The Micro.blog Google Tag Manager plugin in action … tracking percent scrolled as well as 25%, 50%, 75%, and 100% of estimated reading time spent on a page.

Dammit … I should have asked my pandemic denier whether he also happened to be knee deep in blood-libelish-cabal-of-immortals conspiracy while I had the chance.

If anyone is curious about my first conversation with Rachel for #ALT2, it was for this episode: #ThinkTankFodder.

Had another nice chat with Rachel for #ALT2 for her latest episode US.

Now that I know Twitter promotion can drive traffic to a post, I can't decide whether to restore Disqus for comments or just avoid setting myself up for disappointment.

Apple … if you really loved me … you'd let me write iOS and iPadOS Shortcuts scripts in Swift.

Y'all have no idea how much the whitespace sh$t show bothers me in Hugo templated site HTML. Maybe I should just figure out how to minify all the pages and give up on legibility.

When you've become so used to avoiding human contact that you actually consider ordering washer fluid off Amazon.

Really wish my vehicle spoke to me in that sassy little Australian accent I gave Siri.

A Google Tag Manager Hugo plugin for Micro.Blog that injects the requisite Javascript along with a data layer pushing post meta and estimated reading time with which timer events may be fired off for tracking actual digestion of content, holler if I oughta show under the hood.

Demographics for the Twitter promotion have been interesting.

So the hard part is feeling your buttons being pushed … taking a breath … and manifesting a reality into existence where those buttons do not even exist.

If they finish like they started, #Dune will be the franchise of the decade … if not the franchise of the first half of the century. Frank Herbert's material is that good.

So pumped that #Dune (Part One) is actually part one … these m0therf$&kers did it right.

Playing around with Google Tag Manager, used my custom Hugo theme to lay in some global Javascript variables capturing the per-post estimated reading time, which are picked up by Google Tag Manager to fire timers. Now Imma know when y'all actually be "reading" them essays.

Waste a morning proxying Plausible through Cloudflare and incorporating that configuration as an option into your Micro.blog plugin just 'cause you're curious … f$&kin' ✓

The expanded sand castle collection.

BTW … my employ of ebonics remains a mystery. There must be something achieved stylistically when I choose to break into it … but I've yet to figure out what that is … unless it is simply the remnant of cultural appropriation growing up in Cobb County, Georgia in the 80s and 90s.

Nothing says healthy living like a slice of orange at the bottom of a beer glass.

25 minutes in and so far #Dune is on point.

Murphy's best Chewbacca

Six … the answer was six Frank Herbert novels … and for some reason Children of Dune really stuck in my head.

How many Frank Herbert novels did I read? Fingers-f$&king-crossed #Dune is up to the challenge … and in it for the long haul.

Somewhere around episode six #Foundation be reminding me of the magnificence of the trilogy I vaguely remember reading.