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Fun fact: I have a TextExpander snippet to write the Throwback Thursday text, that automatically includes the appropriate week number and year, thusly:

2021-08-05 · site · ThrowbackThursday

#! /bin/tcshset w=`date +"%U"` ; set y=`expr 1969 + $w + 1` ; echo "For week/year $w of my 52 years celebration, from ${y}: . #ThrowbackThursday #52years" Which outputs: For week/year 31 of my 52 years celebration, from 2001: . #ThrowbackThursday #52years

I’m still working on getting my new Sinclair Trails blog set up. The site is operational, but there’s a configuration issue that prevents posting to the blog via MarsEdit. I’m working with my hosting provider to fix it, but they’re rather slow.

2021-08-05 · site

I’ve just created a new blog for my and Jenn’s RV adventures. The SSL certificate is still in the works, and more posts will be coming once the site is fully operational, but here it is: Sinclair Trails.

2021-08-02 · site

I don’t suppose there’s any way to prevent macOS updates stomping on my local website every time? After doing an OS update, I have to do some magical incantations in Terminal to get my localhost (dejal.local) site working again. I use this for local testing of website changes before pushing to my production server.

2021-02-02 · Local · site · Virtual

If interested, here is my spellbook to re-enable the local website and PHP, based on instructions I found on the web; presumably I could script this in some way, but I'm not confident enough with scripting or messing with these files to try that: % sudo nano /etc/apache2/httpd.conf Uncomment these: LoadModule authz_host_module libexec/apache2/mod_authz_host.so LoadModule authz_core_module libexec/apache2/mod_authz_core.so LoadModule userdir_module libexec/apache2/mod_userdir.so LoadModule rewrite_module libexec/apache2/mod_rewrite.so LoadModule php7_module libexec/apache2/libphp7.so LoadModule…

As for the @dejal header, in addition to being green now, it is simplified to just three items, and the Apps item now shows a menu of my apps (or click the Apps link to go to the Apps page). That lets me remove the apps from the sidebars, and later the sidebars themselves.

2021-01-06 · dejal · site

Speaking of @dejal, I’ve continued to tweak its website, very slowly modernizing it. Yesterday I pushed out a new green Dejal header and a shrinking and sticky app header. Here’s a GIF demo. I’m not a web developer, so I’m kinda proud that I could get this working fairly well.

2021-01-06 · dejal · site

Yesterday I posted about a tweak to the Dejal site, showing the Time Out page. For Throwback Thursday, I thought I’d share some screenshots from the Wayback Machine of ancient variations of that page, starting from 2003. #ThrowbackThursday

2020-12-10 · dejal · site · ThrowbackThursday

As a fun activity on today’s Weekend Wednesday, I tweaked the Dejal site to bump up the font size on the main text areas. These are marketing pages; they should be more readable. I plan on more changes in the future. Compare old and new.

2020-12-09 · dejal · site

The Micro.blog photo challenge for August is now over. It was a lot of fun; thanks to @macgenie for organizing it! You can see all of my photos for the challenge via the tag "mbaug" on my blog.

2020-09-01 · site

Now that I’ve done several #MediaMonday posts, I’ve added a page to the Dejus site to collect links to them in alphabetical order, grouped by media kind. The page is always available via the sidebar from the “hamburger” icon.

2020-06-01 · MediaMonday · site

People self-hosting WordPress sites and cross-posting to Micro.blog and/or Twitter: by default WordPress converts emojis to images, which breaks emoji-based tagging, among other issues. I just installed a plugin to disable that. 🔌🎉

2020-04-15 · site

On the homestead blog: a post summarizing summaries of projects. Want a convenient place to see my various construction projects? Enjoy!

2019-08-21 · building · site

I’ve decided to stop using the #dejus365 hashtag on my daily photo posts, since hashtags are a bit out-of-place on my favorite social platform, Micro.blog, and I don’t see sufficient benefit in using it. I still plan to post at least one photo every day.

2019-08-18 · dejus365 · site

Apparently Facebook is down at present. I only noticed because I got an error trying to manually cross-post my daily photo there, for friends & family that haven’t seen the light of Micro.blog.

2019-03-13 · site

Happy New Year! 🎉

2019-01-01 · dejus365 · site

I've just added a SSL certificate to the dejus.com site, like all the cool kids are doing nowadays (even though this blog doesn't really need it, other than to avoid scary warnings by some dodgy browsers). Go secure!

2018-11-08 · site

Hello World!

2018-01-01 · david · dejal · site

Greetings! I am David Sinclair, an indie macOS and iOS app developer. My company is Dejal, where I have a number of apps, and also offer consulting services. This is my new personal blog, where I will post random comments on life, the universe, and everything, plus photos of pizzas, my pet cats and dog, and probably lots of other things that don't fit on the Dejal or other blogs.