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“That’s exactly what the Indiewebcamps are about. I’m thinking of trying to set one up in Düsseldorf – outside of the regular yearly one organized before Beyond Tellerrand – Nobody said there can only be one bootcamp a year. At these events we’ll get together and focus on solving our Indieweb adaptation issues and gathering feedback on how to make the experience easier for non-tech folk.”

I did think while I was writing that there was likely some overlap between what I was thinking about, and the (mostly) offline activities like IndieWebCamp and Homebrew Website Club. However, I’m talking about reaching people who are unlikely to ever attend such a meet-up. To use the IndieWeb Generations definition, I’m thinking about the 3s and maybe 4s in my network. And they might be people I only have a connection with online. I guess where I was going with it was more about seeking a way to engage and coach these particular users into their first steps, rather than relying on them to work through a guide or documentation. (There is still very much a place for more documentation!)

Admittedly it’s still only a half-baked thought, and I’m sure smarter people than me have already thought this through 😃

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I tried avocado for the first time last night, and while it was unobjectionable, I don’t get what all the fuss is about? 🥑

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I finally got around to setting up an IRC client on my home PC, so I could lurk on the IndieWeb channels. I don’t think I’ve used IRC in around 15 years, so it was a bit of an adventure! My Gnome installation came with 2 different clients – HexChat and Empathy (the Gnome Project’s chat client). HexChat was by far the easier to setup; Empathy required me to install a whole other package, which I only found out after I had to search online to troubleshoot why I wasn’t getting the option to add accounts of any type whatsoever.

Once it was setup though, I found Empathy just that little bit nicer to use and read (at least, on “stock” settings). For mostly just following along, that’s probably enough.

Now I’m connected, I’m reminded why I like IRC: it’s slow, low stress communication. The only thing I need to care about is what’s written during the time I’m connected to a room, and there’s no annoying ping or notification on each message (or even if I’m mentioned). If I disconnect, my client won’t display what I missed when I reconnect – and I’m perfectly fine with that. I don’t (won’t) have a client on my phone, so IRC will be that thing I can only hang out in when I’m at my desktop. How very retro 😎

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I was trying to enrol my iPad into the iPadOS public beta, but the portal seems to be having all sorts of issues, so I can’t get logged in yet. I’ll wait until the rush dies down. FWIW, these are what I’m most excited for:

  • Better mutli-tasking
  • Mouse support
  • Better file-management
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After [my experiment with “butter coffee”](https://micro.kpw.fyi/2019/06/23/i-just-tried.html) at the weekend, I just had my first cup of Bulletproof Coffee. It was fine; better than my homemade attempt. I need to better time when I make it though, as the ingredients had started to separate by the time I got to drink it ☕️

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Come to think of it, my entire day has been taken up with really annoying database issues. I still don’t understand fully why either happened, but fingers crossed, I think I’ve fixed them. If not, tomorrow is going to be more of the same…

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I had hoped to get back to painting my GSC tonight, but it’s been one of _those_ days, so it looks like I’m going to be stuck in front of a computer instead 😒

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I switched my Manjaro installation to Gnome instead of KDE last night, as a lot of the tools I use seem to assume a Gnome/GTK environment and some of the integrations didn’t work right on KDE.

Anyway, I can now use my home PC as a space heater 🔥

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I can safely say this has been the wettest spring/early summer in Aberdeen I can remember for a _long_ time. April/May/June have been nothing but rain with the occasional nice day or two every once in a while.

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Normally a weekend with the kids is (for me) an exercise in snacking and junk food, but this weekend I managed to keep things in check and stick to my meal planning. It’s early days still, in my current plan, but this is the most in control of my eating I’ve felt in a few years.

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I just tried butter coffee for the first time, and it didn’t make as much difference to the taste as I thought (hoped?) it would. Not sure I made it correctly though, so it probably needs more experimentation. ☕️

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I mentioned over on Micro.blog that I’d managed to get a workable edit/commit/push workflow on my iPad. Naturally, I’m now considering a keyboard to complete the setup.

Does anyone have any recommendations for a good keyboard to use with a 9.7” iPad Pro?

The last time I had a similar setup, I used an Apple Wireless Keyboard (in an Origami case/stand) as the Bluetooth keyboard + case combos available at the time all felt horrible to type on. I do have a spare ultra-compact mechanical keyboard I could try with a USB adapter, but thinking more about it, that’s probably not going to work well when I don’t have a table to work on.

So, if anyone has any suggestions, I’d love to hear them!

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Thinking about it… it might be time to get a new keyboard for this iPad. I’ve not had one since my old Apple Wireless Keyboard + iPad 2 combo, so it’s been a while. I have a spare 60% sized mechanical keyboard, so if I can get hold of a Lightning -> USB adapter, I could possibly use that…

Does anyone have any suggestions for a good iPad keyboard?

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I just edited a bunch of WordPress theme files, committed them to Git, then pushed them to a remote repo… from my iPad. Not major edits (yet), but it’s a start.

I might manage to get more done this weekend than I first thought 😬

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Reposting: Pinboard on Twitter

“Google's June filing for political donations is up, and surprisingly, the $203K the company donated to politicians substantially aligns with its stated values of inclusion and respect for employees from all backgrounds.

LOL, I'm just messing with you. Let's go through the worst:”

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I managed to work a little on Saorsa this evening, for the first time in a while. Mostly working on the markup of the comments, and adding little accessibility and microformat improvements where I can. I’m really trying not to put arbitrary timelines on things, but I’d like to have the skeleton HTML mostly locked down in time for IndieWeb Summit 2019. Whether that’s achievable will be determined by how much more I can get done over the weekend.

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That awkward moment when – while merely throwing around ideas for a project – you realise you’re at £100 in 3D-printed parts before even buying a single miniature to go with those parts… 🤔

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I had [the cold shower](https://micro.kpw.fyi/2019/06/19/cold-showers.html) this morning. It was… fine. Bloody, shockingly, _freezing_, so my shower was much quicker than normal! When I came out of the shower I did feel pretty good – I definitely felt the warming “glow” mentioned in yesterday’s article. I’m sure I’ll acclimate to the cold in a couple of days 🥶

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I’ve ran out of space for paints, so I got this handy corner paint rack. Some assembly required, but it was nice and straightforward. I’ve spent more time blogging it than making it 😂

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A small “woodworking” project as something different to work on tonight. This rack will hold 34 pots of paint, which is conveniently the size of the Contrast range (excluding Medium and Base paints). I’ll finally have space to take them all out of the bag!

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💬 Replied to: From Following Posts and Blogrolls (Following Pages) with OPML to Microsub Servers and Readers

“Continuing to extend the pathway from easily following websites to having them in your social reader.”

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Thanks for consolidating this in one place, Chris. I caught snippets of the series and conversation between you and Ton in my Reader, but didn’t go back to search out everything. Now I have a concise place to go to when I have some time to read everything 😃

For my own part, my Links page is powered by the old WordPress Links Manager. I had no idea that had an OPML import function – that would have saved me hours of manual entry! I also didn’t know it could generate an OPML file for import elsewhere. “Today I Learned.”

In the last couple of weeks I’ve thought about creating a special page on my site to aggregate all of my Bookmark-type posts into one place. Similarly, I could create a custom “Kind” for Following, and aggregate those in a single place. Neither option would have their own automatic OPML file, but using a Kind does allow for a specific Feed for each type. It would allow for the full range of post meta to be added to each type too. The Post Kinds plug-in generates archives for each Kind, but I’m thinking a custom page would allow me to play with the presentation a bit more.

It’s something for me to experiment with at the least!