Category: Blogging

Another I’m Not Dead Post Spring 2022

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Well, I am not dead. And I don’t know anything not already public about the Clintons so I should be ok in small aircraft and hot tubs for a while. This may be the last post for WebLuke.net on WordPress or I may lose interest and not do anything to build a blog/site using ASP.Net Core 6 as a way to learn how to build more things I use for work.

I don’t post here much because https://noagendasocial.com is a thing and they have lots of memes to reshare. Last year was a lot of working, moving and then more working. I didn’t have much of a reason to come to the site.

I can say that Starlink is kind of cool. My new house is out in the country and ~25Mbps wireless internet was not to my standards. At the time my house was in a Cell Starlink wasn’t full of users yet, so 1 month after ordering I was set up. I have an average of 200Mbps download speed from space so not too bad. Ping times are around 70ms in games (35ms just in the air, the rest is going through the net). This was much better than Spectrum Cable with 100Mbps and pings around 100ms.

But with the local power coop that runs a fiber internet provider for the area getting a few million dollar grant, I noticed they are starting to put the ducts in to send the fiber up my road. I also talked with the guys who survived my electric pole who said I should have fiber up to my pole within the year. So 1Gbps fiber is coming soon and I am ready for that.

Wish me luck on the conversion of the site and that I actually do it.

Blogging on a phone

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I am trying out blogging from my phone in bed. This will probably be a lot of random thoughts. So far, it’s not the beat.

I am using an iPhone 11, it has a good-sized screen, but in my case, two-handed tap typing isn’t that easy. Then lying down, I have to hold it up above me, and that is problematic.

After changing positions, it’s a little better. It does seem to take much more time to type on the phone than with a keyboard. This is mostly because I can use nine fingers almost all at once. No, I’m not missing one. Your thumb uses the same key on a keyboard.

I also use the Grammarly keyboard with premium checking to make sure I am spelling words and fixing other problems I make. I also do a full check of each paragraph before moving on.

Recently I have been putting more details into comments I leave online, and most of them are using my phone. So I feel I am getting better at having more thought out sentences that don’t get jumbled because you have to think about every location of every letter used. On a keyboard, I have muscle memory for each letter, and keyboard skills helped improve my spelling.

So can you blog on the phone, yes. Is it more difficult, yes. Will I do it again, only if I have to because I don’t have a keyboard or want to share something quickly on the go.

PS: At the end, when I read through this post, I had a Deja Vu moment, like what I was talking about was part of something bigger I will be part of. It could be something from an old dream too, but it’s something about keyboard skills and selling that triggered a memory.