Aaand this is a quickie test to see if tumblr mirror posts still lack a single image when posted from my local blog. Whee. Nice way to try and force people to use the new external editor if it is, wordpress dev team…

edit. YAY! IT WORKS! That’ll shave a lot of hassle off of posting new art, then. And may increase engagement on future auto-posts of comics to their tumblrses, as well. Let’s see if changing the image changes the tumblr clone too – it started life as a frame of Lexy, now it’s me looking ominous.

edit. Nope! Didn’t change a single thing. Well. Now I know.

Trying an iOS app called “ByWord” that is mostly focused on being a text editor but also has a WP plugin.

Here’s an image: me doodling in the margins of Urth of the New Sun last night. There’s no inline preview.

The main thing about this is that it supports Markdown as its text markup interface. Which would be a lot more useful with a real keyboard, though it does offer a toolbar for all of that kind of stuff.

edit: Okay, if you used any images you have to tell it to upload them, it won’t do that automatically. It also doesn’t make any allowances for editing your post afterwards. It’s a really nice environment for writing in but those are both kind of dealbreakers for my intended use as a WP client. Oh well.

Here’s a test post from my phone on wordpress.com. Will it be less prone to dropping my posts on the floor than the app?

Here is a photo of the previous test post. Wow, it sure is hard to type stuff after it without rreplacing it instead.

Edit: Weird, the ‘publish’ button was ghosted on the phone. I poked at the draft via the web and it was available; when I looked at the phone again it was available there too. Strange.

I miss being able to natter out a thought too big for 140 characters on the phone. The WordPress iPhone app has an alarming tendency to drop posts if it fails to connect to the blog, which it constantly does for me. Which is especially punishing when you’ve been painstakingly pecking out a thought that size on the phone’s keyboard. Recently WordPress made a lot of noise about their new editors, so I figured I’d see if it would work better than that. And, well, it seems to have a better time connecting to my site at least, even if it’s kind of annoying because it’s stuck inside of Safari and tends to constantly be popping the keyboard up over itself…

(And wow, I like how there doesn’t seem to be any control over the size of the image I inserted.)

testing the wordpress.com post interface from my computer

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here’s a test image.

edit. HUH. Posting this way also actually posted the image to Tumblr instead of posting it as an external image, which is a REAL IMPROVEMENT in general – the official WP Tumblr sharing plugin does not do this, which makes my image posts super boring on there unless I take the time to make them to Tumblr myself.

An image bubbled up from memory: my father wearing nothing but shorts and a pair of dark goggles, sitting in front of a very bright light. I know it was something prescribed by a doctor; for what specifically, I don't recall.

Now that I'm older I suspect it was probably for seasonal depression.

Which leads to this thought: Half of my genes are from someone so solar powered that he suffered from seasonal depression in New Orleans. A mere ten hours of daylight was not enough. What the fuck am I doing up here in Seattle.

Well, at least yesterday was the solstice, and days will start getting longer from here.