I just don’t get why we suffer through using lesser software every day because “what if…?!”.
If, for example, Day One goes away, I’ll still have all my text/json/html/pdf exports, books, backups, etc. I can go all text then. I’d lose all the fancy bits, but at least I had them, until I didn’t.
Meanwhile, I have this:
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I’m writing this post in MarsEdit. It’s been a spell.
I’m mostly testing to see how things play with the awful-but-necessary Gutenberg editor in WordPress. Part of this effort meant I’m using “Rich Text” in MarsEdit. GASP!
Update: It doesn’t use Gutenberg. It creates the entire post in the “Classic” editor. I have yet to decide if this is all too much swimming upstream.
Les Orchard made a thing, Feedspool, that works as a CLI interface for managing/reading RSS feeds. It uses sqlite and has a bunch of fun features. One of them is the ability to render a static web page with posts from recently-updated feeds and a built in web server to view it.
I made a simple shell script that updates and opens the rendered page.
#!/bin/sh
./feedspool fetch
./feedspool render
open http://localhost:8888I’m pretty content with Elfeed in Emacs, but Feedspool is an interesting take.
Mylio is an amazing bit of software for managing large, disparate photo libraries. (For some details, check out this review.)
A private library that’s truly cross-platform and cloud-independent. Mylio is a media library built around your life, not around a cloud, device, or platform. Collect media from everywhere, access it on any device, anytime—even in Airplane Mode.
Mylio, in theory, solves my photo management problems:
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