Podcast Friday: The BirchTree Podcast 🎙 

“A companion podcast to https://birchtree.me by Matt Birchler”

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In case you need something not terrible to read today. 😃

Sweet Tart the Cat Becomes Mayor of Michigan Town, Brings Purrs to Politics

✅ Clean up bookmarks and remove dead links.

In case anyone hasn’t wasted hours with this game yet. 🤣

Universal Paperclips

📎 📎 📎 📎 📎

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I don’t know what I did.. Somehow I got a new UI for youtube.com and it’s MUCH better! So much cleaner and more fits on the screen now!

Please don’t revert

Streaming Fortnite - Battle Royale Live on Twitch! 🎮

👍🏃‍♂️

This Episode of Shortcuts is one of my favorites so far! It was a great project to research and learn more about micropub and how it works!

Shortcuts Ep. 7
Photo Upload to hosted Micro.blog / Retrieve URL

Shortcuts Ep. 7

Siri Shortcuts - Episode 7

Shortcut Name: Photo Upload to hosted Micro.blog / Retrieve URL
Revision: 1.0
Add to Shortcuts!

What does it do?
This Shortcut lets you select a photo from your library and upload it to your hosted micro.blog media repository, and retrieve a link to that photo so that you can use it on your micro.blog hosted pages without the need to link out to external storage.

How does it work?

  1. Ask user to select a photo from their photo library.
  2. Converts the photo highest quality .jpg. (this mitigates any issues if the photo is .HEIC)
  3. It now posts the converted photo to the https://micro.blog/micropub/media endpoint.
  4. The response from the server is received as text.
    Example: {“url”:”http:\/\/www.burk.io\/uploads\/2018\/151f65c6fc.jpg”}
  5. Regex is used \B:|[{}”\\]|url to remove unnecessary characters, leaving you with a standard URL.
    Example: http://burk.micro.blog/uploads/2018/151f65c6fc.jpg
  6. Finally the cleaned up URL is copied to the clipboard.

“Source Code”
Shortcut Episode 7 Code

Check out all the Shortcuts on Github

Sorry about all the trash posts everyone!

(Going to get another micro.blog account for testing stuff so I can avoid this in the future!)

🔗 The Vox Vacation Index

finding a great macroeconomic bargain is about more than simply looking up exchange rates.

Who knew!?

🔗 What Lie Beneath Europe’s Top Tourist Attractions

Photography can reveal the hidden side of things, and that’s exactly what photographer Tomas Sentpetery traveled around Europe to capture.

🙌🎉 Season 5 Victory Royale! #1 😀

Queen of the printer. 🐱 👑

I seem to be having issues with charging my 10.5” iPad Pro over the last few weeks.. Can’t quite nail down what is going on.. 🤔

OH NO! I just heard a click come from the HDD in my NUC server.. 😱

Shortcuts Episode 6

Satisfaction Level Tip Calculator w/check splitting!

This one is so handy when you have it in the Shortcuts widget (in the Today View).

Shortcuts Ep. 6

Siri Shortcuts - Episode 6

Shortcut Name: Happy Level Tip Calculator
Revision: 1.0
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What does it do?
This Shortcut is a handy tip calculator that allows you to choose a tip amount based on how you felt about the service, and then let’s you also split the check if necessary. It all runs from within the Shortcut Widget in the Today View, so it’s super fast and convenient!

How does it work?

  1. Ask for input regarding the amount of the meal check and set to variable meal.
  2. Choose how the experience made you feel:
  • 😃 Great! (20% tip)
  • 😐 Meh. (15% tip)
  • ☹️ Not Good. (8% tip)
    Set selection to variable tip_select.
  1. Calculate tip amount: meal x tip_select. Set variable tip.
  2. Calculate total: meal+tip, and round amount. Set variable total.
  3. Prompt if check should be split between multiple people, and how many people. Set the number of people to variable party.
  4. Calculate split amount: total / party and set variable to total_split. Show amount for each person in result.
  5. If check is not to be split, the total amount is shown.

“Source Code”
Shortcut Episode 6 Code

Check out all the Shortcuts on Github

Run Log Update
Calendar Week: 29

Total Miles
This Week: 4.45
This Year: 170.59

Notes

  • 68% complete!
  • 56% through the year!

Goal For 2018: 250 Miles 🏃‍♂️

🔗 A coffe cup. Made from coffee! ☕️

Tip for setting up “Preview Themes” in MarsEdit for m.b standard themes.

Use the “Download Template” feature. It will initially pull the “still posting” generic page, then try it again in a couple mins and it will pull the real theme after the test post goes through.

Shortcuts Ep. 5

Siri Shortcuts - Episode 5

Shortcut Name: Save Safari URL to saved.io Bookmarking Service
Revision: 1.0
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What does it do?
This one came from an idea that @cm wanted to accomplish on their iPhone. The idea is to take a given Safari page, and send a link to the bookmarking service saved.io. The premise of the service is that you simply replace the http:// or https:// of the URL with https://saved.io/ and it adds it to your saved account.

How does it work?

  1. Use the share sheet to send the URL of the current webpage to the Shortcut.
  2. Then convert the URL to text.
  3. Use regex to find either http:// or https:// and replace with https://saved.io/
  4. Open the newly formatted URL in Safari.

“Source Code” Shortcut Episode 5 Code

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