Category: Write

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

I needed to get as far away as possible from Elon Musk. It was time to migrate all my Tweets to my Web site.

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.

Categorized as Blog

Escape From Twitter

On the day Elon Musk purchased Twitter, downloaded all my Tweets (over 3,500) and developed a scheme for loading them into WordPress as a custom post type. Did a test conversion of the data into a format that can be loaded into WordPress. I’ll continue to cross-post on Twitter.

Twitter Independence

Woke up to the news Elon Musk may buy Twitter. Spent much of the day developing a replacement microblog capability in WordPress. When I add a micropost with WordPress, a Tweet automatically posts to Twitter.