For the last week or so, I have been playing around with Jekyll and GitHub Pages as a possible replacement for my current WordPress site.
It was all very fun, and the simplicity of posting makes it a very attractive alternative.
Unfortunately, I have a lot of Indieweb features on my site (webmentions, micropubs, and postkinds etc.), and everything falls over when I try to implement Indieweb to a static website.
It is possible that I can get some kind of system working after another couple of weeks of tinkering. But I decided to stop instead.
The mood I got while researching Indieweb solutions/plugins for Jekyll is that most people have moved away from it. Either they have given up on Indieweb, or they have moved away from Jekyll.
Even if I were to get my site working now, there’s no guarantee that some future Jekyll update won’t break everything. So do I really want to spend unknown hours converting my existing WordPress site to Jekyll only to have it break a year from now? The answer, for now at least, is no.
If I got the wrong impression of the Jekyll/Indieweb landscape out there, by all means reach out and let me know. I’d love to know how you set up your site.
Webring, I hear you ask, is this 1996? No, this is a current, active webring. I find that infinitely charming and nostalgic.
It’s also how I discovered a thriving community of personal websites: neocities.org, which reminds me of high school, when we’d handcraft each individual page. Again, nostalgia.
This may have led to me researching Jekyll static sites — but that’s another story…
I spent more time than I should have trying to figure out a workaround for snoozing on #MailMate.
Someone send me suggestions if you have any.
Am I mad or did there used to be a “sort by” button on the #AppleWatch #Audible app?
My 300+ books are currently not sorted in any order I recognise and trying to find something is ridiculously hard.
Contacting Audible support was – of course – an exercise in frustration. They told me to contact Apple for help. 🙄
#apple #tech #books #audoobooks
So I was trying the #Randonautica app for the first time. Nothing too creepy happened and interesting photos were taken.
I have wanted to get an Owlab Spring keyboard for a while now.
Now I just have to find the perfect keycaps and switches to match it.
Currently, I’m using NPKC gradient PBT Doubleshot side-lit keycaps from Drop.com and TTC Bluish White switches. I don’t mind the switches on this board, but I don’t actually have enough of them, so I’m also using the Tecsee Ice Candy in the number row.
I was trying out Git versioning for Obsidian and accidentally deleted my entire vault.
I’ve always been slightly annoyed that iOS Reminder has no way to purge completed items.
Well, not unless you are willing to sit there swiping to delete each item one by one. Like an animal. 😜
After seeing my “Completed Items” reach a couple of hundreds, I decided to turn to Google to see if anyone else has come up with a solution.
The results were quite disheartening. It seems that some people are just deleting the whole list and starting from scratch.
However, I did find a Six Colors article that provided instructions on how you could bulk delete completed items from iCloud’s version of Reminders. It also made mention of an AppleScript written by Dr. Drang that, when run, would delete completed items older than 30 days.
These were all well and good, but I wanted something to run automatically every month. Or at the very least sent me a reminder to run the script.
I was thinking about setting a Due Item, or maybe even setting up a cronjob… but then I remembered the Shortcuts app.
Maybe I could create a Shortcut workflow that could find and delete completed reminder items older than 30 days?
I specify all the lists that I would like to have purged – there may be some lists that you don’t want to have all the item deleted without first reviewing them. When you install the script, Shortcuts would ask you to input your own list names.
Here I specify that items completed over 30 days ago are eligible for deletion. Change this if according to your own preferences.
Then for each of the lists specified above, the filter would find items completed older than 30 days…
and remove them.
When you run the script, Shortcut would ask you three times if you are sure you want to remove the reminders, telling you that this is a permanent action. Just click “Remove” each time and presto, the items are gone.
Now, earlier on I mentioned that I want to automate this. There’s no way for Shortcut scripts to be run automatically on a schedule, but you can create a Launch Centre Pro item set to run monthly and have it run this Shortcut script. So every month a notification would pop up, you click on it, and the Shortcut script would go about removing all the old Reminder items.
If you have your own way of removing old Reminder items leave me a comment or send me an email, I’d love to know how others solve this problem.
