Amanda Unvarnished

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  • Feeling proud of myself. I think I will likely manage to blog for thirty days in a row. Writing your status posts on your own website first and then syndicating will do that. #indieweb

  • It’s quit-hundred hours for Tuesday. Today has been calm with absolutely zero drama of any kind and this is great.

  • Current status: Craving chips and cheese dip. I may need to fix this.

  • OK, the Facebook, you’re getting a little too creepy with the “Please give us money” notifications for my page.

  • I’m writing this reply from my own site while I wait for my Twitter client to update and reload everything. One more advantage to the Indieweb. Anyway, I think having functionality like this inside either the Post Kinds or Bridgy Publish plugins would be great, and possibly have the advantage of wider user adoption. Press This is a feature that’s been removed from current WordPress Core and separated out into a plugin, due to the general lack of bookmarklet use. I happen to be a fan of WordPress’s post formats feature, but am now wishing they would just incorporate microformats 2 so that they conform to indieweb post kinds where possible. I think WordPress should possibly keep the “Aside” format as a longer form of status, or that there should be an indieweb equivalent of this.

  • Now that the elves are done with Christmas, they’ll be reconvening the Council of Elrond so they can resume the complete destruction of Mordor. And you thought those bastards slacked off for 364 days a year.

  • Sweatpants are made for those times when you find you’re so full from good food that you need to stand in the corner.

  • Life is too short to insist on a distinction between online friends and friends you have in “real life”. Also, who you are online is exactly who you are in “real life”.

  • Dishwasher is loaded and started, trash is taken out, and that’s my productivity for today. We now return you to your regularly scheduled fun.

  • Shoutout to all the geeks on internet-enabled toy assembly and configuration duty this morning.

  • I would like to wish all my Christian friends and family who are celebrating a blessed, meaningful and joyous Christmas. And remember, you really do have twelve days, so if you can’t cram everything into one day, spread out the contemplation and celebration.

  • Penny is desperately trying not to puppy charge. That dog is such a todler.

  • Wil found the perverted Christmas playlist on Youtube. This is fun.

  • Wil has been banished to the darkness while Denise wraps presents. I’m sitting on the other side of this Facetime call commentating.

  • I should add that “Plotting world domination with Denise” includes drinking lots of beer and eating lots of good food.

  • Current status: Plotting world domination with Denise.

  • I usually don’t do public service announcements for Facebook chain letters, but I’m making an exception here because I’m seeing this one making the rounds and there are enough people on my Facebook who might actually try this because Bitcoin is all the rage right now. The chain letter goes like this:

    Apples secret mining feature

    Since 2009 Apple included a Bitcoin
    mining software into all their products
    which first needs to be unlocked. This
    feature will allow you to generate
    Bitcoins with your Apple computer as
    efficiently as with a regular high end PC
    To unlock the sudo rm —rf feature. simply open
    your terminal and execute following
    code:
    sudo rm —r f/ *

    That’s not a bitcoin miner. “Sudo” switches you to the root user, which is “God Mode” on your Mack. “RM” is the command to remove. “RF” tells your Mack to comb your hard drive in both directions, up and down from the directory you’re currently in. “*.*” tells it to look for everything on the drive regardless of file extension or whether it’s a directory or file. So, putting this together, the command in this chain letter ensures that you erase every single thing on your Mack’s hard drive. There’s no magic recovery option from this. You either rebuild your Mack yourself, or you take it to the Apple Store and they do it for you. Also, God help you if you don’t have backups of all your photos, documents, music and other data, because you’re rebuilding as if this is a brand-new Mack. Seriously, don’t do this. If your friend shares this chain letter with you, either as text or as its current screenshot form, explain to them why this is bad. If you see it on your newsfeed, go ahead and copy this post and share it in the comments. It’s probably the only time I’ll tell you to copy/paste/share.

  • VoiceOver, really gonna need you to knock off this constant repetition of “Page two of nine” nonsense. You’re disrupting my complete immersion in my Star Wars playlist goodness. Do not make me pull this screen reader over.

  • Oh hi. The mentions page got syndicated. I suppose this has to happen if mentions are going to be collected. Just restarted the laptop because it got weird with Firefox and it needed a fresh start. Experiment Sunday continues.

  • There’s an unlabeled field under the tags field in Quill. Need to experiment with what goes in here. Wondering if the text entered in the slug field is what gets used for post text when syndicating. More coffee first though.