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John Beales @johnbeales.com · 13d

I hear a U-Haul being loaded under cover of darkness. ?... https://johnbeales.com/micro/2025-09-30t204442-0400/

John Beales @johnbeales.com · 27d

Test image micro post. Will delete later.... https://johnbeales.com/micro/2025-09-26t164520-0400/

John Beales @johnbeales.com · Sep 12

Happy Friday!

🚚Truck Spice No. 5 is out: Giant Lottery Cheques Edition.

Boring news week, but I found some gems.

Spend 5 minutes reading them at www.truckspice.com/p/truck-spic...

#truckspice #trucking #truckdriver #truckingindustry

Truck Spice No. 6: Giant Lottery Checks

The news is boring this week, but I found some weird stories that are actually interesting.

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John Beales @johnbeales.com · Sep 9

Finally got into testing Claude Code tonight and so far I'm impressed. It got the most severe bug from Sentry, proposed, and implemented a solution, and changed course when I wanted to do things differently.... https://johnbeales.com/micro/2025-09-08t213935-0400/

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John Beales @johnbeales.com · Sep 5

On the phone with PayPal customer support - they're pretty helpful, but this is becoming a tech support ticket... Hopefully it gets resolved before a customer gets double-billed!... https://johnbeales.com/micro/2025-09-05t172234-0400/

John Beales @johnbeales.com · Sep 5

🚚Truck Spice No. 4: CDLs Everywhere!

This week featuring continued fallout from the Florida U-Turn, Zero-Skill CDLs, and non-Compliant ELDs.

#truckdriver #truckspice #trucking #truckingindustry #cdl

Truck Spice No. 4: CDLs Everywhere

We seem to be focused on CDLs this week.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · Aug 30

On one hand, reducing car use reduces urban pollution.
But on the other, everyone likes it and cities become more livable

Average nitrogen dioxide concentration in Paris has fallen significantly

Her proposals have faced pushback — from right-leaning politicians, a car owners’ association and suburban commuters, who say that targeting cars makes their lives more difficult.

But last month, Parisians voted in a referendum to turn an additional 500 streets over to pedestrians. A year earlier, Paris had moved to sharply increase parking fees for SUVs, forcing drivers to pay three times more than they would for smaller cars. The city has also turned a bank of the Seine from a busy artery into a pedestrian zone and banned most car traffic from the shopping boulevard of Rue de Rivoli.

Carlos Moreno, a professor at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University and a former adviser to the city, said the French capital has developed “an urban policy based on well-being.”

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John Beales @johnbeales.com · Aug 30

🚛 Truck Spice No. 4: Breaking Through the Sameness 🚛 Dive into fresh trucking news! No driver shortage, just tough conditions. Plus, a $15M truck heist! Read more: www.truckspice.com/p/truck-spic... #TruckingNews #Logistics #Trucking

Truck Spice No. 4: Breaking Through the Sameness

Most news this week is left over from last week, let's try to find something fresh.

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John Beales @johnbeales.com · Aug 22

Noticed a referral to my site from copilot.microsoft.com just now. Nice to see some LLMs link back to sources.... https://johnbeales.com/micro/2025-08-22t140035-0400/

John Beales @johnbeales.com · Aug 22

Posting to legacy social media platforms when promoting something sure feels like throwing a speck of dust into the algorithmic wind and hoping something big happens.... https://johnbeales.com/micro/2025-08-22t135830-0400/

John Beales @johnbeales.com · Aug 22

🚛 Truck Spice No. 3: Florida U-Turn 🚦 Dive into the fallout from the Florida U-Turn crash and its impact on the trucking world. Read more on this week's headlines: www.truckspice.com/p/truck-spic... #TruckingNews #FloridaUTurn #Trucking #TruckingIndustry

Truck Spice No. 3: Florida U-Turn

We look at the Florida U-Turn Fallout and more.

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John Beales @johnbeales.com · Aug 16

Posted about performant homepage hero units with video backgrounds: johnbeales.com/2025/perform...

#webdev #webperformance #frontend #html #css

Performant Video Hero Backgrounds - John Beales

I just put a video in the background of the hero area of 4RoadService.com, and spent a bit of time making it so it performs well. Mostly, this post is a place for me to remember the ffmpeg incantation...

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John Beales @johnbeales.com · Aug 16

I just put a video in the background of the hero area of 4RoadService.com, and spent a bit of time making it so it performs well. Mostly, this post is a place for me to remember the ffmpeg incantations that I used. Video Size The... https://johnbeales.com/2025/performant-video-hero-backgrounds/

John Beales @johnbeales.com · Aug 16

Doing a rare bit of video editing and telling myself that it would justify a new computer.... https://johnbeales.com/micro/2025-08-16t145044-0400/

John Beales @johnbeales.com · Aug 15

🚛 Dive into Truck Spice No. 2: Heavy Hook! Explore air freight, towing, and the latest on environmental (de)regulations. Who's suing who? Find out more: www.truckspice.com/p/truck-spic... #TruckingNews #Logistics

Truck Spice No. 2: Heavy Hook

Back with air freight, towing, environmental (de)regulations, and who sues who.

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John Beales @johnbeales.com · Aug 14

So I got #BlueSky cross posting working from my #WordPress #Microblog... https://johnbeales.com/micro/2025-08-14t184509-0400/

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John Beales @johnbeales.com · Aug 14

Made a change to a new thing I’m working on. One of the hardest things to do is to just let the change do its work and not stare at analytics all day.... https://johnbeales.com/micro/2025-08-14t184413-0400/

John Beales @johnbeales.com · Jul 24

Importing a giant SQL file to recover some old data.

Fortunately it looks like it’s going to take as long as it’ll take me to make a cup of coffee.

John Beales @johnbeales.com · Jul 24

For anyone looking for a Garmin watch this summer, I updated my printable to help choose a watch size: johnbeales.com/2025/2025-ga...

#Garmin #Forerunner #Runningwatch #Running

2025 Garmin Forerunner Watch Printable - John Beales

A couple of years ago I made a printable to help me decide which Garmin running watch to buy. That is one of the more popular posts on the site, so I decided to make a new printable for the 2025 lineu...

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John Beales @johnbeales.com · Jul 19

Thats 100% what happened with most of the +1 queries.

John Beales @johnbeales.com · Jul 19

This is looks like fun, but I've got no clue what I would build!

TRMNL @usetrmnl.com · Jul 18

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Mita Williams @copystar.bsky.social · Jul 18

TRMNL e-ink devices is hosting a bookreader plugin hackathon.

"There are four (4) prizes available. First, a single winning plugin will be chosen for each category:

Plugins for 📚 Librarians
Plugins for Book Clubs
Plugins for Book Readers"

usetrmnl.com/blog/hackath...

John Beales @johnbeales.com · Jul 19

Spent the afternoon working on reducing N+1 queries on 4RoadService, and I managed to reduce a page from 150 queries to 29.

I'm not sure if I should be proud or embarrassed!

#Laravel #PHP #Performance

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John Beales @johnbeales.com · Jul 16

It sounds like post formats are pretty much dead, that’s why I went with a CPT, but we will see when I start trying to post photos & stuff.

I mostly have it working though, I’ll try to mention you from a WordPress post.

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John Beales @johnbeales.com · Jul 16

Thanks! I had tried to search for it but I was searching for “microblog” not “microdotblog.”

With a bit of luck I’ll be posting to my “micro” Custom Post Type from Microblog apps sometime this week.

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John Beales @johnbeales.com · Jul 16

@manton.org I believe you have mentioned that the Mac & iOS clients for micro.blog are open-source. If I’m remembering correctly, where is the source so I can take a look at it?

I want to make my WordPress blog know when I’m posting from the micro.blog client.

Micro.blog

Post short thoughts or long essays, share photos, all on your own blog. Micro.blog makes it easy, and provides a friendly community where you can share and engage with others.

micro.blog

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