It all started a few weeks ago when I noticed an unexpected spike in the number of pages that could not be found on my website. For a few days I let it ride in the hope that it would resolve itself. Pesky agents, I thought. That didn’t happen, so I bit the bullet and opened up a log to see what I co...
⏱️ 04:06 total (1:45 actual) ⇄28.5km ⌀16.1km/h ↗89m ↘?m
Good ride yesterday, to deliver some seedlings I have been growing to a friend who lives under the Fiumicino take-off flight path, just across from the excellent cycle path. It was hot, but not too hot, the going mostly flat, the wind blustery at times, but manageable, and I managed to take in the world’s best roadside food. All good. Naturally I have a complaint.
I had a lot of trouble on my Mac with Time Machine telling me the disk was full and yet I could not find huge wins just by inspection and deleting things that looked too big. I drafted ChatGPT in to help diagnose the problem and it had me jump through all sorts of hoops, which did eventually recover the space I needed.
There’s this idea in IndieWeb circles of the admin tax. That’s the work you have to do in order to be somewhat independent of the big silo platforms, the price you pay instead of paying with your attention. Mostly, I not only don’t mind, I quite enjoy some aspects of the tinkering, but as you move...
There is not a lot of external evidence for what has been a very busy month one way and another, but I know.