{"id":14918,"date":"2023-02-18T11:01:58","date_gmt":"2023-02-18T11:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=14918"},"modified":"2023-02-18T11:15:42","modified_gmt":"2023-02-18T11:15:42","slug":"blogathon-18-23-tech-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=14918","title":{"rendered":"Blogathon 18\/23: Tech services"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Yesterday I got an email from Fitbit telling me about their exciting new developments! I&#8217;ve had Fitbit wearable devices for about five years (but it may actually be longer than that). I&#8217;ve currently got a Fitbit Versa 3. More than anything else I use it for tracking my daily step count. Related to the daily step count I am a member of a couple of &#8216;competitive&#8217; groups. We go up against each other&#8217;s Daily, Weekly, and Weekend step count challenges. It&#8217;s harmless, interesting, and a bit of fun. We can message the other group members about our progress, or take the pee out people who aren&#8217;t doing very well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So in yesterday&#8217;s email update from Fitbit the exciting new developments that they&#8217;re going to deliver in the next big software upgrade is the complete withdrawal of all Daily, Weekly, and Weekend step count challenges and, obviously, the messaging capability. Well that&#8217;s real progress. Obviously not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve also been considering closing something down&#8217; my geekblog. I no longer &#8216;do&#8217; geek stuff. Yes, the website exists as a record which people can refer to &#8211; and I like that concept. And yes the domain has a couple of email addresses that I hold back as emergency backdoors into a couple of webservices. But my geeky outputs these days are all marine\/sea-based. And now, in my heart of hearts, I think I&#8217;ve just talked myself out of shutting it down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I got an email from Fitbit telling me about their exciting new developments! I&#8217;ve had Fitbit wearable devices for about five years (but it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}