[The Atlantic](https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/12/donald-trumps-gangster-white-house/604216/ ) *”Donald Trump will not be bound by any rule, even after he has been caught. He is unrepentant and determined to break the rules again—in part by punishing those who try to enforce them. He is a president with the mind of a gangster, and as long as he is in office, he will head a gangster White House.”*
I will dance the day this horrible human being is ousted from the White House.
I’ve had a weblog since [February 2001](http://www.crabapples.net/rob/archive/2001_01_28_default.htm#2204529). It was all Blogger based and used FTP for publishing static HTML. It was simple to use and provided everything I needed.
In May 2010 Google stopped supporting FTP uploads so I [decided to make a change](http://rob.crabapples.net/2010/03/goodbye-old-friend.htm). I moved to self hosted WordPress and [iam.fahrni.me](https://iam.fahrni.me) became a thing.
For just over nine years I enjoyed my WordPress based setup but it always bothered me the pages were generated when the site was hit. I prefer static HTML. I know, I know, t’s such a little thing but it’s important to me.
I’ve wanted to move blogging platforms for quite a while. I considered Octopress, Pelican, and Hugo but I’m terrible at HTML and I didn’t find any of the built in templates appealing. I’d also have to manage publishing. I didn’t want to do that.
## Enter Micro.blog
When [Manton Reece](https://manton.org/) announced Micro.blog I subscribed simply to support him. It’s an interesting mix of social network and blogging platform. You can post short Twitter-like entries or do longer form posts, complete with title. At first it felt kind of weird to me to have a mix of both but it grew on me.
Finally, in October of this year, I decided I wanted to move to Micro.blog as my blogging platform full time. The transition hasn’t been as smooth as I would’ve liked. I had trouble getting my WordPress export file to import into Micro.blog. Honestly, I was more than a little bummed about that and had given up on the idea of moving to Micro.blog. In the end I got over myself and decided to move to Micro.blog. Why?
Well, it’s dead simple, that’s why. When you add a post you get a simple text entry field, you can add an optional title, and pick a category if you’d like. This is all I really need in a blog. Oh, I almost forgot, it also publishes RSS and JSON Feed for you.
So, here we sit. This post is completely hosted on Micro.blog and I couldn’t be happier with my choice to move here.
If you really know me you know I’m not into fashion, but I do love a great pair of socks.
[Christianity Today](https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2019/december-web-only/trump-should-be-removed-from-office.html): *“But the facts in this instance are unambiguous: The president of the United States attempted to use his political power to coerce a foreign leader to harass and discredit one of the president’s political opponents. That is not only a violation of the Constitution; more importantly, it is profoundly immoral.”*
[Immoral](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/immoral), a perfect word to describe Donald J. Trump.
How any Christian can find him appealing is something I’ll never understand. I suppose God will judge us all when the time is right.
[Yeo Kheng Meng](http://yeokhengmeng.com/2019/12/building-a-new-win-3-1-app-in-2019-part-1-slack-client/): *”In October 2019, my company SP Digital held an internal hackathon. My colleague Subhransu and I worked on a whacky idea of writing a brand-new Windows 3.1 app which was an OS released almost 30 years ago. The idea we chose was a Slack client. After all, Slack clients exist for most platforms but I’m certain one does not exist for Windows 3.1.”*
This is really fantastic! It gives me all the feels of days gone by. I spent an incredible amount of time working on a great Windows application called [Visio](https://visio.com). It began life on Windows 3.1 and still runs today on modern Windows OSes.
Makes me wonder if my [old C++ framework](https://github.com/Fahrni/ACLLib) would work on Windows 3.x today? It began life there but I bet it wouldn’t compile today. 🤔
Donald J. Trump is Impeached.
It seems to me the GOP Senators that have already decided they’re not voting Trump out of office are frightened they’re going to lose their job. That’s pathetic.
I don’t see Republicans, the law and order party, standing up for their beliefs. They preach fiscal conservancy and “anti-socialism” then bail out farmers to the tune of $28 billion dollars, double that of the auto bailout in 2099. That’s socialism at work and definitely not small government/fiscal conservancy.
With Trump they’re setting us up to be governed by the highest bidder; the wealthy donor class, a [kleptocracy](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleptocracy).
Can someone please explain to me how and why people don’t see this? Am I wrong? If so, please, tell me how and why.
All I see is a man destroying our Republic one little cut at a time. He is the epitome of the swap he promised to clean up. The White House and by extension the United States Government is run like the mob. Shaking down leaders for favors.
It’s just wrong and needs to stop.
[New York Times](http://f67.us/18y) – “President Trump not only should be impeached, he must be impeached if America’s democracy is to remain intact.”
I still can’t wrap my brain around why Republican’s don’t see how bad Donald Trump is for our nation and democracy. The man is a criminal, milking the United States for personal gain. On the world stage he’s a laughing stock destroying relationships with our staunchest allies. At home he’s destroying one of the things that actually does make America great; helping others.
I know conservatives love their small government, fine. But why do you put up with a small, hateful, compassionless, misogynistic, vile person in the form of Donald J. Trump? Is it all to “own the libs”?
Well you got us. We’ve been owned.
Now, can we get back to being a great nation – with great leadership – and stop playing the burn democracy to the ground game?
Who writes blog posts using their iPhone? I did it while on a road trip in 2014. I used the iOS WordPress app, which was fine, but to use it required JetPack. I’ve been trying to limit plugins on my weblog to make it render faster and help with securing it. Two big reasons why I wanted to switch to a static publishing system; speed and security.
I digress. The long and short of it is this. What other apps are there I could use to publish directly to a WordPress site? I know I can do it with the Micro.blog client but are there other apps that can do it?
I keep hoping Daniel will bring MarsEdit to iOS and I’ve thought about writing one but I never manage to have the time to work on other things.
Maybe I can configure the Micro.blog client to post only titled posts to my WordPress weblog?
Food for thought.
Ben Thompson[Stratechery]: “Again, though, I think Ive is in part a cautionary tale: he did his best work under Jobs, while the last few years have been more fraught from a design perspective; if Ive was not entirely up to the task of being the ultimate arbiter of all things Apple, who can be?”
That captures it for me. It always felt like after Steve Jobs passing Ive was free to do what he wanted. The checks and balances provided by Steve Jobs were gone. The obsession with thin and light was more pronounced than ever which lead to gluing components into the computer body making Apple designs less repair friendly.
Maybe that wasn’t Ive that decided to go thinner and lighter at the expense of all else? I have no idea, I’m just spitballing here. But Ive does get the credit and blame for all designs in the post Jobs era.