280 vs 300 vs 500, and Other Fights One 600-character thought, three different outcomes, decided by each network's own ceiling. https://interlinedlist.com/blog/280-vs-300-vs-500-and-other-fights

280 vs 300 vs 500, and Other Fights

X caps you at 280, Bluesky at 300, Mastodon at 500, and LinkedIn barely blinks. Here is what happens to one long post when it hits four different walls, plus where images and video fit.

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Write it now, pick when it goes out, close the laptop. https://interlinedlist.com/blog/writing-now-posting-later-2

Writing Now, Posting Later

I do my best writing at 11 p.m. and my best posting at 9 a.m., and those two facts used to be in permanent conflict. Scheduled posts fixed it.

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Flip the Switch: Going Public One checkbox. Everything to the left of it is the same. Everything downstream of it is different. https://interlinedlist.com/blog/flip-the-switch-going-public

Flip the Switch: Going Public

Let me introduce a different version of me for this one. Call her the build-in-public founder. She is shipping a small app, she is doing it in the open, and she has learned the hard way that working entirely in private is a great way to finish something nobody wants. She wants the accountability of an audience and the…

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The adventure of rebuilding a synth pedal and logging it.

Reading Your Own Timeline. Your wall, newest first. Every post you have written, private ones included, in the order they happened. I tell of the rebuilding a small synth pedal to elaborate on usage. Give it a read, it'll land you a few more ideas on how to get value out of your message wall. https://interlinedlist.com/blog/reading-your-own-timeline

Another scenario for time-series based messages. Fire and forget em', then review your outages. It works. I've been doing it for years.

The Scratchpad You Already Have - making more use of a time-series based micro-blogging (are there more key words?)... anyway give the post a read. This lays out an effective and useful *use* for messages beyond the standard "Post a public message." scenario. https://interlinedlist.com/blog/the-scratchpad-you-already-have

Give @messenger a follow for up to date posts and news, and efforts on new features for InterlinedList! this is one of the latests posts on the blog that outlines use of one of the core features: the message box on the main page (and your dashboard!). More scenarios will be forthcoming, elaborating on excellent uses for messages - the time series little micro-notes (micro-blogs?) that they are!

The One Box The whole feature, more or less. A box, a counter, a checkbox... https://interlinedlist.com/blog/the-one-box

Messages Are the Front Door https://interlinedlist.com/blog/messages-are-the-front-door