@liamdempsey I feel like @_elena had a video that fits this.

I’m helping out another community effort that is trying to organize its locals on Mastodon. They are trying to get away from Meta. How has a recommendation for a short video of how to create a Mastodon account? Thanks in advance for whatever you can share!

RE: https://mastodon.social/@startlocalshow/116261388437359926 I particularly enjoyed this conversation with Hendrik-Jan Francke. Hendrik-Jan does a lot of work supporting peer groups, masterminds, or whatever you call them. If you're considering whether joining a peer group would benefit you […]

Do you have a preferred budget host for #WordPress sites? I have a community project that needs a WordPress site that they will manage and run themselves. I expect the hosting budget will be less than the WP Engine, Kinsta, and similar managed WordPress hosts. Do you a specific host to […]

Today is The Dubliners sort of day.

Six months ago I started whittling away at Signboard, a kanban app that writes local Markdown files. It is private, fast, and open source. It runs on macOS, Linux, and Windows and includes calendar and “this week” views, tasks, an MCP and CLI, notifications, custom color themes and more. Today […]

Big flakes of snow falling in Chester County, Pa.

I read a book on my phone over the past two weeks. The whole book. All on my phone. The experience was not terrible. Not my favorite medium, but it was not that bad. Book: The White Cottage Mystery by Margery Allingham

Happy #whiskerswednesday from Bramble 🐾 #bunnies #rabbit

RE: https://mastodon.social/@startlocalshow/116131396879968161 This is probably one of my favorite questions to ask guests over on @startlocalshow: What area business or nonprofit should more folks know about? The range of answers is a great way to learn more about my local community.

No snow yet here in #chestercountypa.

Hit 46° F and sunny in greater Philadelphia today. Got the e-bike out for a short (3.5 mile) ride. Home in time to put it away for another snow storm.

Yes, please and thank you. #WordPress #gravityforms

“Is it wrong to wish on space hardware?” – Billy Bragg

Four months in the making, Signboard 0.5.0 is now available. Signboard is an open source desktop kanban app that writes Markdown files. This version adds labels, multiple boards, search, color schemes, and other features. Get it for your OS here: https://github.com/cdevroe/signboard/releases

It's #WXPN's Winter Drive! I am already a member of this great independent music-focused radio station. They have come a long way in their musical offerings in recent years. I am always delighted to support them. DONATE TODAY […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@startlocalshow/116074609574086091 Over @startlocalshow, I have been experimenting with creating excerpts (shorts, reels, little videos, or whatever you prefer to call them) of full podcast episodes. It's too early to know whether these shortened outputs will lead […]

Watching the Olympics 8 years ago was what inspired me to create the yo-yo emoji. That’s when I realized that curling had its own emoji, but yo-yos didn’t. That lead to a year long quest to fix that. 🪀 > 🥌 https://youtu.be/PkcpLTPOt7Y?si=PGLfwv4B0hJwMWVA

Honestly, I’m a bit worried about where this National Geographic documentary about Yosemite National Park might go.

Is it me or have Firefox for Mac become REALLY slow in the last week or so?

RE: https://mastodon.social/@ChrisHardie/116053123566900069 This is a very cool tool that @ChrisHardie has put together. Definitely look forward to reading his post.

Putting this out there: I found an open role on Patreon's marketing & comms team that fits me like a glove. If you work there (or know someone who does), I’d love to connect. I’ve already applied and keeping my fingers crossed. #patreon

I turned a coffee stain into Reddy Kilowatt. #slapsticker #228label

RE: https://mastodon.social/@startlocalshow/115984147073482701 Over at @startlocalshow, we have been exploring with creating short clips of our audio-only podcast. We are sharing those clips on YouTube, Instagram, LinkedIn and, of course, Mastodon. Give a video or two a watch. Let me know what […]

Two snow removal runs in northern #chestercountypa. And done. I hope.

Finished result using coffee, ink, a #bladepen, and a USPS label.

If you ever have a need to convert #excel tables into #html, this is a really handy tool: https://tableconvert.com/excel-to-html

TIL: If you have a #gravityform on a #WordPress page, and that form has an image upload field, you may need to disable server caching on the page where that form is in order for the image upload feature to work correctly and consistently when uploading images directly from a phone.

Morning routine: coffee and ink

Mac users who have updated to Tahoe, are we leaving Apple Intelligence on or not? I am inclined to shut it off. I welcome your thoughts.

Waiting on the Mac software update reboot.

Accidentally activated email notifications on my phone this morning. Wow! That was a mistake.

Passing along what I learned yesterday from National Geographic: A group of cheetahs is called a coalition. A coalition of cheetahs.

Nothing like a bit of eye sting in the morning to let you know that you’re tired. Where’s the coffee? Oh, I guess I’ll make it then.

Silly question for an overwhelming time: For breakfast on a school day, would you rather have pancakes that turned out cooked well enough, but lacked presentational appeal – or no pancakes at all? P.S. Not my finest performance on the pancake front this morning.

What #Music are you jamming to today?

Hanlon's Razor is an everyday maxim for me. “Do not to attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity or incompetence.”

I'm interested to give this a listen. Joe's a seasoned podcaster and technologist. https://mastodon.social/@jcasabona/115870800172750407

So much hate and self-centeredness.

2026 milestone unlocked: I *received* a fax 📠 today. For work. For a client project. My new weekend project is to build a pigeon nest in the side yard to better accommodate that method of message delivery. 🤪

Growing a locally-focused #Podcast is a lot of work. To be candid, it is more labor-intensive than I anticipated. That said, connecting with my neighbors and growing the podcast community has been deeply rewarding in ways that I did not anticipate. I am excited to progress the show in 2026 […]

@docpop absolutely! In no particular order, here are some favorites from 2025: Norman Sann "Abnormally Norman” McKinley Dixon "Magic, Alive!" Leikeli47 "Lei Keli ft. 47 / For Promotional Use Only” Obongjayar "Paradise Now” MonoNeon "Quilted Stereo” Igorrr “Amen" Rootbeer "An X-Ray Of You […]

Here’s another great list of 2025 albums my buddy Travis put together. Thirteen picks with Bandcamp links and alternate covers that Travis hand-drew in his own whimsical style: https://hereliestravis.substack.com/p/drawing-instead-of-drawing

Trying to use the “Send later" feature on iOS. My phone is on iOS 26. I'm not seeing the schedule features when I touch and hold the send icon (white arrow over a green circle.) Am I doing it wrong?

Good morning, cold and dark. Still here are you? Well, okay then. Let's get started on the day.

@liamdempsey 1) Tidal 2) yes, I did 3) I didn't. Sadly, they still use Spotify, because it's just so much more user-friendly in most aspects. I'm the only one that made the switch.

Folks who have left Spotify for (_checks notes_) so many reasons, I have questions: 1) Where have you gone? 2) Did you export playlists? Favorites? Etc.? 3) How did you convince your family/shared account users to go with you? I am exploring leaving Spotify, but have yet to find a solution […]

Hey @salzano! Let's see if we can get some music shares going again here on the ol' Mastodon. Here are my latest faves: (1) Bully (2) Blondshell (3) Wet Leg What can you share to entertain my ears?