🔏 M.b crossposting articles to LinkedIn - still locked to Connections only (strange UX @manton given that they are already public open-web posts, but maybe it’s API lock), but at least working. I like that LI have inched v. slightly from #hustle GREED w/ breaks (#tech)

If it wasn’t for half the images breaking, I would say this bug on @manton Typewriter theme with @thedimpause Dark Mode plugin might actually be an aesthetic improvement (smaller font, articles differentiated, more web 1.0)!!
Any ideas what’s up guys?
(🔏 #tech)

🔏 Reformatting images in Medium exports to Micro.blog:

just simplify down the image block to just the img tag with a src & width argument. Here’s before & after:

🔏 you can syndicate YouTube channel RSS feed (like mine) onto M.b, but scheduled livestreams post upon creation rather than publish-date, so I’ve decided to stop overloading y’all

Thanks to @manton for building scheduled cross-posts for M.b 🔏, I’m now pushing drafted articles on:

• The art of web design: Ceru.li/ean & 90s-themed w4.rner.me
• how-to overachieve Oxbridge uni exams
• Creatives need tech skillz fast
  Now’s a good time to follow my writing!

Ahh I now understand the point of the post was to point out the flavours of metacrap by customizing them. But that misses the point that a single og: tags in 2018 would have been just fine on all platforms.

Agreed it’s a DRY violation in principle, but it’s a small one (1 metacrap versus 8+). Also in reality most tools (certainly the services themselves) automate their creation from the content. Admittedly as @Moondeer has discovered the M.b. plugin for Twitter is janky.

Also, if a single piece of Repeat Yourself is such a concern, are you anti-RSS?

1. Own your output

a) Publish content on your own custom domain with custom design

b) Divide content into Categories, for organisation e.g. Category for my Micro.blog learnings

2. Amplify your output

a) Syndicate to Micro.blog for small & friendly social feedback

b) Cross-post to (multiple) Big Socials - e.g. Twitter / Tumblr - for maximum exposure

3. Love your output

a) Put your tech where your values are, and spend as little as possible doing so

b) Gradually bring your closest audience more direct & communicate why

How to View Talk & Respond

20m talk video (+ up to half-hour Q&A) livestreamed on Saturday 14th Aug at 4pm UTC (5pm 🇬🇧, 12pET/9aPT 🇺🇸)

Anyone can register, Micro.blog member or not at: https://Micro.Camp

I look forward in particular to Q&A so I can speak to specific queries from potential or actual Micro.bloggers and also speak more to the WHY separating posts into Categories with varying cross-post rules is the healthiest approach, and ways M.b can improve its offering (improve cross-posting to Medium, make a specific Micro.blog Only category which scoops up all posts not assigned to a Feed category).

Afterwards, will add watchback link here.

Reflecting on Talk

Micro.blog encouraged me to give a live-feel talk even though pre-recorded. To mitigate rambling, I used this post to structure the talk, and pre-loaded webpages. I welcome feedback about whether it was slick & engaging enough, or whether tighter scripting needed like I use for my live IRL appearances, like the one I made at Oxford Royale Academy last month titled “Get #SavvyIndie: forging a creative career in extremely online times” (45m video recording available on request).

For any paid virtual keynotes, I’d be more inclined to aspire to Marcus John Henry Brown’s incredibly high standards of a mini-film-production. Though to be honest, I’d prefer virtual keynotes to be consigned to the Covid dustbin, and get paid to give talks to a live audience, and do the occasional virtual thing voluntarily more short & off-the-cuff like this with more time for Q&A.

As discussed at end of M.b pod, when I setup wa.rner.me @w4rner here I was only intending on posting about #tech, but I’m now using it for #arts base, and candid life stuff, so am switching to more personal wa.rner.me @warner | will update with any learnings from switch

Considering a username change this year too @chrisaldrich. Wondered if you had thoughts? Apart form this weird quirk most of old posts seem to have updated to chrisaldrich. Though your @c page still persists (it’s linked on your stream fyi)

Beware: hosted micro.blogs can crash if you put the wrong Hugo Shortcode in @colinwalker. More generally, hosted micro.blogs can crash. I was naive enough to think that if you kept vanilla theme that wouldn’t happen.

Just learnt how to do reliable line-breaks in #Markdown : “ “ | I kid you not: it’s 2 spaces at the end of a line | there’s something beautifully minimalist about a code designated by absence of any | but seriously that’s quite obscure | #microblog #tech | before vs. after

Yo Micro.blog 📸 experts: can m.b post GIFs? This .gif file just renders as a static image both on my page and onwards to social cross-posts when posted from m.b Mac OS native app

Learning Micro.Blog: Around 4 weeks ago: Micro.Blog cross-posts to #LinkedIn changed from Public Vis to 1st degree Connections only. This excludes even Followers. Did I change a setting, or was there a change in #LinkedInAPI? | #tech

Learning Micro.blog: One post: wa.rner.me/2020/11/1… Three different displays from Twitter, Mastodon & LinkedIn on cross-post. Interesting to see that: Twitter: linked out even though <280, Mastodo only one to draw out the YT link from Markdown.

Feature suggestion @manton: make it quicker to setup word-based auto category filters.

Specifically:

• OR terms with keywords
• Case-insensitive

Testing Hugo Shortcode on Micro.blog itself (looks fine on site as per @manton suggestion: using my last music video as example:

A Day In The Life in Eastleigh, U.K. at 1430. Receiving a handwritten card from the American founders of a tech company. This is why I micro.blog. #ADayInTheLife #ShotOnflipPhone

Micro.blog questions for @Manton & @MacGenie (4/4) Is there a way to update draft posts on Mac OS app without accidentally publishing the post when you click ‘Update Post’?

Micro.blog questions for @Manton & @MacGenie (3/4 now) Is there a way to have Medium only syndicate ‘Title-length’ articles, and exclude micro posts? I feel it’s an abuse of that platform’s mission to syndicate Twitter style pips there.

Micro.blog questions for @Manton & @MacGenie (2/3) Does setting future publish date = reliable way to ‘schedule’ posts? Do social feeds distribute on that ‘publish date’ too? Re. already published, with pictured: it removed from wa.rner.me but not micro.blog/w4rner

Micro.blog questions for @Manton & @MacGenie (1/3) How to get better open graph data (& favicon) on default themes?

WordPress Import

1). Date metadata is retained. This makes my micro.blog ‘hello, world!’ look a little silly occuring after a solid 8 posts! 2). CAUTION: WP blog tags are converted to Categories. (see example from my final blog post calling out a bunch of Big Tech platforms)

Trying the Wordpress import feature, to bring over my old codingforpeoplepeople.wordpress.com blog. Where I differ from the help docs (https://help.micro.blog/2017/wordpress-import/) is that it downloaded an XML automatically, rather than WXR.

Feature request: allow Category selection on MacOS app.

Turns out Micro.Blog sees # as more of Markdown’s ‘octothorp’ than the phenomenally successful hashtag of social media fame. Though only if at start of the line. #Octothorp when it’s first word Not first word #Hashtag