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@fabioteixeira Yes, I’m sorry but it is intentional. More details here: samgrover.studio/blog/2025…

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@canion Thanks for letting me know. The banner is not meant to auto-appear, but accessible by new button with prominent color.

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@canion You’re welcome! Did you hear about this with the in-app banner that just went live in the new version?

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There’s a person in my wife’s run club whose aunt went to school with the Pope, so my Pope number is 4.\n

#PopeNumber\n: samgrover.micro.blog

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\"A\n

Morning Garden. 1st May, 2025.\n: samgrover.micro.blog

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\"A\n

\"An\n

Lloyd Center, Portland, Oregon. 9th May, 2025.\n: samgrover.micro.blog

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Three thoughts from a week of calorie counting on a low carb diet, with no pre-planning:\n\nIt’s frustrating, like all of a sudden finding yourself in a community of people that don’t speak your language.\nSustaining a feeling of hunger, or quenching it with water, sometimes comes with a weird feeling of grat... samgrover.com: samgrover.micro.blog

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IBM replaces HR with AI:\n

\n

International Business Machines Chief Executive Arvind Krishna said the tech giant has used artificial intelligence, and specifically AI agents, to replace the work of a couple hundred human resources workers. As a result, it has hired more programmers and salespeople, he said.\n

\n
\n

Replacing HR with AI seems like a positive development to make it totally clear that HR is there to protect employer, not employees.\n: samgrover.micro.blog

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@jthingelstad Thanks for your support and feedback over the years!

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\"A\n

Bee butt and the bee’s knees 😄\n: samgrover.micro.blog

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@rpmik I’m not developing it actively, but it is still available. Someday I may remove it from the store, but even then, frankly, open sourcing it is quite unlikely.

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\"Sunrise\n

Sunrise over the hill in Kona, Hawaii. 22nd March, 2025.\n: samgrover.micro.blog

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Vibing Pi o'Clock: samgrover.micro.blog

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@dustan @manton @Munish @rpmik @kaa @pratik Thanks, I appreciate your messages!

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Mimi Uploader is no longer in active development: samgrover.micro.blog

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Yesterday it dawned on me that it was Pi Day Eve, so obviously, I whipped up a little Swift iterator that iterates over values of Pi from Pi Delivery. You can get it at this gist.\n

Use it in your swift code and make fun stuff using the value of Pi up to 100 trillion digits!\n

Happy Pi Day!\n: samgrover.micro.blog

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\"A\n

John at Level Beer. 28th February, 2025.\n

On Friday, I met up with some friends for happy hour. I got there early and was waiting when this guy noticed that I had a camera on me and asked for a photo. He was in a group that seemed to have come by after playing soccer.\n

\"A\n: samgrover.micro.blog

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@Miraz Oh that’s interesting. Around here they are built on site. And modular construction is more common in commercial properties, but it seems to be gaining in popularity with individual homes.

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@Miraz Love seeing a frame. I stop and look at those if I come across one. I’ve seen your recent posts, and wow, that went up fast, indeed.

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Making a Mallet: samgrover.micro.blog

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\"A\n

Puzzling. 1st December, 2024.\n

📷 Hasselblad 500C/M
\n🎞️ Cinestill Double-X (ISO 200)\n: samgrover.micro.blog

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@kimberlykg A couple hundred or so when I was there. I heard there were a lot more there earlier.

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\"A\n

\"Three\n

\"Two\n

\"A\n

\"A\n

\"Snow-covered\n

Snow day in the neighborhood.\n

Portland, Oregon. 14th February, 2025.\n: samgrover.micro.blog

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My Valentine: samgrover.micro.blog

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🛠️ Long Workbench: samgrover.micro.blog

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\"A\n

Good morning. 6th January, 2025.\n

📷 Hasselblad 500C/M
\n🎞️ Cinestill Double-X (ISO 200)\n: samgrover.micro.blog

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\"A\n

Laurelhurst Park, Portland, Oregon. 9th November, 2024.\n

📷 Hasselblad 500C/M
\n🎞️ Cinestill Double-X (ISO 200)\n: samgrover.micro.blog

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\"Black\n

Laurelhurst Park, Portland, Oregon. 9th November, 2024.\n

📷 Hasselblad 500C/M
\n🎞️ Cinestill Double-X (ISO 200)\n: samgrover.micro.blog

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@davidmarsden Thanks!

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\"A\n

\"Black\n

\"A\n

Trees and nearby structures were catching my eye on a little afternoon walk in downtown. Portland, Oregon. 25th January, 2025.\n: samgrover.micro.blog

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Morning walk on Foster Road to get a bagel sandwich. Portland, Oregon. 18th January, 2025.\n: samgrover.micro.blog

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Friends.\n: samgrover.micro.blog

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@Parag Nice! Saw the occultation photos you shared. Lovely, and very cool!

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Mt. Tabor Park. Portland, Oregon. 12th January, 2025.\n: samgrover.micro.blog

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A new version of Mimi Uploader is out with even more support for Photo Collections 🎉: samgrover.micro.blog

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@pratik Best wishes.

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I enjoy podcasts but I got the feeling I was listening to a lot of tech. In 2024, I reduced the time to about 50%. In 2023 they were close to 65%.\n

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Maybe I can get it down to 40% this year.\n

I’m listening to several at 1.5x speed now. I was very averse to that a few years ago.\n: samgrover.micro.blog

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@Miraz That looks really good. I’ve prefer paper copies of books like this, so I’ve added to my list to check out in the store next time I go. Thank you!

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@sgtstretch Do it, and share photos!

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@amit I like tracking this stuff for fun but try not to take it seriously.

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@pratik Oh, I see the confusion. It’s a badly named stat. It’s just an average, so single data point per year. Technically it is total pages read in the year so far divided by the number of months so far, so it varies for the current year as each finished book is added to the list.

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@pratik Love the colors!

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@pratik Everything is manual. I created a JSON file a long time ago and when I finish a book, I add the info for that book into it. The charts, and the books page are both generated from that file.

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@jthingelstad Yay! I love to see screenshots of Mimi from others. It’s really nice to see the interface showing a different set of content. Looking at my own all the time gets a bit boring 😄

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@kaa It’s there (for Supporter susbscribers). It is still marked as “BETA” in the app because the way it works may change in the future, although it is not going away.

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@crossingthethreshold Yes, and thank you! I also built some stuff after cleaning up and organizing this area. Will share that in a blog post soon.

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@rscottjones People (including me) have reported this happening occasionally, but never every time. So I’m not sure at this time, but thanks for letting me know. If you’d like to discuss more, please send me an email to the address in the Help section. Thanks!

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@pratik I might add support to view collections, but beyond that it’s not worth the effort required. The people that value what Mimi Uploader provides is very small, and the ones who support that financially is negligible. The app is effectively paused on new features.

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@pratik I might add support to view collections, but beyond that it's not worth the effort required. The people that value what Mimi Uploader provides is very small, and the ones who support that financially is negligible. The app is effectively paused on new features.

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@pratik Hey, have you tried folding your ear with your thumb and index finger? That makes for good kaan-tent.

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