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We had a walk round Loch Ardinning reserve this morning.
Turned out warm, still and clear despite the forecast.

Grass drying from the rain, sparkling.

Fair number of butterflies around, Small Tortoiseshells, Ringlets, some Whites and a lot of Painted Ladies. One or two others I didn’t ID, including a duller red/brown one.

Plenty of blue damselflies and some small red dragonflies.

Saw one wee lizard wriggling away through the grass and one on the wall. The latter looked as if it was regrowing its tail.Small Tortoiseshell Butterfly View of campsies from Ardinning raindrops on grass Painted Lady Common Lizard basking on wall

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Liked Had to redo my style shee by Greg McVerryGreg McVerry (quickthoughts.jgregorymcverry.com)
Had to redo my style sheet https://jgregorymcverry.com/ because Dancing Hamsters are getting no love on hacker news: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20545257 forget building for SEO, build for fun. Bring back all the silly animated background images #IndieWeb
Bring back all the silly animated background images!

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If I embed tweets on this blog I usually just paste in the url to the tweet and it auto-magically embeds.

Today I did this but as the tweet was part of a thread it brought other tweets in. I checked the tweet embed page and although you can hide the thread with that pasting it into WordPress seems to strip the javascript and you still get the thread.

This page,Twitter Embeds — Support — WordPress.com came to the rescue

[tweet https://twitter.com/lewiswake/status/1155162973683556352 hide_thread='true']

gives a nice single tweet.

NB, for Scottish educators, this is not true for Glow Blogs at the moment. I suspect due to our version of Jetpack?

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You provide an interesting reflection on workflows Ton.
Personally, I spend so much of my writing of late on my Nexus 6P. For longer posts, I still often start in Trello using Markdown, however for my collected posts I utilise the post editor. Although I have tinkered with Indigenous, I have become …

Reply: On mobile blogging

I’ve thought about mobile quite a lot of the years1, played with different types of postings.

My class post to their e-portfolio blogs and class blog using iPads, which give an ok but not great experience. We usually write in the notes app, paste over and add media. I am worried, still, about the transition to Gutenberg.

As an apple user lot of the friction, for me has been solved by micro.blog. I mostly posts photos on the go. It is harder to write IndieWeb replies, bookmarks etc. while mobile. Adding a footnote is easy on my laptop, but I wouldn’t want to try on my phone.

There is certainly room of an app or WordPress plugin that would give a very cutback experience. One of the great things about micro.blog is that posting images does not fill up your editor screen and make text harder to add in the way the WordPress editor does.

1. Since 2007 with my class on a 2g phone ↩
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Replied to https://quickthoughts.jgregorymcverry.com/2019/07/26/i-finished-the-third-lesson-in-the by Greg McVerryGreg McVerry (quickthoughts.jgregorymcverry.com)
I finished the third lesson in the #IndieWeb 101 Build Your First Website unit I am working on as part of my #feldgang learning journey for #clmooc. https://buildyourfirstwebsitelessonplans.glitch.me/lessonthree.html I welcome any feedback.

Hi Greg,

I like the way Build-A-Site is coming along. Looks very practical and easy to follow along. I especially like the nav and accordion stuff.