Most of the time I need some screenshots from my iPhone I find myself performing the same tasks over and over again. Usually these steps are cropping the image, shrinking it, upload it into my Blot public folder and giving it a proper name. After these steps it is time to add the proper markdown code to the post. Also these steps are a bit cumbersome when you only have access to an iPhone.

I had purchased the Workflow app (iOS Universal, €2.99) a long time ago, but somehow I never really made good use of it. It was finally time to start working on a workflow performing the mentioned tasks.

Happy New Year 2016

Most of the time I keep the information for the alt and title attributes of an image the same. For this reason I never specify the title information in the markdown version of a post. So instead of writing this

![Alt text](/path/to/img.jpg "title text")

I prefer to only write the following

![Alt text](/path/to/img.jpg)

This save me some typing and in the case when I decide to make changes later I only need to change it once or worse change one and forget the second.

With the migration from Scriptogr.am to Blot.im the URLs for my posts changed a little.

One due too the difference between to two services (/post/) and the other because of myself (didn’t want to include date reference in the permalink any more).

When I had a look at the information provided by Google Analytics there are still a lot of visits to my blog using the old (and now incorrect) URLs.

With the recent move to Blot.im as my blogging platform it has rekindled my enjoyment for publishing something from time to time. I was going on a family visit for one week and decided to see how I would fair with just my iPhone and iPad to publish something on my blog while abroad.

Before embarking on my trip I already had a clear idea of the minimum set of applications I would probably be using, these where

Somewhere in December of 2014 I pledged for the Kickstarter project Plan V.

The following is an excerpt from the Flintu website, the creators of the Plan V:

Plan V works much like a car jumper cable. You simply connect a 9 volt battery to the Plan V device and then hook it up to your phone. And since these are square batteries you find in smoke alarms, they’re about as widely available as chocolate bars.

The following piece of CSS code adds a dropshadow to an image which looks similar to the shadow that gets added by the application MiniShadow (€ 1.99), using the shadow style ‘Mini’. While I was on the road I became aware that I didn’t have a tool handy on my iPad to easily add these type of shadows to screenshots.

.dropshadow {
  box-shadow: 0 0 20px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.4);
}

The moon on September 28 @ 2:42 am (f/5.6, exposure time 1/4 seconds)

Normal moon