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powering my merikebi with ifttt

Posted on 13 November 201913 November 2019 By antipaucity No Comments on powering my merikebi with ifttt

As I mentioned a while back, I am maintaining a merikebi for myself of as much of my public internet content as possible. The initial seeding of content was done via WordPress import. Then I added a dump from Pocket of everything I’d saved there. Lastly, to keep it going, I made a few IFTTT…

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personal, technical

archivist

Posted on 17 August 201930 July 2019 By antipaucity 1 Comment on archivist

For a long time, I’ve been concerned about knowledge capture. And archiving. I’ve finally done something about my own public persona. It’s not 100% complete, but I’ve created my own “online merikebi” of public content. It’s over at https://merikebi.warrenmyers.com. It’s collecting posts from all of my blogs, Reddit, and Twitter. As and when appropriate (and…

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history, personal

apple tv – how apple can beat amazon and google

Posted on 13 January 2017 By antipaucity 5 Comments on apple tv – how apple can beat amazon and google

In e99 of Exponent, Ben Thompson makes a compelling case for his idea that Amazon Echo (Alexa) is an operating system – and that Amazon has beaten Apple (with Siri) and Google Home (with Assistant) at the very game they both try to play. And I think he’s onto the start of something (he goes…

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commentary, insights, technical

i’m a medium plogger now*

Posted on 21 January 201621 January 2016 By antipaucity No Comments on i’m a medium plogger now*

(*Though most people would call me an XXXL blogger.) Following in the steps of Dave Winer, I am now plogging (sorta) on Medium. And, like Mr Winer, I’m doing it via IFTTT (though not via RSS, I’m doing it via the WordPress channel). If you’d like to do the same, use this IFTTT recipe.

cool, tutorial

automation is a multiplier

Posted on 28 August 201527 August 2015 By antipaucity No Comments on automation is a multiplier

Multipliers. They’re ubiquitous – from ratchet wrenches to fertilizer, blocks-and-tackle to calculators, humans rely on multipliers all the time. Multipliers are amazing things because they allow an individual to “do more with less” – a single person can build a coral castle with nothing more complex than simple machines. Or move 70 people at 70 miles…

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commentary, insights, technical

what level of abstraction is appropriate?

Posted on 5 May 201512 July 2022 By antipaucity 2 Comments on what level of abstraction is appropriate?

Every day we all work at multiple levels of abstraction. Perhaps this XKCD comic sums it up best: But unless you’re weird and think about these kinds of things (like I do), you probably just run through your life happily interacting at whatever level seems most appropriate at the time. Most drivers, for example, don’t…

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ifttt & box drive my desktop backgrounds … with a little cron happiness

Posted on 26 March 201526 March 2015 By antipaucity 1 Comment on ifttt & box drive my desktop backgrounds … with a little cron happiness

I love that OS X lets me change my background on a schedule (I use every 30 minutes now). But I don’t like having to find pictures to populate my desktop menagerie with. Enter completely SFW backgrounds via RSS feeds! Using IFTTT, I watch for new items from a variety of daily photo feeds, and…

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