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  "title": "updates on Cliff538 ",
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        "id": "http://cliff538.micro.blog/2026/01/14/separate-blog-experiment-for-short.html",
        "title": "Separate Blog Experiment For Short Notes Up and Running",
        "content_html": "<p><a href=\"https://notes.cliff538.com\">Cliff538 Notes</a> is up and running.</p>\n<p>Not sure about all of this, but it bothers me that titleless short notes, really meant for Mastodon, are clogging up my home page.</p>\n<p>I&rsquo;m still investigating whether there is a way to separate titleless posts from the home page, but then you would still need a separate page to show all of them. Or, have a toggle to show/hide. Seems complex to me.</p>\n<p>The easiest route is what most people suggested to me: just keeping everything on one blog. Keep it simple! I tried posting my short notes only to Mastodon, but then I don&rsquo;t have a nice, clean running record on my blog. The answer seems to be a separate blog where you write all your short notes, tweets, skeets, and toots. Then you have a clean running list of all of them. Link to it from the home page.</p>\n<p>Most people will never look at it; it&rsquo;s mostly for me. A record of everything I posted to Mastodon. I suppose you could download all that info from Masto, but what then? Where do you put it for easy viewing?</p>\n<p>We will try this for a few months and see how I like it. It&rsquo;s easy to go back to having everything on the home page.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://notes.cliff538.com\">https://notes.cliff538.com</a></p>\n",
        "date_published": "2026-01-14T18:26:58-06:00",
        "url": "https://cliff538.com/2026/01/14/separate-blog-experiment-for-short.html",
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        "id": "http://cliff538.micro.blog/2025/11/19/dentist-inspired-blog-update-day.html",
        "title": "Dentist Inspired Blog Update Day",
        "content_html": "<p><em>It&rsquo;s blog update day!</em></p>\n<p>Went to the dentist today for stage two of implant surgery, so it seemed like a good time, while I nursed my sore gums, to spend the afternoon updating, tweaking, and loving on my blog.</p>\n<p>I take big breaks from working on the blog, but when I get the chance for a multi-hour work spree on it, I really enjoy it.</p>\n<p>What Got Done:</p>\n<ol>\n<li>Updated the <a href=\"https://cliff538.com/essentials/\">Essentials Page</a>.</li>\n<li>Updated the  <a href=\"https://cliff538.com/now-page/\">Now Page</a>.</li>\n<li>Updated <a href=\"https://cliff538.com/2025/01/06/title-where-do-you-find.html\">Book Resources</a>.</li>\n<li>Added a <a href=\"https://cliff538.com/reading/\">&ldquo;Started But Did Not Finish&rdquo; book shelf</a>.</li>\n<li>Added another link to the 365 Photo Challenge Blog <a href=\"https://365pixels.xyz\">365Pixels</a> in the main navigation.</li>\n</ol>\n<p>Yet To Do:</p>\n<ol>\n<li>Add more photo sets to the photography page.</li>\n<li>Make a dedicated coffee page where I can talk about espresso machines, grinders, coffee beans, pour-over technique, scales, etc etc, just a whole lotta coffee love ☕️ page.</li>\n</ol>\n<p>Cliff Notes:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>I really struggled with removing my sidebar on my main page. I&rsquo;m just torn about it. Some days I like it, other days I dislike it. I did remove it from all other pages, so it&rsquo;s only on the main page now. Also, on small screens, you don&rsquo;t even see it due to a lack of real estate.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Let me leave you with this: if you&rsquo;ve ever thought about having your own blog and getting off all other social media, I can&rsquo;t recommend it enough. Own and control your stuff!</p>\n</li>\n</ul>\n",
        "date_published": "2025-11-19T16:43:03-06:00",
        "url": "https://cliff538.com/2025/11/19/dentist-inspired-blog-update-day.html",
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