Spent a couple of days trying to get Tina.io working on an 11ty site hosted on GitHub – absolute nightmare trying to get it to work.

90 minutes with Pages CMS and it's up and running and working as advertised!

#11ty

@decryption Pre streaming I was a huge Last.Fm fan. “Scrobbling” plays into it would give some great recommendations and associations. They used to have some free samples of songs. Also was always good to go Tag surfing through artists.

NEW POST: April 2025
https://heartsoulmachine.com/blog/2025/05-04-april-2025/
April and it's time for a road trip and some driving time to clear my head.

#blogging4life

FYI https://democracysausage.org/federal_election_2025/

#auspol

Sausage unlocked! A unique Australian activity where once we have completed our compulsory vote, that ensure democratic participation, that give money as a donation to a local community group and in return receive a sausage in a plain slice of bread. An Aussie Taco as I’ve come to call it.

#auspol.

Question: What are people doing #backup wise these days? Curious in particular about backups for #Mac and #iCloud (have a lot of photos I don’t want to lose in there!). Been a long time Dropbox user but have now got files scattered across services and I’m keen to consolidate.

@hibbittsdesign FYI I wrote up my process of forming a value proposition and outcomes. Thanks for the prompt. Was really helpful. https://heartsoulmachine.com/blog/2025/04-29-a-value-proposition-and-outcomes-focus/

NEW POST: A Value Proposition & Outcomes Focus
https://heartsoulmachine.com/blog/2025/04-29-a-value-proposition-and-outcomes-focus/
With an imminent restructure in mind, I thought I'd take a stab at starting to define what I bring to the table and what I've achieved beyond the tangible.

#blogging4life

@hibbittsdesign You're welcome! Knowing that context helps. I was wondering where this came from... I just saw the series of images and was intrigued!

@hibbittsdesign Thanks for posting this Paul. About to go through a restructure and found these descriptors really useful as a way of rethinking my work and role. Is there an accompanying blog post or anything?

NEW POST: Easter Road Trip
https://heartsoulmachine.com/blog/2025/04-28-easter-road-trip/
A brief holiday on the road with Ms 13.

#blogging4life

@carpetbomberz @cogdog wasn’t too hard - needed to verify my GitHub account with my DNS provider. Interesting “hack” though. Not sure how they able to take the domain from me though.

@cogdog thanks! Looks like someone’s stolen it via GitHub. Need to do some DNS verification by the looks of things.

Popped over to BlueSky to borrow a cup of sugar, and came back with this.

Very sweary if that’s not your thing. Excellent in every way.

https://youtu.be/euE8eZTyQQg?feature=shared

#auspol

#TrumVance #ElonMusk #DOGE

can't remember where I saw it but "Using AI in education is like using a forklift in the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you" is a solid quote

Love this perspective. Australia is so focused on the Capital cities (which honestly are a collection of cities in their own right). But investment and thinking about lifestyles like this would make a huge change to the appeal of regional towns and cities. https://aus.social/@BenLeverAU/114344273650880486

A big overhaul of my Notes - both in Obsidian, and on my blog... I mean garden :-) https://heartsoulmachine.com/notes/

Added some little visual cues for notes that are seeds of ideas, budding and in development or they're settled and evergreen.

Obsidian is something else and needs a big clean up/out – but it's starting to function better for me.

Meta Whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams testifies that, "Facebook was targeting 13-17-year-olds. It could identify when they were feeling worthless, or helpless... and share it with advertisers."
h/t Zaamen Quereshi