Moving my personal blog and a new RSS feed URL (goodbye and thanks Micro.blog)

Hey :)

This is just a quick update on this post- RSS feed changes

I’m moving from Micro.blog to a new platform.

  • I am going to be moving to a new blogging platform this weekend (for my personal blog). Maybe tonight. It just depends how things go.
  • The aeryn.me domain will be moved to the new platform too.
  • The new feed URL will be at https://aeryn.me/feed/.
  • If you wish to continue to follow this blog in your feed reader, you will need to add it again because I am unable to add feed redirects on the new platform.
  • My Micro.blog-hosted site will remain live for some more months whilst I continue migrating posts. But will eventually disappear, I expect.
  • I do not intend to delete my account (I want to preserve timeline posts) but will let it lapse back to a free account.
  • I will most likely not be posting to Micro.blog anymore. šŸ¤·ā€ā™€ļø
  • I am now microblogging on Mastodon and still adding Micro.blog folks there gradually. I love that I can continue to follow, although there does feel like some distance now, which is a shame.
  • I cross-post from Mastodon to Bluesky too.

Lastly, although I will potentially write about Micro.blog again in the future, I just want to say thank you to Manton, support people, and the community. Thanks for making me feel welcome and being generally a friendly, supportive, and wholesome place.

Bye and see you around

Aeryn x

Edit to add: I think I may have figured out a RSS redirect at the new place. Not sure.

RSS feed changes

Hey,

I am migrating this blog (aeryn.me) to a new platform soon. And all existing RSS feeds will break.

I have set up a feed redirect on the current platform. If you would like to continue to follow my blog, please subscribe this new URL.

The new feed URL will be: https://aeryn.me/feed/

This URL will be the Atom feed address on the new platform, and should be a valid redirect until I complete the move. But I’m not sure all RSS feed clients will happily ‘subscribe’ to a redirect, or not.

So, if you subscribe and you don’t hear anything within a couple of weeks, please check my blog again. I’ll be posting RSS/Atom feed options on the new platform once I’ve moved over.

Yesterday I had my first New Camera Meltdown. Somehow some settings got changed and I found myself getting lost in menus when I was standing in front of a scene I wanted to shoot. Ugh. It was beyond frustrating. I need to learn this cameraā€™s systems.

Creating has been equally tiring and restorative today. I had to push myself to get this out of the door but it was definitely worth the effort.

Iā€™ve been using Craft app to build out some private behind-the-scenes pages for subscribers. And itā€™s working really well for me.

I have been really enjoying processing photos this morning in Lightroom, because they hardly need it.

So, next Iā€™m going to check out the in-camera processing Thing whilst tethered to my computer, and try to match what I did.

ā€œStraight out of cameraā€ is going to have new meaning for me now I think.

I've been on Micro.blog for just over a year and it's time to renew for another

I have successfully downgraded my Micro.blog account to the standard plan. It was pretty seamless and easy and will take affect in a few days.

Reasons are nothing to do with the recent micro drama but mainly because I realised I just don’t really need all those features, particularly. And the standard plan represents great value.

I do believe this is a great platform, and an extremely valuable part of the Internet. But I’ve found at times it’s just a bit too glitchy and chaotic for me.

I would love to see Micro.blog become a solid, stable platform. But in my perspective, it isn’t really that at the moment. And I don’t think it’s for casual users at all. Although maybe Micro.one is.

Then again, I have no idea what it takes to keep something like this going. I can appreciate that it must be incredibly hard work.

So thanks to Manton and everyone else working behind the scenes and contributing to the platform in various ways.

I’ve really enjoyed getting to know some people a little, and beginning to feel like I’m a part of an online community again after leaving the socials behind. And I’m really glad some of the more uncomfortable features and behaviours of social media are not present here.

Here’s to another year.. šŸ»

I really love how much writing I can get done with my voice. My devices provide a friction-free experience of getting thoughts onto ā€˜paperā€™, in real time.

It could be better, but this is the best itā€™s ever been.

I do have to be alone for this to work effectively, otherwise itā€™s socially weird.

I never wanted to be writing a blog as a reaction to the world. Thatā€™s what I did on Facebook and Twitter years ago. I left those platforms and that reactionary mentality behind. Or so I thought.

When I express myself I want it to be from within me. Not as a shield, or defense against a world of illusion. I want to be truthful and authentic. I donā€™t want to take on and repeat the truths of others. I only want to find my own truth and considerately express that.

I wasted a bunch of time last night on someone elseā€™s drama. I got emotionally involved with something that now seems like was information presented in bad faith. Or maybe just something completely unrelated and turned into something it was never intended to be.

Whatever the truth of that is doesnā€™t matter to me. I have enough challenges of my own already.

I was very late to bed and I didnā€™t look after myself properly. Itā€™s essential that I care deeply and make time for my own needs. So I can show up for my actual real life.

Getting into that drama at bedtime was me not looking after myself. Even just picking up my phone at that time was a seriously bad idea.

If I had not done that, the whole thing would have started, ended and disappeared whilst I was sleeping.

The world is extremely intense and itā€™s so easy to lose myself in it. When I am trying to find myself.

I can do better.

In my quest to find the successor to my Ricoh GR II, I have been researching and considering the Fujifilm X100 VI. Yesterday, to my surprise, I discovered another unexpected possibility in the Leica D-Lux 8. More affordable than the X100! šŸ¤Æ

Itā€™s difficult to see which could be best for me. šŸ¤”

I had a productive evening archiving photography projects. One photography project to be fair. But Iā€™m trying to lay the groundwork for future projects. So lots of forward momentum even tho not much actually done. Feels good.

Iā€™ll be posting some bloggy things off-feed in the future. Meaning, they wonā€™t be on social timelines.

Itā€™s something I already do, but itā€™s a bit messy the way I set it up, so I donā€™t use it that much right now. I just need to look at it again, figure it out, and get on with it.

I feel I have a creative void in my life and itā€™s because I try to prioritise productivity. And I leave creativity until last. Which is usually the end of the day when Iā€™m knackered and stupid.

I havenā€™t always been like this. I used to be creatively busy but unable to look after myself.

Iā€™ve been trying to edit photos today (edit, not process) and I always get completely overwhelmed and feel myself shutting down down creatively. I feel so frustrated by this. I just want to create, and write, and share. After I click the shutter button, or I write a thing, all the brakes go on.

I took the camera out for a walk and wow itā€™s frickin gorgeous out there! I got lots of shots and it turned out to be a 2 battery day. The GR II never stops giving. What a beautiful camera, I think itā€™s my favourite Iā€™ve ever owned.

Had a good day in the countryside. Photography didnā€™t really work out though. I was struggling with the light a bit, and was a bit short of time in the end. But maybe I got one or two shots I might like. Some days just donā€™t work out creatively but I think that helps me grow.

I’m interested in knowing a few things with public.me-

  • what is the funding model and how is it sustainable?
  • what is the privacy policy?
  • is metadata stripped from media uploads before publishing?
  • is there a plan to integrate android or other messaging platforms?

I have more questions and requests, but it seems premature to get into it all. Seems like the service is just 10 days old.

Things I like already-

  • my posts are already on my device, because I sent them from iMessage
  • there’s a RSS feed for my posts
  • the website is nice and simple
  • the roadmap looks good
  • I’ve had a positive experience with the developer (I had a brain fart that caused my first couple of posts to fail)

Things I’m trying not to feel weird about (platform independent)-

  • other people
  • speaking my own truth

I’ve been thinking about watermarks on my art and I can’t be bothered any more. It’s too much work and if someone wants to steal, a watermark doesn’t really stop them. (It’s happened in the past and it felt really yucky).

I like the idea of the old-style LED date stamp on my snaps though.

I’m very happy with my new camera lens. I’m needing to learn to shoot in a different way with it, but that’s working really well for me. It’s encouraging me into a new creative headspace.

Today, I was shooting for two hours. Bliss!!

I’m really excited to get into the edit..

A wide angle view of a pond with grey skies above. In the foreground a hand holds up an insulated drinking mug.

Tea time by the pond. Iā€™ve been on another photo walk. Thatā€™s 2 in 2 days. Feels good to be out creating. ā˜•ļø

I want to dance like no oneā€™s watching

but apply it to anything and everything I do

thatā€™s the idea anyway

in my head I imagine everyone who sees me or what I do, is judging me

but is that me judging myself?

the mental obstacles are intense, and debilitating

I want to create freely, just as I am

That red triangle is haunting me

I wrote: Creativity is something I get to do. Space in my life. To create.