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@jean Wow, that’s a lot of lightbulbs. I hope all that light didn’t affect your sleep. 😅 Thanks for sharing! 🥰

@ndreas Inte 100 % säker men tror det är för att din blogg är onåbar på ndreas.eu (utan www). Prova att logga in hos din DNS-leverantör (iwantmyname?) och peka även den nakna domänen (ndreas.eu) till Micro.blog-servern.

> If you want both the root domain and www.yourdomain.com to work, you’ll need both an “A” record for the root domain and a “CNAME” record for the “www” version. Also, enter “www.yourdomain.com ” in the settings in Micro.blog. (By including “www”, Micro.blog will know to also enable the root domain version.)

– Custom domains

@ndreas You know how email is this cool thing that mostly just works. You can have an @gmail.com address and send a message to someone with an @hey.com address and vice versa.

Someone else can run the email server on your behalf, or you can run one yourself in a closet from home. You can have one email address, two or five, or how many you want.

Also, you can use whatever client you want. Gmail’s web-based client, a fancy app on your phone, or a text-based one in a terminal. They might have different features and user experiences, but they all “speak email.”

All this is possible thanks to a set of rules. A bunch of protocols. You might have heard of SMTP and IMAP, for example.

Imagine for a while an alternative world where social media worked the same way as email. That you could write to your Instagram friends from your Twitter account. Or follow that old aunt who still has Facebook from your TikTok account.

There would have to exist a set of rules for how all this should work. A social network protocol. And, of course, Twitter and all the others would have to support that protocol. The chance of them doing that is pretty slim because of… well, money.

But protocols for making it happen already exist. ActivityPub is one such protocol. ActivityPub is for social networking, what SMTP is for email.

And Mastodon is one piece of software with support for ActivityPub. Pixelfed is another (Instagram-like), PeerTube a third, and Owncast a fourth (YouTube-like and Twitch-like). And they can all talk to one another, thanks to ActivityPub.

Micro.blog is another service with support for ActivityPub. So to split hairs, when you’re “activating your Mastodon-compatible username”, you’re really activating ActivityPub support. So people on Mastodon will be able to follow you and vice versa. But the same is true for Pixelfed and PeerTube. Or any other software supporting ActivityPub.

Just like it’s up to you how many email addresses you have and which providers and clients you use, it’s up to you which ActivityPub-compatible services you use and how many identities you want.

Micro.blog and Mastodon can talk to each other but differ regarding features. For example, Micro.blog has bookshelves and newsletters while Mastodon has boosts (retweets) and favorites (likes). And so on.

It’s different services. You won’t be able to log in on your Mastodon instance with your Micro.blog account (or the other way around).

Micro.blog is not Mastodon, similar to how Gmail is not HEY. But users on respective services can communicate thanks to shared protocols.

@warner You could, but the timeline will open as well. I’ve set up a Shortcut for making quick posts. When triggered (via keyboard shortcut, dock, or “Hey Siri, new post”), I’m presented with this:

A text field with the title New Post – What’s the text? – and two buttons, Cancel and Done.

I write my post, hit Done, and it’s on its way. (Old iOS screenshot, but it runs on macOS as well.) @gr36 published two Shortcuts you can use as a starting point in his post How To Publish To Micro.blog With iOS Shortcuts.

@ProfessorFalken No, that search only finds posts featured in the discover section. If you have posts featured there, those will show up in the results.

However, you can search through your own posts by visiting the Posts page in the web client. Or you could use a plug-in like Search Space (shameless self-promotion 😊) to add search functionality to your blog.

@renevanbelzen Version control systems, like git, are just tools to keep track of file changes over time. There’s a high probability you’re already doing this manually, without a tool.

Have you ever made a copy of a file before making changes? Have files named my-document-version-2.doc, nice-photo-old.jpg, or similar? Congrats, you’re version-controlling already! Tools like git will make that process a lot easier (once you learn them), but they are totally optional. You don’t need git for your Hugo project.

So you can safely ignore git for now, or forever, and concentrate on learning Hugo instead.

> Anyway, why would I need version control for a static website?

Well, you don’t. But having the complete history of a project sometimes is helpful. For example, if you remove one file by mistake or want to undo changes made in another file. With the project under version control, you can always return to an earlier state.

> Or has static another meaning I’m not aware of?

In the context of a static website or static web page, it just means that the web server delivers the HTML file as is to the browser asking for it. Compared to a dynamic web page that is generated on-the-fly and might contain different content depending on who requested the page.

Having a static web page doesn’t mean the content never changes. That’s up to you, the author. For example, you can write a blog post, publish, and never change it again. Or maybe you fix a typo a week later. Or you may have a particular page on your site that you update daily.

I have a page on my website listing stuff I’m about to sell. It’s a static HTML file, but the content has changed many times since its original publication back in August.

> I should be able to upload the files to a directory on a server I rent, shouldn’t I?

Yep, you can. When you run Hugo, you will end up with a directory, probably named public/, containing a bunch of HTML and other files. You can upload the content of that directory to any service able to host HTML files.

Hosting small static websites and blogs is mostly free nowadays. Netlify and Cloudflare Pages are two options that offer free tiers.

@renevanbelzen Yay! I hope this course fits you better. Feel free to mention me here if you get stuck, and I will try my best to get you unstuck. 😅

@odd I immediately thought about Freewrite when I saw your comment, but it turns out they come with WiFi. You can turn that radio off with a physical switch, though.

@Lynessence My home isn’t that smart, but it does feature a handful of lamps and light bulbs. None use a hub; they communicate directly with my iPhone through Bluetooth and WiFi. Or via the Apple TV if I’m not at home or just out of range. Are you sure the accessories you’ve bought are HomeKit compatible?

@brian_wolf The game is excellent! Performance-wise, it runs okay on the Switch. If you’re fortunate enough to have multiple options, you might want to play Tunic on a more powerful machine.

@jasonekratz I love that little coffee maker, probably my favorite machine in the household.

@veronique Oh, no, it’s Oct 22 here already. Happy Belated Back to the Future Day! Did you watch the panel with Christopher Lloyd and Michael J. Fox at NY Comic Con the other week? My eyes got a little misty. 🥹

@pimoore Oh, no, I just did an image search for “tarantula on a dinner plate”, and that’s not invisible. Not at all. 😱

@pratik Yes, the notice will go away when the plug-in leaves beta. It won’t be a paid upgrade – it’s free and open-source software – but donations are always welcome. 😊 If you’re feeling impatient and adventurous, you could hide my notice with custom CSS like this: #search-space-results > p, #search-space-results > ul { display: none; }.

@johnjohnston Looks like a handy tool! Another method for tagging in Finder is using the built-in keyboard shortcut (Control-5) to tag the selected files in blue.

> Use keyboard shortcuts to tag files quickly—select a file, then use Control-1 through Control-7 to add (or remove) your favorite tags. Control-0 (zero) removes all tags from a file.

Use tags to organize files on Mac

@canion It’s definitely challenging! If you enjoy the rest of the game, you could activate invincibility from the settings and focus on adventuring and puzzle solving.

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