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Sep 19, 2024: Could I opine about the US Presidential Election (believe me, there’s no MSNBC clip I haven’t seen on YouTube) or would it be an improper foreign …
Sep 19, 2024: I find the verb “to opine” both delightful and pedantic. “Opinar” is the verb in Spanish, so the first time I heard it it sounded familiar to me. …
Sep 19, 2024: 🔗 FreeTube - Maybe the Most Underrated App | AppAddict FreeTube is a privacy lover's dream, using no trackers and allowing you to subscribe to your …
Sep 18, 2024: Following Threads accounts from Micro.blog The first post from Threads has shown up in my Micro.blog timeline. A couple of days ago I followed @snazzyq@threads.net and @mkbhd@threads.net and …
Sep 17, 2024: I’ve been using iOS and iPadOS 18 for a couple of months now (the public betas have worked perfectly for me) and now it’s like I’m missing the novelty …
Sep 17, 2024: OK, so iPhone Mirroring is not working in the EU because potatoes (“porque patatas” is a coloquial expression in Spanish that means …
Sep 16, 2024: At 50, I’m afraid that my natural battery has gone through too many cycles and that is already topped at somewhere around 80%. It hardly makes …
Sep 16, 2024: The first Threads account I have followed from micro.blog is that of Marques Brownlee @mkbhd@threads.net. Thanks to @jarrod for the heads up..
Sep 15, 2024: 🔗 Thoughts on symbols – Manu This, to me, means absolutely nothing. But also, I think trying to unify people behind a silly symbol is the wrong move. …
Sep 15, 2024: I happily joined @jarrod at the fundraising for St. Jude Hospital. You should take a look into it too: tilt.fyi/vfHM1rw7r…
Sep 14, 2024: 🔗 Keyboard Cowboy - Free and Open-Source Automation Software | AppAddict If you'd like to take a crack at setting up some Mac automations without …
Sep 14, 2024: 🔗 Try PDF Gear, It’s Good, It’s Free | AppAddict PDF Gear offers a plethora of features for the average and power user: View and Print …
Sep 14, 2024: I’m sticking to my iPhone 14 Pro. Till I’m not.
Sep 14, 2024: 🔗 Five Free Single Purpose Apps | AppAddict Cleanup Buddy- Trying to clean the keyboard on my M2 MacBook Air is a pain. With the computer off, …
Sep 13, 2024: Two of my favorite developers of all time (Yoink, ScreenFloat, Marked, Bunch…) in my micro.blog timeline. The fediverse works! …
Sep 13, 2024: 🔗 Greg Morris - The Best Computer Is The One You Have With You Writing on my iPhone doesn’t feel the same as sitting down and writing at my desk — …
Sep 12, 2024: 🔗 Better conversations - annie mueller Use shared terminology. If the terms are different, use their term first and then equate it with your term. …
Sep 11, 2024: On my way to interview two people for a job to take care of my Mom. Winter was coming, didn’t we tell you.
Sep 11, 2024: 🔗 Two things in ninety-nine minutes - All this It turns out, though, that I actually do have something to say about yesterday’s announcements—two of …
Sep 10, 2024: 🔗 https://www.hiro.report/08sep2024/ I love The Hiro Report. You shouldn’t miss it.
Sep 9, 2024: I got bored with these hour-long Apple commercials, so I’m skipping this one too.
Sep 8, 2024: 🔗 Encouraging a four-day working week could make inequality worse If the government is serious about achieving a four-day working week to raise …
Sep 8, 2024: Two women the YouTube algorithm brought me. When it works, it works. Rosetta Thorpe: youtu.be/3NFywQdeK… Jackie Venson: …
Sep 7, 2024: Childless Cat Ladies FTW. youtube.com/watch
Sep 7, 2024: 🔗 Tangible Life Manifesto for the Intentional Web We the humans of the Internet, promote and uphold the following ideals when it comes to the web …
Sep 5, 2024: TIL That Conde Draco (from my childhood in Spain) is called Count von Count in the US… So, count… 🤯
Aug 28, 2024: Oooh look what just arrived in the mail. From Texas to Zumaia! Thank you so much, @hiro 🙏😊
Aug 19, 2024: Trying the new editor set up by @manton. On Safari on iOS. Not very sure what I am supposed to find, since I haven’t been using the online editor for …
Aug 19, 2024: I’ve been trying out NotePlan lately, and it’s a fantastic app for macOS and iPadOS. It’s great for taking notes, managing tasks, keeping …
Aug 16, 2024: I just ditched my 17 year long @eumrz handle. I will be @estebantxo from now on. Here’s a very short introduction.
Aug 16, 2024: I guess a growing number of us feel this way. I am beginning to feel squeezed for every penny, increasing prices of phones, services, and everything …
Jun 22, 2024: This is what I wrote: I should go back to blogging and interacting with people in social media. I am not even reading my RSS feeds. Somebody told me …
Jun 8, 2024: Almog, Andrey, Shlomi and Noa, welcome home.
May 2, 2024: I hesitate about building a Now page because I have the feeling that I’ve been in the same state for the last twenty years (trying to keep up with my …
May 2, 2024: I read about a feature in Bluesky that lets you share a mute-list,with accounts that, for some particular reason, someone doesn’t want to read. …
May 2, 2024: Day 30++: unputdownable #mbapr I have a few other watches and I always come back to this one.
May 1, 2024: Day 30+: bubble #mbapr This is Amaiur, my vacation bubble. There’s bubbles in the beer, too.
May 1, 2024: Thank you for so much joy. Sid tibi terra levis.
Apr 30, 2024: Something good can be said about my new digital habits when I find out about an Apple event on new iPads after it has happened, and I don’t feel like …
Apr 30, 2024: Day 30: hometown #mbapr This is the town I now live in, not actually my hometown. But I don’t have a proper one and I wanted to show you this picture.
Apr 29, 2024: Day 29: drift #mbapr This is the closest I’ve got in my photo roll.
Apr 28, 2024: Day 28: Community #mbapr I hope the Rubik cubes are visible. It’s a picture of children gathered around a puzzle shop to play with Rubik cubes. They …
Apr 28, 2024: Ok so, if I understand this correctly, if I crosspost from Micro.blog to Bluesky, replies from Bluesky show up in the Micro.blog timeline, but my …
Apr 27, 2024: My wife and I enjoyed a beautiful day at the 20th Collection Plant Exhibition, in the natural park of Pagoeta (Basque Country).
Apr 27, 2024: Day 27: surprise #mbapr
Apr 26, 2024: In the movie Now You See Me 2, Woody Harrelson plays two characters: a magician and his twin brother. I really think the twin’s persona is a …
Apr 26, 2024: Bad guys in movies always have windows surface laptops.
Apr 26, 2024: Day 26: Yes, we are going to stand here staring at you like dumb critters, you stupid dog. #mbapr
Apr 25, 2024: Day 25: spines a few. #mbapr
Apr 24, 2024: Day 24: light #mbapr
Apr 23, 2024: Day 23: dreamy #mbapr It does suggest a dream for me. The picture is that of Col d’Ispeguy (Izpegiko Lepoa in Basque), in Saint Etienne de Baigorri, …
Apr 22, 2024: Day 22: blue #mbapr
Apr 21, 2024: After reading different productivity tips and posts about it, I wrote my first Week Note today, Sunday, in preparation of the upcoming week. …
Apr 21, 2024: Day 21: mountain #mbapr as suggested by @dejus This is mount Udalaitz, in my hometown Arrasate (Basque Country). Behind her is mount Anboto.
Apr 20, 2024: 🚀 Shortery - The Missing Mac Automator | App Addict Launch my five "morning apps" at 4am so that my computer is ready to use when I wake up …
Apr 20, 2024: Gulf of Biscay. Mutriku, Ondarroa, Lekeitio, Ogoño, Matxitxako.
Apr 20, 2024: Day 20: ice #mbapr
Apr 20, 2024: 🚀 The End of an Era: Women Who Code Closing - Women Who Code To the women in technology, if you have been inspired, made a career connection, leveled …
Apr 19, 2024: Day 19: birthday #mbapr
Apr 17, 2024: Day 17: transcendence #mbapr
Apr 16, 2024: 🚀 A comment on comments – Manu Someone asked me about my stance on not having comments on my blog. I’m not a fan of comments in general and I think …
Apr 16, 2024: Day 16: flâneur #mbapr This one was tough @chrisaldrich this is the closest thing I could come up with. Wandering dude watching life pass by.
Apr 15, 2024: Day 15: small? #mbapr
Apr 14, 2024: Day 14: cactus #mbapr Gymnocalycium pflanzii, according to the iPhone’s smart info thingy.
Apr 14, 2024: Analog v digital writing tools I was thinking about analog/digital tools for writing and journaling, and I started jotting down a few pros and cons of both. Personally I lean …
Apr 13, 2024: Day 13: page #mbapr One of the best first pages I’ve ever read in a book. Contra Florencia by Mario Colleoni. Translation in the page picture’s Alt …
Apr 13, 2024: Day 12: magic #mbapr A bit late but I didn’t want to miss yesterday’s challenge.
Apr 11, 2024: I felt hopeless because I want to get rid of YouTube but I really like watching videos while I’m having breakfast or a #SadDeskLunch and …
Apr 11, 2024: Day 11: Sky #mbapr
Apr 10, 2024: I love the Tufte theme for micro.blog, by @pimoore. Absolutely love it, with its sidenotes, side figures… It’s beautiful. Thanks, man. …
Apr 10, 2024: my timeline has been frozen for hours and my posts don’t show anywhere. something’s wrong.
Apr 10, 2024: Day 10: train as suggested by @starrwulfe #mbapr I can’t believe I don’t have one single picture related to trains. Not even remotely. And I commute …
Apr 9, 2024: Today I listened to two very interesting, mind challenging podcast episodes that I’d like to share with you. Both are interviews done by Bari Weiss …
Apr 9, 2024: Day 9: crispy #mbapr
Apr 8, 2024: Today I thought that I can do a good work in my profession and I can make four people in this world feel loved. And I guess that’s it.
Apr 8, 2024: Day 8. #mbapr This is the closest thing I found for prevention in my photo roll. I wanted to remember the parking spot, so there’s a preventive …
Apr 7, 2024: 📸 Day 7: well-being #mbapr When I make bread, I am well. So well-being 😊.
Apr 6, 2024: I’m making a bold move in my social networking workflow, inspired by these two posts by @moonmehta: this one and this other one. I have …
Apr 6, 2024: xkcd: Machine 🚀 xkcd: Machine Please, do yourself a favor and go check this awesome proposition from XKCD. I need to work a little and I have to leave it for now, …
Apr 6, 2024: 🚀 What are UUIDs and why might I need them? – The Eclectic Light Company It’s easy to generate a UUID in Terminal: simply type uuidgen and that …
Apr 6, 2024: 📸 Day 6: windy as suggested by @miraz #mbapr
Apr 5, 2024: 📷 #mbApr Day 05 Serene Cadaques
Apr 4, 2024: 🚀 IndieWeb Carnival: Good enough and the search for perfection – Manu At times I feel trapped between the two. Every day, whether I’m writing, coding …
Apr 4, 2024: Day 4: foliage, suggested by @pratik. I had to add some fruit to the foliage, my friend. Fruit that makes a very fine white wine, Txakoli ;-)
Apr 3, 2024: Day 3: Card. #mbapr Cards describing the properties of spices at an Epicerie in Donibane Garazi, Navarre, Pays Basque, south of France.
Apr 2, 2024: Ja soc aquí. Cadaqués 2024.
Apr 2, 2024: 📸 Day 2: Flower. Flowers on a wall in Cadaqués. I took the picture two years ago, and today I’m going back. Happy.
Apr 2, 2024: 🚀 Daring Fireball: Trump Media Plunges as Truth Social’s $58 Million Loss Reported I want to laugh, but: If Trump is elected again in November — …
Apr 1, 2024: Risotto. I still got it.
Apr 1, 2024: This is my paradoxical view on Religion. Rationally, intellectually, I understand that religious beliefs are inherent to humans. After all, our brains …
Apr 1, 2024: I’m 49. I won’t be for long. Unless I die before I turn 50. Then I’ll be 49 forever.
Apr 1, 2024: Apple CEO Tim Cook for Associated Press: “Enough DMA. We’re pulling out of the EU”. #Applexit
Apr 1, 2024: 🚀 It’s been 17 years – Brad Barrish Here’s a letter he wrote to The Kansas City Star in 1993 in response to school children writing letters to try …
Apr 1, 2024: And that’s about every picture I have of toys.
Apr 1, 2024: 📸 Day 1: Toy #mbapr
Apr 1, 2024: 📸 Day 1: Toy #mbapr My trusted writing companion.
Mar 31, 2024: I was thinking about giving myself time to think and be with myself and my thoughts. I have noticed lately that I’m always looking for my headphones …
Mar 31, 2024: Well, I think I made it. Both Focus and Focused are working properly and I now have a computer that can’t run Safari or any other browser, can’t …
Mar 31, 2024: I’m happy because these days are being pretty productive for me. I planned to go on vacation to Cadaqués from next Tuesday to Friday, so I needed to …
Mar 31, 2024: I am writing this in an app called Focused, available on Setapp. It says that it’s a tool that helps you write without distractions and unnecesary …
Mar 30, 2024: In my free time I… I don’t have free time. I need to make some. Here’s a wish for a geenie. I want to be able to fill in the blank of «In my free time …
Mar 30, 2024: Ok. It was bad.
Mar 30, 2024: My town is small and it’s only got one movie theater, with one single movie every week. So there’s not much to choose from. I’m heading to watch …
Mar 30, 2024: And I also need to relearn to be alone with my thoughts.
Mar 30, 2024: I think there’s two more things I need to do to really own my use of the internet: Get rid of FOMO for good. Quit watching YouTube shorts for an easy …
Mar 30, 2024: 🚀 Behind the desk | James' Coffee Blog When I have an off week, which happens from time to time, there is a feeling like I have climbed a mountain …
Mar 30, 2024: 🚀 Seven Days of New Things Day 4: Walking Without Headphones | James' Coffee Blog But, today I reminded myself of a lesson lost to my past: I don't …
Mar 30, 2024: 🚀 Accents or repeat: how is your keyboard configured? – The Eclectic Light Company Summary For key repeat: defaults write -g …
Mar 30, 2024: I had to fix the shortcode in my last post featuring Liza Minnelli, Emma Stone and Amy Lennox interpreting Cabaret, so here’s the link again, …
Mar 30, 2024: Cabaret I did not expect to wake up to Cabaret this morning, but my YouTube feed just brought me a spectacular beginning for this brand new day. Ladies and …
Mar 29, 2024: Only a few days left to be back at my beloved Cadaqués.
Mar 28, 2024: Second podcast in a row where I hear about former lawyers. That’s exactly what I want to be: a former lawyer. #thoughts
Mar 28, 2024: Yesterday I went to a Mall. First time in a very long time. My daughter wanted her mom to help her buy some clothes and I was the chauffeur. Walking …
Mar 27, 2024: I love it when I see that posts in the micro.blog timeline update automatically after editing a title or a post in the blog. I had a terrible typo in …
Mar 27, 2024: We just lost Richard Serra 🚀 Richard Serra - Wikipedia From a young age, he was encouraged to draw by his mother. The young Serra would carry a small notebook for his sketches …
Mar 26, 2024: My son asked me what I was watching. I paused the video and showed him a still picture of Rick Grimes, in the third episode of the long awaited TWD …
Mar 26, 2024: Best sauce ever I just found out that two full spoons of mayonnaise with a pinch Harissa make the best spicy sauce for a sandwich. And I’m so happy having dinner.
Mar 25, 2024: 🚀 I’ve said it many times on this … | David Johnson I’ve said it many times on this blog…in essence to myself…that not doing something will not …
Mar 25, 2024: Back to estebantxo.micro.blog Yesterday I was warned by @pratik that sometimes my site is not available at all. It used to happen with umerez.eu and I always blamed the different …
Mar 24, 2024: You gotta give it to Johnny Walker Red Label. It’s a fine whisky after the third glass.
Mar 24, 2024: I finished rewatching Game Of Thrones' first season. I enjoyed it and caught a lot of nuances I wasn’t aware of when I first watched it.
Mar 24, 2024: 🚀 Growth is a mind cancer – Manu But it's our fault. Our as a society. We celebrate when Apple becomes the first trillion-dollar company but we don't …
Mar 24, 2024: A shortcut to rule them all I posted a short video showcasing my All In One Shortcut menu that I place in my dock and use constantly. It’s almost become my main interface with …
Mar 24, 2024: Hello Is this going to show up in estebantxo.com? #geekery
Mar 23, 2024: Saturday evening with 1984 on the Kindle and Johnny Walker Red Label on the rocks. Cheap yet rewarding versions of things essential to a happy life.
Mar 23, 2024: So I installed RayCast to try a DEVONthink plug-in that looked promising, and I uninstalled it after two minutes. It was quite meh. The plug-in, I …
Mar 22, 2024: 🚀 Spinning your wheels - annie mueller Sometimes we get overloaded. Too much to process. And we need to, well, not force quit everything but maybe …
Mar 22, 2024: My daughter making croquetas My daughter will probably kill me if she finds out that I posted this photo. But I’m proud of her so I guess she will forgive my good intentions. She …
Mar 21, 2024: Why I don’t write dev posts – Manu 🚀 Why I don’t write dev posts – Manu The reason why I don’t write about dev stuff it’s because, like many others, I suffer from impostor syndrome. …
Mar 21, 2024: 🚀 Seven Days of New Things Day 2: Linear Algebra, Tulips | James' Coffee Blog Linear Algebra I think I am starting to enjoy maths (maybe). Toward the …
Mar 21, 2024: Mastodon and the Fediverse is too noisy. Why? 🚀 Mastodon and the Fediverse is too noisy. Why?: Micro.blog is the only Fediverse-compatible platform I know of which truly does away with likes, …
Mar 20, 2024: I wishI knew what to write tonight. My day has been terrible and I only want to go to bed.
Mar 19, 2024: Restart I know, I know, modern computers don’t need rebooting and yours has been running without a hitch for months on end. But mine just said enough is …
Mar 19, 2024: Simona Halep is back! 🚀 Simona Halep’s ‘triumph of truth’ after doping ban significantly reduced | Simona Halep | The Guardian “This ordeal has been a testament to …
Mar 18, 2024: DuckDuckGo, Walkmans and Elon Musk Three random thoughts this Monday evening. I’ve been using DuckDuckGo for my searches for the last couple of weeks. Both on the Mac and on …
Mar 17, 2024: I finally caught myself reaching for my glasses to pluck the small hairs between my eyebrows. Right after trimming the long hairs from the same …
Mar 17, 2024: Sunday I started to read Don Quijote, Blackie Books edition. The book is in Spanish (duh) and this is the description they provide in English: THE CLASSIC …
Mar 16, 2024: I missed it because of DST, because in Europe we enter into DST a couple of weeks later than the US, so we’re still in winter time. But im not going …
Mar 16, 2024: Finished reading: El Guardian Entre El Centeno by J. D. Salinger 📚 I read this book, in English, in the US when I was 16-17 years old and an exchange …
Mar 15, 2024: I’m going to write a blog post using Nebo, handwriting it with an Apple pencil. I’m actually writing this down manually, and I’m …
Mar 15, 2024: My First Clip In English 🫣🙈 Transcript
Mar 14, 2024: Miguel Gila (1991-2001), a Spanish comedian, on patriotism: Patriotism is an invention of the powerful classes so that the lower classes defend the …
Mar 14, 2024: I think that the blogroll implementation for micro.blog’s Recommendations is lacking one thing. Since the recommended blogs accept an optional …
Mar 14, 2024: I was told it’s Pie Day, so there you go.
Mar 13, 2024: I started reading: El Guardian Entre El Centeno by J. D. Salinger 📚 I had a copy at home, a Spanish translation by Carmen Criado. I bought it quite a …
Mar 13, 2024: It’s raining men, elevated style. Golconda, by René Magritte. I was reminded of Magritte by this picture published by Rex Barrett.
Mar 13, 2024: I called one of the categories in my site Thoughts, which means that, in order to write posts appropriate to the name of the category, I need to …
Mar 12, 2024: So I learned that I need to have an ActivityPub user if I want to follow Fediverse accounts from micro.blog. Duh.
Mar 12, 2024: I read great news in my local newspaper: Foreigners set a new record in Gipuzkoa (the province I live in) and now represent one in every eight …
Mar 11, 2024: 2024-03-17 UPDATE: I changed my home page to a more conventional one. The one I designed was quite gimmicky. If I ever learn a bit more about web …
Mar 11, 2024: Is Micro Monday still a thing? @monday Anyhow, I wanted to let you know about a blogroll page I just set up. There’s a few very nice blogs …
Mar 11, 2024: Hi everybody. I think I might have messed something up with my ActivityPub user, migrating followers to a Fediverse account and back. I finally …
Mar 11, 2024: Dilemma. I have never not watched anything that features Slash. Watching anything with Ryan Gosling in it is strictly forbidden in my Religion™©. …
Mar 10, 2024: Will I delete my micro.blog apps? I have not detached myself from the habit of seeking feedback every time I post something in my blog. I want to go minimal, so I logged off from every …
Mar 10, 2024: Sunday I have given up on my country’s politics. I don’t feel represented by any of the multiple choices that compete in Spain. All political …
Mar 10, 2024: P&B: Brad Barrish – Manu 🚀 P&B: Brad Barrish – Manu: This is the 28th edition of People and Blogs, the series where I ask interesting people to talk about themselves and their …
Mar 10, 2024: Notes on meaning, career, writing and blogging – Ratika Deshpande 🚀 Notes on meaning, career, writing and blogging – Ratika Deshpande: The mistake I was making, and which I think many of us are making, in a zeitgeist …
Mar 10, 2024: 100 Days To Offload 🚀 100 Days To Offload The whole point of #100DaysToOffload is to challenge you to publish 100 posts on your personal blog in a year. Posts don’t need …
Mar 9, 2024: I was tempted by a few youtube shorts and I decided to watch Game Of Thrones all over again. So here we go. Season 1, Episode 1. The journey begins …
Mar 8, 2024: Typos Does it occur to you that a typo on an otherwise well edited book ruins the experience and distracts you so badly that you find it difficult to keep …
Mar 8, 2024: Yes. #thoughts
Mar 8, 2024: Friday afternoon For a while now, Friday afternoons are my only free time of the week. I’ve needing to work full time on Saturdays and Sundays for quite some time and …
Mar 8, 2024: Akita Toriyama (1955-2024) Vita brevis, ars longa. #geekery #art
Mar 8, 2024: Exclusive offer Going through my spam folder right before cleaning it up, it still amazes me that reputable firms in my line of business send email offerings stating …
Mar 7, 2024: App store scam? It’s the second time in a few days that, as soon as I enter the App Store app on my iPhone, it offers me to install Tik Tok. Not just the add, but a …
Mar 7, 2024: Thursday I want to focus on the good thing of the day. It’s taking me a while to think about them. I guess it’s easier for me to whine, I practice …
Mar 7, 2024: Thank you for giving us micro.blog, @jean. "Good things come in small packages." That was my first post on Micro.blog, 7 years ago today. I wrote it …
Mar 6, 2024: Wednesday I am quite impressed by the automatic transcription of podcasts on the Apple Podcasts app. That this is the highlight of the day does not speak very …
Mar 5, 2024: 🚀 It’s Time to Give Up on Everything but Email – Manu In all seriousness, if in 2024 you’re using one single email address for everything that’s a …
Mar 5, 2024: I keep Cabify and Ubers apps on my phone for impractical and melancholic reasons. I can’t use them at home, but I keep dreaming with traveling to …
Mar 5, 2024: I don’t even have time to catch a cold. #thoughts
Mar 5, 2024: The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live Come on, people, you didn’t tell me Rick and Michonne were back!!!
Mar 4, 2024: Monday I am pissed by SCOTUS’ 9-0 decision regarding Colorado’s ruling on the application of the 14th Amendment to Trump. I’m sure the progressive justices …
Mar 4, 2024: 🚀 Internet gardening | James' Coffee Blog A few months ago, someone referred to be as an "internet gardener." This title has stuck in my head ever …
Mar 4, 2024: 🚀 Hiro Report - Hiro.Report - 03MAR2024 Happy Sunday, everyone! We have a short and (hopefully) sweet one this week: A new report by …
Mar 4, 2024: Hazel by Noodlesoft After a long time, I just built two new macros in Noodlesoft’s Hazel. Don’t get me wrong, I have been using Hazel non-stop since I …
Mar 3, 2024: Sunday I closed February and planned the first two weeks of March today. It’s quite overwhelming. A few projects that needed to end in February did …
Mar 3, 2024: Since I’ve activated my micro.blog ActivityPub user, replies sent from Mastodon to my posts show up both in the micro.blog timeline and like …
Mar 3, 2024: One more step Into a simpler digital life. More focused on blogging and slower, more meaningful interactions. I redirected my three different Mastodon accounts to …
Mar 3, 2024: 🚀 IndieWeb Carnival: Roundup – Manu Jokes aside, tech is a blessing and a curse. Especially when it becomes unmanageable. And sometimes I think the …
Mar 3, 2024: Old question from @crossingthethreshold to @vincode 🚀 Maurice Parker - Shortcuts for Micro.blog: David Johnson Thank you, and a question. If I have two blogs under the same Micro.blog username, can I …
Mar 3, 2024: Machair by Angie Lewin We have this at home and we love it. 🚀 Machair | Angie Lewin Machair Screen print Image size: 335mm x 460mm Edition size: 95 #art
Mar 3, 2024: The Deposition by Lovis Corinth It’s impressive how real the portraits look. 🚀 Paintings of Mary Magdalene: Gospel times – The Eclectic Light Company Lovis Corinth (1858–1925), The …
Mar 3, 2024: MegaShortcut I built one single shortcut for all my text-blogging options. I first choose the blog in which I wish to publish. Then I write a title for the post or …
Mar 3, 2024: A life line Hold tight. #thoughts
Mar 3, 2024: Inpernupe #thoughts
Mar 3, 2024: Saturday night I spent the afternoon playing with this blog’s concept and with iOS Shortcuts, improving, or at least trying too, my workflows to publish in …
Mar 2, 2024: Hi @manton I need your help. I’m building a Shortcut to publish posts to my blogs. The one publishing to my default blog (estebantxo.micro.blog) …
Mar 2, 2024: Digital garden 2024-03-17 UPDATE: I changed my home page to a more conventional one. The one I designed was quite gimmicky. If I ever learn a bit more about web …
Mar 2, 2024: The keyboard is mightier than the pen.
Mar 2, 2024: Saturday morning I feel like I’m in front of a raw piece of wood, a big one, my task is to carve a sculpture out of that wood, and I’m just too tired to …
Mar 2, 2024: I guess that the YouTube app draining the battery and shutting down the iPad is a clear sign that I need to stop procrastinating and start working on …
Mar 2, 2024: T.S. Eliot’s real words on copying and stealing One of the surest tests [of the superiority or inferiority of a poet] is the way in which a poet borrows. Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; …
Mar 1, 2024: You have to wait till the end of this beautiful cover of Ne Me Quitte Pas. Wyclef Jean is awesome. www.youtube.com/watch
Mar 1, 2024: And here’s the Maestro. www.youtube.com/watch I told you I love Jacques Brel.
Mar 1, 2024: Zumaia The lighthouse and a few details I saw in the corner of Inpernupe today.
Mar 1, 2024: Friday Difficult day at work, difficult week over all. But today I overcame my laziness and did go for a walk and shot some pictures. I’ll post them later. I …
Mar 1, 2024: I only tweaked two Shortcuts and I feel like a hacker Success! I was able to tweak two Shortcuts that I use to publish to micro.blog and I’m so happy. I will document it here so I can come back to …
Mar 1, 2024: 🚀 ℹ️ Posting API - Documentation - Micro.blog Help Center For users who have multiple microblogs configured, /micropub?q=config will return of the …
Mar 1, 2024: I love Jacques Brel And, for the enjoyment of Brel, Ladies & gentlemen, I give you Pomplamoose. youtu.be/hvrBWn0Kx…
Mar 1, 2024: One thing is true though I still don’t write for myself, I still do it for someone else, with the feedback of the crowd in my mind. I’m constantly thinking about …
Mar 1, 2024: Feedback junkie I posted a couple of silly things and run to my Mastodon accounts to see if they had any feedback. The posts did not show up and it took me a minute …
Mar 1, 2024: Do I want to publish posts like this in my Estebantxo blog or do I want to keep this more personal and less obvious? I think it’s the latter. …
Mar 1, 2024: Batch Link Downloader - A tool to download files from a website in bulk I don’t use Google Chrome much but today I found a very useful tool that I want to share. It’s called Batch Link Downloader, and …
Feb 29, 2024: Thursday Today has not been a good day regarding work. I stayed at home so it was supposed to be a productive day, yet it wasn’t. I have a big deadline …
Feb 28, 2024: Wednesday The day started quite productively, meeting a deadline one day ahead. Then, around 10am, everything went to hell. I’ve been attending …
Feb 28, 2024: Good lawyers know that every question about the law has the same answer: it depends. Excellent lawyers know how to explain it to their clients. …
Feb 28, 2024: Cards Theme I’m going to try the Cards Theme to see if it’s a good way to implement my idea of a static home page with cards or buttons for different …
Feb 27, 2024: Tuesday I want to find a way to use static pages to build my digital garden. I may use the blog format in some places, but there needs to be different …
Feb 27, 2024: Monday Today I woke up at 4am. I have a long commute, so I took my car to work and arrived at my office before 6am. Other days I take the train, which is a …
Feb 26, 2024: Wrapping up the week So if I intend to grow my small corner of the world in this blog, I’d better start. I learned from Chris Aldrich that, if I am serious about …
Feb 25, 2024: For now, the cross-posting to Mastodon stays. Let people find estebantxo and reach out it they so wish. The link with @eumrz@esq.social will be gone, …
Feb 25, 2024: Or, rather, I may reserve this garden for my most intimate things, the one’s that are closest to my heart. That might mean that linking to a …
Feb 25, 2024: I guess I will slowly migrate my personal stuff from umerez.eu to estebantxo.com.
Feb 25, 2024: First This is the first seed of the personal garden I want to build. My place, the corner of the world where I’ll get to be myself and collect …