{ "version": "https://jsonfeed.org/version/1", "title": "Chris Hannah", "icon": "https://micro.blog/ChrisHannah/avatar.jpg", "home_page_url": "https://micro.chrishannah.me/", "feed_url": "https://micro.chrishannah.me/feed.json", "items": [ { "id": "http://chrishannah.micro.blog/2024/02/14/something-ive-noticed.html", "content_html": "
Something I’ve noticed since entering my thirties a little over a year ago, is that I’ve become a lot less interested in both keeping up with everyone elses lives, and presenting my life for others.
\nMy younger self would definitely not understand.
\n", "date_published": "2024-02-14T22:43:38+00:00", "url": "https://micro.chrishannah.me/2024/02/14/something-ive-noticed.html" }, { "id": "http://chrishannah.micro.blog/2023/11/06/just-about-to.html", "content_html": "Just about to board the flight back to London. Looking forward to normal temperatures.
\n\n", "date_published": "2023-11-06T15:05:10+00:00", "url": "https://micro.chrishannah.me/2023/11/06/just-about-to.html" }, { "id": "http://chrishannah.micro.blog/2023/11/05/i-took-a.html", "content_html": "I took a ton of photos at this natural pool, I’ll have to spend some time refining them and building a collection. Which may be a task for the flight back home tomorrowow. But for now, I’ve got one shot that I’m really happy with.\nShot with an iPhone 15 Pro Max using Halide.
\n\n", "date_published": "2023-11-05T18:34:14+00:00", "url": "https://micro.chrishannah.me/2023/11/05/i-took-a.html" }, { "id": "http://chrishannah.micro.blog/2023/11/05/just-arrived-at.html", "content_html": "Just arrived at a natural pool. The waves are much stronger than I thought, but at least the view looks good!
\n\n", "date_published": "2023-11-05T17:44:26+00:00", "url": "https://micro.chrishannah.me/2023/11/05/just-arrived-at.html" }, { "id": "http://chrishannah.micro.blog/2023/11/05/just-visited-another.html", "content_html": "Just visited another town in Gran Canaria called Firgas. Not that high up in the mountains, but it’s still up in the hills.\nThe centre had a nice plaza, and also murals of each island in the Canary Islands, and also a rather large water feature.
\n\n", "date_published": "2023-11-05T14:40:52+00:00", "url": "https://micro.chrishannah.me/2023/11/05/just-visited-another.html" }, { "id": "http://chrishannah.micro.blog/2023/11/05/last-full-day.html", "content_html": "Last full day in Gran Canaria today. Driving up the east coast again to hopefully find some more villages/towns and some natural pools. I’ll likely be posting more updates throughout the day.
\n", "date_published": "2023-11-05T11:18:54+00:00", "url": "https://micro.chrishannah.me/2023/11/05/last-full-day.html" }, { "id": "http://chrishannah.micro.blog/2023/11/04/its-just-hit.html", "content_html": "It’s just hit golden hour, so it’s time to go back down the mountain. But in the mean time, I did snap a few more photos of the view.
\n\n", "date_published": "2023-11-04T17:56:48+00:00", "url": "https://micro.chrishannah.me/2023/11/04/its-just-hit.html" }, { "id": "http://chrishannah.micro.blog/2023/11/04/found-a-little.html", "content_html": "Found a little village called Tejeda in the mountains. Some very nice views as usual.
\n\n", "date_published": "2023-11-04T16:28:40+00:00", "url": "https://micro.chrishannah.me/2023/11/04/found-a-little.html" }, { "id": "http://chrishannah.micro.blog/2023/11/04/stopped-at-a.html", "content_html": "Stopped at a little restaurant on the side of a mountain in Gran Canaria for a quick beer and ice cream. Now on to the next town!
\n\n", "date_published": "2023-11-04T15:46:20+00:00", "url": "https://micro.chrishannah.me/2023/11/04/stopped-at-a.html" }, { "id": "http://chrishannah.micro.blog/2023/11/04/as-much-as.html", "content_html": "As much as I enjoy using Mastodon, it feels better posting my travel updates/photos here.
\n", "date_published": "2023-11-04T15:06:54+00:00", "url": "https://micro.chrishannah.me/2023/11/04/as-much-as.html" }, { "id": "http://chrishannah.micro.blog/2023/11/04/day-in-gran.html", "content_html": "Day #5 in Gran Canaria and I’m finally up a mountain. Found a strange metal basket that seems to provide a pretty nice frame.
\n\n", "date_published": "2023-11-04T14:54:03+00:00", "url": "https://micro.chrishannah.me/2023/11/04/day-in-gran.html" }, { "id": "http://chrishannah.micro.blog/2023/11/03/using-the-clips.html", "title": "Using the Clips app to make small holiday videos", "content_html": "Instead of just posting a bunch of stories while I’ve been away in Gran Canaria, I’ve been using the Clips app to put together daily summary videos where it’s just short 0.5 to 2 second clips of what I’m up to throughout the day. It’s more fun, and I think the results are a lot better.
\nSo far I’ve still been posting the final video to my Instagram, but at the end of the week I think I’ll either post each video on my blog, or maybe even combine them together into a single video.
\n", "date_published": "2023-11-03T18:29:59+00:00", "url": "https://micro.chrishannah.me/2023/11/03/using-the-clips.html" }, { "id": "http://chrishannah.micro.blog/2023/11/03/not-a-bad.html", "content_html": "Not a bad place to sit…
\n\n", "date_published": "2023-11-03T17:55:11+00:00", "url": "https://micro.chrishannah.me/2023/11/03/not-a-bad.html" }, { "id": "http://chrishannah.micro.blog/2022/09/06/my-main-blog.html", "content_html": "My main blog now supports micro posts!
\nTook a bit of tinkering, but I’ve now got them appearing on the website correctly, excluded from the main RSS feed, and also being syndicated here on Micro.blog.
\n", "date_published": "2022-09-06T19:43:15+00:00", "url": "https://micro.chrishannah.me/2022/09/06/my-main-blog.html" }, { "id": "http://chrishannah.micro.blog/2022/09/05/one-day-i.html", "content_html": "One day I need to go through the 1500 posts on my blog, and delete all the rubbish that has built up from various migrations and periods of cross-posting. But it doesn’t seem very easy from Ghost. If only I could interact directly with the db 🤔.
\n", "date_published": "2022-09-05T15:54:15+00:00", "url": "https://micro.chrishannah.me/2022/09/05/one-day-i.html" }, { "id": "http://chrishannah.micro.blog/2022/09/02/working-from-home.html", "content_html": "Working from home really messes with my brain. At various points of today I’ve thought it was a different day of the week. Then I remember it’s actually friday, and I don’t need to think about work for a few days.
\n", "date_published": "2022-09-02T21:53:16+00:00", "url": "https://micro.chrishannah.me/2022/09/02/working-from-home.html" }, { "id": "http://chrishannah.micro.blog/2022/09/02/i-didnt-realise.html", "content_html": "I didn’t realise Rings of Power was out alreeady! I wonder if I can manage to watch both episodes tonight. 🤔
\n", "date_published": "2022-09-02T21:00:27+00:00", "url": "https://micro.chrishannah.me/2022/09/02/i-didnt-realise.html" }, { "id": "http://chrishannah.micro.blog/2022/09/02/i-must-say.html", "content_html": "I must say, I’m very much enjoying House of the Dragon. It reminds me of how it felt watching the first series of Game of Thrones. 📺
\n", "date_published": "2022-09-02T20:34:02+00:00", "url": "https://micro.chrishannah.me/2022/09/02/i-must-say.html" }, { "id": "http://chrishannah.micro.blog/2022/09/02/countle-looks-like.html", "content_html": "Countle looks like it may become one of my daily mini games. Even though I still haven’t worked out todays sum.
\n\n", "date_published": "2022-09-02T09:47:41+00:00", "url": "https://micro.chrishannah.me/2022/09/02/countle-looks-like.html" }, { "id": "http://chrishannah.micro.blog/2022/09/01/my-mini-blog.html", "content_html": "My mini blog refresh is complete. A tad more minimal, with a plain colour background again, and no more serif font. However, I added some different visual layers with the content, with featured images also getting a bit of love.
\n\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\n", "date_published": "2022-09-01T13:22:22+00:00", "url": "https://micro.chrishannah.me/2022/09/01/my-mini-blog.html" }, { "id": "http://chrishannah.micro.blog/2022/08/31/god-damn-it.html", "content_html": "God damn it. I’ve now got it in my head that I need to (partially) redesign my blog.
\nI wonder what I can get done before the football starts in 50 minutes.
\n", "date_published": "2022-08-31T17:40:10+00:00", "url": "https://micro.chrishannah.me/2022/08/31/god-damn-it.html" }, { "id": "http://chrishannah.micro.blog/2022/08/30/on-a-bit.html", "content_html": "On a bit of a wild book hunt at the moment. My Bookshop.org wishlist is growing quite a bit. 📚
\n", "date_published": "2022-08-30T20:56:32+00:00", "url": "https://micro.chrishannah.me/2022/08/30/on-a-bit.html" }, { "id": "http://chrishannah.micro.blog/2022/08/30/currently-reading-natives.html", "content_html": "Currently reading: Natives by Akala 📚
\n", "date_published": "2022-08-30T20:54:40+00:00", "url": "https://micro.chrishannah.me/2022/08/30/currently-reading-natives.html" }, { "id": "http://chrishannah.micro.blog/2022/08/23/turning-dalle-images.html", "title": "Turning DALL-E images into photos", "content_html": "After playing with DALL-E recently, I wondered if I could use it to create wallpapers. I still haven’t totally succeeded yet, but I did think of an interesting image pipeline.
\nHere’s what each step looks like on one of my recent generations. (Note: all images have been scaled down to a maximum size of 1024px x 1024px).
\nThe image description:
\n\n\n“a photo of a large tree with handing branches in the center of a dense jungle with a small tropical river nearby during golden hour”
\n
(Yep, handing should be hanging, I’ll blame autocorrect for that).
\nHere is the outputted image:
\n\nThis is it after running it through the ML Super Resolution a few times. (And then resampling down to 1024px):
\n \nAfter some edits:
\n\nFinally, cropped to a vertical 3:4 ratio:
\n\nI think I’ll play around with the process a bit. But I do find it very interesting, and fun, to see how far you can take DALL-E images. The next thing I want to figure out is to make the images look like real photos, not like weird pieces of art.
\n", "date_published": "2022-08-23T22:19:51+00:00", "url": "https://micro.chrishannah.me/2022/08/23/turning-dalle-images.html" }, { "id": "http://chrishannah.micro.blog/2022/08/23/the-music-app.html", "content_html": "The Music app being the default application to open mp3 files on a Mac seems pretty stupid to me.
\n", "date_published": "2022-08-23T19:57:43+00:00", "url": "https://micro.chrishannah.me/2022/08/23/the-music-app.html" } ] }