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Photography

Silent Sunday January 15 2023

Path through forests in winter, trees don't have leaves, and the path forks at the ends. Rocky stones along path edges. Somber, moody, but peaceful images with subdued coloring. Late afternoon sun.
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Climate Change Energy Users

Multi-stage heat pumps are the cat’s jammies

Simple diagram of how heat pumps work. When cooling outside unit is a condenser and inside unit is an evaporator. This reverses during heating.

My friend Simon St. Laurent posted a video on Facebook that goes into the mechanics—and efficiencies—of a heat pump. Homes in Savannah are primarily cooled and heated by heat pumps. The house we bought had a 2.5 ton unit, with the interior portion in the attic. Being new to HVAC systems installed in the attics, […]

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Photography

Silent Sunday January 8 2023

Old time mill, in red, with water fall next to it, and farm off in the distance with rolling hill tilted towards mill. Smooth retaining pond after waterfall.
Dillard Mill Missouri
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Burningbird Social Media

Yes to ActivityPub, but no to Friends

Image of mastodon

I decided to disable the Friends plug-in when I realized it was inserting every new feed item as a new post in my database. This could easily become unmanageable. Considering you can use a feed reader to read weblogs AND Mastodon accounts, it just didn’t seem worth the database burden. I do still have ActivityPub […]

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Burningbird Social Media Weblogging

Yet More WordPress/Mastodon/ActivityPub integration

The friends page that I see, logged in. Lists friends in sidebar, and the most recent posts in page.

The ActivityPub WordPress plug-in is working beautifully. Not only can people follow me on Mastodon, I can now follow them back using the complementary Friends plugin. This plugin isn’t specific for ActivityPub. It allows you to subscribe to friend’s posts, ala Google Reader, and creates a personal Friends page to read most recent posts. ActivityPub […]