Test For A Microcast

Upload at 10.43.30

Well this image appeared straight away. I can’t figure out what’s going on with marsEdit and images from my computer.

Chevrolet Vega Johnson at home

10.29 and still no image on the blog.

Uploaded at 10.19.0am

Appeared immediately but without the photo. Instead, a rectangle the right size containing the alt text. The delay is because the photo was inserted from my Photos app, which is only storing low-res versions locally. The original has to be downloaded first, I think, before MarsEdit can upload it.

Deleted and re-inserted the image in MarsEdit. Uploading update at 10.32.50 … Now that worked straight away …

Strictly a test post to see whether it appears straight away on the blog.

Okay. The original displayed on the blog immediately. What about this edit in MarsEdit?

I see. The edit did not display immediately. It took some time. A couple of minutes? I am sending this new edit to the blog at 9.40.30am

And it appeared immediately when I refreshed the page at JohnAN.micro.blog. And this edit?

Also immediate. Adding MarsEdit Category in MarsEdit after refreshing blog to get it.

This is going to start as a draft saved in Mars Edit. Later I’ll upload it to the blog. I need to figure out what to do with DevonThink. Like, how can I use it, apart from its rss feed reading abilities?

And is all this tinkering merely avoidance behaviour?

This didn’t publish by itself on the blog when I uploaded it. I could see it in “Posts” but it had a message saying it wasn’t published yet.

This is a very short post created in MarsEdit 4, the beta version, I think, but I can’t remember what the extra feature was that made me get the beta version.

I have Mars Edit set to plain text.

The mystery is only revealed at the end.

Sometimes an escalator is just really funky.

The smallest climbing wall ever

Night of the super moon, Collaroy Beach

Early morning at Collaroy Beach

Full image again, I hope, but from Sunlit this time (not from the micro.blog iOS app) …

Full image this time? Just shared from photos to micro.blog.

Post from micro.blog on the iOS app. A few minutes ago I posted a photo to micro.blog, from the Sunlit app. I’m just going to add a photo here …

It’s one of the pine trees lit up at Collaroy Beach, the night of the red super-moon. Which didn’t really look super, in fact.

The app has reformatted the photo and cut off the bottom … for some reason.

I’ve added these two paragraphs in the micro.blog iOS app edit screen

Photos test post: rock at 4032 × 3024px

Photos test post: Chevy at 1535 × 1767px

This is the same uploaded image as last post (550pxw) but set to be generated at 200px wide …

This is an image that starts out 550px wide, and should end up at 480px wide …

This is to see if the thumbnail generation (480px max) works: See this post

Photo of Mt Etna posted from the Mac app. Can display and select categories via menu, and if I click on the thumbnail of the image I’ve chosen, in the new post box, the accessibility description (alt text) box drops down. Score!

This is a test post to try to get the alt tag working. I thought the option to add “a description” was supposed to pop up when you add an image. but it hasn’t. Hmmm.

A third post now to see how categories work.

A second post would be this one. I might upload a photo, any old photo, as an example. Then I might try audio in the next one.