{"id":14404,"date":"2025-08-24T14:39:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T19:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/?p=14404"},"modified":"2025-08-24T14:39:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T19:39:09","slug":"first-post-in-17-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/24\/first-post-in-17-months\/","title":{"rendered":"First Post in 17 Months"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It\u2019s been an incredibly eventful 17 months. I\u2019ve had a ton to say, and in some respects the time to say it, but it\u2019s been a little overwhelming to consider how much there was to say and how much time it would take to say it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, in typical fashion of a procrastinator, it became easier to simply not say anything (even though, the need to say it kept growing exponentially).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I say <em>need<\/em> because I have truly internalized that many people claim that writing is truly <strong>thinking<\/strong> and that one should do a lot of writing even if there is no audience (and for all intents and purposes, I have no audience, and I\u2019m fine with that).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are two main thrusts that have made the past 17 months <em>eventful<\/em>, health and technology. So much to write about each. Instead of my typical novel-length posts on each, I\u2019m going to do a longer <em>series<\/em> on the health stuff (at least), whereas some of the tech posts will still be too long for comfort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The most recent tech change is connecting this blog to the <strong>Fediverse<\/strong> using the WordPress plugin ActivityPub. It was a crazy odyssey to get that to work (I\u2019ll eventually get to a post about that) but this morning, the connection went live (hence this first post, finally).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you want to follow this blog from any Fediverse client (e.g., <a href=\"https:\/\/joinmastodon.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mastodon<\/a>), the address is: <code>@blog@opticality.com<\/code> (you need to copy\/paste that address into your Mastodon client (or any other Fediverse client).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have a separate personal Mastodon account (which I toot\/boost from very infrequently, but that could change too): <code>@hadarvc@social.opticality.com<\/code> (same copy\/paste instructions as above&#8230;)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Be forewarned, I\u2019m hoping not to fall off the wagon again, so there might be quite the flurry of posts in the coming weeks&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been an incredibly eventful 17 months. I\u2019ve had a ton to say, and in some respects the time to say it, but it\u2019s been a little overwhelming to consider how much there was to say and how much time it would take to say it. So, in typical fashion of a procrastinator, it became [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1379],"class_list":["post-14404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2","tag-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14404"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14409,"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14404\/revisions\/14409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}