Jeremy Cherfas

All packed and ready for trip that culminates at #hearsay17, hoping that cheap Irish airline doesn’t notice the weight of my handbag.

I dunno. I see this Add a “tweetstorm” UI for chaining status updates with chained POSSE tweets and I think of something I wrote a while back: Or you could write a blog post. Does the #IndieWeb really need to make indie copies of everything the silos offer? Even the workarounds?Maybe I misunderstand, and a feature like this is what weans people off the silo pap. All I know is, I don’t think it would work for me.

I thought I was losing my mind, but this fixed it, and restored me to sanity … once I remembered to quit and restart the application I was writing in.

Wouldn’t it be cool if micro.blog had whatever it takes to work with Launch Centre under iOS?

I’m sure I wrote this yesterday, but it seems to have vanished without trace.

Finished the first phase of moving two WordPress driven sites from one hosting service to another this morning. I was a bit wary, having read all the things that can go wrong, and I took a few wrong turns into dead ends. But I managed to back out and didn’t screw up too badly on the first one. The screwing up I did accomplish was mainly the result of my impatience, doing things in quick succession when I should have given them time to settle down in between. But I learned my lessons, and this morning’s transfer went much more smoothly. Scarily so, in fact.There’s plenty left to do, moving various ancillary things, all part of an ongoing effort to tidy up in general, but I don’t foresee any more difficulties, touch wood.And in case anyone cares, I couldn’t have done it nearly as easily without the Duplicator plugin for WordPress, which truly is a life saver.

Funny, as I continue slowly to bring old posts in, to see what I wrote about my tools, in 2007 and then again in 2013.The conclusion remains as it ever was; although the tools change, the jobs they need to do remain more or less the same. Find things and write about them.

Quick gotcha: I moved this WithKnown site from shared hosting to a VPS yesterday, and today photos were not displaying and not uploading. Turned out that in the move the path to the Uploads directory had not changed. Fixed that, and all seems to be well again. I hope.

John Naughton’s bookmark about the Douglas Bader story ("… these f***ers were in Messerschmitts") reminds me of the equally good, and possibly equally apocryphal, one about the celebrated Antarctic explorer Sir Vivian Fuchs giving a lecture in Leeds.

In his article A Problem with Apple News Sites, Gabe says: “I don’t wonder why indie blogs are dying any more. Link posts are killing them.” I’m not sure it is blogs that are dying, but I do agree that it is why most “independent” news sites are dead, at least to me.