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On the mac I’ve been using the great PDF Expert for almost anything related to PDFs.
On Ubuntu I’ve been looking for simple ways to do pretty much anything in the terminal.
Latest example: combining PDFs. Which turns out to be a very straightforward process using PDF Toolkit:
pdftk file1.pdf file2.pdf file3.pdf cat output combined.pdfThe longest three streaks on my photo blog are now 366, 365, and 364 days.
Joan Westenberg makes a great case for why you should run your own blog:
We’re not going to get a better internet by waiting for platforms to become less extractive. We build it by building it. By maintaining our own spaces, linking to each other, creating the interconnected web of independent sites that the blogosphere once was and could be again.
(via Pedro)
Only 39 more days until another full year of posting is complete over on the photo blog. The plan is to just keep going this time. 🙌
It is New Photos From Daniel-Day! He just published his photos from May 2024 and I make an appearance. That is not the reason I am posting this, btw – I just enjoy looking at his images + funny comments. Last year in December, he managed to post five new months! Will he be able to repeat that record-breaking output? Stay tuned.
My radius here in the city is quite limited. I have the same commute every day, passing the same locations. When I am out with the kids, we have a couple of favorite places we visit (playgrounds, parks, etc.). All in all, it is probably only two square kilometers, so it is no wonder that I start to revisit certain subjects from time to time. A41 is a perfect example of this, but in this particular case, I turned it on its head and made it a series. (The challenge is now to find different angles.) But recently, I find myself recognizing more and more places/landmarks/subjects I have photographed before. Some examples include these trees (1 and 2), the TV tower (1, 2, and 3), or the RWE tower (1, 2, 3, and 4). There’s no conclusion to this, just an observation I made.
Just in case you do not also follow my photo blog, I just want to share the link to the photo gallery for the latest beyond tellerrand in Berlin. I had so much fun making these images!
Since my Flickr account is not publicly accessible because I don’t want to pay for a Pro account (and there are apparently a couple of “unsafe” images somewhere in my account), I republished my WordCamp Frankfurt photos from 2016 (!) as a gallery on my photoblog.
I also updated the original blog post about the event, and replaced all of the old Twitter links with people’s website/blog URLs. 💪 (Now I want to find and replace ALL Twitter links…)
Let that be a reminder to myself to always post on my own website and link to people’s websites instead of social media profiles whenever possible!
I tried to do these monthly posts for a while because I like to read them when others post them. But I always forget to write down things I’ve been watching or doing, so at the end of the month, it feels like too much work to try to remember everything and then write a post about it. I tried to make it a habit to log my thoughts for these posts, but it does not come naturally to me. So I am renouncing any further monthly posts.
Remember my call for adding your email address to your RSS feed? Jeremey Hervé made a plugin for WordPress which does just that: RSS Reply via email
Very cool!
Only thing I am bummed about going to WCEU is the Switch 2 getting delivered later today and I won’t be there to set it up with my daughter. We’ll make good on that on Sunday (or Monday).
The journey to #WCEU starts now! My train has an on-time rate of 35%. 😬 Let’s hope for the best. 🤞
My friend Daniel is running FeedCity, a feed reader I have been using for a couple of months now. (I’ll write a post about it sooner or later.)
When using FeedCity, you get all kinds of information about a feed, e.g., whether they are valid (many are not, strangely enough). Naturally I wanted all these icons to turn green/be active for my own feeds as well.
The most recent icon he added was WebSub.
I had heard about it, but never really looked into it. Thankfully Daniel puplished a post about how he implemented it on his site.
While working on it for my photo blog I thought, why not build it as a plugin from the start? So I did.
Here it is on GitHub: WebSub Plugin for Kirby
It is very straightforward and lightweight. I hope it is useful for some of you Kirby users out there.
Let me know if you find any issues – or if you have suggestions on how to improve on it.
WebSub test.