@matigo Usually auroras are photographed during the winter in the far North, which has reduced the external light (sun, moon, artificial light) to the absolute minimum. However, now that the Spring equinox is behind us, the sun is below the horizon only few hours, making things a lot more complicated… But there were a ton of great photographs taken during this couple of days.
@matigo No. When I was young and lived with my parents we did see them every winter as there was less light pollution etc. Now that I live the capital region there is so much light everywhere that it is almost impossible to see them. Also, I have never seen them this late in Spring as the sky is still pretty well lit by the sun for hours after it has set. For example, this photo was taken after we came back home at mignight. That blue in the Northwester(!) is indeed lit by the sun 3 hours after it had set.
@variablepulserate I have. When I was young and lived further North we did see them every winter. But I have never seen them this late in Spring.
The Spring took a leap last week only be caught by a cold spell this week. And now it is snowing again, and the forecast says that it will snow for the whole day tomorrow. Luckily I don’t have any urgent businesses to take care of during the weekend. I got the winter tires changed to ”regular” tires last Tuesday…
#bookclub Jessica Fellowes, The Mitford Murders (🇫🇮, Mitfordin murhat), ISBN 978-951-1-32597-0
@matigo I have not done any analysis. But I can guess what it would reveal: I post really seldom and the most common topic in my blog posts is that I promise to write more often. Which I obviously did not do as life threw a few curveballs at my direction every single time I had made that promise…
@matigo You mean visitor analytics or analysis on the Blip content/frequency/whatever? The short answer to both: no.
My site has no analytics trackers. Why? First of all, I don’t give a 💩 about visitor analytics because my site is a dumping site for all my weird ideas as well as a playground for me to learn web development. Secondly, I would probably need to write the analytics component myself so that it would be as lightweight and non-intrusive as possible.
For the latter, I post a Blip whenever I feel like (rather seldom, to be fair) and their content vary so much that there is no sense to run any analysis on the topics etc.
Now it is done. As I have been using tagging in my Blips [pekonen.cc], they have looked a bit out of place as they have not been highlighted in any way nor there has been an aggregate site that would display all Blips that have that tag. Now both of these issues have been resolved.
Now all those plans are almost done. There is only one more thing to do before I will make it public, and I can then finetune a couple of related things later as they are not blocking the thing I have done.