I subscribe to my own newsletter via Gmail so that I can see how it is treating the Weekly Thing. I have Gmail configured to forward things to Fastmail which I intercept into an “External” folder. I do the same with iCloud. This morning it didn’t come through. So I went looking… …
Keep reading · 2 minutes: Gmails Spam RandomnessKai Brach at Dense Discovery just launched the DD Lounge for his Friends of DD (subscribers) and I am impressed with how he did it. I’ve been a subscriber since 2020 because I like the newsletter itself and I find Kai’s approach to the medium interesting. He built the DD Lounge …
Keep reading · 2 minutes: Dense DIscovery Launches DD LoungeI just sent Weekly Thing 291 / Ireland 🇮🇪 as a special issue all about Ireland. This issue didn’t follow my usual structure so I did all the assembly by hand. It took me about 2 hours just to get the sections, links, headers, images, and outline together. Then I could start the …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Enabling with AutomationI’ve been curating my blog for a couple of years now using a method I call Blog Gardening. I continue to garden my blog each day. It is a great way to tend to the archive of posts I’ve created over more than twenty years and gives me a moment of nostalgia in my day that often …
Keep reading · 3 minutes: Blog PensieveMy cousin @jellisatc posted his first new column — Making Hay — since I helped him get his website up and running. He’s also using micro.blog newsletter capabilities so you can subscribe and get them twice a month. Recommended!
This weekend I helped get my cousin Josh setup Rambling Josh, a new website to host the column he’s been writing for 20 years. He knew I used micro.blog and was game to use that. I suggested he get a domain name at NameCheap which he did. I got in and twiddled some settings and I …
Keep reading · 6 minutes: Importing 240 Word Documents to Micro.blogMy cousin Josh Ellis has been writing a twice-monthly column in the Burke County Tribune for nearly 20 years. He has been writing old school, publishing in an actual printed newspaper all those years. He’s written over 450 columns! Over the years I’ve been able to read some of …
Keep reading · 2 minutes: Rambling JoshI do a lot of writing on my blog and the Weekly Thing. I hope that through writing regularly I can become a better writer. When we go on trips Mazie often keeps a travel journal. The old way — on paper with a pencil. Sometimes I get to read her writing and it blows me away how well she writes. 👏
Today marks the 20th anniversary of thingelstad.com! Twenty years ago I posted about the difficulty in redeeming a hot air balloon gift certificate. Now 8,676 posts later my blog is something I treasure and is growing and improving all the time, with many more years ahead!
I’m giving micro.blog’s new audio narration feature a try. I used the new Zoom H1 Essential to record and added narration to my First Coffee in 54 Days post, and Tiny Theme added support just in time.
