Added Bukmark Club and A Webring List to the Blogging Tips & Tools page ✍️
Photo challenge day 21: Silhouette
Ko Chang, Thailand on November 20, 2019 using iPhone 11 Pro 📷
Swedish Midsummer: family, frogs & flowers
Today is Midsummer’s Day here in Sweden. Of all the holidays we celebrate, this might just be the biggest. Yes, even bigger than Christmas. This year, I spent it with my family in Åkersberga, the neighborhood where I grew up. It was a lovely day with great weather, lots of people, and of course, the iconic Midsummer pole. Part of the tradition involves decorating the pole with flowers and birch branches before raising it.
Photo challenge day 20: Gather 📷
Perfect timing with today’s prompt since it’s Midsummer Eve celebration here in Sweden today. 🥳🇸🇪
Ordered the “IndieWeb is Punk” T-shirt created by Jim Mitchell, based on a blog post by Jamie Thingelstad. Glad it was possible to get it shipped to Sweden for an extra fee (Total: $49.56). ✍️
Today is Midsummer’s Eve in Sweden! To celebrate, I decided to give my blog a Midsummer pole logo. Glad midsommar! 🇸🇪☀️
Speaking of Finding my genuine English voice, so to speak, I decided to embarrass myself by adding an audio version. Worst idea ever! 😂
Micro.blog Wishlist
It’s been a couple of weeks since I moved my blog to Micro.blog, and it’s been a nice experience so far. I like the possibilities the platform provides without having to come up with half-baked workarounds. But, as with any platform, there are some things I miss. Here are some that first come to mind for me: Category Description I’d love to add some text to the categories I create. Nothing fancy, just a simple description with Markdown support.
Finding my genuine English voice
My blogging workflow used to involve writing in Swedish and then translating it into English. I did it that way to make the writing process as smooth as possible. Today, I decided to try writing in English from scratch. It doesn’t feel natural, and it takes longer, but I want to give it a fair shot. Maybe it’ll help calm my recurring blogging overthinking (probably not). But the main reason for this change is that I think my writing will be more “true.
Photo challenge day 19: Equal 📷
From one of the stops during yesterday’s work in the archipelago. Silverpilen = Silver arrow. 📷
Trying the Raycast extension for Micro.blog. Not sure if or how I will use it, but I like the possibillity. ✍️
The overthinking blogger
I’m dragging my feet when it comes to writing this post. Or rather, publishing it. Not because I find it embarrassing (well, okay, maybe a little). But mostly because I’ve touched on this topic so many times before that it’s starting to feel boringly repetitive. If you’ve followed my blogging for a while, you already know what it’s about: my ambivalence about blogging. On one hand, I love blogging. On the other hand, I never quite seem to figure out how I want to do it.
Photo challenge day 18: Texture 📷
Never forget to remember
Today I spent the whole day working in the Swedish archipelago. A colleague and I traveled around by water taxi, visiting several fantastic islands of varying sizes. On days like this, it almost feels wrong to call it work. It feels more like a vacation. Beautiful weather, open water, stunning nature, and places that seem straight out of a fairytale. Of course, not every workday looks like this. There are only a handful like these each year, but I’m just as grateful every time.
Photo challenge day 17: Warmth 📷
Jumped on the Google tram, but before I reached my destination, the AI voice announces: “Service canceled.”
One step at a time
One ongoing project for this new home of my blog is to move content over from my old platform—like I just did with the BlogBuddy shortcut. There’s quite a bit to go through, so it’ll probably take a while. I plan to bring over one or two posts every now and then; otherwise, it starts to feel unmanageable. This principle often applies to life in general. Some tasks feel overwhelming when we focus too much on the big picture.
BlogBuddy is an updated version of an Apple shortcut I’ve made to boost and inspire blogging. ✍️
Photo challenge day 16: Blur 📷
