What is the sign of a good developer’s blog? An RSS feed, of course! Good to see one on the 37signals development blog. Just two articles in, and I’m already hooked.
I’m not convinced that the departure of Twitter users to Mastodon will be permanent. We’ve been here before. I can’t remember the reason why. After a few weeks, though, everyone flocked back to Twitter. Most people will want to remain on Twitter as it’s easier.
Not quite fully on DigitalOcean
Over the last few weeks, I’ve been migrating several Rails applications to Hatchbox. I’ve still got a couple of applications to go. Still, one last thing I wanted to do was migrate my blog over to DigitalOcean’s Apps platform.
I’ve been using Render to host my blog for the last few months. While it’s free, and I have been okay with using it, I’ve wanted to minimize my digital footprint of the services I use. Over the weekend, I spent almost eight hours trying to get my blog to compile and run on DigitalOcean.
Sadly, my blog wouldn’t compile due to the Tailwind integration I am using. An error with the Jekyll PostCSS gem kept breaking the building of the website. I’m still digging into the actual issue, but it is getting parked until I have more time to look into it.
I started another minilog yesterday.
That’s 12 notebooks mostly completed over the last year. I say mostly completed, as there’s a couple of notebooks in there that I didn’t finish. It’s been a good daily exercise over the last year and I’m going to continue it through to next year. Also, it gives me something to do with my Field Notes subscription!
I’ll also start sharing a few pages from them again as they are completed.
After the cancellation of Setapp, I’m reviewing several other subscriptions that could be for the chop. There’s no average monthly figure that I’m aiming for as a budget for these subscriptions, but reducing them over the next few weeks is the plan.
I cancelled my Setapp subscription today. I’m only using a handful of apps from this, and I know it would be cheaper for me to use alternatives.
Spent most of the afternoon finalising some changes for my Rails app for posting to my Jekyll blog. It needs a few more tweaks before I open source the application, but it now allows me to log in on multiple devices, which means you might see more of my posts soon.
I finished watching the first season of Amazon’s Rings of Power this afternoon. I enjoyed it, but I did find it a tad slow.
With Ethan playing the last round of a competition at Longniddry Golf Club today, Jen, Drew, and I decided to wander around the surrounding area.
We had already planned to take a walk along Longniddry Bents. Despite the usual grey weather that Scotland is famous for, the walk along the beach was great. We then headed into Cockenzie and Port Seton, but with little to do there, we had a look to see what was nearby.
We decided to head there because Rosslyn Chapel was just a half hour away. We were a few minutes late for the tour’s start, which allowed us to take some great pictures of the outside of the chapel while everyone was inside getting the guided tour. The inside of the chapel was just as beautiful as the outside. Particularly the Apprentice Pillar and the many carvings on the pillars and arches inside the chapel.
All in all, it was a pretty great day.
I am trying out something new this morning. I built a small Rails app that streamlines the posting process to my blog. It automates most of the process and only requires the post content itself. If it’s working, you should see this post!