Jean MacDonald

Fri, 06 Jul 2018 11:14:38 -0700

This week on @TheWeeklyReview: getting back to basics after a week where both @jamesdempsey and I fall down on the job. No Gold Stars For Us This Week. 🎙

Mon, 02 Jul 2018 10:54:32 -0700

My apologies for no Micro Monday episode this week. Check out these podcasts from Micro.blog community members if you are looking for something to add to your listening queue. (These listings are also available under the 🎙 tagmoji in the Discover tab.)

Wed, 27 Jun 2018 16:02:18 -0700

It’s very basic, but I have welltempered.net running as a WordPress site, integrated with Micro.blog, with webmentions activated. I also installed @dshanske’s IndieWeb-friendly theme. Thanks so much to David, @c and @jgmac1106 for the awesome help. I will pay it forward.

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 20:30:02 -0700

Micro Meetup! A great end to Day One of the Indie Web Summit. The Micro.blog community is awesome. Glad to have @manton in Portland.

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 18:44:28 -0700

At Von Ebert Brewing with @manton, @dori, @aaronpk, @cleverdevil, @shinyobject, @jgmac1106. They have many beers here, so you should come join us if you are in Portland.

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 14:11:46 -0700

Annual mutual admiration society meeting with @cleverdevil at Indie Web Summit.

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 10:58:41 -0700

Exciting to see Indigenous getting recognition from @t at the Indie Web Summit. WTG, @EddieHinkle. 🙋‍♀️

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 22:18:00 -0700

Ada enjoying some pets from her new favorite treat dispenser, I mean person, Dori. #guineapigs

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 20:15:50 -0700

So glad @Dori is here for the Indie Web Summit… and to meet Ada (and Grace!) finally.

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 19:00:44 -0700

Portland Micro Meetup details: we’ll be at Von Ebert Brewing, 131 NW 13th Ave. @manton, @cheesemaker, and I will be there starting at 6 pm. We plan to hang out until 9. Join us!

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 09:08:45 -0700

I had a lot of fun chatting with @vanessa on this week’s Micro Monday episode.

Don’t forget to post a Micro Monday recommendation today. We share those in the Discover tab, so the community can find new people to follow and I can find new guests for the podcast! 🎙

Sun, 24 Jun 2018 17:00:50 -0700

It’s 89 in Portland, 73 in Seattle. That is quite a difference. If I wasn’t already on the train (and I didn’t have visitors coming to Portland tomorrow), I would have been tempted to stay another night!

Sat, 23 Jun 2018 18:00:22 -0700

Celebrating a birthday with one of my oldest dearest friends. Another big birthday decade begins for my cohort. 60 is the new 40, right?

Sat, 23 Jun 2018 14:14:00 -0700

Reminder: please RSVP for the Micro Meetup in Portland. Manton will be in town. 🙂 micro.welltempered.net/2018/06/2…

Sat, 23 Jun 2018 11:42:11 -0700

Hello, Amtrak Cascades. Long time, no see. Seattle-bound.

Fri, 22 Jun 2018 10:06:36 -0700

Portland Micro Meetup with @manton next week! We are planning to meet up on Tuesday, June 26, after the Indie Web Summit. In order to plan for the right number of people, please add your name to this list!

Fri, 22 Jun 2018 09:39:48 -0700

In our latest episode, @jamesdempsey and I take on @verso’s questions in the latest episode of @theweeklyreview. We don’t claim to be productivity gurus, but we like making progress on our own terms and helping each other out.

Episode 9: We’re Not Gurus

Wed, 20 Jun 2018 21:12:44 -0700

After One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest last week, I wanted to rewatch Voyager S3E1 Basics (Part II) for Brad Dourif as the murderous Betazoid Lon Suder. Still my favorite line: “One hologram and one sociopath may not be much of a match for the Kazon, but we’ll have to do.” 🎬🖖

Wed, 20 Jun 2018 12:36:35 -0700

I’m coming to Minneapolis for App Camp For Girls, Aug. 8-11. Let’s have a Micro meetup. There are two options: Wednesday (Aug. 8) evening or Thursday (Aug. 9) lunch. @hisaac, @stevesnider, @PatrickRhone, @verso, anyone else interested: let me know what works for you.

Wed, 20 Jun 2018 08:36:23 -0700

My nieces Paige and Zion had fun recording Guinea Pig Wheekly with me. I had fun recording it on the iPhone and editing it with Wavelength while the guinea pigs finished up their lettuce treats. Listen to the latest episode.

Wed, 20 Jun 2018 07:26:07 -0700

Not sure what drama ensued overnight, but someone flipped their pigloo. #guineapigs

Tue, 19 Jun 2018 20:26:30 -0700

$2450. 😮

A couple has raised almost $7M for RAICES in 4 days. That is pretty amazing…though I admit it pains me to see people using the Facebook fundraising platform.

Tue, 19 Jun 2018 00:18:32 -0700

Oh my goodness. Or your goodness, more accurately. It’s an even $2000, with one more donation in just before midnight. I’m in tears. I will never forget this birthday.

Mon, 18 Jun 2018 23:51:33 -0700

Wow. At this time yesterday, I was feeling defeated and depressed over what our country is doing to asylum-seeking families. I decided to try to raise $1000 for the ACLU in one day. The total? $1790, including amazing support from the Micro.blog community. Thank you. ❤️

Mon, 18 Jun 2018 17:27:32 -0700

A civilized drink on my own before joining up with my family zoo for birthday shenanigans. I am lucky to be here and grateful for everything and everybody I have in my life.

Mon, 18 Jun 2018 16:35:54 -0700

Best. Banker. Ever. Of course, Steven aka @lifesgotmelifted knew it was my birthday and he remembered I’m gluten-free. 🎂

Mon, 18 Jun 2018 12:04:08 -0700

My thanks to @mnmltek for joining me on the Micro @monday microcast this week. I am a fan of Chris’s microcast and I highly recommend it to people as a model of microcasting! monday.micro.blog/2018/06/1…

Mon, 18 Jun 2018 09:29:19 -0700

Got dressed and ready to launch Portland App Camp today. Drove downtown. Got a coffee. And checked the fundraiser. The total is now up to $1310. 😮 Thank you all for giving me something to smile about on my birthday.

Mon, 18 Jun 2018 07:53:41 -0700

Fast forward 4 hours. I got a little sleep, and woke up to find my ACLU fundraiser is up to $935. Only $65 to reach my goal.

Thank you, microbloggers, for contributing and sharing! It’s good to be reminded that the internet is also a force for good.

Mon, 18 Jun 2018 02:57:17 -0700

It’s my birthday eve but I couldn’t sleep. I don’t feel like celebrating. So I decided to raise $1000 for the ACLU which is filing suit against the Administration to end this barbaric practice of separating families at the border. Want to help?

Sun, 17 Jun 2018 09:10:49 -0700

My dad with the grandpig.

Sun, 17 Jun 2018 08:46:42 -0700

On Father’s Day, don’t forget your friends who have lost their dads. I’m lucky to still have mine, but when my mom passed away in 2000, I was amazed at how overwhelming all the Mother’s Day wishes and advertising could be when they don’t apply to you.

Sat, 16 Jun 2018 10:40:54 -0700

Quite possibly my favorite YouTube video, certainly my favorite Doubleclicks video. This Is My Jam

It is a quick happy romp that is deceptively profound on the always-relevant topic of liking what we like, regardless of what others think.

Fri, 15 Jun 2018 21:58:10 -0700

For @Bruce.

Fri, 15 Jun 2018 14:44:04 -0700

I think their noses might be too small for touch screens, @smokey.

Thu, 14 Jun 2018 23:02:15 -0700

It’s been fun having @jamesdempsey here in Portland for Core Audio karaoke and Incredibles 2 release night, with other fun stuff squeezed in between. Like a ukulele/guitar jam with @verso at my house.

Thu, 14 Jun 2018 15:39:58 -0700

The Usual Monkey Wrench

For the first time, @jamesdempsey and I recorded an episode of @TheWeeklyReview in person and outdoors at a bar. We review how our systems held up under the strain of execution at the LIVE near WWDC show.

Wed, 13 Jun 2018 22:12:06 -0700

I might have gotten a bit strident about the lack of a guinea pig emoji. But it was fun chatting about WWDC with the founder of Emojipedia. Clockwise #245: Guinea Pig Hate Mail - Relay FM

Wed, 13 Jun 2018 10:15:59 -0700

Not waiting for Micro Monday to express my happiness that my friend @dori has joined us. We met at a Mac conference in Sonoma when I worked at Smile. She is one of the authors of my favorite tech book, Javascript: Visual QuickStart Guide! I was such a fangirl…and still am!

Wed, 13 Jun 2018 10:08:34 -0700

Happy 15th birthday, Smile!

@macgreg:

Smile History: PageSender, a Fax Story smle.us/1mbi8

No birthday history would be complete without this video, Greg. (PS. The boys on the left just graduated high school, the girls just finished their freshman year at college!)

Mon, 11 Jun 2018 16:30:27 -0700

Today for Micro Monday, I want to recommend @abouthalf, who posts lots of gorgeous art, created by himself and others.

Mon, 11 Jun 2018 16:29:07 -0700

Micro Monday began as as a ritual to provide one thoughtful suggestion of another community member to follow. It spawned a microcast, monday.micro.blog, where we interview one person each week. I’d love hearing your recommendations! C’mon, it’s still Monday somewhere. 😇

Mon, 11 Jun 2018 13:48:58 -0700

So @brentsimmons is not doing prepared talks anymore. I’m glad he announced this publicly:

This means one less middle-aged white man taking up a slot. … If you were thinking of asking me to do a prepared talk at your conference, instead ask someone who doesn’t look like me.

Mon, 11 Jun 2018 09:46:35 -0700

Remember how I said I wanted to do nano-interviews at the Micro.blog meetup last week. Well, I lost my voice. It’s not back entirely, but my pal @jw stepped up and let me interview him anyway. He saved my podcasting streak! monday.micro.blog/2018/06/1…

Sun, 10 Jun 2018 22:12:19 -0700

The first time I’ve seen One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest on the big screen. From a series of films made in Oregon. @hollywoodtheatr is killing it with programming this summer. I want to go every day!

Sun, 10 Jun 2018 19:02:13 -0700

Back at the @hollywoodtheatr for a different mind trip.

Sat, 09 Jun 2018 15:45:24 -0700

I have to admit I still feel discouraged at the various WWDC events and talks I attend, seeing the gender ratio so skewed. People often ask “How can I help things change?” My App Camp comrade, Omni engineer @liz offered up great suggestions in her “Think Like A Tester” talk.

Sat, 09 Jun 2018 14:47:42 -0700

I’m addicted to Lee Draws 365 Star Trek Scribbles and have already purchased two featuring Voyager. To make up for a shipping delay, Lee offered me a Sharpie scribble of any character I choose. And he posted a video of the process on YouTube. 🖖

Fri, 08 Jun 2018 18:28:00 -0700

In my post-WWDC recuperation, I’m redefining the notion of bathtub gin. 🛀 🍸

Fri, 08 Jun 2018 09:16:08 -0700

The Weekly Review - 7: Red Hot Poker Mode. @jamesdempsey and I wrestle with our complicated feelings towards making phone calls.