I really hate that the best experience of micro.blog is on the web. The Mac app is flaky uploading photos, and while you can write alt text, there’s no way to position them in the post. The iOS apps don’t really believe in the share sheet …
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How to Take Smart Notes
Sönke Ahrens
- first ski trip in the southern hemisphere
- first trip to Chile
- first trip to South America
- first trip to the southern …
- Every resource is accessible through the archives page.
- The entire site is more flexible in the future, since it’s based on metadata …
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Lighthouses and Roses
In June 2013, I was on a business trip to Mountain View. I had never been to California before, so I spent as much of my free time exploring as I could.
I drove down to Santa Cruz, and I saw the Breakwater Lighthouse.
Then I went west to Pigeon …
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Do Not Gather Firewood
In 2017, we camped in Garner State Park with some friends and took a brief hike the next day.
You’re not permitted to use local “found” firewood, so one of the people with us brought a truck bed full of huge branches we spent a long time chopping …
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Waterfall Gully Features A Waterfall In A Gully
In August 2016, I was in Adelaide for a business trip. Okay, I was in Woomera for a business trip, but I had taken a week of vacation on the end of the trip to explore Adelaide.
One day I decided to hike up Mount Lofty. Okay, I decided to walk to …
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Switzerland In A Week (Sort Of)
Back in 2018, I had a business trip to Thun, Switzerland. Meera and I decided to make a vacation of it. Over the course of a week, we visited Thun, Interlaken, Gimmelwald, Zermatt, St. Moritz, and Zurich.
In Zurich, we were unwilling to pay for a …
Just published Four Gospels, Five Great Commissions. It has been fourteen months since I wrote a new article, and I can’t tell you how relieved I feel to get going again. ✍️
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The Second-Most-Ridiculous Hike We’ve Ever Taken
In 2019, my wife and I joined another couple for a backpacking trip in the San Juan Mountains of south-central Colorado. On the way back, we stopped for a day at my in-law’s condo in Ruidoso, New Mexico to recover a bit. But instead of resting and …
Greener, More Flexible, Grass
I came across this March 2022 post about having control over your day by @ChrisHannah, where they advocate for flexible working hours:
Personally, I think the best solution for people and companies (where the job allows), is if your entire working …
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The Picture
Some friends and I were talking about The Picture—the one you’re proudest of, the one you always want to show people, the one that makes you wonder if maybe you’re actually a photographer after all.
I’ve taken some pretty pictures, but I think the …
Even though I went to the office on Friday after landing from Chile 🇨🇱, the first Monday back always feels like the “real” return to work.
Feels good to get back into habits of reading, journaling, and morning pages—all those practices that I’m happy …
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I’ve lived in San Antonio for twelve years, and today I got my first library card.
(I’ve read dozens of books on Libby over the years with what was apparently a “temporary” card, and I finally had to go get a real one to keep reading.) 📚
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We realized on day 3 of skiing that our skis were conveniently RGB-colored and of graduated lengths, so we posed them for a group shot.
Then I took a candid going up one of the lifts.
And of course we couldn’t let the boots feel left out, even …
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Went to bed excited for overnight snowfall to improve skiing conditions. Woke up to exactly half my wish granted: almost 7” of accumulation, but whiteout conditions this morning. ⛷️
Chilean Firsts
Achievement unlocked: snow skiing 🎿 in August. To be fair, we cheated by flying to Chile 🇨🇱 to do it.
It’s also many other firsts:
Initial Reflections on 15 years of Twitter
Since the ongoing implosion of X, née Twitter, began, I’ve been combing through my archive of 15,000-ish tweets across 15 years since April 20, 2008.
It’s the longest record of anything in my life, stretching back further than my oldest Day One entry …
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Finished reading: Thirty Questions by Timothy C. Tennent. Structured like a catechism but with answers far too long to memorize. Not a bad introduction to Christian doctrine, but fits better as a study: Tennent clearly expects you to do some of the …
Information architecture update complete! Almost everything’s a river, which gives me two huge wins:
Finished watching: Tetris. Tons of fun, and filled in the hard-to-believe story of which I knew only the outline—who knew a movie about IP rights and the KGB could be so enjoyable? Lots of clever little nods to 80s video games. And of course I had to …
Made some good progress today redesigning information architecture for VerseNotes.
Current theory: only standalone articles are dated; everything else is a Jekyll collection.
New theory: (almost) everything in one river of dated posts with judicious …
Just dropped off our skis to get waxed. Starting to get excited for Santiago next week!
I do feel a bit silly waxing snow skis in Texas in July. 🎿 🇨🇱
Finished watching: Oppenheimer. Superb acting from a cast I didn’t expect tells a story I of which only knew a small fraction. Fun sound design, although parts were noisier than they needed to be. Only real complaint is that it did not need all 180 …
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Finished reading: The One Hour Bible by SPCK. Edited by Philip Law. A great idea—not paraphrasing or summarizing but eliding: using the actual words of the New Living Translation to tell the story of God in fewer words.
Unfortunately, while this …
My yoga app introduced me to a new pose tonight: locust pose. I’m reasonably certain you can see it in my heart rate just after the two-thirds mark. 🧘♂️
Non-Alcoholic Beer Replacements We've Tried, With Notes
We have tried a bunch of non-alcoholic (n/a) beers lately, looking for something that satisfies the desire for something bubbly and refreshing but doesn’t have the associated buzz, drowsiness, lack of focus, terrible sleep, and other downsides …
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Finished reading: For the Body by Timothy C. Tennent. A critical exposition of the need for the modern church to develop and espouse a positive theology of the body rather than the decades of pure negative theology: “don’t do that; that’s wrong.”
A …