Save yourself a 3 minute read
If a blog post has a “Conclusion” section at the end of it, you can ignore the blog post and carry on with your day.
A TL;DR at the start is fine.
blogging
The more things change the more they stay the same
20 years in, blogging is still a curious mix of both technical, literary and graphic bodgery, with each day’s work demanding the kind of technical minutuae we were told would disappear with WYSIWYG desktop publishing.
Source: Pluralistic: 13 Jan 2021 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
20 years from now blogging will still be a mix of technical, literary, and graphic bodgery.
Flickr, continued
A’ight so as I was typing before, Flickr has changed some things about how they do things after they got themselves bought by SmugMug. However, for our purposes the big change actually happened years and years ago, when Flickr officially deprecated the MetaWeblogAPI.
However, they did not disable it, as you can see on many posts on this here blargh site. What they did do is hide those URLs that are not longer supported, specifically this one:
Flickr: Your Blogs – https://www.flickr.com/blogs.gne
I’m putting that on it’s own line so it’s obvious where the hell you’re supposed to go. So once you’re on that page be aware you can remove links but you cannot add links. They also took away the ability to configure things on their end (like the size of images, the caption, that kind of shit).
Right now I’m thinking of letting it be since it doesn’t bother me too much, but I’m going to have to be on the lookout for a WP plugin that pulls photos in, as opposed to having Flickr push pictures onto here.
Already got this one
I guess I’ll never be cool because I’m not interested in having a Medium blog.
This site might not be much but I don’t see any service out there putting up with everything I’ve written/reblogged/reposted for over a decade.
im teh old
Bloody hell
I’ve been running this shindig since 2005, and had stuff elsewhere since… what, 2001?
Goddamn.
Una docena de años. Que venga una docena de docenas mas.