth between the Desktop and iOS versions of Day One as the import/export feature set is very different for each version and you’ll need to leverage both feature sets.
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Nginx, WordPress & ActivityPub
I have been deep in the terminal these past few weeks whenever I get a moment or two of free time. We have had a lot of rain recently, resulting in way more free time than usual. This allowed me to sort out a bunch of issues on my new $5/month linode. I didn’t love…
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2023 Delaware Valley Bluegrass Festival
The jams at this year’s Del Valley were really excellent. A lot of great players jamming til 1 or 2am. Loved it. The lineup with good too, AJ Lee and Blue Summitwere a highlight, espescialy the two guitarist for the band (Scot Gates and Sully Tuttle). Especially cool though was this guy up the hill from…
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Fall Maintenance
Spent some of my vacation time fiddling with the backend tech that I use to organize the digital bits of my life (the foundation of my personal technology stack as it were).
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April, 2022 Top Tracks Playlist
Really late on this. Here’s a playlist of my top tracks from April, 2022 on Last.FM and on Apple Music. Still really enjoying The Cactus Blossoms. Work has been busy and so meeting-filled that I’m barely listening to any music during the day. This has been true for April and May. So, listening habits are…
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Non-elitist daily transportation
From Grant’s (Petersen, of Rivendell) latest post. He’s one of my favorite bike-people: We are locked into steel, locked out of suspension and disc brakes, are increasingly suspect of racing’s influence, and we “value,” I guess is the closest word I can think of, bicycles as non-elitist daily transportation, and yet we still make them…
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Music from the show High Maintenance
I’ve watched every season of High Maintenance a few times. We’ve been watching them again lately when we need a short show to watch in the evenings and this time around I’m deeply focussed not the soundtrack for each episode. I’ve always been aware of the music in the show (it’s amazing, here’s some background from…
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Huddled with the nihilists
This great take on Twitter/Musk from Robin Sloan via the always excellent Michael Sacasas: The amount that Twitter omits is breathtaking; more than any other social platform, it is indifferent to huge swaths of human experience and endeavor. I invite you to imagine this omitted content as a vast, bustling city. Scratching at your timeline, you…