markjgsmith

The big posts type debate - Trying to get your publishing setup optimised so you can publish unincumbered is quite a challenge. It's likely different for everyone. I thought recently that I'd found a good setup. Short posts, broadly similar to Mastodon posts, linkblog posts which are short and specifically point to one resource via a URL, and blog posts. I also by the way have newsletter posts and podcast posts but these are much less frequent.

Anyway this morning I'm reading back through what got auto-merged and published using my daily merge workflow and two things jump out. First off, so many darn spelling mistakes. It's embarrassing, but with these silly virtual keyboards and if I'm in a rush, perhaps I don't have my glasses, whatever, loads of tiny spelling mistakes creep in. The other thing is that the 3 notes I published yesterday quite clearly could have been blog posts instead of notes.

It's annoying because I feel like I should be posting more blog posts, and the notes are definitely helping me to post more, but if they are blocking me from writting blog posts then that's an issue. The reason blog posts are more difficult is that they are currently more effort. I have to write a post description, and come up with a title. The only reason I have a description is because currently the RSS feed doesn't incude the full text of the post, only the description. I want to include the full text, but it's complicated because I don't know how to do code syntax highligting in RSS feeds, so I'm just avoiding the whole issue by only including the description.

Oh gosh so many small issues arise when you are building while using a piece of software. It feels like I'm so close to having it right, yet in practice I'm quite far away. Yeah this post could probably be a blog post, but now that I've written it, moving it to a blog post is going to take too much time. #

Fill tool apocalypse led development - Some people's aproach to life is to just use the photoshop fill tool for everything. If the photoshop fill tool isn't available then they will turn whatever they have available to them into a fill tool.

They often forget why they were doing it in the first place and creating the fill tool just to fill everything up becomes a reason in and of itself. Also often leads to fill tool wars. The most ridiculous waste of human energy. It's the modern digital version of punch and judy.

No doubt there will be AI fill tools in the future and who knows how we will get anything done. #

The Wordpress of crypto? - Bennedict and Toni have another podcast episode out. They interview Leonard Brody of Caravan and have an interesting discussion that fuses branding, market research and crypto. The future of digital community decision making might be on the cusp of new frontiers. Think about football teams where all sorts of decisions can be made by the fans via tokens. From match day decisions, to player transfer decisions, even to branding and merchandise.

Generative AI tools could be integrated into the workflow to create merch more quickly, involve and engage the audience, giving them access to information and products they didn't have before, and pay them in meaningful ways to reward their contributions. Use crypto and tokenisation as market research, to find out quickly what works, identify where there is product market fit.

In such a world, the toolsets would evolve too. We have Wordpress for websites, but if I wanted to build tools like this what would I use? Is there a Wordpress for crypto? #