Pretty short update this week.
📝 I set up Obsidian to publish to Pagecord. As I said in the post, I think I still prefer the post by email feature, but this is really cool.
📱 I went back to iOS 26 on the iPhone 17 Pro. I wasn’t having any problems with it, but I just switched back to it full-time again from the iPhone Air. I still have the iPadOS 27 beta on my iPad Pro, though the battery life seems to kinda suck with beta 3.
📸 I got a Kodak Charmera this week. It’s a fun little camera.
I saw the Kodak Charmera pop up in my feed the other day, so I ordered one. It arrived today. First impression? It’s much smaller than I expected for some reason. I’m not sure why I thought it’d be bigger (I’ve seen photos of people holding them and it’s literally a keychain), but I did. It’s not a problem though, I like how small it is.
🎵 Today's Crucial Track: "If I Only Had a Brain" by MC 900 Ft. Jesus
What's your favorite opening line from any song?
Suppose I accidentally got my shit together
The first time I ever heard this song was on Beavis and Butthead back in the mid-90s, and I thought it was hilarious 😂
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Last night, I decided to finally install Obsidian on my iPad Pro and see what all the fuss is about. Since I wanted to use it to post to my blog, I also installed the Pagecord plugin and the Templater plugin.
The Pagecord plugin handles publishing, but it doesn’t generate front matter for you. So to make my life easier, I created a new blog post template to auto-populate the slug, timestamp, and other front matter:
I’ve been coming to this lake since I was a baby. I learned to swim here, and spent a massive chunk of my childhood swimming, riding my dad’s Wave Runner, or just playing in and around it.
📝 I moved the site to Pagecord, mostly for the Post by Email feature. Everything I’ve posted so far has been using it, and I’m pretty happy with it so far.
🎵 Today's Crucial Track: "4th of July / He Stopped Loving Her Today (feat. George Jones) [Medley]" by Shooter Jennings
Alone with the mornin’ burning’ red
On the canvas in my head
Paintin’ a picture of you
And me, driving’ across country
In a dusty, old RV
Just the road and its majesty
And I'm lookin’ at you
With the world in the rear view
I’ve driven across the country 4 times and have always wanted to take it slowly in an RV and not be in a rush to make it to the other side.
Happy 4th of July!
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🎵 Today's Crucial Track: "Violence" by WE$TPHAL
I woke up in a mood today. This song is catchy af though.
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🎵 Today's Crucial Track: "South Eastenders" by Pete & Bas
I love these old British dudes. This whole song is fire, but I especially love this verse by Pete:
Pulling up in a black Ranger Raptor
Bald on the noggin', I slap fifty factor
Any sales better go through P
You think you're the plug, I'm the fuckin' adapter
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A week or two ago, I tried to submit the site’s sitemap.xml file in the Google Search Console (GSC). I was able to do so, but GSC has a status of “Couldn’t fetch”:
I’ve decided to move the blog over to Pagecord — at least for now — mostly due to the post by email feature (which I’m using to post this).
I emailed yesterday and asked to have my blog imported and Olly got back to me a couple of hours later saying it was done. Everything should be moved over (and updated in a couple of spots). Please let me know if you find anything broken.
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Relatively short one this week. It’s been gross and rainy outside all week and there hasn’t been much going on.
This photo I took the other day in my garage with my Camp Snap 2 made me think of the song American Flags in Black & White by John Moreland.
Week of June 14
📱 After a couple weeks using the iPhone Air, I’m back on the iPhone 17 Pro. I have the iOS 27 beta on the Pro, so we’ll see how using that full time goes. I don’t really anticipate issues – it’s been pretty good in my testing – but I’ll find out soon enough.
My twins turn 17 today, and I could not be more proud of the young men they’ve become. I know I post this photo every year, but it’s my favorite and I don’t care — I’m posting it anyway ☺️
Happy birthday boys, I love you ❤️
