Fixing my Chevy Sonic Climate Controls
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Fixing my Chevy Sonic Climate Controls

I had a little unexpected project recently with my car. And one that went better than fixing the window, which just failed and resulted in a returned part and a window that no longer functions. I was adjusting the blower setting on the air conditioner and there was a stiff turn before it just, stopped working. The knob still turned but the blower was stuck on "blow out the main vents." I would have been less worried if it were any season except winter, but its winter, so eventually, I will need the defroster. After checking online to confirm that…
WordPress Image Optimization
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WordPress Image Optimization

Something I've tried to do, then forgot I was trying to do, for while now, is to optimize the images across the WordPress sites I have.   It's actually just this one for me, and my wife's two old blogs she no longer really uses.  There are a variety of plug ins that do this, I believe all of them require subscribing to some sort of API.  I'm not spending \$100 to optimize my 22,000 images and I'm not going to remember to come back monthly to chip away at 500 free images per month. The thing is, I'm also, pretty…
Sharing Workflow
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Sharing Workflow

So, I wrote this, or at least, something like this, then sat on it for months, and now its out of date. Its GROTESQUELY out of date. The new/current system is way better thanks to this thing I had AI build. Its also a process that has sort of, evolved over time. It was a digest that posted daily on its own, but I didn't always share stuff, so it because one I shared randomly, then weekly, manually. Then it was attached to my weekly write ups. I may still use the wrap up, but now.it just shares. And it…
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Code Project – Auto-Sharing Micro-blog

So I wrote a post a while back about my sharing workflow from Fresh RSS. Basically, as I read stories in my RSS Reader, I tag anything I find interesting. Then, sometime.on Friday or Saturday, I run a script that pulls all those stories, asks if I want to add commentary, and adds them to a queue that sits in a basic text file. Another script runs on a Cron job every hour and pulls pulls links and posts them to my Mastodon and Bluesky accounts. It also creates an archive file of everything posted. It also dumps an HTML…
Digital Garden
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Digital Garden

I have essentially completed my Digital Garden project. I say "essentially" because I am sure I will iterate more and its intended to be added to, pruned, and maintained. Its a garden. What is a Digital Garden? Honestly, its a bit nebulous, but its basically, a curated block of resources online. A Wiki is sort of a Digital.Garden, but those tend to be a lot more complex, making them something more. For my part, its just, a collection of sorted links on various topics I am interested in. It started out as just something to sort my Bookmarks into. It…