Posted 12 Months of Microposts: 2023. It’s the little details of each day I try to celebrate in my Microposts—our hobbies and interests, home life, physical activity, volunteering, and being with friends and family.
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12 Months of Microposts: 2023
I celebrate the little details of every day in my Microposts. In this post I somewhat arbitrarily chose one micropost for each month of 2023.
Adieu to X
Stopped posting my daily Microposts to X/Twitter after almost eleven years. The platform’s shift under Elon Musk’s leadership conflicts with my values. All 4,000 Microposts are archived on tomwilson.com where I can group them by things I care about.
Sayonara X
Finished replacing X Posts (formerly Tweets) embedded in my blog posts with the corresponding Microposts from my Web site. Last year I exported all my then Tweets to WordPress. My site now has no X (formerly Twitter) dependencies, so I now have the option to close my X account.
Twitter Migration
Posted Twitter Migration.
Twitter Migration
I needed to get as far away as possible from Elon Musk. It was time to migrate all my Tweets to my Web site.
12 Months of Microposts: 2022
Posted 12 Months of Microposts: 2022. Somewhat arbitrarily, I’ve selected one Micropost from each month of 2022.
12 Months of Microposts: 2022
Somewhat arbitrarily, I’ve selected one Micropost from each month of 2022.
Visualizing the World in 1603
On a chilly walk, warmed up at an exhibit in a university library: The Art of the Travel Narrative. A standout was A Complete Map of the Ten Thousand Countries of the World drawn by Chinese cartographers in 1603. Google Translate and an interactive digitized version revealed fact and fantasy.
Falling Down a Rabbit Hole
Spent way too much time adjusting my Website’s home page. It can be challenging to get pages to display adequately for different screen sizes: I favor Responsive Design where the system figures this out for me. Sometimes, I tweak for certain screen sizes, falling down the Adaptive Design rabbit hole.