Automating cross-posts to Tumblr, using duct tape and rubber cement
I’ve been having a lot of trouble over the years posting to Tumblr. The native Tumblr apps and web page for creating new posts have gotten more and more difficult to use. I suspect the software has been redesigned over and over again by people who do not actually use Tumblr, and think Tumblr users are semi-literate idiots and perverts.
We are not semi-literate idiots.
There are several automated channels for posting to Tumblr, but they all result in ugly, ugly formatting errors, or duplicate posts.
I think I may have hit on a solution: For years now I’ve been automatically generating a daily email newsletter of my blog posts, using RSS and MailChimp. I realized this evening that MailChimp automatically generates its own RSS feeds. I wired the RSS to Tumblr using IFTTT and voila – a daily post on my Tumblr. Hopefully. If it works.
You can subscribe to the newsletter here, by the way, if that’s your thing: Subscribe.
And this is me on Tumblr: Mitch’s Tumblr.
For the past couple of weeks, my blog home has been on micro.blog: mitchwagner.micro.blog. So far I am very happy with it and not inclined to go anywhere.
I have seen this car parked at Lake Murray occasionally for years. It’s always been beat up and decaying, but I used to think it looked beautiful, like a well worn leather jacket. Now it looks like it wants to die.
An earlier product name, “Gee, Your Hair Smells Like a Cheesesteak,” was rejected by focus groups. 1982 ad via
La Mesa Shop Owner Arrested After Attack on San Diego Media (I have a slight personal connection to this story)
A La Mesa shop owner – already the subject of a sexual harassment investigation – was arrested on battery and vandalism charges Tuesday following a physical altercation between him and local media members recorded on video.
Peter Carzis, 76, was being investigated for reports of alleged harassment on female customers when members of the news media appeared at his shop, Peter’s Men’s Apparel on La Mesa Boulevard, Monday afternoon.
We live in La Mesa, and I have several jackets I’ve bought at this store. I’ve seen reports about Carzis on the La Mesa Happenings Facebook group over the past few months. He was always fine with me when I went in.
Last week I saw a video on the group of someone who appeared to be Carzis, engaging in lewd behavior with a woman while seated on a chair on the sidewalk.
Monday I was meeting a friend for for lunch in La Mesa Village and arrived early, so I decided to walk past Carzis’s shop to see what there was to see. There were two media trucks on the sidewalk; they looked like they were breaking down and getting ready to go.
The La Mesa Happenings group has more than 1,500 new signups since this story broke two days ago.
UPDATE: The store may have had different ownership when I shopped there.
Black Texas teen told to cut his dreadlocks to walk at graduation nbcnews.com
VMware Extends Its SD-WAN Tentacles With Nyansa Acquisition Me/Light Reading
CenturyLink Inks $1.6B Networking Deal With US Interior Department – Me/Light Reading
Clearly we should not elect people President just because they are celebrities, but if we’re going around electing people President just because they are celebrities, why couldn’t we have elected Dolly Parton?
We’ve started watching The Morning Show, which I am pleased to see continues an unbroken record of TV characters named Mitch being jerks.
Every time I read up about IndieWeb I get a headache. So confusing!
I get that regular people may never be interested in IndieWeb but the technology is downright hostile to people who don’t already understand it.
Martin Luther King: Blacks and poor people get "welfare" but whites and rich people get "subsidies"
Whenever the government provides opportunities and privileges for white people and rich people they call it “subsidized” when they do it for Negro and poor people they call it “welfare.” The fact that is the everybody in this country lives on welfare. Suburbia was built with federally subsidized credit. And highways that take our white brothers out to the suburbs were built with federally subsidized money to the tune of 90 percent. Everybody is on welfare in this country. The problem is that we all too often have socialism for the rich and rugged free enterprise capitalism for the poor. That’s the problem."