I love Pleroma for micro blogging but one of my major pain points was compressing images before uploading them. On iPhone I was using very annoying ad filled app; on desktop I used ImageMagick. All because I didn't want to overload my server with huge images that also slow down browser load times.

Last night I found out Pleroma has built in image filtering / transformation options! Now all images if larger than 900px in any dimension are shrunk down.

#pleroma

Researching buoyancy control devices.

#scuba

So incremental games are a thing.

https://github.com/ihtasham42/progress-knight

Warning. It’s pretty addictive. 👾

Interesting tool for data visualization I want to try.

https://datasette.io/

#data
#tech

First piece of cast iron cookware!

#cooking

Nice collection of programming design patterns. https://github.com/DovAmir/awesome-design-patterns

#tech

Writing my first Clojure in years.

https://paste.sr.ht/~travisshears/6199dc4c6f147b894439901831e7bcae0fed60f7

#tech

Got a cookbook 📕 for Christmas! This one I’ve been interested in for a while. It follows the 1960s The French Chef public access TV series by Julia Child.


#cooking

Fighting cyano. Also adjusted lighting schedule, lighting intensity, and started feeding less. Hopefully the problem will slowly fade in the first months of 2023.

#reeftank

Been looking forward to picking up this card game up for a while.

Bohnanza

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/11/bohnanza

#boardgame

Hilarious Czech game where you have to make bunny ears and moose antlers under pressure.

Ušáci a paroháči.

Lucky to have Czech speaking friends to run the game.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/59149/bunny-bunny-moose-moose


#boardgame
#boardgame_review

Back in the gym for the first time in a long time.

#alpinism

Upgraded this Pleroma instance to 2.4.5 ✅.

Wrote how on my site as a snippet: https://travisshears.com/snippets/update-pleroma-server/


https://git.pleroma.social/pleroma/pleroma/-/releases/v2.4.5

#pleroma

Dosing is a lot easier with a proper container. Well worth it.

#reeftank

Masha joined me for a voice over in my latest dive log. We talk about our adventures diving caves in Mallorca.

https://travisshears.com/diving/dive-log/bmw-cave/

#scuba

I caught a fish!

As in after a day of waiting I was finally able to lure him into fish trap and remove him from main tank. Setting up a quarantine tank for this clown fish with an inflamed eye.

#reeftank

Got out the sketchbook for my latest dive log post.

https://travisshears.com/diving/dive-log/geronimo-cave/

#scuba

Finished my first book in a while, The Magic of Recluce. A fun fantasy novel centered around the struggle between order and chaos. It follows a young order order master / wizard coming of age and into his powers.

After starting the second book, The Towers of the Sunset, I’m starting to see the formula. A coming of age story to drive the plot that continues to explains on the world, the magic, and the history. Quite effective and entertaining.

There are twenty two books in the series. Let’s see how far I can go.

https://www.lemodesittjr.com/the-books/saga-recluce/magic-recluce/

#book

Camel up Boardgame Review:

It’s the final round. Your prized camel 🐫 has nearly made it to the finish line. All the bets are about to payoff! Then from behind a competitor closes the gap. Oh know now he’s on top of your camel! Literally riding yours across the finish line 🏁 stealing the first place.

So goes the fun mix of gambling, stacking camels on top of each other, and shaking the pyramid dice box game that is Camel up. Good fun definitely adding it to the wishlist.


#boardgame
#boardgame_review

Belarus makes the best potato 🥔 chips, fact.

Yum 😋