More surrender towels – we are doomed yet again
On the Radio was one of the first albums I ever received as a gift
First time I’ve been shut out of a First Ave on-sale in a long time – don’t think I’m getting any Hozier tickets today ā¹ļø
Hopefully the last cold game, Saints vs. Scranton/Wilkes-Barre @ CHS Field, delayed start due to rain, 4/20 promotions, new chicken biscuit with gravy bowl, smore kits at the fireside seats in right field, new POS units (Saints win 5-4)
…rapid unscheduled disassembly…
— SpaceX
I’ve read through the Nitter about page a few times and still can’t figure out how this is a thing. Seems like a legal gray area to me, but I don’t understand if it really uses an “unofficial” Twitter API or if it’s some kind of screen-scrape tool. In any case, it gives me an easy way to read all of the (non-locked) people I followed on Twitter who have not made the move to Mastodon. It also creates RSS output by user, which works in NetNewsWire now too…
Somewhere Under the Rainbow, Nov. 5. 1973, Neil Young with the Santa Monica Flyers. I would’ve been almost four when this was recorded…
Really great to catch up with VN (plus carrots, wings, Anne with an āeā & the Emerald Classic Martini du jour)
These guys had no fear – swam *closer* to me as I walked towards the shoreline
There used to be a lot of these, then it seemed a bunch closed, but their website says there are still seven. The fries were as good as the old Eagan location, but the burger had different seasoning and the patties weren’t really all that smashed. Bit of a bummer.
Spring and fall are kinda similar, but one leads to summer renewal and the other to a bleak frozen hellscape
“What Matters Most” – full album out June 2 (two songs now up on Apple Music). Interesting that he’s playing Grand Casino Mille Lacs this summer before doing two nights at Orchestra Hall in October
That was a great game of golf, fellas. Let’s go have a Coca-Cola…
— Bing Crosby
Next Sunday will be my three month anniversary on Mastodon and I’m liking it more and more each day. I’ve discovered lots of new people to follow and I’m now trying to post more like I did on Twitter. I had been a little hesitant to create a lot of content on Mastodon because there wasn’t a mechanism to capture those posts on my WordPress-based website like I used to do with the Import Tweets as Posts plugin. But that all changed this weekend…
As of today, the WordPress plugin repository has 38 plugins that are tagged with Mastodon, so I thought it was time to take a look at these in more detail. When WordPress.com owner Automattic purchased Matthias Pfefferle’s ActivityPub plugin, I decided to install and activate it here. Out of the box, it allowed me to see 7 Minute Miles posts by following “@dmk @7minutemiles.com” in my Mastodon client (no space). There are a lot of other options with that plugin that I still need to explore, including their list of other recommended ActivityPub-related plugins like Friends and NodeInfo.
The other big find this weekend was Marco Hitschler’s TootPress plugin. I was a little hesitant to test this one, as it showed fewer than ten active installations and had limited documentation. I was also a little scared that it created new tables in my database to store Mastodon posts (instead of the standard post storage method) and did it’s own thing in my uploads folder for storing images from Mastodon. It also required some API setup on the instance side, which actually turned out to be much easier than getting access to the old Twitter APIs.
So what do you get when all of this is set up? 7minutemiles.com/mastodon/
Since each Mastodon post is not a “real” WordPress post, they need to be on a dedicated page and not mixed in on the main page like I had before with tweets. I think I’m OK with that for now – everything else seems to work great (with the exception of pagination, which I’ve asked about on the support forum). There is a cron job that runs every 15 minutes to check for new Mastodon posts and any attached images seem to be handled correctly (including the alt text). It also captures the time stamp and embedded URLs just work. Nicely done, Marco!
UPDATE: pagination is working now, so I’m not sure what was up with that (I didn’t change anything).
Apparently the Minnesota Zoo has way more members than I thought now. Still fun to get in early and make loops around the tropics and Minnesota trails…
Multiple days of sun and 80s, but we waited until it was cold and rainy to kick off the new golf season – very rusty 86 from the “Bluff” tees
The mountain bike trails won’t be open for a while due to downed trees and mud/ice, but the buds were popping. The bottom center pic that we think is emerald ash borer damage was at Bailey School Forest Park in Newport.