I’m a frickin genius.

Context: my kid is mildly allergic to citric acid and citric fruit. Brings out eczema. And citric acid is in SO many things. And it’s painful checking ingredients lists for it.

This morning I wondered: can my phone OCR the ingredients list and check it?

My first thought was to make a little web app. But there doesn’t seem to be a OCR in web browsers yet.

But I KNOW my phone can get text from images.

Then…

Apple Shortcuts!!!

CHECK THIS OUT!!!

#Medium – the proprietary, #SiliconValley equivalent of free and open #fediverse app #WriteFreely, by the #billionnaire co-founder of #Twitter – now has a #Mastodon server.

It might be a good time to take a look at WriteFreely (https://writefreely.org/) and their hosted services Write.as (https://write.as/) and WriteFreely Host (https://writefreely.host/) and consider owning your own #blog on the fediverse instead of contributing to the walled gardens of the folks who bequeathed you Twitter.

What operating system do you use for coding/programming and why?

(Boost's are appreciated )
#fediask #coding #programming #webdev

🆕 blog! “Book Review: There Is Nothing for You Here - Fiona Hill”
★★★★☆

This is a profoundly depressing but utterly necessary read. It charts Fiona Hill's journey from the moribund educational opportunities provided in a dying coal city in England, all the way to her testimony in the Trump impeachment hearings. It is part biography and part political manifesto.…

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/01/book-review-there-is-nothing-for-you-here-fiona-hill/
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#BookReview #politics

We're working on a few #photography improvements 😉

✨ Add Buy link (to 3rd party marketplaces)
✨ Collections v2
✨ Color (ICC) profiles
✨ Edit exif data (before & after)
✨ Enable public downloads
✨ Portfolio improvements
✨ Profile layout customization
✨ Untouched uploads (preserve original media)
✨ Update media metadata (alt-text, caption, exif, license, order)

https://pixelfed.org #pixelfed