Getting used to the new computer was a delight, mostly. Some issues remain, notably with the lack of ports and the number of external things I need, but overall great joy. The speed of the thing often makes me think it has read my mind. Excellent downtime too, after the usual, hectic, we-must-have-it-by-the-end-of-the-year rush. Boosted too, which is nice.

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Still pursuing the idea of sharing from NewsBlur to other places, especially Known and Micro.blog, I went digging around in the code. All of the options are in a section of NewsBlur-master/media/js/newsblur/reader/reader.js starting at line 2560.

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The abiding delight of methodically re-publishing posts from previous blogging machines has been to rediscover things I enjoyed and had forgotten. On this day 18 years ago, for example, I first wrote about Dunstan Orchard’s amazing website. He explained, with just the right amount of detail, how t...

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Without a doubt, the big news of the month was the arrival of my new computer, an M1 iMac. OK, so it took more than a week to get it going properly, largely because I was in too much of a hurry at the start, but I’m loving it now. At the end of the month I flew in a plane, again.

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One of the bigger self-induced headaches of moving to a new computer was getting passwordless login to my server working properly. Only after getting rid of all the remnants of my former existence as a User with the same name did this finally become possible. That cleared the way to a slightly smaller headache; restoring to good health the various scripts that copy various thing from my server to a local machine.

I used to use cron to do this, even though Apple had deprecated cron some little while ago. I had seven little scripts, each of which cron recited at the requisite interval, and everything was good, but even after login was working just fine, cron wasn’t. I got no joy from cron itself and logs, nor from a fancy-dancy thing called cronitor. I had, a while back, looked at Apple's alternative launchd, and deemed it too difficult. But needs must.

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