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Nov 5, 2024: Now we sit and wait. Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit drinking.
Nov 4, 2024: Oi. I feel like a moron. I tried to add a font-awesome icon to my blog title. It did not work as expected and now I’m stuck.
Nov 4, 2024: You might notice a bunch of older posts on my timeline - I’ve decided to move my blog from a self-hosted Hugo instance to micro.blog. I …
Nov 3, 2024: Let's see if this Stoot thing works... Chief TWiT :twit: @leo@twit.social I'm starting to wish Apple would add an "I've alrfeady voted …
Jan 12, 2023: Is it weird that the Advent of Code problems keep me up at night? I don’t mean I’m staying up late working on them, I mean I’m lying …
Jan 7, 2023: Time To Ask The Tech Guys As of Sunday, December 18, 2022, the Tech Guy radio show is no more. But starting Sunday, January 8, 2023 a new and improved show will be born: Ask …
Nov 23, 2022: Time for Windows Weekly. Listen live at live.twit.tv
Nov 23, 2022: I’m turning off my automated news feed on my micro.blog (https://leo.social). If you still want links to stories we’re planning to cover …
Nov 23, 2022: So I guess this means I have three Fediverse accounts: leo.social, @leo@twit.social, and @leolaporte@pixelfed.social. Not to mention my long abandoned …
Nov 23, 2022: Hello. I’m reconnecting my micro.blog to leo.social. I’m also @leo@twit.social.
May 21, 2022: This Old Man Roger Angell passed away yesterday at the age of 101. A long-time editor at The New Yorker, he was also the best damn baseball writer ever. His essay …
Feb 16, 2022: Is It Over? I created this site in the midst of a pandemic. Now two years later, it’s over. Right? Today mask mandates are lifted in our county and, despite …
Feb 7, 2022: Like Father, Like Son Yesterday my son showed up at the studio. I took the opportunity to interview him! Henry (or Hank as he’s known now) has become a big-time Tik Tok …
Mar 19, 2021: Joining the PC Masterrace I pulled the trigger on a Monster Gaming Machine. I know it’s crazy, but boys just want to have fun. See I have a three-year-old iMac Pro, but …
Mar 18, 2021: I Am Not Throwing Away This Shot Yesterday I got the first shot of the Covid-19 vaccine! When I arrived at Kaiser they threw me a curve. “Would you like Moderna or Johnson & …
Feb 7, 2021: It's Right Against Wrong, Not Smart Against Dumb Just because someone believes in conspiracy theories, doesn’t mean they’re dumb. From an article in The New Republic: The University of …
Nov 21, 2020: An easy way out of the pandemic is available today A new study from CU Boulder (my son’s alma mater) and Harvard’s TF Chan School of Public Health points to a way forward in the pandemic. …
Nov 8, 2020: I resemble that cartoon. via Rakhim [rakhim.org/honestly-...](https://rakhim.org/honestly-undefined/19/) (UPDATE from 2024:) and here I am, moving my …
Sep 18, 2020: How To Be "Talent" One of our hosts asked me for some talent coaching. This is how I responded. I’ll tell you what I do, but this is only what works for me. I don’t have …
Aug 29, 2020: Life is Short I love Paul Graham’s essays. This one, from 2016, truly hits home. Life is short, so it’s worth eliminating the time wasters. For one, defending …
Aug 29, 2020: Stop the Insanity Normally I wait until Spring to start complaining, but I’ve gotten nothing else done this summer, so I’m going to start the campaign …
Oct 10, 2018: And this is why I love living in Petaluma.
Oct 3, 2018: Definitely confused.
Sep 2, 2018: Noon In Valencia Spain Outside the beautiful cathedral. They hit the bell with a massive hammer.
Aug 30, 2018: And off we go to Barcelona.
Aug 25, 2018: Oops. letsrobot.tv/robocaste…
Aug 25, 2018: Come control robots in our studio live. letsrobot.tv/robocaste… Watch from the other end live on the New Screensavers. TWiT.tv/live
Aug 25, 2018: Am I misunderstanding something @manton? Leo.micro.blog has everything I post. Micro.blog/Leo does not.
Aug 25, 2018: Micro.blog Conundrum I’m setting things up for my vacation but some of my posts aren’t appearing in the timeline. They DO appear at Leo.social which is my micro.blog site. …
Aug 25, 2018: Triple threat: toot, tweet, and micro.blog… all from my Apple Watch. Technology, what a concept.
Aug 25, 2018: Let’s try this again. Drafts ➡️ micro.blog.
Aug 25, 2018: brew install bat alias cat=‘bat’ mind = blown remysharp.com/2018/08/2…
Aug 25, 2018: Spent an excellent Friday with Apple legend Bill Atkinson. We talked for five hours about Lisa, Macintosh, Hypercard, psychedelics, the Iboga ritual. …
Aug 23, 2018: Drat. I keep accidentally posting the micro.blog token when enabling Drafts. (@agiletortoise does Drafts eat the token before it posts to micro.blog? …
Aug 23, 2018: So I’m using Drafts on my Apple Watch to post this to microblog. Does that count as crossing the streams @agiletortoise?
Aug 23, 2018: Checking in.
Aug 23, 2018: First! A first attempt to use Microcast audio micro.blogging.
Aug 23, 2018: Hey @manton - when did you add audio micro.blogging? Great idea! I shall try it forthwith.
Aug 6, 2018: Two updates: Looks like mastodon.network has folder, and quitter.no is going away in September. So I’m moving my GNU.social account to …
Jun 9, 2018: Twitter is a breeding ground for madness Lately I feel like Twitter and its users are suffering from some sort of mass psychosis. It’s all id - to use a Freudian term. And it’s …
Dec 31, 2017: Hey! I can use the iOS Drafts app to micro.blog, too. That’s cool.
May 5, 2017: Happy Cinco de Mayo! Not a fast day - a feast day! El Roy’s Taco Truck here I come! …
Apr 29, 2017: How do i change posting time from UTC to my local time?
Apr 29, 2017: Posting from my micro.blog to Android using the web site seems to work fine. Markdown works but not photos.
Apr 28, 2017: I’m trying to figure out a good workflow for micro-blog. I’m writing this in Mars Edit. It will should post to my micro.blog (leo.social) and since …
Apr 28, 2017: And, of course, as soon as I pledge my fealty to the Pixel, google announces it’s cutting me off in a year. ;-( …
Apr 28, 2017: So if I post from leo.social (backend provided by micro.blog) does it go to @leolaporte on Twitter? Only one way to find out…
Apr 28, 2017: Y’know. I was all excited about the Samsung Galaxy S8+, but after using it for a couple of weeks I think I’m going back to the Pixel. …
Apr 28, 2017: Posting from iOS now. Easy as a Sunday morning.
Apr 28, 2017: Hey, check it out! My new micro.blog is live. Thanks, Manton! Next step - link it to https://leolaporte.com.