I got my Link Blog up and running again. It is still plenty rough around the edges. This gives the links that I share in the Weekly Thing a permanent home on the web. As an experiment I’ve also put the Commento commenting system on it to see if that is interesting. I also created …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Link Blog RelaunchedI spent a lot of my career in media and publishing on the web. During that time one of the things that I came to appreciate more completely was the unique journalistic voice that news organizations have. Being responsible for the websites of a number of these sites, I felt it was …
Keep reading · 2 minutes: Two Second TestCoronavirus maps via the New York Times.
The Robbinsdale water tower may be more accurately described as a cell tower that happens to have water too.
We capped off #TeamSPS TechJam 2020 with a keynote from Casey Rosenthal on resilient systems and the practices that enable and support that transition. He filled it with fabulous stories relating the core resiliency topics to historical problems. 🙌
Love the enthusiasm and passion that Dr. Venkat Subramaniam is sharing with #TeamSPS during TechJam! “Spearheading the Future of Programming” His love for the craft of programming is overflowing! 👩💻👨💻
On this day, 23 years ago, we launched BigCharts.com. The time before and after that was fun, stressful, and filled with unknowns. It was a great ride. One of the defining experiences of my life. I love that the site is still around, serving charts for all that want! I’m sure …
Keep reading · 2 minutes: Happy 23rd Birthday BigCharts!I successfully migrated my blog archive from Jekyll to micro.blog. I haven’t seen much written about this, so let me share how I did it. This definitely requires a bit of hacking but the result worked very well. I followed the general pattern that Manton Reece shared in his …
Keep reading · 4 minutes: Importing Jekyll site to micro.blogMicro.blog community: I need to migrate about 8,000 blog posts from a Jekyll site to micro.blog. Does anyone have suggestions or pointers to existing tools? At first glance I thought I would write a Python script to recurse the _posts directory and hit micro.blog’s API creating …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Suggestions for importing Jekyll blog to micro.blog?Osmo was running a sale recently and I decided to fill out our collection. We got the Hot Wheels™ MindRacers which I didn’t think was going to be that fun, but surprised me by being super fun to play together. I also ordered Coding Duo, in part because we already had Coding Awbie …
Keep reading · 2 minutes: Osmo Coding Duo