The two monsters inside of me:

  • One that craves time alone to just do whatever I feel like.
  • One that’s angry with the world for leaving me alone and making me feel invisible.

I lay down for a nap and suddenly I was in a JJ Abrams movie.

Me laying sideways with a sun flare over my head

…but I’ve also been exploring Ghost and Matt’s post on his move to Ghost comes at a perfect time.

I’m swinging back around to the idea that I should just have my blog and main site on Micro.blog. I overthink it until I do nothing so we’ll see where I’m at by Sunday. 😆

I heard a Kansas City tiktoker I follow say this about the shooting there, and it resonates as strongly with what’s happening with the Sask Party’s leadership here in Saskatchewan: “I’m so tired of living under the tyranny of our nation’s dumbest people.”

When it comes to managing my own website, sometimes it’d be easier to not know what I sort of know, ya know? If my brain wasn’t filled with CSS HTML standards accessibility optimization speed search engine buzzwords, I’d just slap up a PDF with my services and be done. 😆

Argylle, 2024 - ★★½

Watched on Tuesday February 13, 2024.

With this comment on one of my tiktoks, I think I’ve passed the Wilford Brimley line.

A comment on tiktok reading “Julie this is the most adorable video I’ve ever seen”

I wasted an hour of my morning because I forgot that WordPress requires you to pay $400CAD/year for hosting if you want to install one of WordPress' own plugins.

I’ve been hearing more about Fourthwall as a Patreon alternative, but only from random websites mentioning it. I haven’t seen any creators I follow using it afaik. Anyone subscribed to someone via Fourthwall?

I’m trying to like Stage Manager on macOS, but it’s not quite clicking for me. I can see how it’d be handy on an iPad, but my brain is so hard wired to singular windows and CMD-tabbing my way through them.

I have to take some recalled salad back to Costco which will probably end up costing me $350.

I feel a similar sentiment applies to podcasting as well. a.wholelottanothing.org/2024/02/0…

My hope for YouTube creators is much like bloggers. Don’t spend all your time chasing the tea leaves and conventional wisdom. Focus on your channel/site and keep creating things you love that will resonate with your viewers/readers. Hopefully the money will follow, but obsessing over how to eeek out every last cent from your work will make your work suffer.

The Greatest Night in Pop, 2024 - ★★★

Watched on Saturday February 10, 2024.

My ideal work week has 80% podcast editing related activities, and 20% invoicing, estimating, and related business managing activities.

Is there someone out there who’s the inverse of that? Wants to edit 20% of the time, but otherwise enjoys estimating and invoicing? 🤔

Hey #Saskatchewan peeps: what awful corporation have you signed your cell phone plan(s) over to these days and why?

These are the estimates Tiktok shows you for potential earnings from “going live” on tiktok. I assume this is what those cosplaying NPC accounts are chasing? So far I’ve gotten $0.05 off my 700 followers. 😆

Tiktok saying if you have 2,000 subscribers you’ll get $4,200 a month Tiktok saying if you have 50,000 subscribers you’ll get $105,000 a month Tiktok saying if you have 100,000 subscribers you’ll get $210,000 a month

Almost every online community I’m connected with has a fair share of people who dip in to say “look at my stuff” and then dip out just as quickly. I know there’s always the self promoters among us, but it seems worse than it used to be.

Just me? I miss community.

Oh wow. I am so surprised that Spotify is walking back a feature that a bunch of podcasters used and now their shows are gutted. Who could have seen this coming?? /sarcasm

Have you ever wanted to fix a video where the Minister of Education keeps looking down at the script instead of into the camera? Me neither. Either way, here’s a Descript tutorial on how to do that if you ever need to.