Bryan Robb

  • I exported all my photos from Google awhile back, but was dreading organizing them because Google Takeout had an insane file structure. Well, I figured if there was a good job for AI, this was one of them. Had ChatGPT write a python script to organize by month and year.

  • Someone discovered Beatles – White Album on Minidisc.

  • Tualatin Valley Water District soccer field.

  • One aspect I miss about living back east are all the ethnic bakeries. My family used to run an Italian bakery and deli in metro Detroit. Italian, Jewish, Polish, Lebanese, and Mexican bakeries are all over the place. Portland doesn’t even really have ethnic neighborhoods. It’s weird.

  • Mi piacerebbe entrare in contatto con alcuni urbanisti italiani riguardo al mercato del lavoro lì.

  • Had no idea moving posts from Micro.blog to Ghost would be such a pain. Had to spin up a WordPress server, import the posts, then export with the Ghost plugin. Now the zip file is too big 😂. I can break up the photos in batches, but not sure how am I supposed to break up the JSON file. 🤷‍♂️

  • Admittedly, I had no idea how important agritourism had become to suburban childrearing.

  • Breakside Brewery Beaverton.

  • Whoa. Looks like Ghost will not only adopt ActivityPub, but also integrate following others right into the platform, on your own site. Looking forward to this.

  • After a lot of trial and error, I finally got Ghost up and running on my home server and accessible at my domain. Looks like I won’t be paying for hosting anymore, at least for my urban planning blog.

  • Sunny Wednesday morning in downtown Portland for the Northwest Facilities Expo. Quite a different scene than the housing and planning conferences I’m used to. Plenty of swag, including free buckets 🤣. You just have to endure the gauntlet of people trying to sell you stuff. Don’t make eye contact!

  • Now that we know that most of our office jobs can easily be performed at home, any required commute into an office counts toward your 8 hours that day. Go ahead, I give you permission.

  • After a mild success of self-hosting PhotoPrism, I thought I’d see if I could get Ghost up and running in a docker container. No dice. I must’ve tried 20 different docker compose settings and I just don’t know what the hell I’m doing 😂

  • Fungus among us

  • Getting the kids out of the house on this rainy Sunday.

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  • Indexing…only about 100k to go.

  • 55° this weekend, 85° next weekend. May can be so weird.

  • _Finally_ took the time to set up PhotoPrism on my network. Now to figure out how to access it remotely. Another day.

  • Found a beautiful yet simple habit tracker in the App Store called Onrise. It’s free and comes with widgets, pomodoro timer, and a journal. I’d love to use it but apparently there’s no way to know where the data is stored or how to export data. Wish I could get Shortcuts and iCloud to work with it.

  • This popped up in photos as a 20-year memory today. This hit me like a ton of bricks. Coachella 2004. Me and some friends drove from Michigan to California, four-deep in a Honda Civic. This is my buddy Trevor. We’ve grown apart and have our own lives now, but I have a lot of good memories.

  • I’ve saved about $75 in gas in less than 2 weeks with my new car. In reality, it’s likely more because my Subaru only got about 20 miles per gallon in city driving and this calculation uses 25 mpg as a baseline for comparison. Also had to supercharge the first few days before getting my charger.

  • Couldn’t sleep last night, at all. Periodic bouts of insomnia are nothing new. So, when I know it’s a lost cause to even try, I kind of go off the rails digging into basic front end dev. I’ve been slowly making the Marfa theme (Hugo/Micro.blog) my own, with little tweaks.

    Some things I got done last night:

    – Finally figured out my issue with Tinylytics and got both the TinyKudos and the hit counter working.
    – Was successful in modifying the direction of the pagination since it was intuitively backwards to my eyes. I’m pretty proud that I figured this out on my own as I was not expecting any of this to be in CSS.
    – Actually read the plugin instructions on how to properly reference short codes for “reply by email” and “reply on Mastodon”. I spent too long trying to organize these within the author panel under individual posts.
    + Created a prettier link to the “Conversation on Micro.blog” from individual posts. It didn’t look right clumped together with the other reply functions, above.

    I failed at:

    + Updating Font Awesome so that I could use the Bluesky logo on my Social page. Above my head. Attempted for the first time to fork and modify a plugin, which may have been over the top but a learning experience nevertheless.
    + Understanding if it’s possible to use a hamburger menu for navigation.
    + Still need to figure out if there is a way to get the TinyKudos button into the actual theme for individual posts so I don’t have to type it out for each post {{< tinykudos >}}.

    On my to-do list:

    + Figure out how webmentions work in Echofeed. For some reason I’m not finding the documentation.
    + WTF is going on with the formatting of these bullet points.

  • Without a doubt!