Changing how I handle blogging and social media (again)
I vibe-coded a thing! I coaxed Google Gemini to modify the template for mitchwagner.com to hide a specific category of posts from the home page. I’ve been wanting to do that for a couple of years but lacked the skills — I was able to do it in less than two hours with Gemini (including a lunch break lol).
The category is Mitchellaneous — it’s where I post memes and other Internet curiosities. I had been running that on a separate blog for a few weeks; now it’s all here. And folks who were signed up for my newsletters will now just receive one newsletter with everything (which is how I did the newsletters until a couple of weeks ago when I made the switch to two blogs and two newsletters).
Over the years, I’ve had a few ideas for how I want to handle blogging and social media, but haven’t had the coding chops to implement those ideas. With the help of AI, maybe I can finally do it.
Next up: Can I change my newsletter template so all the Mitchellaneous posts go at the end? Hold my beer….
ICE is preparing to spend $38 billion this year on a network of concentration camps to incarcerate 100,000 people. This is obscene. They are the American Gestapo. Fuck ICE.
An 88-year-old grandmother flew for the first time, on a plane piloted by her grandson. She also took Dramamine for the first time.
I love the idea of a single app that reads RSS, Bluesky and Mastodon timelines, all in one place. I have tried Tapestry, Reeder and the Micro.blog timeline and none of them seem right for me. Am I missing an app that does what I am looking for?