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Challenge of the day: exporting posts from WordPress to Ghost
Well, well, well, it seems that data portability among CMS is an issue. Who knew! I’m trying to find an easy way to move a few posts from my WordPress blog into my Ghost website. Exporting data from WordPress seems like an all-or-nothing situation. There are a few plugins available for this. The problem is that the content isn’t easily imported into Ghost. The latter does have a plugin, but it doesn’t support selecting posts. Continue reading →
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Digital Citizen
🤨 I wish I could have used Digital Citizen instead of Numeric Citizen as my pen name. Digital > Numeric in English, from the word meaning perspective and the idea of being a citizen of the digital world. Oh well. 🤦🏻♂️ #thinking Continue reading →
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Voluntary Simplicity
Minimalistic. Scarce. Effective. Bare. Imperfect but perfect for the task. Trustworthy. Simple. Modern. Open. Frictionless. Unobtrusive. Distraction-free. Focused. Cheap. That’s write.as. #tools Continue reading →
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Peeking at AirDrop in the Coffee Shop
☕️ Going to the coffee shop today after six weeks of sanitary restrictions. Those were lifted recently, at long last. After setting up my MacBook Air, I open up AirDrop in the Finder to see who’s there. Naturally, I don’t know anyone from the list of available devices. It’s just for fun. Available devices vary a lot for each visit. Today was a great crop. 👨🏻💻😜 #musing Continue reading →
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An Unexpected Side of the Pandemic
The pandemic gave me more time and opportunities to create, write and publish. I don’t want to lose these when it’s all over. My creativity-related activities helped me go through all of this. #covid19 #creativity Continue reading →
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Feeling the COVID-19 Fatigue
😒 We’re approaching two years of this COVID-19 pandemic. We’re entering a phase where people no longer feel the need to care about COVID-19. I feel that way. I don’t care anymore. I don’t feel guilty about it. When I look at the news, more and more signs of people being fed up are popping up. Our collective energy is now directed at saying out loud how we’re tired of all this instead of making concessions about our liberties to fight some invisible virus. Continue reading →
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Engage
👉🏻 If there is something that I have learned in recent months is this: the more you engage with a community, the better and the most rewarding it is. Most of the time. 👀 #socialnetwork Continue reading →
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Please, don’t think that because I’m now subscribing to write.as that I’m leaving Micro.blog. It couldn’t be farther than the truth. You’re pretty much stuck with me here, for as long as I can see! ☺️
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The Inspiration Killer
I’m sad that I’m rarely doing photography these days… the pandemic and COVID-19 killed my inspiration. #covid19 #photography #creativity Continue reading →
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Bonus Content
I like the idea of selectively cross-posting some of the posts here to Twitter or Ghost, but not that many. Each cross-posting is some sort of blips or advertisement on the web. People who pay attention or are simply curious in nature hitting the source link will be in for a treat. Unpublicized posts would act like bonus content for the reader to discover. Discuss… Continue reading →
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TGIF
Time flies; I didn’t see the week. Where did it go? On the eves of the weekend, I’m thinking about possible subjects for participation in the Micro.camp conference, this coming March. The one topic that seems to stick as I’m writing this: coffee shops and creative work. #musing Continue reading →
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I'm in perpetual experimentation mode
I’m still thinking about the possibility of subscribing to this service. I’m trying to find a specific use case for it. Even though I might not find one, I could consider my subscription as a vote for the service’s mission. It would be a sign of appreciation. Three dollars a month for five years is less than many of the much-less valuable services that I’m already subscribing to. Six days left for the promotion. Continue reading →
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Health of Developer Relations with Apple in Free Fall
According to this year’s Six Colors Report Card, relationships between Apple and its developers’ community is in terrible shape. The trend isn’t looking good either. Marco Arment said, “Apple’s tightening grip on App Store fees, attempts to reach into other parts of businesses that they don’t deserve, and extremely entitled and galling statements on the matter continue to be distasteful and extremely damaging to their reputation. It seems like a huge strategic blunder to inflame developer relations, generate bad PR, invite more regulatory scrutiny, and risk governments imposing much worse changes for such a small percentage of their revenue. Continue reading →
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What am I doing here?
Here I am, on write.as. What am I doing here? Am I going to subscribe to this service? Do I really need it? Micro.blog being linked with @Apple_Observer, Typefully being linked to Apple_Observer, write.as could be behind @NumericCitizen. I could use it for my Numeric Citizen Twitter account and cross-post to Ghost? It probably doesn’t matter much if there is no native application for Write.as. I’m still thinking about it. Wishing for a final call before the end of the five-year subscription deal, ending this coming Feb. Continue reading →
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On Sideloading on iPhone — It’s OK, I’m Changing My Mind numericcitizen.me
I’d love to get feedback on this subject, from this community, here on MB…
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Only 3$ a Month
I’m getting ready to pull the trigger on write.as. For a mere 3$ a month, it won’t be an expensive experience. I think I can do it without going bankrupt. 👨🏻💻 Continue reading →
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Apple is clearly crossing the red line here IMHO. They are being disingenuous.
These guidelines from Apple about external payments are even worse than I expected. So many hoops to jump through, and a ridiculous 27% fee. No one is going to go along with this, which means it doesn’t relieve any regulatory pressure on Apple. Burning more developer trust.
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For (more) personal stories of mine, here is the place to go.
Friday Notes #61 — Knowing Our Parents numericcitizen-introspection.blog
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I’m mostly done with my love letter to Cleanshot, a screen grabber utility for the Mac. I’m close to 500 words. I should be paid for doing this. Oh well… what passion can make us do…
