A Bunch of Stuff

March 30, 2010 by Screenbeard

Keep Calm Good advice.
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Some updates:

Spurred on by the outpouring of comments and (!) blog posts after asking for feedback, I got stuck into a few posts here and on my other site. Thank you everyone who responded and wrote replies — it gave me some much needed confidence and meant the world to me. I was buoyed for days afterwards (and loved the commentfest that followed here and elsewhere).

I officially quit Twitter (with my joshnunn account at least). I was leaving it open ended so I could come back without looking like a fool, but now I’ll have to hang my head in shame if I DO return.

First Waves is going great-guns. tjb654 tweeted “Wave on Slow Cook” and was retweeted by Pamela Fox (one of the Wave API evangelists). So I got a bunch of new readers and some more Facebook Fans!

I began re-working my portfolio site. I couldn’t be bothered installing a test environment on my laptop, so I put it up and started editing it live. It took me a little longer than I expected to make it usable though, as the documentation for MODx[1] went down just as I started, so I couldn’t figure out how to build menus. Eventually I got something I’m happy with up just before…

Lifehacker (!!!) linked to my site! What the F is that about?! I suspect I’ve stepped into a mirror world where the Joshua Nunn of this world produces things that interest people and that they want to read. I kinda feel sorry for the poor schmuck who got sucked into my universe, but then I remember he probably goes around with a goatee, so it serves him right.

Tonight I published a massive post on First Waves. I suspect that because I’m massively proud of it, it won’t be read by anyone and I’ll realise that my mirror-self managed to reverse the polarity of the neutron flow and switch us back… bastard. Or I could be pleasantly surprised that I get some people reading it. I’ve paid for a Clicky account, so now I’ll know when YOU are reading this… unless you’re using a feed reader… or I’m not on my computer when you do… What was i saying? This point has descended into a Rubenerd–esq sort of ramble. My apologies.

Footnotes
  1. I thought I’d try something new ↩
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  • tarale

    Ooo, congrats on the linkage from Lifehacker! :)

    Sorry to see you go from Twitter though, officially. Are you likely to attend the ATUB meetups again?

  • http://nunnone.com/ joshnunn

    Thanks! I’m kinda sort to go a little myself. And yep, I’ve joined the atub group and will be at the next one!

  • tarale

    Yay! I keep meaning to come to your Movie Nights, but Aberfoyle is a long
    way from Maylands so I haven’t yet.

    But soon I’ll be able to pay for petrol: I have a job again. :)

  • Alan A’Dale

    I have nothing but respect for your ability to quit Twitter; it has become such a critical part of my life I wouldn’t ever be able to do it. I break out in a cold sweat when Optus #fails and I can’t get a data signal to download new tweets. Look at that, I’ve even started using #hashtags in places where they make no semantic sense whatsoever!

    Congrats on Lifehacker too! I’m a huge Gina Trapani fan even though she left the site ;).

  • http://nunnone.com/ joshnunn

    I was getting like that with Twitter, which was just one of the reasons I had to stop while I still could. I still sometimes find myself thinking “I have to Tweet this”. Now I just turn the occasional one into a post. And I STILL can’t match your prolific writings.

    I have a ‘lil geek crush on Ms Trapani myself. She easily tops my list of wave geniuses over at First Waves too!

  • Alan A’Dale

    Wait, you know who I am? Oh well, I thought I was being all sneaky ;).

    I’m only a prolific blogger because I don’t really care what exactly I cover. All the blogging experts claim fewer posts on topic are more valuable than lots of irrelevant stuff, as long as you blog more than once a month on First Waves it’ll be awesome and you’ll get respect.

  • http://nunnone.com/ Screenbeard

    I was getting like that with Twitter, which was just one of the reasons I had to stop while I still could. I still sometimes find myself thinking “I have to Tweet this”. Now I just turn the occasional one into a post. And I STILL can’t match your prolific writings.

    I have a ‘lil geek crush on Ms Trapani myself. She easily tops my list of wave geniuses over at First Waves too!

  • Alan A’Dale

    Wait, you know who I am? Oh well, I thought I was being all sneaky ;).

    I’m only a prolific blogger because I don’t really care what exactly I cover. All the blogging experts claim fewer posts on topic are more valuable than lots of irrelevant stuff, as long as you blog more than once a month on First Waves it’ll be awesome and you’ll get respect.

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