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Well, look at that! After manually copying and pasting to fix a zillion YouTube embeds when migrating from WordPress to Hugo, I found that Hugo also has shortcodes. I was most interested in the …

This comes up from time to time on my Youtube feed and cracks me up every time.

I improved the formatting of the description of posts in the RSS feed. Previously, it was regular HTML, which doesn’t unfurl well on Mastodon (likely for security reasons). So I made it plain text, …

Mmm. Shoyu Chicken with Caesar salad, roasted ranch rainbow potatoes. I’m not big on chicken thighs, but I’ll eat these gladly.

Brilliant! PRO TIP: If you, like me, primarily use your phone flashlight to quickly find something in a dark place, and often forget to turn it off…replace your lock screen flashlight toggle button …

It’s like wondering why all the screws in a building were hammered into the walls, and then finding out that the guy who oversaw construction founded and co-owns the world’s biggest hammer …

When putting together that last post, I wanted to batch resize and change format for a pile of images. This macOS shortcut was pretty helpful.

ChatGPT So, recently, I was messing around with ChatGPT and got a cute invite to try their image generation features. It gave this sample prompt: Turn this photo into a magical “Mini Me” world where …

Spent a little time working on syndicating blog posts to Mastodon. I’ve had different syndication schemes in the past like Twitter, Facebook, and even Mastodon, but they’ve all used IFTTT. …

The mrs. got a text and email from our bank saying they think a recent charge for Amazon Prime subscription was fraud. Unclear why. We buy lots of stuff from Amazon all the time, so it wasn’t out of …