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I struggled over the weekend with the OWC Aura Pro X SSD upgrade for my MacBook Pro, only to realize tonight that it requires Disk Utility from High Sierra to be recognized. Drive now formatted as APFS and Migration Assistant doing its thing. Nice!

Kottke.org is one of those very few sites I can confidently say has made a big difference in my life. I can’t count how many things I learned, how many doors it opened, and how many dinner discussions it started. I’m so glad to see subscriptions has helped Jason keep the site up and ever more relevant.

I read Dave Winer’s troll FAQ today and found that it’s pretty much how I handle them. Sometimes I wish we could all agree to deal with it the same way.

I’ve found it difficult to put into words the personal and social responsibilities we have regarding climate change, but this post resonates with me:

[F]ussing and guilt-tripping over one’s individual contribution to climate change is neither an intellectually nor a morally serious response to a global systemic crisis.

The comparison is not entirely fair because wind prices were not as low in 1999 as they are today, but this still gives an idea of what damage or benefit we can do with our dollars from this point forward. What if, indeed.

Yesterday I meant to type “love” on my iPhone but actually typed “loce” and autocorrect slept right through it. Autocorrect fail.

Not that Twitter is the yard stick by which other social sites should be measured, but it’s now been three weeks since I closed that account, and it’s been… just fine. I miss a few people who had interesting takes, but I’m slowly discovering new people on Mastodon and Micro.blog. 🎉

You have to admit, it’s funny that Apple News got to the redesign phase before it ever got to the “let’s make it available in Canada” phase. (And so many other countries.)

I agree with some of the comments I read on Mastodon today. All along, the danger with GitHub has been its status as de facto standard for hosting code. Diversity is key. When a giant corporation swallows another one, we all lose. I prefer to live in a world where there are many equally valid options.

I really hope the rumors of GitHub being acquired by Microsoft aren’t true. I’ve used TFS and Yammer with some clients and it’s full of corporate Microsoftisms, not in a good way.

As far as alternatives, I’ve hosted many projects on BitBucket, which is slowly getting better.

Instead of inconsequential Charlevoix, I think Canada should host the G7 invitees in the much more à propos Fort McMurray. Imagine the beautiful vistas they would all have from the helicopter! Mordor, was it?

After some back and forth with WordPress support, the final word is that the WP for iOS app just wont work and there is nothing to do about it.

I hope they at least file it as a bug that the app doesn’t dynamically discover the location of the XML-RPC endpoint, instead of assuming it must be at /xmlrpc.php.

It’s hard to say, but watching the Golden Knights one-speed games against Winnipeg I was thinking that neither Tampa Bay or Washington will be able to beat them.

My hosting provider blocks xmlrpc so I use the Rename XMLRPC plugin for WordPress to put it at a different location. My site properly broadcasts its location in the page headers, but looks like WP for iOS doesn’t inspect those.

I’m unable to post to my WordPress micro-site using the WP iOS app but I can post to it using Micro.blog. Support tells me it’s because my xmlrpc file is not at the standard WP location, but obviously Micro.blog found it. Kinda odd.

I should mention that my Twitter account is deactivated as of today. It should get deleted in two weeks. Now I post only to my own micro site. Brave new world! I’m getting a kick out of owning my content and site and controlling where it gets published. 🎉

I was using the Mastodon Autopost plugin for WordPress but I didn’t like that it was including a link to my micro site. I just switched to the Mastodon Auto Share plugin; let’s see how this goes.

Come to think of it, the only problem with DuckDuckGo is there’s no cute verb to say you’re using it. Instead of googling it, it’s what, ducking it? DDG’ing it?

It’s odd to me that Google is still most people’s default search engine. I do agree it’s a monopoly. Apathy might explain it, but I switched to DuckDuckGo a few years ago and I prefer its presentation of results over Google’s. For developers, DuckDuckGo also has better integration with sites like StackOverflow and GitHub.