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Brave have their own search engine that uses an independent built-from-scratch index. [0]

[0] https://search.brave.com/

I'm also from the UK, and I do enjoy a hug, but some of my friends really don't like them. If I'm hugging a woman, and they lean their cheek into me, then I will give them a kiss on it. However, it can have some very awkward and funny moments.

I love how we come full circle with this YT comment...

"Anybody else ever realized that Pinky is the Genius and Brain is the one that is Insane? I mean, Brain is always coming up with completely implausible plans that have no chance of actually working, and Pinky always finds a way to help his friend out without destroying his delusions and get them both safely back in the lab before they're discovered." - Sarah Coleman

The YT video was great to see, thank you for sharing.

Ah, I must have missed that and deleted the label. Thank you so much for your help.

Awesome work, I really like what you're doing with this.

I created my own personal page and followed each of the steps. However, I can't update the email, Twitter and IG links on each button. Am I missing something, or is this a bug? I'm on desktop using FF.

I feel like most of the best Twitter users use long form threads. I've only just started following these kind of accounts but the information they add to the platform has been incredible.

How about a slow-mo video of sneezing with and without a mask?[0] It clearly shows the amount of spray caused by wearing and not wearing a mask. I know there can be micro particles not shown by film, but it does give a much clearer example of how effective masks can be.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZ66wJFD3bs

It has built-in memberships so users can register, and you can have monthly and yearly payments if you wanted to create premium content.

As for forms, I think if you wanted a completely custom form, then you would have to use something like TypeForm or JotForm and embed that into your Ghost blog.

It tries to focus solely on publishing and blogging, but recommends other services you can tie in if you need to which you can find here - https://ghost.org/integrations/

Ghost has been a superb platform for my dev blog, and I'm hoping to migrate my personal blog over to it at some point in the future (it's currently using Gridsome).

https://ghost.org/

I was a huge Apple skeptic before the iPhone 11, and decided to give the Pro a go. Much like yourself, I now use it for most of my productivity tasks. All of my blog posts are now mostly written on the iPad, and I love the pencil and magic keyboard. At first it seems overly expensive, but it is very much well worth the money if you can afford it.

It took me a while to learn 2 fingers on the screen is undo and 3 is redo, and that's really as much as I know for gesture control. The split screen is nice, but like you say, there's definitely room for improvement.

Thanks for reading, and I enjoy your comment and thoughts. :)

Like I've said previously, my wife is a pet sitter and has been bitten. It's good to know where she is so if the situation ever happens again, I can find her.

The geolocation thing for me was purely so I could get dinner ready for the both of us in time since we like to eat together.

I don't have kids and like to eat at the same time as my wife as I'm sure many other couples do, this is why we like to have it ready for when they arrive.

My wife is a pet sitter and has been bitten by a dog. She called me, but couldn't explain or tell me her location and me being terrible with directions drove around aimlessly and couldn't find her. After this, she decided it was best we both share our locations so we know each other's location just in case something like this happens again.

The geofencing thing would be so I could time when to start cooking dinner and have it ready for when she gets in. I work from home so it's easy for me to cook and I just like to have it ready and stay warm by the time she gets in.

Unfortunately, my wife is using an Android phone so this wouldn't work for us.

My wife is a pet sitter and pet sitting can actually be quite dangerous. She once got bit by a dog and called me to come and help. She was in too much shock to be able to explain where she was, and I'm absolutely terrible with directions so I was unable to locate her.

Thankfully, she managed to calm down and resolve the situation as it was only a small bite, but if the situation was worse and I would have been too late to find her. We thought that we can't let this situation happen again, so we now share each other's location just in case anything like that happens again.

It's also great knowing how far away she is so I can start dinner and have it ready for when she steps in the door.

I've slowly made the switch, and I quite like being able to see my wife on both the desktop and app versions of Google Maps.

I do wish it had messaging features, and geofencing alerts would be a huge bonus so I can be alerted when she arrives at a location safely. I also think there needs to be some Nest integrations so I can ask "Where is X?" or "How far is X" and it would say "X is currently 10 minutes away from your location".

I guess what they have is a good start, but I really hope they can push the tech further to make it even more useful than what it is at current.

I just signed up and received an email confirmation, but the link was white so I couldn't see it. I had to move my cursor where I thought it was until my cursor changed. I'm using Outlook on Windows 10 if that helps.

I know exactly what you mean, but if you say "cancel", it will shut it off faster. It is still a big annoyance which I hope gets fixed at some point in the future.

I thought it was uBlock, and disabled it to see what would happen. Once I refreshed the page, it displayed which led me to believe something weird was going.

I tried again with uBlock enabled and refreshed the page which worked. So the bottom line is, refresh the page, and you should see the content.

I think Brave and Coil will hopefully lead the way to decentralised micropayments. They just need to become more popular to the every day reader.

I personally use Feedly as my RSS reader and I followed my blog to see how many followers I get. Currently, I have 367 Feedly subscribers and it still continues to grow. Also, looking at my analytics, I can see people coming in from Feedly, so it shows that they are definitely active subs[0].

[0] https://feedly.com/i/subscription/feed%2Fhttps%3A%2F%2Fmicha...

97 on mobile and 99 on desktop. [0]

For a site that never had pagespeed as a tool, that is super impressive and just goes to show how bloated today's websites really are.

[0] https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=...

If you want your own custom domain with membership features, then Ghost is probably your best bet. It has built-in member features, open-source and can also be hosted on their Pro platform. They also don't take a cut from your memberships.

Matomo is a great alternative, but you either have to pay to host it on their servers, or host in on your own server. You could setup a $5 droplet on Digital Ocean and host it easily enough.

I managed to host it fairly easily using Digital Ocean on a $5 droplet.

This is really cool to see and I love how webrings are making a comeback. Here's one from Jack McDade filled with weird people/things. https://weirdwidewebring.net/

I mostly use Siri to play Spotify, but most of the time she won't listen to me through my car's microphone. If she isn't working then I need to pull my phone out of my pocket and place it somewhere the phone can clearly hear me.

Every once in a while she will decide to listen through my car, but it's very rare. I don't have Apple Car Play so not sure if that's a factor.

Google has been far better and more consistent listening through my car even if it didn't get my query correct all the time, at least I could correct it without pulling my phone out.

Another place to check out is https://weirdwidewebring.net/ where you can submit your blogs via a GitHub PR. It was created by Jack McDade whose an all-round great guy.

This is the exact reason why I use Brave on IOS, it has built-in adblocking that works really well.