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: Crucial Track for June 5, 2025 "Larger Than Life" by Backstreet Boys Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. What's a song that feels larger than life to you? Sorry, not sorry. This is the track that comes to mind when I saw the prompt. I still smile thinking about how people would argue whether Backstreet Boys or N*sync were better. View Mandaris Moore's Crucial Tracks profile
: Crucial Track for June 4, 2025 "Life Is a Highway" by Rascal Flatts Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. Describe the perfect song for a road trip and why it works. I didn't think much of this song when I heard it in the movie, but it's really grown on me over the years. I think it's because my daughter would keep on saying "Kachow". View Mandaris Moore's Crucial Tracks profile
: I don’t like the idea of using the year for version numbers of operating systems. Reminds me of windows 95 and 98.
: Of course, someone wants to go walking when I’m just about to go to bed.
: The family loves her You came in and just stole everyone’s heart. And stuffed up everyone’s nose. Keep doing what you’re doing!
: I didn’t know that Bluesky was able to extract the information about the iTunes link on my site.
: Crucial Track for June 3, 2025 "Nobody Knows" by The Tony Rich Project Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. What song would you use to describe your current relationship? I've been married for years and sometimes relationships can ebb and flow as we try to make things work in this world. At the moment, we've got a lot of things going on as our children start moving on to their next stage in life.
: Crucial Track for June 2, 2025 "Kokomo" by The Beach Boys Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. Describe music that reminds you of a specific place you've traveled. I’ve never been to Kokomo. For me, the song actually reminds me of Santa Cruz, Ca. My wife and I would sometimes listen to this song as we would drive down there. It was her happy place and that would make me feel good to know that she was happy.
: Crucial Track for June 1, 2025 "The Dynamo of Volition" by Jason Mraz Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. What song do you associate with your biggest accomplishment? This isn’t the biggest accomplishment, but I was able to beat a ticket one time and “The Dynamo of Volition” by Jason Mraz. It probably won’t happen again. View Mandaris Moore's Crucial Tracks profile
: Crucial Track for May 31, 2025 "Human Nature" by Michael Jackson Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. What song makes you feel understood when no one else does? I feel that Human Nature by Michael Jackson is the best fit for the prompt. It might just be because I'm a big Michael Jackson fan. View Mandaris Moore's Crucial Tracks profile
: Crucial Track for May 30, 2025 "I Try" by Macy Gray Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. What's a song you initially disliked but now love? I would say "I Try" by Macy Gray is the perfect song for this. The first time that I heard this song, I was surprised that it was even on the radio. It was the early 2000s when I heard it -although it was released the year before- and I was of the opinion that singers had to be "
: Crucial Track for May 29, 2025 "Corner of the Earth" by Jamiroquai Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. What song feels like a secret between you and the artist? "Corner of the Earth" is that track for me. It's something that I subconsciously seek out when I feel my world is spinning out of control. It helps feel centered and get back "on track". View Mandaris Moore's Crucial Tracks profile
: Ok, the writing is done and now it’s time to start a new habit of seeing what tabs to save the URLs of.
: I would really like your opinion on my last post @Mtt @jimmitchell
: Share the Love Remember when the internet was about sharing cool things? I like sharing memes and articles with my friends. I also like saving links to things that I read so that I can follow up with them later. I wanted to make it easier for me to share links to my page and document how I integrated it into the theme that I’ve been working on.
: Crucial Track for May 24, 2025 "Tightrope (feat. Big Boi)" by Janelle Monáe Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. What’s a hidden gem you wish more people knew about? Tightrope by Janelle Monáe is a wonderful track on a great album. I really enjoy this track because it has a lot of energy and range. Janelle has a great voice and you just get this feeling that you kind of have to dance no matter how low things can get.
: I’m trying to use instagram to connect with the youths. I hate it.
: Crucial Track for May 26, 2025 "Un-Break My Heart" by Toni Braxton Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. What song reminds you of your first heartbreak? I actually don't have one specific to my first heartbreak but there is not that brings up that feeling and it's Un-Break My Heart by Toni Braxton. I think she's very talented and I don't hear a lot of talent with her voice in popular music.
: Crucial Track for May 25, 2025 "Under Pressure" by Queen & David Bowie Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. Woke up and felt the whole world was on top of me. View Mandaris Moore's Crucial Tracks profile
: It’s ok to rethink your identity if it leads you to being a better person. I’m saying that to myself and whoever else needs to see/hear it.
: Went outside to “touch grass”.
: I had a draft that was a rant. Finished it. Set it down. Read it. Now deleting.
: Playing with the idea of getting into cursive writing again.
: Nights like this, I wish I had a better camera.
: I don’t know if you saw that they changed the folder structure of templates for Hugo, @manton. Another thing to add to the list, I guess but I hope that people here are generally happy with what we’ve already got.
: The Alto Knights, 2025 - ★★ Looking back on this, I'm wondering if it's possible to make murder boring. This movie has all the parts for something great but looking back on it, I don't really know how to feel about the work overall. De Niro plays two characters that looks two similar. It's almost as if Superman and Clark Kent were in the same room. I guess the director wanted to showcase that they were a lot alike but doing things in completely different ways.
: I like that there are less and less reasons to update some of these software packages.
: I was at UC Davis last week and I took some pictures.
: I’ve decided to use Letterboxd for a couple days to do my movie reviews.
: The Stepford Wives, 2004 - ★★★ I went back and saw this film after watching Companion to get a feel for the two different movies. The movie really feels a little bit out of time. It has jokes that are still funny and poke fun at some many things that should be made fun of. There are messages and jokes and just a lot of little things that I really enjoyed.🎬
: Companion, 2025 - ★★★ This movie concept has been done before. What it comes down to is the execution and I feel the cast does a wonderful job of really bringing it <q>to life</q>.
: The Gutter, 2024 - ★★½ It's a lot of little jokes that you've seen in other places and stitches together here for your entertainment. I chuckled at a couple of the jokes but I don't think I can recommend this movie to most unless you want to watch a movie with dirty jokes and bowling. Don't think. Just watch.🎬
: Finished reading: Artificial Condition by Martha Wells 📚 This one didn’t have as much action as the first as it focused on the intrigues that happen in the books universe. I feel that this gives the reader more of an understanding of the character and what it means to deal with trauma from the past and how it defines you in the future.
: What's in a title I have configured my blog index to only show posts with titles. At first, I was a little hesitant, but I think it makes for a better experience when I'm reading it. I also found that I do not hesitate as much make microposts.
: Finished reading: All Systems Red by Martha Wells 📚 It was a fun short read. I’m now excited about the upcoming tv show. Unfortunately, I won’t have time to watch it until June.
: If you’re looking for someone to give you permission to start or restart that thing you’re thinking about, I’m here to tell you yes… unless it’s dumb.
: The turkeys have designated this space as their own.
: I picked this up @KimberlyHirsh
: Short video of Lillie playing with turkeys in the dog park.
: From now on, everytime I hear Tim Cook talk about Apple loving it’s developers, I’ll be thinking about how a pimp loves their hoes.
: Looks like the McRib is coming back soon! China is halting US pork imports
: Passing Data into SVG Linked Parameters Workaround I wanted to share this link for a while. I do not know if I will be able to use it in the future, but I am hoping that someone else will find it inspiring.
: Discordance I think I’ve been on most of the major social networks and chat systems. It’s part of the reason that I’m on my current hosting provider. In an ever increasingly busy world, having a quick way to connect to others is a great endorphin boost. Discord is another service that I enjoy, but it might not be in the rotation this time next year.
: Microfeatures I Love in Blogs and Personal Websites I remember this post shortly before I saw everyone posting about their slash pages. You can do whatever you want on your blog! For better or worse. I've been on the lookout for ways to improve the site, and I've seen quite a few little things that are nice to use, but relatively easy to implement. They don't really make or break a website; the absence of such features might be noticed, but will not cause any disruption for the reader.
: The Goblin Emperor - ★★★★★ Simple cover for a book that covers many topics This was a delightful combination of palace intrigue, mystery, and exploring how we deal with grief and abuse. All of it self-contained and easy to follow from start to finish.
: Currently reading: The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison 📚 I’m really enjoying it as an audio book, but this leads to me getting the names mixed up.
: The older I get the more I feel that links should be underlined.
: I don’t think rat race is the appropriate term because rat races usually end.
: This was the beach this morning.
: California Polytechnic State University. 📍 Beautiful day.
: I left the charger for my Apple Watch while I’m traveling. I guess I won’t be closing my rings this weekend.
: Stoot plugin update to 1.1.O There was a change in Hugo .v141 that handles errors
: Dropping Lillie off to play with her friends.
: Lillie likes to lay in the sun. I wish I had a yard so she could do it more often.
: White Lotus Season 3 - ★★★★☆ A good argument for a staycation I do not know where they are going to go from here. I feel that all the actors really did a great job doing their individual roles. I found them to be believable on a lot of levels. But, I don't feel excited about visiting The White Lotus again in the future.
: Had a really big burger the other day.
: I'm tired boss... upcoming deprecations I've been working on an update for my website theme to scratch a technical curiosity I was feeling related to authorship of individual posts in comparison to the entire site. After reading a couple resources, I decided to ask on the Hugo forums if there was an ideal way to add author information. I kept running into an issues and figured that it might be related to the version change. Warnings are future errors. A technical debt for waiting to come due.
: Moonbound - ★★★★☆ A book so good, I forgot the world was burning I heard about this book📚 on episode 757 of The Incomparable podcast. It seemed like a nice little distraction and was a nice little adventure.
: Updates to the theme: Play-Lab Just a small milestone for me and I’d like to know what you think.
: Nevada Union High School. 📍 About to see some kids running track.
: I’m dislike becoming more and more cynical.
: The morning was pretty nice.
: Atkinson Hyperlegible Font - Braille Institute My next design tweak will be to start using the Atkinson Hyperlegible Font for this site.
: Did the CSS naked day and it’s a little weird to see how large some of the assets I’m using are.
: Thanks to @Archimage for letting me know that it’s draw a picture of a bird day.
: I took this photo this morning. It was just me attempting to capture a still moment before the day begins.
: Itching to write something but just don’t have it in me right now.
: Pet Food Express. 📍 Gave Lillie a big girl bath.
: 📍 Another day at the Far Western Tournament
: 📍 Here in Reno, NV for a volleyball tournament.
: Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (2022) - ★★★☆☆ It goes by really fast If you're looking for something light and easy going than this is a good place to find it. Easy to follow plot that one of the characters jokes about being easy figure out.
: (Re)Starting Mindfulness The world has always been crazy. The only difference between when I was a child and now is that the world has been become smaller. The effects of the proverbial butterfly wings come faster than I am ready for. How does someone respond to so much so quickly? In a lot of ways, I guess this is what “we” wanted. The world’s knowledge at our fingertips. But, in order to not get lost in the storms that the butterfly wings produce, you have to ground yourself.
: Why Would Developers Care 2025? Apple announced the days for the upcoming developer conference and for the first time that I can recall, I didn’t really know what to feel. For years, I’ve had being a Mac user as part of my identity. I have shirts still in the original plastic celebrating different operating system releases. I remember standing in lines for products and software while chatting with everyone else in line about what feature they were looking forward to.
: Why send me a picture of the excel table when you have access to the table?!
: Homebrew Website Club (March 19th, 2025) My personal highlights from the meeting.
: Bad Monkey (2024) - ★★★★☆ Towards the end, I was pretty happy to see the monkey. Dodgeball is one of my favorite movies and Vince Vaughn has been a lot of movies that I've enjoyed over the years. That being said, it can be hard to watch him for an entire season unless you like that kind of humor. Thankfully, this show has a wonderful array of additional characters that reel you in.
: I’ve got to tell myself to stop pushing code at 11:32 at night. But since, I don’t sleep well. I can’t form long term memories.
: This week, I’m planning on making my site work better with the lynx browser. I’ve got a lot of metadata hidden by css and will convert to css or just remove.
: Lillie has been extra clingy recently as she is feeling sick. I hope that it’s in the last phases.
: Up super late to help with homework. 1:40!! Got to smart the alarm a little later.
: Lillie is now sick again. Can you find her hiding away from that stomach bug?
: I would really enjoy an apology from Apple related to AI in the same vein as the one we go during unveiling of Apple Maps.
: Blog Recommendation: John Philpin I’ve been reading John’s posts for over a year now and I’ve enjoyed his writing and the links that he’s curated on his site.
: It’s almost 1am. I have to be up at 5 to get ready for work. I just hope that something good happens today.
: Here is a picture of Lillie sunning herself knowing I’ve got to get back to a meeting.
: Another reason to remove all twitter embeds from my content.
: I had a thought about making a site that focused on tutorials that are NOT videos.
: Didn’t think I would ever say this, but I kinda want to do pushups right now.
: Thinking about using a webfont. I’m no longer using as much JavaScript and it would be nice to have a consistent view of my site when I’m goofing off researching.
: I’ve turned off analytics and some of the javascript plugins on my website. The analytics were nice to have, but kind of distracting me from what I want to focus on with my writing. Plus I haven’t used certain plugins for months if not years.
: Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man (2025) - ★★★★☆ If he had it his way, he'd take public transit I've come to the conclusion that when it comes to reboots of familiar IP[^ip], you should use similar rules as weddings; something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue. I thought it would be nice to organize this review using the rhyme to separate topics.
: Love Hurts (2025) - ★★★☆☆ Ke Huy Quan knows that love is worth fighting for. I was hesitant to watch this after reading some of the reviews for it. It's a pretty good movie with some caveats. This is not a film that you watch expecting a great plot of traditional romance, but it has a lot of great action.
: You're Cordially Invited (2025) - ★★★☆☆ Will Ferrel wrestles with more than an aligator. A movie like this is all about execution. You know that things are not going to go well, but it's how they go wrong and how the cast reacts that make the movie what it is.
: I’m going to start scheduling my daily notes. Does anyone have a template that they prefer?
: I sometimes do a math problem when I’m waiting for something. I grab some random numbers and multiply them together and then check my answer. Today, I divided by another random number. I didn’t get the right answer but it felt nice to use my brain in this way.
: Tell us something good The sky is the limit. Tell Me Something Good is more than just a great song by Rufus, it’s also a great prompt that I saw on my friend James’ blog. I thought I would write a couple good things that are in my life was I’m doing laundry. My family is in good health I’ve got some time off next week I don’t have to worry about where and when my next meal is coming from I’m part of multiple communities of people who wish me well and have a passive influence on me I’m able to wake up and make opportunities for me and my family
: Harley Quinn (Season 5) New city, same show. I honestly didn't think they would make another season of this after the last one, but apparently there was enough interest and budget to do this. I was somewhat optimistic as I vaguely remember someone saying that this had the revitalized energy of the prior seasons. Season 4 had been a drag and I really felt the writers had placed themselves in a corner. But, it really feels as if the writers have just taken the two characters and put them in a new setting.
: First Wives Club - ★★★☆☆ Don't get mad, get everything! This is one of my wife's favorite movies and I'm happy that she wanted to share it with me. It wasn't on my radar when it came out or since then. The closet thing I've seen like this is 1989's She-Devil. I feel that some of the tones are kind of dated and some of the jokes haven’t aged well, but the over all film and theme are still there and uplifting.
: Take some time to tell those in your life how you feel.
: Homebrew Website Club Meeting (2025-02-05) I stopped by the European chapter of the IndieWeb group during my lunch and I feel that I got a lot of out it. We went over a lot of different things but here are some of my favorite highlights. 4 oh 4 pages I joined the meeting late and caught the tail end of discussions about what other people do when someone tries to go to a URL that doesn’t exist under their domain.
: Kind of dreading the Superbowl for some reason. I’ll be happy when it’s over so that I don’t have to wait so long in the grocery line as everyone is doing their party shopping.
: My friend sent this series of messages to me today. Just a little reminder about how these systems are trained. I’m not surprised.
: Me doing 20 pushups in a row. My friend and I have a bet to see who can get to 100 pushups first.
: A brief note about longform There have been a couple of posts on Micro.blog - the service I use to host my blog - about how to improve the handling of longform content. I thought I would yell into the void write my thoughts and feelings about this topic.
: Your browser does not support the video tag. This was a quick clip of the header not being size properly I’ve been scratching my head trying figure out why this is wrapping improperly.
: Things that I’m grateful for: My community Opportunities to be better everyday Sleep This time I’m taking to write this Clean water
: I’ve been taking an unintentional break from writing the last couple of weeks. Just kind of numb with all the things that are going on. Just filling my mind up with Severance theories as I try to ignore the world burning.
: Last year someone shared a snippet to have Hugo only show the posts with titles. I thought I would remember it. Does anyone know what I’m talking about? {{- range ( .Paginate (where .Site.RegularPages "Type" "post" )).Pages }}
: I wanted to try making a collection and put it in a post.
: Just making small changes here and there tonight. I think I’m going to make the index only show posts that have a title.
: Creature Commandos (2024) - ★★★☆☆ It looks cooler than it actually is. If you liked The Suicide Squad, then you'll probably like this one as well. It's a similar premise and it's not trying to hide it. You could even say that's the point of it, and that's ok. I don’t need everything that I watch be a completely new idea. Sometimes, there is a comfort in having a similar narrative. But, I feel this one has a less satisfying ending.
: Finished reading: Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir 📚
: It feels like some the more popular writing applications are getting a significant update. As someone who feels like they are bouncing around from one to another, this is great as I don’t have the added FOMO for features. Who knows, I might get my writing workflow under control.
: The Best of Intentions Back in December, I wrote a post about becoming more intentional in my day-to-day life. Sadly, I didn’t specify how I was going to go about it. I made a couple of changes, but overall, I’m still finding myself getting into the same habits. Thankfully, it’s never too late to start (or in this case restart) something new. Here are the Actions that I’m going to do to get things in order.
: For over a month, I wasn’t seeing any comments on my blog post and just thought that it was because everyone was busy with other things. Turns out, I just didn’t implement that part in my theme. 🤦🏾♂️
: Seriously considering making “Have a good weekend!” the way that I end my emails.
: I want to do some writing but I don’t know how to get started anymore.
: If you see this message, I hope that you are doing well.
: Instead of being in a funk, I’m going to invest the energy into my next action.
: I took a break from the internet for one day and then THIS?!
: Finished reading: The Perfect Marriage by Jeneva Rose 📚 It is not a good book. I don’t recall the last time I read a book where I was so angry with the main characters. I think I kept going because my wife and I were trying to figure out how this was a best seller. I know why now because this book just makes you shake your head with the audacity of what happens.
: The Hot Chick (2002) - ★★★★☆
: Tomorrow, I want to spend as much time as I can just working on getting ready for the weeks/months/years to come.
: I don’t think I you should make dog treats look like chocolate chip cookies.
: Don’t use the Hugo twitter shortcode! It’s causing render issues!
: 2024 Blogging Retrospective I really wanted to focus on doing more blogging on my blog. Looking back at the 416 posts from last year, I feel that I did it. One of my proudest accomplishments was writing a response to all the 50 blog prompts by Lou Plummer. I had originally attempted to do one every day, but I didn’t have a regular writing habit so it didn’t take much for life to get in the way of doing it.
: Introducing ū— A Distraction-Free Writing... kung fu grippe I have been looking for this link for a very long time! I thought it was taken down for whatever reason and kept kicking myself for not saving it. I think it's a very good read as we start a new year
: I’m planning on going to Homebrew Website Club Europe Meetup later today. I don’t think I’ve got much to share at this point with my own projects, but it’ll be nice to see what others are into.
: I was feeling a little overwhelmed and I took a couple minutes to write downs what I’m grateful for. I hope that you find something good in your life today.
: Really taking my time to come up with my next post.
: 50 Ideas for Blog Posts by Lou Plummer #50 50. Write about a news event from when you were still in school and how it made you feel. 50 Ideas for Blog Posts | Living Out Loud One news event that I haven't written about is the California Energy Crisis of 2000. It marked the first time that I heard the word deregulation and will always have negative connotations for me. For me, I didn’t suffer too much as the occasional blackout only inconvienced me.
: 50 Ideas for Blog Posts by Lou Plummer #49 49. Do you have a set of rules or guidelines for your life? Did you write them? Why do you use them? 50 Ideas for Blog Posts | Living Out Loud One of the key guidelines that I’ve set for myself is that I treat people the way that I want to be treated. People should be treated with the respect and dignity of being a human being and an understanding that you will not know what their story in life is.
: I’m not balding, I have inconsistent hair.
: 50 Ideas for Blog Posts by Lou Plummer #48 48. Have you ever had a brush with celebrity? Write about It. 50 Ideas for Blog Posts | Living Out Loud I once met Arj Barker after one of his comedy shows in Sacramento, CA. I used to follow him a little bit on twitter but haven’t looked into what he’s been doing since I stopped using the service. It looks like he’s got a new comedy album, so I’ll queue that up for my drive to work.
: 50 Ideas for Blog Posts by Lou Plummer #47 47. Do you consider yourself to be an international person? Why or why not? If so, write about people you know or have known from other countries. 50 Ideas for Blog Posts | Living Out Loud No. Most if not all of my identity is made from the influences in my vacenity. Although I do read some comics made in other parts of the world, most of what I work with is local.
: 50 Ideas for Blog Posts by Lou Plummer #46 What is your all-time favorite story to tell from all the jobs you’ve held? 50 Ideas for Blog Posts | Living Out Loud It was New Year's Eve of 1999. I was working the night shift at a grocery store and it was packed with people buying last minute necessities for when the world shuts down. It would echo again during the shutdown in the heights of Covid. I think it was one of the worst days working there as I helped people fill their carts with gallons of water at the same time that they grabbed 2 liters of caffeine free diet coke and Twinkie’s.
: 50 Ideas for Blog Posts by Lou Plummer #45 What do you remember being a big deal to adults during your childhood or teenaged years? 50 Ideas for Blog Posts | Living Out Loud The first thing that comes to mind is the OJ Simpson trail. I didn’t know who he was at the time. All I knew was that he was driving on a white truck down the freeway with the police following him. I feel that it’s partially because of the verdict that came after the Rodney King beating that some people feel that this was win for us.
: Taking a break to post a picture of me taking home precious supplies.
: 50 Ideas for Blog Posts by Lou Plummer #44 Are you an exerciser? What physical achievement are you most proud of? Ever play any sports? 50 Ideas for Blog Posts | Living Out Loud I know that I’m happier when I exercise. I am the best version of myself when I exercise. I, unfortunately, do not carve out boundaries to do the exercise that would make me happy. Even the time to do a quick 15-20 minute walk.
: 50 Ideas for Blog Posts by Lou Plummer #43 What’s the last trip you took? Was it fun? Why or why not. 50 Ideas for Blog Posts | Living Out Loud The last trip I took was to visit family during the Christmas holiday. I would say that it was fun. There was a little tension in that we don’t all have the same political views, but we put that all aside and just focused on what was important.
: 50 Ideas for Blog Posts by Lou Plummer #42 I know this isn't Friday, but I really want to finish these post ideas before the end of the year. Write a #FollowFriday with the names of your favorite bloggers or social media follows and why you like them. 50 Ideas for Blog Posts | Living Out Loud Leon Mika I think I interact with his blog more than anyone else’s this year because he has a lot of things that I’m interested in.
: 50 Ideas for Blog Posts by Lou Plummer #41 What is your relationship with your phone? Does it make you happy or sad? Do you get a new one frequently or infrequently? 50 Ideas for Blog Posts | Living Out Loud When the iPhone first came out, it was the only material possession that I wanted. It had the promise of being everything that I could technically want in one device in my pocket. I wasn’t able to afford it at the time, most people weren’t as it was $600 dollars and I was expecting my first child.
: I just want to remind you that it’s ok not to read every post. I’m explicitly giving you permission not even attempt to get caught up. Enjoy!
: 50 Ideas for Blog Posts by Lou Plummer #40 I'm actually very happy to have this question.
: 50 Ideas for Blog Posts by Lou Plummer #45 What do you remember being a big deal to adults during your childhood or teenaged years? 50 Ideas for Blog Posts | Living Out Loud The first thing that comes to mind is the OJ Simpson trail. I didn’t know who he was at the time. All I knew was that he was driving on a white truck down the freeway with the police following him. I feel that it’s partially because of the verdict that came after the Rodney King beating that some people feel that this was win for us.
: Christmas is over! Time to start selling the valentines merchandise!
: 50 Ideas for Blog Posts by Lou Plummer #39 39. What do you like to read? Books, newsletters, doomscrolling, blogs, paper magazines? 50 Ideas for Blog Posts | Living Out Loud My favorite thing to read are comics. I’ve enjoyed comics since I was a kid and would read the funny pages in the newspaper. When I was younger, my favorites were Calvin and Hobbs, Bloom County and The Far Side. I didn’t quite get all the jokes in Bloom County at the time, but it was so different from things like Garfield and Peanuts that it really stood out for me.
: Sometimes I find some good stuff on Bluesky. Generally we think of alt-text as the domain of those with accessibility needs. However alt-text is useful for many reasons, which benefit your viewers, as well as you, the creator! [image or embed] — alex (@dremenec.com) October 28, 2024 at 3:20 PM
: End of the Year Web Development Fun Near the end of the year, I look forward to two sites that release some amazing articles about web development. HTMHell Advent Calendar 2024 In 2022, I launched the HTMHell Advent Calendar, which was a great success. Since then, dozens of authors worldwide have contributed fantastic articles on security, accessibility, UX, and performance every year. This year, we’re back again with twenty-four more posts. HTMHell Advent Calendar 2024 - HTMHell When I was in college, I had a web development class where the teacher would start off every session with websites that had questionable decisions about the design.
: Does this show up in the timeline?
: Two different kinds of “focusable” UI elements · Eric Eggert This was a pretty nice article about things getting focus and how that plays with accessibility. In accessibility, “focusable” UI elements are represented by two separate yet equally important concepts: the elements who can be focused sequentially and those who can only receive focus programmatically. These are their stories. Dun-Dun Two different kinds of “focusable” UI elements · Eric Eggert
: End of the year goals for the blog This morning, I saw that micro.blog is now allowing a new version of Hugo. The new version is 0.140 and is a fairly big jump from 0.117. The thing that I’m excited about the most are the changes that were added in 0.134. @jsonbecker has been discussing this on micro.blog and on his blog about this and I’m pretty excited about what things I’m going to incorporate in the future.
: 50 Ideas for Blog Posts by Lou Plummer #38 38. How do you feel about writing? Is it often cathartic, fun, a chore? 50 Ideas for Blog Posts | Living Out Loud I genuinely enjoy writing. I feel that it gives me a creative outlet and allows me to see my thoughts in words. I don’t consider myself prolific or especially gifted when it comes to the written word, but I feel that sharing my thoughts online might help someone else out there.
: 50 Ideas for Blog Posts by Lou Plummer #37 37. Do you have any good or bad stories from your relationship with social media or Internet communities? 50 Ideas for Blog Posts | Living Out Loud A story that comes to mind happened when MySpace was starting to take off. My roommates sister was visiting for the first time and some of the first questions for me was how many followers that i had and whether I could put her in my top 8.
: 50 Ideas for Blog Posts by Lou Plummer #36 36. What do you remember about your first computer and learning to use it? 50 Ideas for Blog Posts | Living Out Loud The first computer that I remember using on a regular basis was a Tandy from RadioShack. I don’t feel that I really appreciated it because it was hard to use. I was younger and couldn’t understand why I couldn’t get things working on it. This was especially bad when I would attempt to run shareware that I would get from different magazines and grocery stores.
: 50 Ideas for Blog Posts by Lou Plummer #35 35. What is your typical day like from the time you wake up until you go to bed? 50 Ideas for Blog Posts | Living Out Loud I think this is a nice little compliment to a post I did recently about my goal of being more intentional. The only thing that is typical about my day is the time that my alarm goes off. After that, I get out of bed, make coffee for my wife and lunch for my kids.
: 50 Ideas for Blog Posts by Lou Plummer #34 34. Write a book review of the last book you couldn't put down. 50 Ideas for Blog Posts | Living Out Loud I already wrote about the last book that I finished, but wanted to talk about the book that I’m currently working through which is How to calm your mind by Chris Bailey. I picked it up after listening to an interview that author was doing on the Mac Power Users podcast.
: 50 Ideas for Blog Posts by Lou Plummer #33 This is an interesting question because I've heard of people saying that most people are single issue voters and we recently had an election where someone complained about the price of eggs being a key factor in how they voted. 33. What are five issues that have affected your political life? 50 Ideas for Blog Posts | Living Out Loud Being a minority There are many things that are related to this and people have written many books and articles on this subject.
: 50 Ideas for Blog Posts by Lou Plummer #32 32. What is your perfect record album? 50 Ideas for Blog Posts | Living Out Loud I feel that Off the Wall by Michael Jackson is the perfect record album. This is essentially the same answer for me as prompt 24.
: 50 Ideas for Blog Posts by Lou Plummer #31 31. Is there a particular country other than your own that fascinates you? Why? 50 Ideas for Blog Posts | Living Out Loud Not Really. I’m a homebody and ignorant of the outside world. I think there was a point in my life that I looked at Brussels. I half remember it being a place that would welcome remote work, but I feel that was before the pandemic and a huge influx of people going over there and raising the cost of living.
: 50 Ideas for Blog Posts by Lou Plummer #30 This is a pretty big milestone when it comes to working through these prompts. 30. What is something you are passionate about and why? 50 Ideas for Blog Posts | Living Out Loud It is an interesting time to think about this. What is passion? And am I passionate about anything right now? I feel that I could wheel out the standard answers - such as “family”, “giving back”, “movies”, etc.
: Intention Years ago, I dedicated myself to a theme inspired by Mike Hurley and Gray’s yearly theme methodology. I told the people around me and even put my money where my mouth was by purchasing the associated notebook. I didn’t use the notebook. But, I kept it with me, and it acted as a reminder that I was going to follow that theme. It was a good year. I want to go back to feeling that way again.
: 50 Ideas for Blog Posts by Lou Plummer #29 29. Can you make a list of 20 moments in your current or past life that you would classify as sublime? 50 Ideas for Blog Posts | Living Out Loud I would say moments with my wife and children have been sublime. It's very rare that I feel that kind contentment with life.
: 50 Ideas for Blog Posts by Lou Plummer #28 I want to be get back into my writing. 28. Do you have an /Interests page on your blog? What is on it or what would you put on one if you made it? 50 Ideas for Blog Posts | Living Out Loud No, I do not have anything other than an /about page on my blog. I sometimes have trouble writing about myself and leave something like this as a project for future me to do one day.
: I had a goal of finishing Lou Plummer’s 50 Ideas for Blog Posts by the end of the year. I’ve done 27 and only have a couple weeks to finish the rest. You’re going to see a lot of posts in the next couple of days.
: I had coffee with some friends today.
: It feels good to finish something. I hope you all get a chance to have that feeling today.
: Setting up a new computer can be kind of refreshing as you take some time to think about what you really need versus having simply because you had it on the other instance.
: Many years ago, I went to a Black Friday sale for diapers. I think it’s probably the closest I’ve everr gotten to buying happiness since then.
: 50 Ideas for Blog Posts by Lou Plummer #27 27. What kind of decorations do you have in your workspace? What do they mean to you? 50 Ideas for Blog Posts | Living Out Loud The place that I’m currently working has a “hoteling” requirement. This means that I’m required to book an appointment with a cubicle within an allotted set two (2) days a week. We can only book a cubicle 2 weeks in advance and we’re only required to be here two days, there is no guarantee that you’ll get the same cubicle.
: Found this on Mastodon. Bri | 🚴📦💨✨ | 🏳️🌈 @cargot_robbie@urbanists.social This is great. https://www.skeletonclaw.com/ 9:31 AM • November 26, 2024 (UTC)
: Manny Monday November 25th, 2024 This is a short episode where I only talk about the following topics. Allowing myself to get a gift What to do while the storm is quiet Monkey Man Music by LofCosmos from Pixabay. Transcript
: I’m debating on whether I should leave the micro posts on my main page.
: I hope something good happens to you today.
: It’s ok to say no to a side project. It’s not your main focus.
: I felt like I needed to get my body moving because I wasn’t feeling well yesterday. Workout with Sam on Apple Fitness
: I cut all my hair and then it started to rain.
: About 90% of the people that I would follow on BlueSky are on Micro.blog or Mastodon.
: Manny Monday November 18th, 2024 This episode is a little bit about the Mike Tyson fight as well as being calm. 00:00:00: Chapter 1 - Beginning 00:00:23: Start The Weekend With A Punch 00:05:14: How To Calm Your Mind 00:08:38: Writing And Posting Music by LofCosmos from Pixabay Transcript
: Currently reading: How to Calm Your Mind by Chris Bailey 📚
: Testing. Treating lupus by depleting B cells with CAR T cells has been shown successful A breakthrough cancer immunotherapy is now taking aim at autoimmune disease | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti… [image or embed] — Eduardo Villablanca (@ejvillablanca.bsky.social) November 15, 2024 at 3:28 AM
: The Mike Tyson fight continues the trend of November being a month filled with disappointments.
: I think I should mention webmentions.
: Just wanted to go outside and “touch grass”. Maybe there are turtles inside.
: Sometimes you work on something for a considerable amount of time, look at it and decide not to use it. It’s not always a waste of time. It can be frustrating. But, you learned a little more about what works and doesn’t and how to get to either point.
: Going to the vet for a checkup and nail trim. Alt text: My dog Lillie refuses to get out of the car.
: Save the web - Obsidian I’ll have to try this out when I get a chance
: Manny Monday November 11th, 2024 Very brief discussion about The Penguin and Boy Kills World. Music by LofCosmos from Pixabay Transcript
: My writing for the month has really slowed down. It’s as if some big event has happened and I can’t be bothered to write about my feelings on movies and music.
: I met him once at a comic convention. He seemed pretty cool and I always enjoyed his appearances in different things. Although, I’m not going to say Candyman in the mirror any time soon.
: It feels as if we have jumped straight into the holiday season.
: I hope that you have a great day.
: Is the micro.blog shirt still available? I don’t remember who was selling it. @help
: I took some time and made this plugin for micro.blog that contains all the shortcodes in the different themes that are offered. github.com/mandaris/… I’m still doing some testing, so if you have any feedback, I’d welcome it.
: I now hate the color orange.
: I woke up with some less than stellar news. I didn’t know what to do an it was 4 in the morning. Strength with Gregg * Music by the Rolling Stones
: I woke up at 3:30 and made the mistake of looking at my phone.
: Going to have to give up the ghost on these. You had a good run, buddy.
: I wanted to start the day with a feeling of accomplishment. Link Posted via Ulysses.
: Manny Monday Nov 4th, 2024 Hello! This episode is a small one about the upcoming election and some media that I’m doing. Music by LofCosmos from Pixabay Feel free to contact me with any feedback!… Well, almost any feedback. Transcript
: 50 Ideas for Blog Posts by Lou Plummer #26 26. Are you retired or working? What are your plans for retirement? 50 Ideas for Blog Posts | Living Out Loud I am currently working and having this constant dread that I'll probably have to do this until the day that I pass away. Life has a lot of twist and turns. A lot of restarts and some plans that had not materialized. So, I’ve moved all my available resources into making sure that my children have everything they need in order to succeed.
: Finished reading: Long Live Evil by Sarah Rees Brennan 📚 I really had trouble putting this book down. I really enjoyed having a female protagonist in a fantasy novel who has some drive and initiative. At the end, I’m conflicted between seeing where the story goes and having it end in fear that it won’t be able to continue to satisfy.
: For this month, I am writing and sending the posts without much editing. Which is like everyday but more frequently.
: 50 Ideas for Blog Posts by Lou Plummer #25 25. Is there a special food from your region or heritage that you a particular appreciation for? 50 Ideas for Blog Posts | Living Out Loud I'm in California and there are a lot of different foods in our area that I get to sample. There are two foods that I find to be special and that I make for myself time to time. The first is hot dogs and beans.
: 50 Ideas for Blog Posts by Lou Plummer #24 24. Write a review of your favorite album. What lyrics mean something special to you? 50 Ideas for Blog Posts | Living Out Loud A LOT of people love Michael Jackson's Thriller. It's got a lot of big hits on it and the title track is a halloween dance favorite. My favorite album is the one before it, Off the Wall. I find myself really enjoying the entire album. It starts off with a bang with “Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough” that really gets the energy up.
: 50 Ideas for Blog Posts by Lou Plummer #23 23. What words of wisdom would you have appreciated from your younger self? 50 Ideas for Blog Posts | Living Out Loud Sometimes I don't think I've become any wiser in my years. Just a little more patient in some areas and less in others. But, if I could say something to my younger self it would be that I should be more present with the time that I have with those in my life.
: You spend a good hour working on a post just to see all the formatting looking like garbage. 🤦🏾♂️
: 50 Ideas for Blog Posts by Lou Plummer #22 Have you been to a memorable concert? What made it stand out to you? 50 Ideas for Blog Posts | Living Out Loud My first memorable concert was the [Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Coming Out of Their Shells Tour](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teenage_Mutant_Ninja_Turtles#Concert_tour). At the time, my school had a reading program where you could get a personal pizza if you read a certain amount of books. As a kid, these were my two favorite things pizza and reading!
: I promised myself that I would post something every day this month , but I’m having trouble just stringing some thoughts together.
: I was seriously playing with the idea of creating a plugin that contained all the different shortcodes that are used in the Micro.blog themes. I didn’t because I don’t have the time.
: How to Monetize a Blog This was making the rounds a couple of weeks ago and I wanted to link to it, but it was sitting in the backlog as I was trying to make something else perfect. I don’t remember what I was waiting for, but I’m hoping that you enjoy it. So let's talk about monetizing a blog, starting with the most obvious and perhaps easiest avenue: display advertising. How to Monetize a Blog Be sure to tap/click on the image for a good time.
: Hello next distraction project! I was just going to get my life together.
: Another reason that I don’t like QR codes. Anomnomnomaly BSC SSC @Anomnomnomaly@beige.party Public Warning. If you EVER, and I do mean EVER see a QR code for anything... not just some things, ANYTHING. Treat it as a scam, do not scan it, they can easily be covered up with malicious redirects to fake sites to steal your financial details. Direct you to malware sites to try and infect your device.
: Well, I’m glad I didn’t invest all that time into Omnivore. Now there are just too many questions about what is going to happen with the service.
: I’m looking forward to people complaining about daylight savings time just so I can get a break from election coverage.
: One less card for stoot Stoot now has an option that will remove the Open Graph / Meta Tags card associated with the first link in a mastodon post. If you are interested in the tags that Mastodon sees, you can go to OpenGraph XYZ to put in your favorite URLs. Here a direct link to your fifth favorite. Mastodon takes the information meta tags from the first URL and makes them look nice when you post.
: Sharing pictures of tables in excel should be frowned upon.
: Manny Monday Oct 28th, 2024 I talk a little bit about starting something new and then transition into the update to the stoot plug-in (or plugin, depending on how you spell it). Music by LofCosmos from Pixabay. Transcript
: Finish a project. Start closing the windows filled with tabs and then realize all the other projects. Go to bed realizing that although you have more to do, you have accomplished something.
: Bath time for Lillie! I have to look into a way for this not to be as scary for her.
: I’m planning on going to Homebrew Website Club Europe Meetup later today. I’m hoping to talk about masonry, but I think I’ll just get side tracked with coffee.
: Hello @lmika, do you know someplace that I can find a quick start guide for the go language? I’m trying to debug an issue with stoot.
: Manny Monday Oct 21st, 2024 Just wanted to make a little something. Music by LofCosmos from Pixabay Feel free to contact me with any feedback!… Well, almost any feedback. Transcript
: My daughter is going to get a great gift today and I’m so excited for her!
: Kids are at school with a lockdown in place. This is the third time this school year. Thoughts and prayers aren’t working on making schools feel safer. I doubt a verse from a Trump branded bible is going to make it better.
: Someone is eating canned tuna and now the office smells of it. Not cool.
: A List Of Text-Only & Minimalist News Sites - GreyCoder There is a _lot_ of content out there. Some of it's news, some of it is propaganda. I hope that this helps you get to whatever you want to read faster. Text-only websites are quite useful, especially today, because web pages are increasingly filled with ads, videos, and bandwidth-heavy content. A List Of Text-Only & Minimalist News Sites - GreyCoder Found via Neblib
: I don’t like QR codes. I tried to fight this feeling, but I’m of the opinion that they are really overrated.
: Giving Ulysses another chance. I wanted to add more drawings and pictures to my blog and Ulysses has a little sketch pad built in.
: Just waiting for my daughter to finish her SATs.
: It was a very long day, but I’m pretty happy to finally be hitting the pillow.
: Ok, I preordered Mario Party Jamboree. Yes, I know I probably could have gotten the digital version on the day but I have a possibility of getting a keychain and I’m less and less confident in companies keeping their goods available for longer.
: Just going through some of the posts that I’ve had drafted and clicking the post button.
: It really feels like all the tech that comes into my life want you to rent or lease and never own anything.
: 🍿 The Retirement Plan (2023) - ★★☆☆☆ If you have seen the trailer, then you have seen the movie. It was late at night, we wanted to watch something lite. Seeing Nicolas Cage and his stunt double mow through unremarkable opponents was just the thing we needed. Description from The Movie Database When Ashley and her young daughter Sarah get caught up in a criminal enterprise that puts their lives at risk, she turns to the only person who can help: her estranged father Matt, currently living the life of a retired beach bum in the Cayman Islands.
: Dungeons & Dragons taught me how to write alt text – Eric Bailey If you are not familiar with Dungeons & Dragons, there are two general flavors for how to play: Using miniatures and a map, or Theater of the mind. Dungeons & Dragons taught me how to write alt text – Eric Bailey This reminded me of all the times that I would play with my daughter when she was little.
: I have 46 items in drafts that I want to pursue. Just the time and energy isn’t there.
: I want to shout out to omg.lol and relay.fm for continuing their fundraiser to cure childhood cancer. Here is URL for those who want to donate. stjude.omg.lol
: If you’re going to break your site in production, make sure you fix it before anyone notices. Not speaking from experience… 😏
: Thoughts about the newest iPhone Two weeks ago, my wife told me that we should start looking for new phones for our daughters because they have been having performance problems for the last couple of months. They are both using a 6th generation iPhone and seeing limits with battery life and a couple inconvenient os incompatibilities. My wife said that we should buy a new phone for ourselves and hand down our iPhone SEs to them.
: It feels in all the discussion about AI coming to iOS and Mac, I don’t think anyone has mentioned how much this is going to cost. Service revenue is becoming more and more important to Apple.
: Wish I could see the debate, if only to see an example of how to deal with “certain people”.
: 📺 KAOS (2024) - ★★★★★ I didn't know that I was going to enjoy this as much as I did. This show harkens back to the old school gods. The fickle ones that would smite you down because of a petty slight or demand that you kill your children because the will it so. A long way from Disney’s Hercules. There is murder (patricide, infanticide, and everything in between), sex (quite a bit), and just a whole lot of creepiness.
: 50 Ideas for Blog Posts by Lou Plummer #21 I don't do a lot of hobbies like I used to. What kind of adventures have you had pursuing your hobbies? 50 Ideas for Blog Posts | Living Out Loud I think the closest thing I have in terms of adventures related to hobbies is trying to find hotels or things along the way when we are going on vacation. You don’t really know what you are going to get as far as quality along the way and driving in America has become more and more… um… aggressive as people speed by in order to get there just 2 minutes faster so that they can wait at the next light or traffic congestion.
: Trying to be there for others.
: Just spent the evening thinking about how to clean my home and send letters for the PTO that I’m a part of. Never thought about this as a younger person.
: There are 30 days in September! Guess who is going to be posting every day!
: I’m really hoping that people checkout the next winging it seminar tomorrow. www.oddbird.net/2024/07/2… Found via OddBird
: I now know what a steak left in an unpowered refrigerator for 3 months smells like.
: Got my first email pen pal!!! I hope I don’t over do it.
: 🍿 Deadpool & Wolverine (2024) - ★★★★☆ This movie allowed me to laugh with my friends. I think that’s my favorite part of this movie. Just being able to sit back and have fun with it. I’ve never really considered Deadpool a serious character and honestly didn’t have a lot of expectations going into this. If you’re familiar with Marvel movies and crude humor, than this is the movie for you. It’s certainly the movie for me and wouldn’t mind watching it again with my friends.
: What is that? Oh! A use case I didn’t think about! Goody, goody.
: I feel seen with this one. J. L. Westover @MrLovenstein@mastodon.social Secret Panel HERE 👌 https://tapas.io/episode/2401279 1:56 PM • August 20, 2024 (UTC)
: I still like objective-c. Also, would love to get some Perl code in sometime.
: I came across a cool hashtag on mastodon called #Bloomscroling. Jeri Dansky @jeridansky@sfba.social How about some cheerful sunflowers to start the week? #Bloomscrolling #flowers 5:29 PM • August 19, 2024 (UTC) A nice little way to brighten my day.
: Stoot has been added to the list of official plugins for micro.blog! It’s also had it’s first change which should address some issues with sizing!
: There have been a couple people asking how to get the stoot plugin working when it isn’t part of the official library. I’ll send an email to @help later today. Sorry your browser doesn’t support embedded videos.
: 50 Ideas for Blog Posts by Lou Plummer #20 At one point, I thought it would be cool to work at a movie rental store. How do you like to watch movies? Are you a theater goer, a streamer, or do you like physical media? 50 Ideas for Blog Posts | Living Out Loud I used to love going to the movies. It was a wonderful time to sit back and enjoy watching something. I still like it occasionally because of the assigned seating removes hassle of trying to get there early to get good seats.
: My next technical project is to learn how to parse strings like … say … https://social.lol/@mandaris/112972179158249151 into the stoot shortcode. #LastThingISwear
: Introducing stoot for Micro.blog I’m on mastodon too much a lot a fair amount of time and come across items that I want to share with others on my blog. stoot is a Hugo shortcode that allows you to have a static version of a mastodon post on your site. This can match your template or be restyled as you choose. Why? As of this writing, I don’t use anything specifically to store links.
: 50 Ideas for Blog Posts by Lou Plummer #19 I do like talking about food and this one is lighter than yesterday's entry. What is your favorite food? Why do you like it? What is your history with it? 50 Ideas for Blog Posts | Living Out Loud My favorite food is pizza 🍕. I’ve enjoyed it since I was a wee little lad. I do appreciate that there are many styles and combinations in the ways you can make and eat pizza.
: I’m pretty happy with the results!
: 50 Ideas for Blog Posts by Lou Plummer #18 I didn't expect this kind of question. I feel it is relevant to a lot of things in my life. How do you feel about alcohol? Is it something you enjoy? What do you like? What do you dislike? 50 Ideas for Blog Posts | Living Out Loud The amount of times that I’ve seen alcohol used as a way to relax and have a good time has never come close to the amount of times that I’ve seen it make things worse.
: 📺 The Boys S4:E7 The Deep has alway been a very thoughtful character This is the penultimate episode! This episode like most of the season reminds me of a smoldering fire. It’s not as flashy as it was previously but it can still burn you and there is the occasional pop as the embers break. I’m not trying to be deep or introspective on the (super) human condition or anything, but I feel that this is one of the most sinister episodes of the season.
: I sometimes wonder if I spend too much time making test data for scenarios that no one cares about. Is it the back of the fence or the shape of the nail heads?
: 50 Ideas for Blog Posts by Lou Plummer #17 What are your favorite books and why? 50 Ideas for Blog Posts | Living Out Loud I think I'm going to say that my favorite genre of book is fantasy. I think I’m drawn to the genre because most of them have a beginning, middle, and end where the protagonist resolves everything at the end. Not as complicated as real life.
: 📺 Harley Quinn (Season 4) - ★☆☆☆☆ The poster reflects the fact that there is less in the show to care about Season four? More like Season Snore! But seriously, I found myself struggling to care about the series at the end. The only thing pushing me through those episodes at the end was my desire to just be done with the whole thing. I feel that this season does a disservice to the series as it renders all the characters to one note copies of what they were in previous seasons.
: Working on another technical project. It’s looking like it’s going to get more complicated than I expected. Part of me is excited and part of me dreads having to hunt down unexpected issues.
: 📺 The Boys S4:E6 Who doesn't like cake? We’re getting to the home stretch of a slow burning season. I feel that this episode highlights that you don’t need to have everyone in danger to have some tension and character development. I feel that some might be turned off by having some of the subtlety of corruption and injustice not being as hidden as it was in previous episodes. Maybe that’s why some are complaining about it being too woke.
: I thought she wanted to go for a walk.
: 50 Ideas for Blog Posts by Lou Plummer #16 What things are easy for you to write about? What things are hard? 50 Ideas for Blog Posts | Living Out Loud The easiest thing for me to write about is about my blog. I enjoy writing about what changes that I make to the theme and different posting challenges that I’m doing. After that, it’s different media reviews that I put together. Although, I do find myself spending too much time debating on formate and how long or short a review should be.
: 📺 The Boys S4:E5 Ryan is thirsty after helping people. You might be wondering “where is the review of episodes 2 through 4?” Well, I accidentally binged them and I found myself in episode 5 thinking about how I hadn’t written anything about the show. Well, if you’ve been watching the show for a while and wanted a chance for it to get back to simple plot, than this is the one for you.
: I think I might give this a try.
: 50 Ideas for Blog Posts by Lou Plummer #15 Are you an early or late adopter of technology? What makes you that way? 50 Ideas for Blog Posts | Living Out Loud I'm currently a late adopter. I still get excited by some technology, but I don’t have the enthusiasm I used to have for adopting new things. I used to think I had all the time in the world to pursue learning and making new things. The glamour of newness was enough to justify the hours of frustration as I tried to make things better or fix what gets broken with point releases or bad patches.
: 50 Ideas for Blog Posts by Lou Plummer #14 What has your relationship with music been like throughout your life? 50 Ideas for Blog Posts | Living Out Loud Music is one of the things that express my feelings when I can't put it into words. I find that I feel better after listening to music for a while. Either with songs that are old favorites or new songs that I come across. I find that even when I’m in a bad mood and I listen o something that matches that mood, I’m in a better mood afterwards.
: 50 Ideas for Blog Posts by Lou Plummer #13 What societal problems is your region known for and do they affect you? 50 Ideas for Blog Posts | Living Out Loud At this moment in time, the problem that I see in the region is homelessness. I’ve had my them get into my car and and take things out.
: A Book Apart Books **Unfortunately**, A Book Apart is [no longer selling books](https://abookapart.com/pages/about/) and I never managed to get a complete collection. Fortunately, the authors of each book seem to be in control of what happens to their books, meaning their books are potentially still available in some way. A Book Apart Books | Ryan Trimble, UX/UI developer I always played with the idea of picking up a couple books to learn more about making my website better.
: 50 Ideas for Blog Posts by Lou Plummer #12 What hobbies have you had in the past that you no longer have? What happened? 50 Ideas for Blog Posts | Living Out Loud I used to do ballroom dancing when I was in my early 20s. I loved it because I didn't have a lot of natural rhythm and it felt great to get out on the floor and move to the music. I spent hours figuring out how to be a better dancer.
: This one without a title Just a small test to see what details and summary look like in my RSS feed. Spoilers Do not give the ending away. Also, I’ll see if mastodon hides it as well.
: Details and Summary Test Just a small test to see what details and summary look like in my RSS feed. Spoilers Do not give the ending away. Also, I’ll see if mastodon hides it as well.
: What a crazy weekend. I had a lot of things going on and wasn’t able to make posting a priority. Now, I’ve got to decide on trying to “catch up” by posting more times in a day or just resuming from where I was.
: Does anyone remember WAMP stacks? That was a thing.
: 50 Ideas for Blog Posts by Lou Plummer #11 What is your current relationship with technology? Do you enjoy it? Does it cause you anxiety? 50 Ideas for Blog Posts | Living Out Loud There is a funny clip of Homer Simpson where he’s praising beer for being the cause and solution to all of his problems. I feel that way about technology sometimes. As much joy as it is to write this and have it be available all over the world, I’m also worried about how it’s designed and if my writing is good enough.
: 📺 The Acolyte S1:E8 Does this show stick the landing? Um… Kinda? To extend the metaphor, it sticks the landing but twists the ankle and has to hobble away hoping to get a chance to redeem itself in the next routine. The show has a number of great points and attempts to do some really cool new things with the franchise that should make any Star Wars fan excited. Unfortunately, it does have some flaws when compared to other shows.
: 50 Ideas for Blog Posts by Lou Plummer #10 What’s your relationship with physical labor? Do you enjoy, accept or avoid it? 50 Ideas for Blog Posts | Living Out Loud At this point in my life, I do not do a lot of physical labor. I’m actually very sedentary and do roughly 5 minutes of exercise a day according to my Apple Watch. Of course, since I’m really out of shape going for a walk to the garbage can outside in 100 degree weather counts as exercise.
: 50 Ideas for Blog Posts by Lou Plummer #9 Do you have a gratitude practice? Why or why not? What sort of things are you grateful for? 50 Ideas for Blog Posts | Living Out Loud I do have a journal that I write 5 things that I'm grateful for in. I'm inconsistent with writing in my journal but I've come back to it in the last couple of days. I try to come up with different things from day to day.
: Lillie likes sitting in the sun.
: It’s ironic that Apple released an update to private browsing and also made ads worse at the same time.
: 50 Ideas for Blog Posts by Lou Plummer #8 I was really happy to see this prompt. I really needed a laugh today. What is the funniest book or TV show with which you are familiar? 50 Ideas for Blog Posts | Living Out Loud The funniest TV show that I’m familiar with is The Good Place. It’s a great example of comedy that keeps me laughing over and over again. In fact, I think I might watch an episode tonight.
: 50 Ideas for Blog Posts by Lou Plummer #7 Yesterday was horrible. Absolutely horrible. That being said, I want to keep this post light. Do you have any unpopular opinions or dislike something that many people like? 50 Ideas for Blog Posts | Living Out Loud I don’t like pineapple on pizza.
: I’m more upset that Richard Simmons died than anything else going on today.
: I mean it was a pretty nice day for the most part… then it just went crazy.
: 50 Ideas for Blog Posts by Lou Plummer #6 What is or was your relationship with people from your parent’s generation? 50 Ideas for Blog Posts | Living Out Loud I feel I get along with people of all generations. When it comes to people of my parent’s generation, I feel that I get along with most of them. A lot of the ones I talk to now seem to want to share their stories and feelings.
: Jumping In July It’s been a while but I’m excited to get back into the swing of things. Although I don’t want to know how long we will go between releases. I guess we’ll just say that it’s part of the fun. Topics Vacation and coming back Talked a little bit about my vacation what I did. Labarum Continued development of a theme that is Final.Final.2.done.doc. 50 Ideas for Blog Posts Lou Plummer has put together 50 different posts ideas and I’m challenging myself to write something for everyone.
: 50 Ideas for Blog Posts by Lou Plummer #5 This one was pretty easy to write.
: 50 Ideas for Blog Posts by Lou Plummer #4 This one was pretty easy to write.
: 📺 The Acolyte S1:E7 The road to Hell is paid with good intentions. History is filled with examples of people doing things with the most noble of intentions only to find out that they made things worse. This episode embodies that to the fullest. This is a flashback episode where we get to see what happened on Brendok. And, yes, nothing good happened there and you cans the tension rising every scene as we all see our characters marching towards disaster.
: 50 Ideas for Blog Posts by Lou Plummer #3 This one isn't as heavy as the previous two answers.
: Severance - Season 2 Date Announcement I woke up goofing off today and was rewarded by seeing the YouTube video of an announcement trailer. I joked that it was going to happen before the release of Apple Intelligence.
: A Tour Of My New Self-Hosted Code Setup | Leon Mika I really enjoy how Leon steps us through the journey of setting up self-hosting as well as giving us his reasons on why he's doing it. Well, if I was going to do this at all, it was time to do it for real. I decided to set up my own code hosting properly this time, complete with CI/CD runners, all hosted under my own domain name. A Tour Of My New Self-Hosted Code Setup | Leon Mika Leon even includes some price breakdowns, design diagrams and links to get some more information.
: Every once in a while, I’d type tuaw in my browser to see if they were going to use it the domain again. Now I can’t on moral grounds.
: 50 Ideas for Blog Posts by Lou Plummer #2 I'm continuing with the series by Lou Plummer and trying not to get too worked up over the format of the posts. On what subjects are you outspoken and on what subjects are you mostly mute? 50 Ideas for Blog Posts | Living Out Loud I read the prompt and thought about the times that I would shout out about how pineapple doesn’t belong on pizza. I feel that pineapple is too sweet to be on something that so savory.
: 50 Ideas for Blog Posts - Living Out Loud Lou has put together a nice list of writing prompts on his website. It seems like a perfect time as I was looking for something to write about. A road trip you’ve taken that was memorable 50 Ideas for Blog Posts | Living Out Loud I remember the first trip that I took with my children to Disneyland. My wife and I drove through the night in a rental car with two sleeping kids in the back.
: I thought about changing the table of contents from an <aside> to a <section>. My reasoning that it’s a block element that is part of an <article> and I supply it with a header. Afterwards, I thought about using the <nav>.
: 🍿 Deadpool (2016) - ★★★☆☆ I wanted to get familiar with the characters again before I watch the latest iteration coming out tin a couple weeks. And it was just as fun as I remember it. It’s a lot of crude jokes and over the top action. I’ll watch it again when the next one comes out. Overview The origin story of former Special Forces operative turned mercenary Wade Wilson, who, after being subjected to a rogue experiment that leaves him with accelerated healing powers, adopts the alter ego Deadpool.
: The Boys Season 4 Episode 1 Violence is nothing new to The Boys series. It’s one of the more pronounced aspects of the show where the Supes demonstrate that their extraordinary abilities. Some of the more notable deaths are people being blasted by lasers, having their heads explode, or literally having someone else run through them at high speed. Just like a horror movie, I’m able to take this and just enjoy it. It’s not like an alien is going to jump out of my chest, or a demon is going to invade my dreams and kill me in my sleep.
: 📺 Pride and Prejudice (1995) - ★★★★☆ I have to admit it this version of the Jane Austen classic is pretty good. I normally avoid watching period pieces because I look at all the wealth that some of these people have and how their only concern is that they have the most fashionable clothes of the season. I feel that this version got me because I was actually paying attention. Mr. Darcy is lonely in that his money and status has isolated him in such a way that it’s hard for him to trust.
: 📺 The Acolyte S1:E6 We’re getting to the end of the season and there are still a lot of questions to be answered. It can be really hard to stick the landing. This episode is there to build up some tension and get us ready for those last two episodes. Unfortunately, it feels like you could sum it up in 2-3 minutes but sometimes you need to let things sit and set up.
: 📺 The Acolyte S1:E4 and E5 Oh man! Episode 4 and 5 are amazing together! If you wanted to see something different from Star Wars than this has something for you. It’s not perfect but I really like having new ideas and new possibilities given to me.
: The temporary a/c unit we have in place before the person comes to fix it.
: 🍿 A Disturbance in the Force: How the Star Wars Holiday Special Happened (2023) - ★★★☆☆ I saw this on the flight after watching the Thriller documentary and I’m pretty happy that I did. I think it’s a good example of how you could have all the talent in the world around a project and still have things go wrong. I also feel that this is where the business of making things can also hurt the creative practice as well. One of the interesting things about this is that they don’t have a lot of direct footage from the actors of the Holiday special, but footage of them talking about it on other shows.
: Just wanted post something else.
: 🍿 Thriller 40 (2023) - ★★★★☆ I’m a big fan of Michael Jackson. I’ve been that way since I was kid. His music is timeless and has a global impact. I feel that every fan of music can get some enjoyment of this movie that tells the story of the biggest album of all time. What I enjoyed the most about this was how they talked about how things led to the creation of the album and its composition of different songs.
: Twice as much pi I’ll have to mark this off for next year. Tau Day is a celebration of the circle constant 𝜏=𝐶/𝑟= 6.283185… Founded in 2010 with the publication of [_The Tau Manifesto_](https://tauday.com/tau-manifesto) by [Michael Hartl](https://www.michaelhartl.com/), Tau Day takes place annually on June 28 (6/28 in the American calendar system). The Tau Manifesto Found via Spaf on Mastodon.
: I’m considering GitHub alternatives in our new AI world.
: 🍿 The Flash (2023) - ★☆☆☆☆ They are probably trying to get away from the movie as well. I had to go back to my rating system to make sure that I was evaluating this properly. It’s got a reputation for being bad, but the masochist in me kept chanting How bad can it be? and I had a 5 hour flight that I felt that I wouldn’t mind it if this thing put me to sleep.
: Back home from vacation and almost installed the iOS beta. Yes, there is something wrong with me.
: Last day of vacation. The last thing I thought about was the “presidential debate”. Going to be a long hot summer.
: Me with a giant thing I like to test things on my own.
: From the top of the building
: My first reaction was to be very self conscious of my bald spot, but I realized that this is my body and shouldn’t be ashamed of the fact that t that I’m lucky enough to show signs of aging.
: I’m too much of a MAC nerd 🤓. I’m in Philadelphia and I’m wondering if I’ll see John @gruber
: It just got me that this upcoming iOS release might be the first one that I don’t want.
: On vacation with my parents and they both whispered to me that the other is in the beginning stages of dementia. Don’t know what to think but the possibility of relaxing for the rest of the trip feels like an impossibility.
: I’m on vacation and get to experience tv with commercials. This is pure torture.
: 📺 The Acolyte S1:E3 I’ve been enjoying this new series of Star Wars TV recently. It’s got a mix of different Star Wars troupes and other concepts you normally don’t talk about in regards to space wizards with laser swords. It’s not a perfect show, but I don’t need that.
: WWDC 2024 Recap And More(second Posting) Talking about WWDC 2024, Rick and Morty Season 7, The Boys, and the latest with Labarum. 00:00:00: Chapter 1 - Beginning 00:00:35: WWDC 2024 Reflection 00:06:23: Media Review: Rick And Morty Season 7 00:08:01: Upcoming Media: The Boys Season 4 00:08:45: Labarum Update The last time didn’t post.
: For bios, not bots I started working on my theme for Micro.blog in the hopes that it was accessible and could be parsed using schema and microformats. It was spurred by the feeling that I wanted my posts to be shared to as many people as possible. I’m not saying that I’m a literary genius or have something deep or profound to say, but I do have some really cool pictures of my dog as well.
: WWDC 2024 Reactions And More Talking about WWDC 2024, Rick and Morty Season 7, The Boys, and the latest with Labarum. 00:00:00: Chapter 1 - Beginning 00:00:35: WWDC 2024 Reflection 00:06:23: Media Review: Rick And Morty Season 7 00:08:01: Upcoming Media: The Boys Season 4 00:08:45: Labarum Update.
: Apparently, Homelander and I share the same birthday year. I wonder what’s stopping be from enjoying the same level of success?
: I don’t know who had Vimeo on there WWDC bingo card, but thanks for reminding me about the service. Still need to work one my workflow with that.
: The demos make it seem like the only thing people do is write emails and send messages as they move from one calendar appointment to the next? What about learning about people with multiple calendars? Or, what about that person who gets a ton of email they don’t care about?
: I don’t know if it’s just cause I’m sick but all I remember is math notes and chatbots.
: The hands holding the phone creep me out some how.
: First day out of bed since getting sick on Friday. Going to get the heart pumping with some Dub Dub. Setting expectations to low and excitement to high!
: Sick on a Saturday in Summer
: Looking at WWDC 2024 Next Monday, Apple will be holding it World Wide Developer Conference for the year. It usually marks the time that I destroy my cell phone’s battery and complain about all my dropped calls and message malfunctions. But every year, I find myself enjoying the prospects of something new. This year, I’m looking forward to it but my expectations are rather low. If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses - Henry Ford Maybe it’s because I am getting older or that I am fulfilled in other ways, but I don’t see much need in a lot of the promise that some of the newer technologies are offering.
: I hate my landline. All I get is spam calls interrupting my day. It’s criminal the way these people keep calling and trying to take advantage of others. There have been several times that I had to help my parents with some kind of issue related to passwords and security.
: XMPP to the past I took fLaMEd’s idea of adding my XMPP handle to my about page. It’s part of the omg.log service that I signed up for a while ago. I’ve got two people that I chat with using it. It reminds me of when I was in high school and instant messaging was the thing to do in my social group. It makes me feel a little nostalgic.
: 📺 X-Men '97 (2024) - ★★★★☆ It’s a reboot of a show I would watch on Saturday mornings as a kid. Back then, the violence was hidden with lasers and characters that would die offscreen. The original did have some darker moments, but you had hope that things were going to work out. This version gives you that hope and then proceeds to crush it. When I was younger, I would jokingly yell “Moooooooorph!” when a character I barely knew died.
: Last night I did an all-nighter and just kind of slept walked most of the day.
: This view under the trees just looked nice.
: Finishing WeBlogPoMo2024 Well, we’re at the end of the month and I did not meet my goal of having a post every day about mental health as I had set out to do. If anything, I probably posted less this month than at other times this year. Apparently, I need to take the break from posting. Still, there were a lot of great posts that came from this and would like to thank everyone who wrote or read a blog to think about joining communities like indieweb.
: Lillie is so used to sleeping on what used to be my bed.
: 📺 Dead Boy Detectives (2024) - ★★★★☆ Monster. Of. The. Week. But available all at once. That being said, I did find the show entertaining as the characters struggle to make it through the series variable mix of horror and drama. Sometimes trying to make a statement and other times trying to stay alive(?). I think the thing I liked best about the show was that it had a very strong push of what it means to be a friend.
: A different kind off Rule 34.
: Setting a reminder not to upgrade to the beta for iOS in roughly two weeks time. Don’t do it. Don’t!
: 📺 The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin (2024) - ★★★★☆ I was looking for something light and funny. I have been watching a combination of Fallout, Dead boy detective, X-Men 97, and a lot of reality tv. This show is just what I needed. I’m not saying that it’s great and there is very little depth to it, but if you are looking for that I’m sure there are other shows for that. I feel that this show knows what it is.
: I’ve been having some trouble blogging the last couple of weeks. I hope to get back into it starting today.
: If you are using the Labarum theme that I’ve been working on, I suggest you switch to tiny, cards, or marfa. I don’t think I’ll have the bandwidth to keep up with changes in micro.blog until the middle of July.
: Little reminder that text alone may not be able to convey jokes, sarcasm, tone, or feelings accurately enough. Here’s a picture completely out of context.
: These need to be broken down. They are projects and not tasks. Also, need to remember what side the sticky part is on before writing it.
: How many of you read your own rss feeds? I can’t be the only narcissist enthusiast for self improvement.
: Exploring Using Popovers instead of Footnotes Breakdown of what I am going to talk about in this article Does the popover api work as a suitable replacement for footnotes? Short answer: no. Too long answer: read the rest of the article. Also, click here to get to the code portions of this article. The popover api has been baselined and I really wanted to explore what this feature can do for me and my writing. I thought it would be a simple project of looking into what it is and how it could help me be a better communicator on the internet.
: Restarting a project I’ve been thinking about the different projects that I’ve got going on and some of them have been sitting around needing some time. I thought I would share a couple links about how to restart a project. Restarting Your Project the Right Way This was the first link I found and was pretty happy with how it was pretty thorough and didn’t serve up an ad right away. How To Restart A Stalled Project This one has the article as a podcast episode so you can listen to it.
: Sunday Planning Volleyball season is over! Now, I’ve got to catch up on all the work and projects that need to be done in the next week are so. It’s going to be a busy week but at least we don’t have a lot of things going on in the next one.
: Forgot to click the publish for a post. Now I get to sit here and glare at the word “draft”.
: Dealing with a losing game Today, was the second to last day of a losing season of volleyball for my family. It’s been tough. There have been lots of dropped balls and random issues here and there. When we lose a game, I like to go through the following steps. Think about what we got right Be grateful that no one got injured Think about how to get ready for the next game Above all, I avoid complaining about other players.
: How much exericse should I get? Exercise is a great stress reliever for me. I know my day will be better the next day if I spend at least 20 minutes working up a sweat. I can focus. I’m smarter, funnier, and better looking after working out a couple days in a row. Maybe that last part is because of the confidence I get from the feeling of accomplishment. But, I’ve been having trouble getting back into a routine.
: GAAD 2024 Today is Global Accessibility Awareness Day and you see companies like Apple, Microsoft, and Google post about how they are making things more accessible for their users1. It’s good to see major companies doing this as it helps everyone. I just wanted to take this time to remind you that you can do your part by making your website a little more accessible. A good place to go is WebAim and looking at the page on accessibility for designers.
: My chemex broke. I don’t think I will be replacing it anytime soon.
: So, I’ve been feeling less than great the last couple of months and I’ve been wondering why. Turns out that I’ve been really neglecting my workout routine the last couple of months. I know that I feel better if I get at least 20 minutes of exercise a day, but I haven’t been making it a priority.
: Getting sleep when you can I was feeling really run down the last couple of days due to allergies and lack of sleep. Isn’t is so amazing how coughing and sneezing can keep you up at night. Tonight, I figured I would try to get some better sleep and look up some resources on how to do it. How to Sleep Better I enjoy the posts on wikiHow because of the illustrations and how they break it things down into individual steps that you can do.
: Not feeling well today because of lack of sleep and allergies. Going to post more tomorrow.
: My kids say I drink weird. What do you think?
: Keep on going Sometimes, it’s hard to think about how to make it through the day. I’ve had my moments where I thought the world would be better without me. I’m lucky to no longer have those thoughts play around in my mind as they did back then. I’m not going to say that my life is perfect now, but I will say that it has gotten better. I have a better understanding of what kind of solution I was thinking about and how it really just makes things worse.
: 🎵 Louden Up Now - !!! - ★★★★★ Hemispheric Views had another great episode of their podcast. This one was about the perfect album. Defining perfect as an album that you can listen to without skipping tracks and just enjoying. Since the initial release of the podcast, people have been blogging about what they feel is good. I’ve thought about a couple albums but one that comes to mind right now is Louden Up Now by !!!. I bought this album while I was in college on a whim and I find myself putting it on when I’m feeling particular angsty or frustrated.
: Take a break I’ve been thinking about what to write for this day during Mental Health Awareness month. And, it came to me. Sometimes we need to take a break.
: Micro Camp 2024 This Year More Micro I am pretty excited by the upcoming mini conference for Micro.blog and the IndieWeb. Jean has posted the schedule for this year and we even have a guest speaker! Here is the schedule for Friday, May 17. (All times are Pacific.) Details on the chat channel and door prizes to come! Follow [@camp](https://micro.blog/camp) for updates. 🏕️ 11:45 Welcome to Micro Camp and overview of the schedule 12:00 Conversation about blogging and social media with Christina Warren (find her on Mastodon and Bluesky) 1:30 State of the Micro.
: Bath time for a certain someone.
: Pretty long day with tons of fun tomorrow.
: I added my blog to indieblog.page earlier this week. I like it because it exposes you to new pages. Discovered via Figgy Sticky.
: Finding music to relax to I wanted to write an article about finding music that you can relax to. I tried finding a couple links to where you can find relaxing music and the first couple pages of my search results were links to hours long videos on YouTube and I didn’t want to link you to music on a streaming service. I tend to find myself listening to albums that I’ve had for years in order to relax or using an app called Focus@will.
: How to make Monday's Better This is the first Monday of Mental Health Awareness month! A lot of my coworkers HATE Monday. For them it’s the hardest part of the week. Some days, I feel the same way. I try to be grateful as Mondays usually mean that I’m starting the work week and that will lead to a paycheck that will provide for my family and I. But sometimes, I need a little bit extra.
: The perfect weblogpomo Hello! You might have missed the news about weblogpomo or missed the first couple of days. Who knows, you might be missing today or tomorrow. You might throw your hands up and say Shucks! I missed it! But, and this is a secret, it’s ok. I’m going to give you permission to join us. Any day is a good day that you can write something on your blog. Because, ultimately, you are the first audience for your writing.
: 📺 Fallout (2024) - ★★★★☆ There is A LOT of hype around this show. I had ignored it when it first came out because I didn’t want to deal with the world ending because of nuclear war instead of catastrophic climate change. But, I had changed my mind when a couple of my friends recommended it multiple times. That’s how word of mouth works. The show is good. I don’t recall points in the show where I felt a need to skip forward to where my favorite character is back on the screen.
: I just woke up and I need a nap I was hoping to have a longer post about how to improve your sleep but I woke early this morning and all I can think about (other than this post) is when I can go back to sleep. If you find yourself in a similar situation, I suggest you read this article on WikiHow about taking a Power Nap. Have a great day and even better nap!
: Just learned that my friend’s dog has cancer.
: Slowing down to move I’ve been trying a different approach to planning my day this month. Instead of looking at all the things that I feel I need to do, I’m just going to a couple of them and knocking it down. I don’t get through all of them and sometimes I add more through the day but it’s a nice visual reminder of what I have set out to do.
: A little bit of house cleaning Sometimes I feel like things are really a mess. I don't know what the next step is or - on the hardest days - what steps are possible. On those days, I try to clear my mind and gain a little bit of control by clearing my desk off. Here are a couple of articles linking cleanliness to mental health and stress relief. The Connection Between Cleanliness and Mental Health I like this article because it talks about how cleaning sparks that feeling of control over your environment.
: James has really cool mascot for his website, The James’ Coffee Blog. I have been playing around with the idea of getting one.
: May is Mental Health Month Every month should be Mental Health Month. Period. But, just like Christmas, Halloween, and Valentines, it’s good to do a little bit more as we Get into the Spirit. I drew the picture attached to this post because I find myself doing this when I’m stressed. It makes me happy. I also like to do large multiplication problems and then checking my answer with a calculator, but some people find that stressful to look at.
: 📺 The Umbrella Academy (Season 3) - ★★☆☆☆ The show started off on a high and my mind was filled with different possibilities that they could do with the different characters. What does it look like for a hero to be upstaged by a questionably better version of themselves? How do you adjust to a timeline that isn't your own? Could they fit in another dance number into the season? I didn’t get a lot of those things.
: A good image tells a good story I've been writing a little bit about accessibility and images this last week and it feel like this article came out at just the write time. The right visual can attract people’s attention and explain complex matters at one sight. Yet, just as a misplaced joke can ruin a comedy set, boring or inappropriate images can derail and devalue your presentation. So, how do we choose the right ones?
: Apple Annie’s Weblog · WeblogPoMo 2024 If you are looking for inspiration to write more on your personal blog, then I would like to point you to this upcoming event put together by Apple Annie. What is it? Weblog Posting Month, 2024! If you use weblog.lol, or otherwise have a personal blog, you should absolutely participate in this month-long blog posting extravaganza! Apple Annie’s Weblog I am hoping to have a theme of Making it Happen in May, where Ill write something about self-improvement or promoting Mental Health Month.
: It’s lunchtime here and people are microwaving fish 🎣
: Things I am grateful for Getting up this morning and not dreading the day Opportunities to make myself into who I want to be Letting go of negative emotions and thoughts (this is always a work in progress) Spending some time just going through my projects and realizing that I can’t and don’t need to do everything at once or at all Spending time with the people who truly care to be with me
: I don't have to be grumpy I’ve been feeling pretty agitated all day. It feels like there was a little bit of me that wanted to just yell at the world to stop being so stupid. That kind of thinking/feeling isn’t going to make things better. I’m just going to acknowledge that I’m feeling this way, realize that it’s just a feeling and if I’m not going to do anything with a feeling that I should let it go until I know where it’s coming from and how I plan to change it.
: At one point , this was The material possessions that I wanted the most. The last couple months have been me using it because it’s part of a habit and/or potential that I hope is still there.
: I saw something on the internet and really wanted to comment. I took a second to compose my thoughts and how I wanted to respond. Thankfully someone else did it in a good way and I’ll be taking that feeling with me.
: I was really sick yesterday, but thankfully I’m better now.
: Coming bacbak from the vet and I feel she wants to drive.
: Having a bad tech day. I want to run out into the forest but my knees are bad.
: Long Alt — Adrian Roselli What I really enjoy about this article is that it has VIDEOS showcasing how the different browsers work with alternative text. I think that it’s a really good read as I’ve seen a couple apps and services advertise that they can generate the alt text for images. I never really worried about the upper limit for descriptions. I know that I’m a little terse when it comes to describing things - for example, my about page.
: BrettTerpstra.com - Web Excursions for April 22, 2024 I enjoy and appreciate Brett Terpstra and what he's brought to the internet. I was going over my posts and I don't seem to have ever linked to one of his posts about what he finds on the internet. Web Excursions are select bookmarks from my travels around the interwebs, because I'm always thinking about you while discovering other people's cool stuff. You mean that much to me. You can see all of my (public) bookmarks on Pinboard, and visit the bookmarks archive for curated lists across the last few years.
: I want to thank you for being cool. Who am I talking to? You, of course!
: 🍿 Dune: Part Two (2024) - ★★★★★ Movie Poster for Dune: Part Two (2024) Before writing this review, I asked myself am I going to give this movie five stars because everyone else is giving it five stars? Am I giving it five stars because the last movie had four stars in this one it was more engaging? Well, the answer came to me. This movie is five stars because it is a good movie. It checks off all the boxes as far as an action movie and good cinema is supposed to have.
: Trying not too eat my sandwich 🥪 before lunch.
: Paula posted this cute picture about AI.
: Updated my About page. I find it hard to write about myself. I don’t know if it’s out of humbleness or just not being very self-reflective.
: I feel a lot of people enjoyed Ted Lasso, but I don’t feel that I’m going to miss it a year from now. The last season was kind of hit or miss. I could watch the first season again and then just stop there.
: RE: On Micro.blog, Scribbles, And Multi-homing by Leon Mika I’ve recently read this article by Leon Mika on his MicroBlog. It goes a little bit into the details of where he wants his writing to go. I’ve met people through the Micro.blog and it is notable when I see them post about other blog services that they are trying out. I’ve been ask why I’m using Scribbles given that I’m here on Micro.blog. Honestly I wish I could say I’ve got a great answer.
: Finished reading: The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson 📚 And by “Finished”, I mean I put it down after the second chapter. The title captures your imagination but it really felt like it was relying on that too much and then began complaining about what’s wrong with the world.
: Another reason, I should go to Joe’s Front End Study Hall.
: Front End Study Hall I’m planning on going to Front End Study Hall on April 24, 2024 Noon PST. I've seen Joe a couple times in some of the IndieWeb meet ups and he always seemed like a cool person to me. The description of the meet up is as follows: Joe Crawford If you're a maven of markup or stylesheet superstar, or a newbie novice with nth-of-type, all are welcome to learn together at Front End Study Hall The foundation of a flexible, good IndieWeb website is markup (the “M” in HTML!
: Made pancakes for breakfast this morning.
: 🍿 Dune (2021) - ★★★★☆ Movie Poster for Dune (2021) I really enjoyed this movie. It definitely deserved to have a sequel. That being said, I wouldn't take the time to watch it again by myself. It’s phenomenal views and a cast of characters and actors that kept me entertained and following along with the plot. I really think they did a good job in showing what Paul and his family is going through and not relying on narration.
: Woke up feeling sick and can’t go back to sleep.
: Olives 🫒 on pizza are overrated.
: 📺 Death in Paradise (Season 13) - ★★★★☆ I feel that this is one of the better seasons of the show. In this one, they move away from the constantly having our detective doing practically everything while the supporting cast chimes in occasionally. You get a feeling that they are more of a team and the other actors get a chance to show that they can… well.. act. Except for Marlon, who I’ve never liked as a character.
: I sat down and thought “I’m going to implement this into the theme” .. And decided not to. Instead, I’ll be doing a project review and making progress on the things that I’ve already said I was going to do.
: How we’re approaching theming with modern CSS - Piccalilli We've started a new project which requires heavy, creative theming, so I made a prototype to test some ideas out. How we’re approaching theming with modern CSS - Piccalilli I really like this article as it breaks down the reasoning of why they are doing what they are doing. It has some examples that you can follow along with and leaves me thinking about how I can take this knowledge into my own development.
: Ok, I’ll say it. I’m not a fan of phones any more. It feels like I very rarely get anything useful from incoming calls. Just scams and other distractions.
: How I decide what coffee to drink [Diagram] | James' Coffee Blog James has been doing a lot of cool things on his blog. I feel that you should really check him out and everyone else in the IndieWeb WebRing. I love diagrams and my heart almost jumped out of my chest as he wrote about combining two of my loves: Coffee and Diagrams. I thought what better way to learn more about using Mermaid than to make a chart that shows how I decide what coffee to drink!
: I’ve been attempting to post most and “just get stuff out there”. Unfortunately, I’m not too happy with the formatting of the posts themselves so I’m at an impasse on what the next step … Other than writing this…
: Why I Care Deeply About Web Accessibility And You Should Too - DEV Community Why I Care Deeply About Web Accessibility And You Should Too - DEV Community This article by Schalk Neethling talks about the access portion of accessibility. It's something that I think about for the base portion of my theme and I hope that you'll read it and spread the message.
: Labarum: It's about Time This release is mostly centered around cleaning up different edge cases in the theme. This the first time in several point releases where I’ve made a change to the HTML structure. The release before (V1.3.07) was an addition to the theme that we won’t be seeing on Micro.blog until we update Hugo. I feel a bit of accomplishment in the fact that I didn’t see a need to. Here are all the changes from the README.
: Technical Writing Chat with Ally Sassman | James' Coffee Blog This is the first interview in Technical Writing Chats, a series where I speak with technical writers about their day-to-day role and how they got started in their career. Today's interview is with Ally Sassman, a Senior Technical Writer at New Relic. I sincerely hope you enjoy! Technical Writing Chat with Ally Sassman | James' Coffee Blog This is the first post in James' series. I'm hoping to pick up a couple tips throughout the series to improve the writing that I do on my blog.
: I should be working but all I can think about is formatting the time stamps for my blog theme to make sure they are parsed properly
: I just sent several blog posts to my test blog the last couple of days. 🤦🏾♂️
: We should probably call it the micro.blog photo adventure.
: 🍿 Ricky Stanicky (2024) - ★★★☆☆ Ricky Stanicky (2024) on The Movie Database - ★★★☆☆ I really enjoy the comedies with John Cena. They’re generally fun and light. I get to spend some time just sitting back and relaxing. I’m not looking for depth; those movies are also available if I want them. If you’ve seen this movie, then you’ve seen it a dozen times. There are a couple twist and turns but we all know what’s going to happen from the trailers and the first 10 minutes of the film.
: Conundra, indeed: Using curly braces in English | James' Coffee Blog This got me thinking: how are curly braces used in English today? Many English keyboards, such as the Macbook Air keyboard on which I am typing this blog post, have curly braces as a character you can type with the shift key pressed. If curly braces are on our keyboards, they would have to either have some use in language, or sufficient use as a punctuation in computational contexts? Conundra, indeed: Using curly braces in English | James' Coffee Blog I can't recall ever seeing these outside of the context of programming.
: I’m thinking about adding a side bar to my theme. What are some widths that I should keep in mind? Should I make it a separate theme all together? I have to think about it some more, but any input is welcomed.
: Why does the Labarum theme not have a header If you’ve come to my site, you’ve seen it. Or rather, seen that it isn’t there. Most site have them, whether it’s a big banner or image that lets you know that you are on a webpage. I’m referring to the header; usually the first h1 element in the html. Open any book on HTML and it’s one of the top five elements that you learn about. But, if this element is so basic and used so often, then how why do I not use this in my theme?
: I’ve got a post scheduled for tomorrow! Hopefully, I don’t wake up in a cold sweat wanting to edit it.
: It’s the little things. We’re about to be hit with a storm and the tiles are already falling off.
: Quick question for everyone. How many of you are using headers in your blogging? Are you using anything that denotes different sections?
: I’m thinking about getting back into routinely writing again.
: Small Podcast Example There was a post in the help forums about this and I wanted to see what I can do to help.
: My wife put this together last weekend and I love it!
: I played around with the idea of trying to embed code examples using codapi, but I don’t do a lot of coding like that anymore - if ever. Found via Julia Evans on mastodon.
: Getting a different feeling from my email I’m never going to “win” the email game. Getting to Inbox Zero is just a short phase between increasingly regular instances of Email Bankruptcy. Time and attention is money and your inbox is just one way to get just that. Or worse. The inbox is where you get your tasks, bills, and that one chain letter that you have to forward to prevent Y2K. But I had something cool happen to me recently.
: Having a little bit of a spiral in regards to web design and the theme for my blog. Trying to remember that this is supposed to be my FUN project.
: Pi-day is the only good thing about having mm-dd-yyyy format. Yes, I know that it’s tomorrow. Just wanted to get that off my chest.
: Lillie is just waiting for mommy to come home.
: I’ve been meaning to do more daily notes for myself. There is a couple examples out there, but I find myself tripping up on making it a habit.
: I’m at a high school track meet. The line for the boys bathroom is out the door. Two stalls, 3 urinals. The kids aren’t using the urinals. Ah, to be young and insecure.
: I wondered why the tabindex="0" was placed when adding code to my website when I came across this issue on github
: I was going to work on my “About” page for my site. I get that same feeling that I get when I’m working on a résumé. This should be more fun and a lot easier, but I’m finding it difficult to come up with the words to write.
: I must be getting sick 🤒. My Apple Watch says that my exercise ring is closed by me just trying to breathe while going up the stairs.
: json.blog sees an issue I keep getting older, and the text size on Daring Fireball keeps staying the same. json.blog I feel this soo much. It's part of the reason that I make the default font as big as it is. I understand that a user might have a default style sheet or setting. I feel that designing for a larger initial font, makes this particular theme more flexible.
: To be honest, I don’t want my tools to be able to write in my style. I have enough trouble communicating and don’t want to get more complacent.
: Serving my blog posts as Linux manual pages | James' Coffee Blog Earlier this week, with a spark for building but no particular idea in mind, I started to think about the Linux manual page. Could I serve my blog posts as Linux manual pages? Herein lay an adventure. Serving my blog posts as Linux manual pages | James' Coffee Blog WHOA! This completely blew my mind!
: I haven’t done any formatting for the newsletter that micro.blog allows you to send. I’ll add it to the list and it will be the next series of Labarum Posts.
: Tailwind vs Semantic CSS This study compares two websites with identical design: the commercial Spotlight template from developers of Tailwind vs the same site with semantic CSS Tailwind vs Semantic CSS I found this via Robb Knight's mastodon/website and laughed to myself when I read No Comment. I've been using tools that help developer things faster for years. It feels like all the time we save accrues interest and we have to payback in other costs.
: I’m planning on going to Homebrew Website Club Europe Meetup later today. I really like the people there and it’s a nice little lunch meetup for me.
: I can’t find my earbuds. I guess I can’t go into the office today. Drat!
: Broke my streak of a post every day yesterday. I’m kind of sad and relieved at the same time.
: 🍿 What’s Your Number? (2011) - ★☆☆☆☆ This movie left an aftertaste. A taste that grows worse and worse every time I think about it on the whole. I recall the line from Ted Lasso where the bartender, Mae Green, was telling him that it’s the hope that kills you. In this movie, it’s the hope that it will be good that kills me. The movie has a lot going for it:
: Just wanted to brighten up my day.
: 🍿 The Beekeeper (2024) - ★★★☆☆ I’m giving this 3 stars because it delivers on the premise. No secret plot twist. No riddle within a riddle. Our hero hurts bad people and that’s pretty much it. One man’s campaign for vengeance takes on national stakes after he is revealed to be a former operative of a powerful and clandestine organization known as Beekeepers. Here is a link to the trailer on YouTube.
: How Standard Ebooks serves millions of requests per month with a 2GB VPS As you can imagine, we spend a lot of our time working on really, really old books. So why not create a website out of really, really old technology? How Standard Ebooks serves millions of requests per month with a 2GB VPS; or, a paean to the classic web - Alex Cabal A pretty interesting read. It's part of what got me interested in static website generation. Also, came across the word "
: Spent some time fiddling with code that I said that I wasn’t going to touch. Very satisfying as I see the pile of work piling up in the distance.
: I see a lot of discussions in my timeline(s). None of it about valentine’s day.
: Preparing the kitchen for tonight.
: I laughed out loud so hard on this skit on How to Nail a Job Interview Like a Boss.
: Spending some time just relaxing and watching a movie with my wife.
: I liked Jeremy Keith's post. I liked it so much that I decided to do this experiment. I'm using the example from the indieweb's like page.
: I didn’t expect that last post to render so poorly. I would attempt to edit, but I’m on my way out of the house. Looks like a new project is in the works!
: Hey :) @bleeptrack and I are building a #Git learning game for the browser, and we could use your help! We built three prototypes, and are not sure which one is best. Today, you can try all of them! There will be a poll at the end of this thread. Note that these prototypes are still incomplete and a bit rough. But we think you’ll figure it out! All three let you use a real Git, which we run in a Linux VM in your browser!
: CSS Cartoons for comiCSS Second Anniversary CSS Cartoons for comiCSS Second Anniversary I love comics and I feel that this is a real treat to see what you can do with CSS.
: Just spent two hours going over other peoples resumes. It’s been a while and I don’t miss looking for a job at all!
: The 100 For years, I would hear people say that it takes 100 days to develop a new habit. I didn’t set out to do that. I wanted to write on a more regular basis and just started writing on November 1st of last year. I was determined to write something every day and post it. What was the experience? Sometimes it was actually pretty stressful coming up with something to write about.
: 📺 Percy Jackson and the Olympians (2023) - ★★★★☆ I really enjoyed this show. It’s pretty solid in the story telling and the pacing. I’m really glad that they took the time to make this better than the previous incarnation. You don’t need to have seen the movie or read the books to enjoy this show. It stands alone and I came away from every episode entertained and then swizzling my head around to my kids to ask them “is this like the book?
: I put on her rain gear and she just rolled over and laid there.
: Spent the last few days building a small … Leon Mika Spent the last few days building a small site which will convert an OPML file of RSS subscriptions into an HTML list of links to their respective websites. I needed it for a blogroll I’m planning to add, but I figured this might be something others may find useful. Spent the last few days building a small … | Leon Mika I know this person and I feel that this is a wonderful idea.
: I’m planning on going to Homebrew Website Club Europe Meetup again. Last week, I spent a lot of time talking about me and the site, but this time I’m hoping to do more listening.
: Someone wants to go for a walk.
: Going into the office ice to sit on the throne only to see that I’ll have to make a detour.
: I’m going to make a move towards not eating my feelings as much.
: The power has been going off and on for the last couple of hours.
: My writing process is a mess I’ve been thinking about the general friction that I experience when it comes to making posts and then putting them onto my blog. It feels that it has become both easier and harder to write something that I like. What do I mean by writing? In this instance, I am referring to my posts that are more than my pithy one liners or pictures of my dog. It’s valid and I am not ashamed of most any of it.
: A weird day on the first day of the weekend after a weird week.
: I keep seeing people complain about their Vision Pro personas. I feel that it’s just a reaction to the uncanny valley of looking at yourself. Like hearing your voice distorted on a podcast.
: Go Ask Alice 2024 In high school, I had to read a book titled “Go Ask Alice”. It was a book composed of journal entries of a young woman who get addicted to drugs and experiences a lot of misfortune before ultimately dying from an overdose. One of the interesting things about it was during the class discussion, we talked about how the book wasn’t actually real and that the accounts in the book might be a composition of different stories put together.
: Labarum: All the colors in the theme I just pushed a point release of the theme to GitHub. The majority of the changes are related to colors and line adjustments based off of reading 12 Modern CSS One-Line Upgrades by Stephanie Eckles. Crossing the line Years ago, I read an article stating that although it’s good to underline links, it can be difficult in some circumstance because certain characters like q, j, p will touch the line. Some developers used box-shadow get around this and I had taken that route for this theme.
: I’m planning on going to Homebrew Website Club Europe today. It’s a last minute idea, but it’s a great place to get new ideas.
: Color Me Badd This is the 1991 debut album from Color Me Badd and one of my favorites. This is a page where you can find links on where to listen to it.It’s not for kids and this post might be the most risqué thing I have ever posted. But, the world is kind of crazy, so I’m hoping that this entertains at least one more person than myself. I probably listened to this album way before I should have, but it really highlights the innocence of youth in that I had No idea what most of these songs were about.
: Just finished a blog post that I’ve been writing for the course of the last couple of weeks. Normally, I would post as soon as the draft was done, but I’m going to set it asidee and re-read it tomorrow before posting.
: I’m thinking about cropping this to make it into a profile picture. No, it doesn’t work.
: Feeling Apprehensive today. I don’t know why and I don’t know what I should do so I’m just going to blog about it.
: Does opera even count as a separate browser now? /snark
: I woke up at 2:30 to take my parents to the airport. Apparently they were joling about the time. So now we’re all just sitting around waiting.
: Not as cool as some of the pictures that @Miraz shares, but wonderful in its own way.
: Lillie doesn’t like walking in the rain.
: LongLiveWebpages.txt the library of alexandra it seems like lots of folks get caught up in blogs being the easiest setup to get started creating a website, but this seems to only work if the bulk of the content is your words and thoughts. LongLiveWebpages.txt | the library of alexandra I've been so focused on blogging that I haven't thought about the other things that I can do with my website. Found this article via Robb Knight
: This was the first time that I’ve played where all the players were going n jail just waiting it out.
: I really enjoyed the movie that it was based off of and Donald Glover. I am going to attempt to not get my expectations too high.
: I feel heavy. It was hard to go up a flight of stairs. It’s hard breathe right now. I’m really tired and out of shape.
: 🍿 The Single Moms Club (2014) - ★★☆☆☆ It’s a Tyler Perry movie. It’s well produced and well acted. It had a joke that almost made me fall out of my chair laughing. But, like all the other Tyler Perry movies that I’ve seen, it’s got a message that it’s trying to impart. Whether intentional or not, this movie says that all these single mothers need is a good man in their life to really remind them of what’s important and how to achieve happiness.
: My grandpa was a Nazi There are those who believe that we just have to present them with facts and then they would understand that they are on the wrong track. But they have their own reality and they look down on us for being weak and naive. They truly believe that we are the ones on the wrong track. My grandpa was a Nazi I came across this article a couple times on Mastodon.
: I went to a “paint and sip” event. I don’t remember the last time I painted.
: Visiting a friend at the hospital 🏥. The c-word is being put forth as a possibility.
: It’s Friday. I hope that you are finding some happiness wherever you are in this crazy world.
: I got my primary election packet today. Lot of reading to do.
: I just thought it looked nice.
: This morning, im concerned about climate change and spaces in file names.
: 🍿 American Fiction (2023)- ★★★☆☆ I’ve been looking forward to seeing this movie for a while and was rewarded with a very enjoyable experience. This is a very solid film about family and finding your identity. I’ve been dealing with how I work with unexpected things happening in my life and how to find joy in all the chaos. This movie gives me hope in that I can also find some mirth in all the madness.
: 🍿 The Godfather (1972) - ★★★★☆ It’s a running joke amongst my friends that I know a lot of plot points for popular movies and films. What?! You haven’t seen The Godfather!? How did that happen?. Oddly enough, I know most of the movie from watching Jane Austen’s Mafia and other parodies that have come out since the movie had come out in 1972. It is a great film. And I’m happy to have seen it.
: 🍿 Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (2010) - ★★☆☆☆ Ok, the family has been watching Percy Jackson and the Olympians (2023) TV show and enjoying it. So we decided to watch this thing again. It’s definitely a product of its time. Movies like Harry Potter and Twilight had spurred studios to find more and more intellectual property. You get the feeling that they were trying hard to make something.
: 🍿 The Lost City (2022) - ★★★★☆ This was a fun movie. I was bordering on a bad movie after a very long day and at the end, I was relaxed and laughing. It takes a couple of the various movie tropes and pokes fun and them and the usual formulas a movie looks this can take. At first, I was going to give it 3 stars but just thinking about the movie now has put a little smile on my face so here’s your extra star!
: Finished reading: My Murder by Katie Williams 📚 Jason Snell had been promoting this book on one of his podcasts. Luckily it was available via Libby from my local library as an audiobook and I devoured it in a few days. Truthfully, it has a lot of things that I have seen in other books but the way that it’s combined is done very well. I can see this being turned into some kind of tv mini series.
: Labarum: Can I has Cheeseburger and Debugging "Scan System" by Mohamed Hassan. Table of Contents On the Edge of obscure Obscure Examples Toggling Debug Can I has? Next steps? In my last post about the labarum theme, I ranted about how I wasn’t going to re-invent the wheel. In this post, I’ll be talking about how I made some minor tweaks and decided to update the version to 1.3! This post is mostly a “why did I do this” versus a “how did I do it”.
: I showed my daughter my website and she said “it looks like one of those accessible sites”. It’s exactly what I’m going for.
: I was going over a draft that I wrote almost a month ago. It’s BAD. It’s why people should use drafts. All in all, still better than starting from nothing.
: 🍿 Good Grief (2023) - ★★★★☆ This was a very beautiful film. Dan Levy allows for some quiet moments where the viewer gets to see some delightful views of Paris. I enjoyed them but I could see where people might scoff and complain about the film not getting on with things. I think that this is part of the point. Grief is something you don’t “just get over”. In the end, another reminder that we don’t know what will happen in the future.
: I was looking at pictures and thinking about how I could have been a better husband and father then. But, the only important question is how I can be better now.
: Making peanut butter cookies 🍪
: Finished reading: Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman 📚 - ★★★★☆ I’ve never been so relieved for being reminded that I’m going to die.In fact, there is humor found throughout the book related to this very topic. Truth is, we don’t really know how much time we have and with this world. You only have this moment in time, make the right choice for you. If it doesn’t work out, you have to accept it and make another choice another action.
: Minimum Wage Clock · Luna’s Blog I got curious, and added some CEO salaries for comparison. The vast disparity is nothing new to me, but seeing it like this... It’s fucking sobering. Minimum Wage Clock · Luna’s Blog I came across this the other day.
: Watching the pilot of Xena: Warrior Princess with my daughter. I remember it sooo much differently.
: It’s been a while since I’ve used the board.
: Needed a moment to write in my journal. Reset and hit it again.
: 🍿 Wonka (2023) - ★★★☆☆ It’s fun. Very light hearted and kind of what I needed to see as we move through the holiday season. I did like a couple of the songs, but I don’t feel that I’m going to remember watching this a year from now. Description from The Movie Database Willy Wonka – chock-full of ideas and determined to change the world one delectable bite at a time – is proof that the best things in life begin with a dream, and if you’re lucky enough to meet Willy Wonka, anything is possible.
: Made it through my first day of the year without a problem. Except that I broke a keyboard.
: I played D&D today for the first time in years. It was fun.
: If you ever wondered where old gym equipment goes…
: 🍿 Blow (2001) - ★★★☆☆ My wife really wanted to see this movie together. I think it’s a pretty solid tale. Well acted and showing that there are more ways of losing in life by dealing drugs. Usually, the people shown in these movies are killed off gruesomely or left strung out and destitute. Also, it’s good to show that anybody could be a drug dealer. I think it’s a real precursor to the issue that we’re seeing with prescription meds.
: It just took me a moment to think about how we are at this point.
: I moved my work project review and shutdown routine into onenote to see if it will help with context switching and focus. Took longer than expected because of formatting but only time will tell if this will be effective.
: I attempted (and succeeded) something new by doing some pushups. 10 of them. 🏋🏾♂️
: 🍿 Single All the Way (2021) - ★★★★☆ I liked this one. There were no “bad guys” except for the march of capitalism. Seriously, who ask people to come up with a whole new project Christmas Day? As always, you know how things are going to go when it comes to the “will they/won’t they” portion of the romance. The execution is good and there were a lot of little giggles along the way.
: Sometimes, I wonder how these things happen and then I remember that I work in tech as well.
: Whoever you are, I’m wishing you well during this holiday season.
: Advent of Technical Writing How-To Outline James' Coffee Blog I met James in one of the IndieWeb digital meetups and he was very personable. He’s been doing a series of posts on technical writing and this last one was pretty good for those who would like a structure for their own documentation. How do I turn my notes into an article? For this post, I am going to focus on the "how-to". Advent of Technical Writing: How-To Outline | James' Coffee Blog This is sometimes how I think about my posts on the labarum theme.
: I have a friend who just set up a substack in order to promote his comics. Literally gave me the information today.
: I hate my landline. All I get is scammers and bad news.
: I had a friend set me on the right path and tell me that I don’t need to respond to anyone or anything. Not related to my last post but still valid.
: I’m really not liking this thread I see about population collapse and erasure of culture from people who feel that the only way for their culture to survive is to have more children. Some of these people are only raising their children by proxy. What kind of culture are you handing down?
: 🍿 The One I Love (2014) - ★★★★☆ This movie is a little statement about being the best version of yourself in your marriage. Take a moment and think about it. What are some of the things that you bring to the relationship? What separates you from all the other people they could be with? This movie has really been trending on Hulu recently for good reason. Description from The Movie Database
: I wish I had more pictures of me with hair.
: Logged into slack for the first time in months. It feels slightly different. Really hard to say if I like it better than discord.
: 🍿 Serendipity (2001) - ★★☆☆☆ My wife recommended this one after we saw Something from Tiffany’s. I thought it was ok but she did not like it and said that she remembered it being a lot different when she saw it when it came out in 2001. My problem with the movie is that our protagonists were in relationships when they met up, broke up with their significant others, and then are in NEW relationships when they decide to get back together.
: For some reason, this stuck out to me.
: Trying a different way of sharing
: I decided to do a little bit of exercise today because I was in a rut. Also, I wanted to post about it to see how easy it would be to share information about an Apple Fitness workout. If you have access to Apple Fitness plus here is a link to a 10 minute strength training with Kim.
: Labarum: Do Not Reinvent the Wheel I’ve been working on this theme for a while. Marking things off and adding things to a list in my head of different things that I want to do in order to scratch my own itch. The truth of the matter is that I may never be done done with this. There are edge cases that I can envision, those that I never thought of, and those that are so minute that it’s not worth putting the effort into.
: 12 Days of Web A year-end celebration of fundamental web technologies: HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. 12 Days of Web I'm always on the look out for distractions cool new things! This is the third year, so you can also checkout the examples from before.
: Yesterday, I forgot to make the first line of my media review on a movie a title. It actually looked pretty good in the timeline(s). I think I’ll continue to do so but I’ll put my review before the description of the media.
: 🍿 Something from Tiffany’s (2022) - ★★★☆☆ Rachel and Gary are happy enough but not quite ready for that big commitment. Ethan and Vanessa, the perfect picture, are just about to make it official. When a simple mix-up of gifts causes all of their paths to cross, it sets off a series of twists and unexpected discoveries that lead them where they’re truly meant to be. A pretty solid romcom. I enjoyed watching this with my wife.
: I had a couple things I wanted write about things today. Just couldn’t do it.
: Sometimes, I like to sit in front of my computer and wonder about what I’m going to make next.
: I love the fact that Game Pidgin still works.
: There was something about this chair.
: Wife likes having the dog in bed with us. I woke up at 3:30AM after getting kicked in the back.
: Labarum: Optionals A small but pretty cool v1.2.18 of Labarum. This will allow the Reply by email for Micro.blog, Reply on Mastodon, and Conversation on Micro.blog plugins to look like they belong on the page. The next step will be to add a little more padding to the <div> that contains the links and to get the embed for the Tinylytics-for-Micro.blog plug to work correctly as well. How does labarum add optionals? There are truly great web designers here on Micro.
: Just a little trip to the vet.
: Kind of sad that it’s been a year.
: It’s just the little things that build up and tarnish the experience.
: 🍿 The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023) - ★★★☆☆ Description from Movie Database While working underground to fix a water main, Brooklyn plumbers–and brothers–Mario and Luigi are transported down a mysterious pipe and wander into a magical new world. But when the brothers are separated, Mario embarks on an epic quest to find Luigi. I fell asleep briefly somewhere between the moment where Mario goes on a mission with Princess Peach and the negotiation between Cranky Kong and the Princess.
: Fool's Paradise, 2023 - ★★★ I really enjoyed this movie. It doesn't have a lot at stake and seems to go from one crazy plot point to another. But that's the nature of a satire, and I needed to see something like this. Ken Jeong has really been showing us his range this year. If you've seen him in this and the second season of The After Party, then you'll really know what I'm saying.
: Daft Punk Random Access Memories (Drumless Edition) Album Review Pitchfork What are we doing here? Honestly, what are we doing with this “drumless” edition of Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories? What possible lessons can we learn from 2023’s second re-edition of Daft Punk’s third-best album, in which every sonic detail is the same, other than the absence of drums? Daft Punk: Random Access Memories (Drumless Edition) Album Review | Pitchfork The first thing that I did with this album was listing to Giorgio by Moroder and couldn't get into it because it just seemed off.
: Indie App Santa 2023 Edition Daily gifts from your favorite indie developers. Discover, support, and celebrate independent iOS developers and make your holiday season merrier with daily surprises! Indie App Santa 2023 Edition I've used this for several years. I've found a couple gems and it's really cool to see fresh takes on apps.
: I wrote a post every day last month. I’m tempted to try again this month but don’t want to burn out trying to make “content”. Just going to write to share and get better at writing.
: A post everyday for the last 30. Some days were harder than others. Either finding something to write about or debating on saving something for another day. Still happy i challenged myself.
: I’ve switch from using my micro.blog avatar to using my gravatar. It’s kind of funny because it references my old domain.
: What's in a title? A frequent type of post that I write is a small little review of different forms of media. Usually a movie, but I’ve been adding more tv recently. To quickly differentiate them, I’d put Media Review in the title in the hopes that whoever it helps the reader. There is a small problem in that I’m populating my blog using letterboxd and it goes directly to the blog. I then have to rename the post, add the alt text to the movie poster, and add the Media Review category.
: Labarum: Header Links The other day, I wrote a micropost about how I was deliberating on <a><h1>...</h1></a> versus <h1><a>...</a></h1>. I joked and said that I was only thinking about it for 59 seconds and as you are reading this post it has been a lot more than that. Strictly HTML 4 speaking, headers are block elements and anchors are inline elements. But, in practice, I’ve seen anchors around headers in links and images for just as long.
: One of those days where it seems like takes forever for very little to get done.
: Today, I spent 59 seconds contemplating on doing <a><h1>...</h1></a> versus <h1><a>...</a></h1> and that’s not the most unproductive thing I’ve done today.
: Monaspace Texture Healing is a novel technique that evens out the density of monospaced type, bringing it closer to how proportional type has looked for centuries. Texture healing preserves the monospace grid, and works in most editors without needing new software or editor plugins. Monaspace Currently trying this font out with the Krypton variant. It's fun to read and see new fonts.
: Media Review: 📺 The Curse (2023) Link: 📺 The Curse (2023) Overview An alleged curse disturbs the relationship of a newly married couple as they try to conceive a child while co-starring on their problematic new HGTV show. One word: Awkward. I only saw the pilot and it was one of the most awkward things I’ve ever seen on tv. It’s supposed to be that way… I think. 126% not for kids. I don’t know if I’ll come back to see the other episodes because I don’t have Show Time, but it was intriguing enough that I did listen to a podcast about the second episode in order to find out what happens to the “cherry tomato boys”.
: Media Review: Life of the Party, 2018 - ★★★ I saw this one with my wife. We both love Maya Rudolph and Melissa McCarthey. We thought it was in the same vein as Bridesmaids and we were rewarded with big laughs. Update: Apparently, we don’t love them enough to get their names spelled correctly.
: Shopping at the mall and I met a friend from my childhood.
: This Cast Away skit from Saturday Night Live is funny to me because it invokes one of my favorite movies.
: Labarum: A small comment I updated the styling of comments individual posts. I actually rolled this out while ago but haven’t written about it yet. Background history (feel free to skip) Every once in a while, I get a response to one of my posts on Micro.blog. The Micro.blog service manages the comments for me and allows me to include them by adding conversation.js to the theme. The first iterations of the Labarum theme would have the comments of a post show up on the index page.
: I think I am starting to hate Black Friday We all love a deal and the experience of getting something more for our money. I love the idea of investing in something that makes my life a little better in some way whether it’s a utility or pure entertainment. What gets to me is the fact that this day lasts a whole month and the fact that some of these savings are from markups that happened before they went on sale.
: Media Review: Scott Pilgrim Takes Off (2023) - ★★★★★ 📺 Scott Pilgrim Takes Off (2023) This series is fun and finishes quickly. I watched it with my 14 year old daughter in one setting. Warning there was some kissing in the first episode and some sexual innuendo in various places throughout the season but nothing gratuitous. I don’t think you need to no the original source material enjoy the show, but you will get more from it if you had.
: Media Review: Gen V - Episode 6 Season 1 This is my favorite episode so far in the season. The show is known for having gratuitous amounts of sex and gore, but I really felt that it took a moment to show us a little bit of tenderness between some of the characters. Sure, there might have been some puppets involved in there as well, but I guess the romantic in me saw something special as two people take their ill advised relationship further.
: Media Review: God of War Ragnarök I picked up a used copy at GameStop a couple of months ago and put a LOT of time into it. I remember spending time looking into how to unlock all the different items and story beats in the game. The game is huge! You can spend hours going through the story and getting to know the characters. Now, I’m 96% done with the game. I’ve got a couple secret bosses that I can’t seam to beat but I’m pretty satisfied with how the main story has played out.
: I saw someone on mastodon mention that the OpenAI employees could move over to Microsoft and work. It reminded me that Microsoft laid off 10k people this year. Maybe they didn’t get the message in Skype but you’re moving from one kind of instability to another.
: I was in the phone with a scammer from Xfinity/Charter/AT&T/Comcast for 5 minutes and 31 seconds. That’s 5 minutes he won’t be taking from someone who doesn’t know any better.
: Cleaning the home office I’ve been put in charge of all cleaning in the house. I’m not complaining about it. I’m an adult. I’ve done this in the past. Of course, the house is a mess. None more so than my office area. The one place that I’m in 100% control of.
: Today, I decided that I was going to finally start the rewrite of the CSS for my site. Thank you version control for giving me the confidence to break it.
: I’m now the Vice President of the PTA.
: Pleasantville, 1998 - ★★★ Saw this with my wife over three days because a certain someone kept falling asleep. It’s got a message somewhere in there and it definitely echoes things that I’m seeing nowadays. I think they had to rush it and didn’t really stick the landing. This was definitely a movie that made me think about what 3 stars means.
: Something broke on the site and I don’t have the time or energy to fix it.
: A 2-Minute Clip From 3 Body Problem The premiere date for the Netflix adaptation of Liu Cixin’s Three-Body Problem trilogy by Game of Thrones showrunners D.B. Weiss and David Benioff inches ever closer and, well, I just really want this to be good (because I enjoyed the book series so much). A 2-Minute Clip From 3 Body Problem Via Kottke.org I feel that D and D are really lucky to be given a second chance on making something.
: Friendsgiving, 2020 - ★★ I like the fact that this film was different from what I would normally watch. It’s light and sometimes thoughtful about relationships. It’s got some dirty jokes in it as well so don’t watch this with the little ones. My wife said the movie was stupid but she was the one who recommended it.
: Juicy Studio Div Mania More and more web documents are appearing that consist of nothing more than a collection of `div` elements. In most cases, better use of CSS selectors could be used to avoid overusing the `div` element. Juicy Studio: Div Mania This is a site with a lot of great examples of what you can do with CSS and semantic HTML.
: Lillie snug in her blankets.
: Setting up in a coffee shop. I don’t know what I wilwil focus on today but it will be delicious.
: Labarum: Ruling the horizon Two problems with the horizontal rule I’m at the point where I’m looking at contrived examples and edge cases where my theme has issues. I don’t write like this but there might be someone who does. In the above picture, I see to problems the first is that the horizontal rule doesn’t really match up with the colors of the site. The second more egregious is that the line is ducking underneath the image.
: I did a flush of all my email and rss feeds.
: A Short Test with Obsidian Things I’m grateful for Having time off to help my family Journaling to help me keep my sanity Being in my particular part of the world Having some time to think this morning The opportunity to make the world around me a little better
: Taking some time to reset and clean I don’t know how others are able to just keep their homes in order. I just look at the stuff sometimes and find myself overwhelmed.
: Defaults in 2023 Inspired by Hemispheric Views 097 - Duel of the Defaults! and others in the community, I thought I would post a list of defaults. 📨 Mail Client: Mail.app 📮 Mail Server: Fastmail (But I've got the family email on google) 📝 Notes: Notes.app (But I'm not very good at referring to them later) ✅ To-Do: Reminders/OmniFocus 📷 iPhone Photo Shooting: Camera 🟦 Photo Management: Photos 📆 Calendar: iCloud/Calendar with a splash of BusyCal 📁 Cloud File Storage: iCloud 📖 RSS: NetNewsWire 🙍🏻♂️ Contacts: Contacts (I _loved_ Cardhop but couldn't justify the cost.
: Lillie in the morning Sometimes, I just like to take the picture and enjoy the feeling that it brings to me.
: Urgently waiting Unfortunately, we had a little accident and had to go the urgent care today. I grow more and mormore unhappy with the American healthcare system as this place doesn’t show up as an option for care when we use the different applications that our insurance companies provide. I’m going to be thankful because it means that we can hopefully be seen soon.
: The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar, 2023 - ★★★ Short and sweet. I don’t watch a lot of the Wes Anderson movies but this one will definitely make me think about adding more to my life. It’s a story within a story with a lot of dialogue so if that isn’t for you than feel free to skip it.
: Media Review: Schmigadoon! Season 2 It took me a while to get to this one. I really enjoyed the first one because of songs and side characters. I feel that if you liked the first one, you’ll like this one as well. My only hesitation is that the sex is more in your face than the previous season. I don’t know if they will have another season, but I know that I’ll definitely be listening to them in the car.
: Media Review: Gen V - Episode 5 Season 1 The show continues the trend of just putting me on edge. To be honest, the blood and gore are actually scenes that cut the tension for me. These character are in a world that does not wish them well unless it’s for financial gain. With all the horrible things going on, some would wonder how I can watch a show where a puppet representation of a person is ripped to pieces.
: Conduit #61: The Conduit Burnout Candle 🕯️ - Relay FM Kathy and Jay are feeling the burn(out) well maybe the steps before the burnout. Conduit #61: The Conduit Burnout Candle 🕯️ - Relay FM Some of the stuff that [@kjaymiller](https://micro.blog/kjaymiller) was talking about really hit home. I've been putting a lot of mental energy into projects when my focus should be elsewhere.
: There are just too many taps before you start writing in the upcoming Apple Journal app.
: I lost my journal It’s kind of embarrassing that I lost this thing that I’ve put all my thoughts, plans, and feelings into for the last couple of months. Now I’m wondering around my home trying to decide if I should continue looking for it, create a temporary one (basically the closest sheet of paper that will ultimately be lost), or, prepare a new notebook.
: I’m debating on writing a post every day this month.
: Six Months without Reddit It’s been more than six months since Reddit cut off Apollo, and I’m fine with that. At first, I did go through a significant amount of withdrawal because Reddit provided me with an endless supply of new things to look into. It really worked towards that slogan of being the Internet’s homepage. Still, I have that ache in my heart of hearts where I want to find new things on the Internet.
: Beetlejuice, 1988 - ★★★★★ I saw this classic yesterday and I still love it. Ok, the sand worms don’t hold up like they used to but I think it makes it even more amusing. It struck me as me of the few films that talk about death but only a small nod to grieving. Good times only!!!
: So, I’ll probably miss the Apple event tonight. I hope that it’s cool enough that I feel bad missing it.
: What is my rating system? I have a couple reviews in Letterboxd. While I was thinking about how I would rank them, I felt it writing it down would help me. ★ I finished this but I regret it. ★★ I’m glad someone was given a chance to make this. Hopefully the next thing is better. Still, I would be hesitant to try anything that boasted about being “The people who brought you X”. ★★★ It’s alright.
: Lillie is getting ready for Halloween.
: SwiftData by Example - free quick start tutorials for Swift developers SwiftData by Example is the world's largest collection of SwiftData examples, tips, and techniques to help you build apps, solve problems, and understand how SwiftData really works. SwiftData by Example - free quick start tutorials for Swift developers If you are interested, this looks like a great opportunity to learn about SwiftData.
: This is Lillie trying to blend into the background.
: One day, I will be completely happy and understand CSS.
: Adactio Notes—August 31st, 2023, 7 41am JavaScript is the fastest way to build yourself a slow website. – Harry Roberts Adactio: Notes—August 31st, 2023, 7:41am I told myself I would not get into JavaScript optimization.
: 0x DEAD BEEF is still funny.
: I hope everyone is having a great Monday.
: I hit 213 lbs. That’s more that 15 stone. It’s also weird that we used to measure things in stone… but I digress because it’s easier to focus on that than my health.
: Labarum Final Final Copy 02 Final Tuesday, I released a post with and version bump of Labarum. I then went on and recorded a podcast stating that theme was now “feature complete”. Well, I was wrong. I went to the Homebrew Website Club to do some socializing and shared my site with the others. I pride myself on having a site that is pretty accessible. Turns out that the color contrast on my links isn’t good enough.
: Official Trailer for AMERICAN FICTION AMERICAN FICTION is Cord Jefferson's hilarious directorial debut, which confronts our culture’s obsession with reducing people to outrageous stereotypes. Jeffrey Wright stars as Monk, a frustrated novelist who’s fed up with the establishment profiting from “Black” entertainment that relies on tired and offensive tropes. To prove his point, Monk uses a pen name to write an outlandish “Black” book of his own, a book that propels him to the heart of hypocrisy and the madness he claims to disdain.
: Self Help And Analysis Recorded on Tuesday, October 17th. Topics for the podcast Getting help It’s ok to get help You are not alone Working on my website Mermaid Is the project feature complete? In search of the perfect profile picture Using Tinylytics (https://tinylytics.app) Transcript
: Ulysses sent out another newsletter. I’m hesitant to open it after what happened last time.
: Labarum: A Mermaid's Tale One of the changes that version .117 of Hugo that has been allowed onto Micro.blog is the ability to use diagrams in your markdown. The documentation on diagrams highlights two different kinds of diagrams that you can include; GoAT and Mermaid. Table of Contents Searching for the Key It’s all about that base When you make a diagram using GoAT, Hugo translates this into a SVG on the server side and then delivers it with the HTML for that particular post.
: I have a blog post about the next release of Labarum scheduled for tomorrow. This one has actually been read AND edited before I pushed the button.
: I don’t know you, but I hope that something good comes your way.
: Trying to make it perfect has really stopped my progress this week/month/life.
: Would Microsoft, Apple, or Amazon be considered “too big to fail” at this point in time? I mean, nothing last forever but western society does have ways of propping up things that shouldn’t be.
: A mental restart on a Friday? Sure, why not!
: Media Review: Gen V (Episode 1-4) I’ve been anticipating the Gen V series for months. I really enjoy things that are created in the TV universe of “The Boys” and its take on the superhero genre. It pleases both the part of me that enjoyed the over the top violence of 80s and 90s action movies with the part of me that wants a little more depth to the characters in a show. The season really starts off with a bang that I was afraid would cause my wife to stop watching.
: Now I’m just tired and angry at the world.
: I do this for stress relief. 3849 times 1567.
: Thinking about getting a new profile picture and can’t decide on using a picture or getting an artist to make one.
: I was given these beats headphones by a great friend. Unfortunately, they are really getting beat up. 🤕
: State of HTML 2023 now open! • Lea Verou tl;dr the brand new State of HTML survey is finally open! State of HTML 2023 now open! • Lea Verou I think we should all check this out because it feels like the major browsers have been doing a lot of changes recently.
: Today, I am reminded that I can asks people for things and not feel guilty getting help. Thanks.
: Today, I decided NOT to do something and it felt really good.
: Black Adam, 2022 - ★★ It not “bad movie”, but it certainly is not a good movie. I saw it because I was curious and I wanted to watch something that I wouldn’t mind being interrupted while watching. Toward the end, I was kind of hoping for it to end. Ultimately, it feels like a movie that was trying really, really hard for you to like it. The main protagonist is a combination of Superman’s powers with a 90’s moody Batman who kills.
: If you have some time, could you check out what I wrote regarding the update to my blog theme? mandarismoore.com/2023/09/2…
: Thinking about starting my Swift Slowly series again as a way to take a break from web design. 💻
: We’ve got an air show happening in the area and it’s scaring Lillie.
: Labarum: Code Blocks & Turning Tables "Turn Tables" by Peter Alfred Hess is licensed under CC BY 2.0. I’m rolling out another update to my theme for Micro.blog. It took a lot of time and effort on my part. It definitely reminds me of the story about how people paint both the front and back of a fence. I don’t think most will know or use some of the things that I put into this. If you do use or learn anything from this, I would really appreciate you sending me a message.
: Doing spelling and grammar checking on a post with a lot of sample code is a definite pain. I’m happy that the post is scheduled and I’ll just sit back and see who finds any new issues.
: For fun, I thought I would go over all the browsers that I currently have installed and what I use them for Brave - Used to have it for browsing comics. Just there because I forgot to delete it Firefox - I tell my family to use this browser for their general browsing. We share a computer so I keep all my web surfing in other browsers so they don’t mess up by tabs and bookmarks.
: I woke up and then went back to sleep this morning. I’m really exhausted today.
: I’m fighting the “shut up and ship it” phase of an update to my theme.
: I remind myself on a regular basis not to be a cynical jerk on the internet. I wonder if the people who I think are nice have to remind themselves about this or if they are just cool like that.
: Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, 2023 - ★★★★★ I loved it! I think the actors did a phenomenal job at bringing the characters to life. You can see the motivation of what they are doing and everything makes sense. I get a sense that the people who made this were true fans of the genre and that this was a labor of love. I don’t know if it did well in theaters but I know that I would love to see a sequel.
: Barbie, 2023 - ★★★ My family saw this before me and would constantly sing about being Ken. I would try to avoid spoilers by leaving the room when they would watch videos on YouTube. Anyway, we’re sick at home and bought the movie on Amazon. I did enjoy it but I don’t feel that I would watch it again. It’s got a good message and I know I missed tons of references and jokes.
: I decided to watch the Vikings vs Eagles football game on Amazon prime. The constant commercials (especially for gambling) are really preventing me from immersing myself in the experience.
: Good Luck to You, Leo Grande, 2022 - ★★★ I didn’t think I was going to enjoy this movie as much as I did. I remember a friend telling me that I should watch more movies written and directed by women and this is a great example of why. I really enjoyed the discussion about sex without it being “sexy”. It’s different for all of us and I hope that you have an open mind if you choose to watch this.
: Oh My Git! _Oh My Git!_ is an open source game that introduces players to the popular version control system "Git". It is highly interactive, and aims at building intuition for operations like "merging" or "rebasing" branches. Oh My Git! I promised myself that I would check this out sometime this week.
: The amount of places that I can write (craft, Ulysses, drafts, etc.) has actually caused me a little bit of decision paralysis. Also switching between them is kind of a pain as I like to add images and code. #FirstWorldProblems
: Completely out of shape. I went for a 20 minute walk yesterday and I am sore from that. 🚶🏿♂️🚷
: Be the documentation that you want to see in the world.
: 📷 Micro.blog September Photoblogging: Day 4 Prompt: Orange
: VSCodium - Open Source Binaries of VSCode The VSCodium project exists so that you don’t have to download+build from source. This project includes special build scripts that clone Microsoft’s vscode repo, run the build commands, and upload the resulting binaries for you to GitHub releases. These binaries are licensed under the MIT license. Telemetry is disabled. VSCodium - Open Source Binaries of VSCode Pretty interesting to see another text editor being released. I can't think of another time where there were so *many* choices for this.
: Does anyone else remove the stems from their spinach leaves 🍃?
: 📷 Micro.blog September Photoblogging: Day 3 Prompt: Precious Lillie won’t look at me
: 📷 Micro.blog September Photoblogging: Day 3 Prompt: Precious
: 📷 Micro.blog September Photoblogging: Day 2 Prompt: Buildup It’s laundry 🧺
: 📷 Micro.blog September Photoblogging: Day 1 Prompt: Abstract
: Last post was sent late because I turned off power. All my devices are working!
: Doing my own electrical work for the first time. If you don’t hear from me, then it didn’t go well and I’ve sold all my electronics.
: Just had a moment where I thought “Am I over engineering this to handle an edge case that I only care about?”
: Made shrimp and rice last night.
: Beetlejuice, 1988 - ★★★★ I loved this movie when I was a kid and really helped make Michael Keaton one of my favorite actors. I think the movie has aged very well and I could watch it over and over again.
: Lillie likes to sit on this patch of dead grass.
: Air, 2023 - ★★★ I feel that we -as humans- forget about the other people involved with important events and issues. I'm sure a lot of people have heard of Michael Jordan. For many, he's synonymous with basketball. The shoes that he wears incite people to line up for hours to get them and fine themselves in quite a few shoe collections. This movie shines a light on the people who worked on the logistics to make the shoe deal that revolutionized sports endorsements.
: Elon Musk and Michael Jackson I’m a big Michael Jackson fan. When I was a kid, I remember having an action figure of his likeness that came with a little sparkly glove that took forever to get on and always seemed to get lost. I love taking the time to make a playlist of my favorites that people wouldn’t put on a “best of album”. Every time I see a music video with big set pieces, I wonder if that artist is thinking “this is my Thriller”.
: I was going to take a power nap for lunch to get ready for a 2PM meeting. I spent the time writing. Not mad at myself for it, but still could use that nap.
: Just spent the last 15 minutes talking to myself through various issues that I’m going through. It felt kind of different, I guess. I think it’s because I didn’t capture the thoughts. They came and they went. So, now I am going through them again.
: New version of Hugo offered with Micro.blog Added Hugo version 0.117 as an option on the Design page for your blog. Micro.blog News - Aug 13, 2023 I've been seeing differences between my current home setup and what's on Micro.blog and always attributed it to some difference in my environment and what is on the server. Some kind of secret sauce. Unfortunately, it looks like something changed in the way that Hugo (or maybe goldmark) handles code blocks.
: Got up early to start the day. The parking lot seems pretty nice. I know someone is probably looking at this and thinking about the song lyric of “paving paradise to put up a parking lot”.
: I can either release now when I’m 3/4 asleep or wake up tomorrow and not stressed about how I unleashed code and a “read me” I can barely understand!
: Just normal web things. We've let ourselves get away from building websites that can do normal web things. Just normal web things. i found myself agreeing to a lot of these points without hesitation. I also really like the design of the site and how she frames the different arguments and structure.
: The real reason people check out my site.
: I miss my friends on Hemispheric Views. I’m taking a break but that doesn’t mean you can’t check them out!!
: What’s Happening? Hello! Thanks to everyone who listened to the last podcast! In this one, I talk a little bit about what has been going on in my life. If you find yourself needing to talk to someone, please reach out! You aren’t alone and every moment is an opportunity. References mentioned in podcast Anna Havron www.annahavron.com/handouts I’m a clergywoman who previously worked as a healthcare researcher and also as a professional organizer.
: Working outside this morning.
: Testing a small video of my dog walking into a messy room.
: I’m not where I “should” be. Some of that is circumstance and some of that it is just not living up to that “potential”. From now on, my blog will focus more on that change to being someone that I can look at in the mirror and be proud.
: You do not have to feed the trolls 🧌
: If you ever see me posting more than 4 times, something has gone wrong 😑
: I just uploaded my tweeter archive into micro.blog. The last couple of years have just been at been replying to other people.
: Good final episode. www.youtube.com/watch
: Just saw the longest thread that I’ve ever seen on Micro.blog. Lots of cool things in it and I just hope that they have cool heads as they discuss things.
: I was talking about this old video in discord today. I remember the chorus but forgot everything else about it. youtu.be/DAvCsLPCG…
: Restarting The Micro Cast Hello! This show is just me putting something together using Ferrite and just having a good time. I hope that future episodes are more fun as I learn to record and edit these. In this show, I talk a little bit about friends and dog doo. Music by LofCosmos from Pixabay Feel free to contact me with any feedback!… Well, almost any feedback. Transcript
: Just a little reminder to everyone, that you can restart something if you want to. Also, if you want to stop something, you can do that too. Me? I’m staring at the MAN IN THE MIRROR 🎤.
: I want to go play pirate themed miniature golf. ⛳ //Jason https://social.lol/@jason/110770170119872271 I want to as well!
: They Cloned Tyrone, 2023 - ★★★★ I’ve been looking forward to this movie for a while. I feel that John Boyega was wasted in the Star Wars sequels and this shows a little more of what he can do. This film has a lot going for it and highly recommend it!
: I’ve got a post that I’ve had in drafts for a couple of weeks. It definitely borders on one of those posts that maybe shouldn’t be posted. I’m still happy to have written it even though it will never see the light of the internet. It allowed me to put my feelings into words and re-evaluate.
: I hope everyone is getting an opportunity to start the day off well.
: Werewolves Within, 2021 - ★★★½ It’s just what you are expecting and executed wonderfully. I had spoiled the ending but just watching the plot unfold was really satisfying. Lots of actors that I’ve seen around in other media.
: Is anyone using moviedb instead of Letterboxd for their media tracking? If so, are you putting that information into micro.blog?
: Oh man. Apparently reading what I wrote before posting is something I haven’t mastered.
: Yoda Mia starting a little messy.
: Attempting to make a video of my dog. Using clips to make the video.
: Did not know that I was going to have to deal with this today. I understand that they want some kind of security, but -man- this is annoying.
: I feel like I’m having a bad day. Trying to be grateful and realize that others are having it worse. Going to spend the next 15 minutes writing what I’m grateful for.
: I’m taking a course in responsive layouts in hopes that I can get a better understanding of css. After the time I put into my theme, I found myself writing code in order to accommodate different edge cases. I’m hoping that this can give me a better understanding.
: Kraven the Hunter Trailer: Aaron Taylor Johnson Stars For Sony Unlike Venom and Morbius though, Kraven the Hunter will be rated R, the first Marvel film to do so at Sony, which you can fully see in the film’s first trailer, which was just released. Kraven the Hunter Trailer: Aaron Taylor Johnson Stars For Sony I think John Wick has really influenced me in that every good action movie makes me think of that franchise.
: Sometimes, I hate web development with a passion. Today is such a day.
: I like the new logo @pimoore !
: Labarum: Code and Codeblocks I really wanted to do more writing instead of working on labarum, but I found myself wanting to write more about it. The very first post had examples of code that would render outside of their container depending on how long the line of code was. The code blocks would allow you to scroll along blocks that weren't formatted properly. It drove me crazy and I would sometimes edit the post in order to avoid the problem.
: My stickers came in this weekend and my kids took them.
: Flamin' Hot, 2023 - ★★★ If you are looking for a film that will make you happy and hopeful, then this is it. A true underdog story that highlights the human spirit. It doesn’t get very dark into what could have happened. I really enjoyed this film and it was great to see people and relationships become a success.
: I thought of @jean when I got this.
: I went for a walk the other day and I really enjoyed the views.
: Is there anyone who uses the word “ditto” but doesn’t know about the movie “Ghost”?
: Labarum: Official 1.1.0 release One feeds into the other. I did an “official” point release for the Labarum theme last night. I had previously been keeping the version number in the site-head.html and did not change the plugin.json file that would alert the different workflows that a change had actually happened. What is new In addition to the the changes in my last post, I added some margin to all images, figures, and videos on the site to better handle some of the content that is added from other sources than MarsEdit and Drafts.
: The Little Mermaid, 2023 - ★★★ People on the internet are mean. This is a decent adaptation of the children’s tale about the little mermaid. I thought it was pretty decent fairly true to what I remember from watching it repeatedly with my oldest daughter. Sure, they make some changes such as removing the “Les Poissons” segment, but I don’t think anyone really wants to see the live action version of fish getting cut up. A little too real for some.
: Three Thousand Years of Longing, 2022 - ★★★ I remember watching a short tv series based off of the Arabian nights tales. In it, a woman would tell a story to a sultan every night to keep him entertained or she would be killed. This is not as morbid, but the structure of having someone tell their story and having it played out by different actors is great to see. I especially liked the cinematography at the beginning of the film as they move from one angle to the next.
: Dredd, 2012 - ★★★ I remember being pleasantly surprised by this movie. It did some interesting stuff with slow motion.
: I’ve set a filter in my /etc/hosts file for reddit and deleted Apollo. I’m going through withdrawal from the dopamine hits that they would provide. In unrelated news, I’ve REALLY gotten into all the games offered by Apple Arcade.
: I have a very old tv. It has one HDMI port. Today, that port has died.
: Breaking hearts left and right.
: John Gruber is really good with written words Either you see the value of a great user experience or you don’t. No surprise that the CEO of a company whose website is so bad that they’ve had to keep the old one around as an alternative doesn’t see the value Apollo adds to the Reddit experience. Daring Fireball: Jay Peters Interviews Reddit CEO Steve Huffman for The Verge I really enjoys how he can encapsulate an idea or argument.
: I’m really looking forward to this movie. A series of eerie events thrusts an unlikely trio (John Boyega, Teyonah Parris, and Jamie Foxx) onto the trail of a nefarious government experience conspiracy in this pulpy mystery caper.
: What deserves to be shared I’m self aware enough to know that some of what drives me to write on this blog is to communicate and share my thoughts and feelings on various things. Some would call it a little narcissistic. That being said, I do come across things that I would like to share. For instance, I came across a post by my friend Adam on Mastodon and I want to put it on my blog.
: Does anyone know of an app that creates a image based off of a url? I’m looking for something that would show a preview the same way apple notes or discord does.
: So, I guess my yoga session will be delayed.
: Sometimes, I feel that I’m putting a lot of effort into theme when others can do it with very little effort. But, that’s ok, not everyone is at the same level and I feel that mine is a very good starting point for everyone who wants to learn. Including myself. So, take what you want and grow!
: I was experimenting with webmentions a lot today. Still have a couple questions, but I think I’m done for the time being.
: This is a basic example reply to @aaronpk. Thanks to the class u-in-reply-to, Micro.blog should send a webmention automaticly. Thank you @sod.
: Testing Webmentions one last time for the day Webmention is one of the fundamental indieweb building blocks. It enables rich interactions between websites, like posting a comment or favorite on one site from another site. Sending your First Webmention from Scratch • Aaron Parecki I hope this works. This is really the example that everyone links to.
: Testing Webmentions again Webmention is one of the fundamental indieweb building blocks. It enables rich interactions between websites, like posting a comment or favorite on one site from another site. Sending your First Webmention from Scratch • Aaron Parecki I’m hoping that this all works properly from the clipping to drafts to micro.blog.
: Finish the post and then close all the browser tabs. … … Then remember that you still needed to save some of those links for later.
: Labarum: Restarting Iterations During my Micro Camp presentation, I stated that the first publication is the first iteration… Then I stopped. Just a lot of little things got in the way, and I started to sit on changes that I have made. I’m hoping that this post will be me getting back into publishing changes and why I am making them. Here’s a list. Floating Images Handling Transcripts No Longer Published Center Navigation Menu Changing the descriptions Removing Comments off the main page What’s next?
: I have beeen sitting on changes to my to my theme because I want to write about it. Then I realized I haven’t added to the repository of themes yet.
: I’m walking away from my dream of being an iOS/Mac developer. None of my hardware can run the latest os and I have to focus on other things. Sometimes you have toe to find other dreams.
: I hate to put it out there, but I’ve sent an email to timery asking what their plan is if toggl decides to cut off their API.
: I went for a walk to clear my head this morning. I hope that these find you well.
: Ghosted, 2023 - ★★ Ok, I’m going to start off by stating it plainly, Chris Evans plays a bad boyfriend. Seriously. I really enjoyed the change in gender roles for an action movie, but it really reminds me of what is wrong with the “formula” that Hollywood had used for years. Think about Jaime Lee Curtis in True Lies. Still, it was enjoyable and would recommend it to those looking for a little mindless fun.
: A Brief For June 7th, 2023 Just a hot take on WWDC and where we’re heading with that. Transcript
: Documentation is a love letter that you write to your future self and I have not been a good friend.
: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, 2023 - ★★★★ I enjoyed this movie but I found myself not fully invested in the characters during some points of the film. There are a tooooon of Easter eggs for those who like Spider-Man so keep your eyes peeled as they move from point to point in the story.
: I was looking into changing my profile picture. It’s hosted on gravatar and the information isn’t saved properly in 1Password (created in The Before Time). Now I’m concerned what resetting the passwords might do. Should be fine, but don’t have the time to fix it if things go wrong.
: This is my favorite feature of the new OS. Interactive Widgets in iOS. Also, I’ve got to stop installing betas on my only device.
: A Brief On June 2nd, 2023 Just talking about what’s going on without any editing. Life has been a little stressful but it’s good to get it out of my thoughts for a little bit. Transcript
: Don't meet your zeros Photo courtesy of Gratisography I’m not above getting influenced by my peers and the media around me. It’s all part of being a social animal like most people in this world. We get information from others and form opinions based off of what we observe. The best way to get information is always straight from the source. And when someone tells you that they are a who they are, you should listen.
: My biggest sadness about the upcoming WWDC is that my iMac that is running Monterey won’t be able to run the newest version of Safari.
: For the web designers out there, how do you arrange your css file? How often do you refactor it?
: So I upgraded my wife’s phone to iOS 16.
: ‘MM/DD/YYYY’ is a horrible date format. I will never feel otherwise.
: Just two ducks 🦆 chilling by the pool.
: Today will be focused on labarum and planning for the week.
: Just picked up Beat Saber this is the first time I’ve ever played it.
: Some thoughts on labarum designs for the future I’ve been thinking about where I want my theme to go next, and have been looking at other themes for inspiration. When I look at the other themes, I see that they usually have the time posted on the post but don’t have text stating that it’s the time that it was posted. There is the general assumption that it’s what the date is for. In addition, some of them have the date before the posting.
: I was thinking about going through all my browser windwos and closing the tabs, but then decided that it was a problem for future me and just started playing video games.
: I think I’m going to remove comments from on the main page of the theme that I’m using. It’s nice to know that people have things to say about what I’m writing, but I feel that I want my readers to see what I have to offer on the index page.
: Just went through my spam folder. A whole lot of false positives that I’m going to delete anyway.
: The Future of Hybrid Digital Communities podcast - Fastmail I thought this would be fitting to post here as we just finished having micro.camp On this special Philly Tech Week episode of the Digital Citizen podcast, Fastmail COO Helen Horstmann-Allen speaks with Alex Hillman, Will Toms, and Michelle Freeman, three of the savviest digital citizens in Philadelphia about community building offline and online. The Future of Hybrid Digital Communities | Podcast | Fastmail Some takeaways: invitation not promotion Onboarding is forever
: A lot of stuff in my social media timeline(s). Wish I could respond and read everything but it’s probably ether just to focus on a select few in the hopes that people will understand.
: I look at my todo list and say “As soon as I finish my theme, I’m going to do X, Y, and Z” Then I find something wrong with the theme.
: Yesterday, I made pancakes 🥞 for breakfast.
: Oh! Hey! You want to check out my theme and see how awesome it is!? Face palm.
: I should have set this up a long time ago. I let my email get out of hand a lot, so any kind of control can really help.
: I hope that this is enough gummy bears 🐻
: Apple previews new accessibility features, including AI-generated voice clone – Six Colors I feel that the Six Colors website had a really good overview of Apple’s announcement related to accessibility. For the third year running, Apple has offered a preview of accessibility features coming to its platforms later this year. The announcements were timed to mark global accessibility awareness day on May 18. The preview featured several completely new offerings aimed at people with cognitive and speech disabilities, plus updates to existing macOS and iOS features.
: Having a really hard time focusing the last couple of weeks. I’m hoping to turn it around.
: So I went through my email last week and archived everything with the determination of staying on top of it. Now, I’m at 92 unread emails.
: Six Colors – Apple, technology, and other stuff by Jason Snell & Dan Moren These also mark Apple’s first major subscription software venture: each of the pro apps will be available on May 23, running $4.99 per month or $49 per year; they’ll both offer a month-long free trial. Six Colors – Apple, technology, and other stuff by Jason Snell & Dan Moren I think this is the first time I recall Apple having a subscription to software. I guess they are leaning into that service revenue.
: I was listening to a podcast where someone said they raised money to buy a keyboard by mowing lawns. And I thought 💭 if you went door to door offering that you might get shot.
: Do I really need to tell you not to put empty containers in the refrigerator?
: I put my thoughts into words and words into action… or something…
: Sending your First Webmention from Scratch • Aaron Parecki Webmention is one of the fundamental indieweb building blocks. It enables rich interactions between websites, like posting a comment or favorite on one site from another site. Sending your First Webmention from Scratch • Aaron Parecki This is just another attempt
: Doing a little test of webmentions. I think I found what the problem was. This post advertises its Webmention endpoint with an HTTP Link header. The URL is relative, so this will also test whether your discovery code properly resolves the relative URL. Webmention Rocks! I like the idea of my posts going to places that I want it to go.
: Going to be doing some post testing tonight. Feel free to mute or unfollow.
: I saw this and it made me laugh and a little sad at the same time.
: Good morning. It’s ok to start somewhere new or continue on whatever path your on.
: I used to love hear what my favorite podcasters would wish for in the new OS. If only to join in the excitement. Now ℹ actively avoid them so I don’t become disappointed with something that was never promised.
: Lillie likes to smell the flowers sometimes.
: A video of Lillie on a Hill A peaceful video for you all.
: Blockquote to webmention This post advertises its Webmention endpoint with an HTTP Link header. The URL is relative, so this will also test whether your discovery code properly resolves the relative URL. Webmention Rocks! I don’t know if this will show up.
: I’m really enjoying my micro.blog workflow with drafts. It’s pretty cool.
: I'll always love each and every one of you no matter what, but to my friends who are dipping their toes in the Bluesky world: please remember that you're signing up for yet another service run by yet another billionaire. This particular billionaire might be nicer than that other billionaire, but still. Maybe consider keeping your social media a little further away from the billionaires. Adam - social.lol I think Adam really put it very well.
: With the recent announcement about 1Password adding telemetry to the product, I’m not as eager to upgrade until I understand this. So much news in the world it’s hard to keep up.
: Hey! The world is sometimes kind of crazy. If you’d like, I’m willing to sign GPG keys if you send me an email. Don’t know that that is? Check out this link
: A Brief For Monday Just attempting to make a small post.
: This is what I do when I’m stressed 😫. Got to take a break walk and come back.
: Thank you @manton Just a general thanks for putting in the effort and time.
: I like the interface for blue sky, but I don’t think it’s enough for me to jump to yet another social media platform. Are you cross posting, @maique ?
: Do you still watch “Death in paradise”, @rosemaryorchard ?
: Does anyone else go for a walk, find a stick, and think “hey, maybe I should bring this home to my dog?”
: I had to go into the office today. I left my backpack 🎒. No earbuds or headphones 🎧. Don’t know if I can make it.
: Really trying to get back on track today.
: I’m up at 1:35 AM… It’s not a good sign. I found myself tweeking the design of the site some more. Added styling for ins. del, and mark tags. I’ve only ever used those tags to show them in an example.
: I didn’t know that mail will expand links to have a rich preview. Link in question is github.com/gohugoio/…
: I feel that April and May are interesting as a Mac user because you see some notable releases as developers clear the slate before WWDC.
: A Small Blip I haven’t done much with the microcast. I think I might do something more with it later.
: First things first. Cleaning the home office space.
: I’m going to do a presentation in May. I think I’ll make a mind map 🗺️ tonight to brainstorm.
: A somewhat lazy day. I’m going to turn it around now.
: It's the little things in different browsers Labarum: Extra content in items I hate it when a developer focuses so much on one browser (usually chrome) and doesn't test it in another browser. So, I feel like a hypocrit when I found out that my site renders the little box in front of the checkboxes[^checkboxes]. The funny thing is that I had originally seen this as an issue and had commented the code out. The I thought I would keep it as a comment until I could figure it out and deploy it as a point update.
: Simple list of things to do today Fold laundry 🧺 Make dinner reevaluate my reason for existence Should be done before lunch
: I wanted to play with the newest version of Ulysses. I hope that I can make it a more fluid experience.
: Well, I know what workouts I’m doing this week.
: The images came out too small. I used a different workflow to capture them and can’t replace them at this point. Really kicking myself.
: Creating Labarum (Part 6): A Splash of Color I’m wrapping up this series. I’ve been playing with this theme for more than a year. Rarely consistent and not always forward progress but rewarding. I’m at a point where I’m very happy with how the theme looks. This is what it looks like in dark mode. Colo(u)rs I wanted to use the Nord color scheme at the beginning of this project, but decided to use “basic” colors to simplify the design.
: I really enjoy posting to the web.
: My draft actions weren’t working so I deleted them. I’ll treat myself to getting to the bottom of the issue later.
: I know there are more important things in life to worry about, but I still hate spaces in file names.
: Normally, I don’t pay attention to the times when I’m going through my week, but the last week was really stressful. I need to work on my self awareness when on the computer.
: Creating Labarum (Part 5): Schema and Open Graph Websites are read by more than just human eyes. Browsers, search engines, screen readers, and more take the information being served to them about a site and use it for different purposes. I wanted to make sure that my site could be parsed properly so that it can be reached to everyone who wants it. The web has several technologies designed for this purpose that do not add too much more work to incorporate them.
: Simple Audio Please ignore this if it is on the main site.
: March Photoblogging Challenge Prompt for today: Chance Take a chance on these discount seasonings. #mbmar
: March Photoblogging Challenge Prompt for today: Insect #mbmar
: March Photoblogging Challenge Prompt for today: Tiny #mbmar
: March Photoblogging Challenge Prompt for today: Houseplant I don’t have a house plant, but I do have a dog who plants herself where she wants. #mbmar
: "Ted Lasso" returns for 3rd season -CBS News Emmy-nominated actor Nick Mohammed joins "CBS Mornings" to discuss the third season of "Ted Lasso" and what we can expect from his character Nate Shelley. — "Ted Lasso" returns for 3rd season -CBS News I love this show! I’m really looking forward to the end of this season.
: March Photoblogging Challenge Prompt for today: Analog I was at a convention today. #mbmar
: I don’t have my usual template.
: March Photoblogging Challenge Prompt for today: Early #mbmar
: Not a great way to start the day.
: March Photoblogging Challenge Prompt for today: **Road** #mbmar
: I’m thinking about joining a “MasterMind” group or something along those lines.
: March Photoblogging Challenge Prompt for today: Patience It takes time to make something good sometimes. #mbmar
: March Photoblogging Challenge Prompt for today: Horizon I hope this meets the standard for @maique! #mbmar
: March Photoblogging Challenge Prompt for today: Connection #mbmar
: March Photoblogging Challenge Prompt for today: **shiny** Can you find the shiny spot? #mbmar
: Building a website like it’s 1999… in 2022 - localghost I’m on a bit of a mission this year to bring back the spirit of the old web. The creativity and flair of the late 90s and early 2000s
: March Photoblogging Challenge Prompt for today: gimcrack Double word score as we see if Scrodinger’s treadmill is working or not. #mbmar
: March Photoblogging Challenge Prompt for today: ritual #mbmar
: March Photoblogging Challenge Prompt for today: together #mbmar
: March Photoblogging Challenge Prompt for today: Walk I keep seeing this pile of leaves and stepping over it as I go for a walk. #mbmar
: I really want to finish my Micro.blog tutorial, but I’ve run into a little bit of a writers block. On one hand, I want to explain all the different pieces and, on the other, I don’t want to have a post with nothing but Hugo syntax.
: I thought I had posted my daily picture yesterday but I had it in the drafts folder.
: March Photoblogging Challenge Prompt for today: Whole I ate the whole plate. #mbmar
: March Photoblogging Challenge Prompt for today: Engineering #mbmar
: March Photoblogging Challenge Prompt for today: Tile #mbmar
: March Photoblogging Challenge Prompt for today: Zip #mbmar
: Waiting for my brain 🧠 to show up.
: March Photoblogging Challenge Prompt for today: Solitude #mbmar
: March Photoblogging Challenge Prompt for today: Weather
: March Photoblogging Challenge Prompt for today: Secure #mbmar
: 2023.02.28 Link to Original Document If I’m going to be looking at new jobs, I need to have some way of tracking the jobs that I’ve applied for. I also need to track what house that I’ve look at so that I don’t stress myself out. This is the document that I was working on at the coffee shop. FreeformTesting.pdf
: Installed the newest beta. So far, no crashes. The last one I would see a crash almost anytime there was a change to Bluetooth outputs or Wi-Fi networks. #DoNotRunBetaSoftwareOnNeededHardware
: I wrote “I am goo enough” in my affirmations this morning. I actually thought about keeping it that way because it made me smile 😃.
: Going through my old journal entries and seeing that I’ve been struggling with the same issues for years. It kind of made me sad.
: The internet is out at home. Very quiet here.
: Just looking at all my to-do items for work and thinking “this is not fun. Not fun at all”. I understand that not all work is supposed to be fun but at this rate I am going to burn out if I haven’t already.
: I connected my micro.blog instance to feed into my mastodon instance.
: Things are feeling a little out of control. Going to read this and maybe get back on track.
: So… apparently we like a certain brand of coffee.
: I’ve got a podiatrist appointment today. It sometimes hurts to walk. I hope it’s something they can fix quickly.
: Hello @manton! I’m curious on some of the ways connecting to mastodon has made micro.blog better.
: Lillie takes all the blankets and pillows.
: I’m holding a parking space for my daughter’s volleyball team. The parking lot is full and I feel guilty about it. I see people driving by and giving me dirty looks.
: A very stressful bug in calculating my move goal. 🏃🏾♂️
: You have a million choices. You beauty of it is that these choices are for you and you alone. Some are perfect. Others are less than ideal. But they are all yours and no one can take that power from you. I say this to you and myself today. All the best!
: One less pool to play in So, I’m sure that everyone who cared already has heard about Twitter’s shutdown of the APIs that third-party applications use. For me, this invokes the myth of Cortez burning the ships. I do not see a way for me to go back to Twitter. I haven’t deleted or deactivated my account, as I had seen other users. Instead, I have deleted the Tweetbot application from my phone. Tweetbot was actually the reason that the Twitter service has stuck with me so long.
: I do enjoy a good board game session
: Switching my mouse to my left hand for a while.
: Creating Labarum (Part 4): Initiating the Index In the beginning of this series, we started off with an index page that was just a static page with one line that stated you were on the index page. When it comes to implementing this, I looked at the Hugo Themes Free as well as the theme gallery that Micro.blog provides. Ultimately, I went with a simple structure that took advantage of the simplicity that I had in the Pure theme and the fact that we had already extracted the logic for articles into the partials.
: When I was young, I used to associate infinity with positive things. Teachers would tell the class that there was an infinite amount of possibilities and you just have to work hard to grab them. Now, I see things like the infinite amount of things that beg for my attention.
: If I’m a little too chatty today, it’s because I deleted my Reddit client (Apollo) from my phone 📱.
: Finished my first kickboxing workout 🏋🏾♂️
: Did my first kickboxing lesson.
: I’m thankful that I didn’t have as much damage as others but it’s the worse that I’ve ever seen it here in Sacramento.
: Went to an Anime convention recently
: Power just went out. I guess it’s time to call it a night/early morning.
: Currently reading: The Circle by Laura Day 📚 I remember reading this a while ago and feeling more in control.
: Sony PSVR 2 hands-on: A massive jump forward from the original The highly anticipated Sony PlayStation VR 2 is almost here, with a launch date set for February 22nd.
: I keep seeing people respond to @timapple for months , but didn’t realize that I wasn’t following him until today.
: 🍿 Watching Twins (1988) with the family. I’m 1/3 of the way in and I think it still stands up pretty well.
: I said I would post more pictures, so here is Lillie getting more use of the yoga mat than me. 🐶
: Apple Fitness+ unveils new offerings for the new year - Apple Starting Monday, January 9, the service will launch Kickboxing, a new total-body cardio workout type. I am SO excited by this news!! Best thing I’ve heard all year!
: Creating Labarum (Part 3): Implementing post footer In my initial design, I had footer that would show the categories, tags, date published, and date modified. All of these values are things, I had seen in previous sites and I could easily get to this information. I thought it would be 15-20 minutes to get this information. The fact that I felt that the footer deserves it’s own discussion should let you know that it ultimately wasn’t. Start! The first thing I did was move my current static footer from my example into it’s own template file partials/article-footer.
: I’m seeing a lot of spam in my gmail account. It’s weird ‘cause it’s usually the one that is the best at filtering out the noise. Update: I went back later to see if it’s still there, but don’t remember if I had deleted it or the system.
: I’m having trouble finishing the third part of my theme tutorial.
: And just like that, BBEdit is my first tech purchase of the year.
: Do something positive for yourself today.
: Lot of trees down after the rain.
: Today was the second day in a row where it wasn’t leaking in the house. Yay.
: WinterFest 2022 As is our custom in this season, we’re hosting a gathering of software artisans who are working to transform research and writing for a new era. We’ve all finished our latest updates, we’re working together to save you lots of money.
: So today I connected my Drafts to my micro.blog
: Inclusion beats optimization | Erik Kroes Accessibility has priority over other issues
: Creating Labarum (Part 2): Creating the individual posts For this part, we’re going to be setting up the basic page used for our post and make sure that it can be reached from the index page. We’re going to be switching between different files to show the iterative process that I went through in order to see results quickly. We’re going to edit the single.html to show the content by using the &#123;&#123; .Content }} tag from Hugo. We also add the &#123;&#123; .
: I was going to wait until tomorrow… but why?
: Twixmas: What to do between Christmas and New Year - Almost The Weekend Twixmas is the period between Christmas and New Year, when the kids are still off school, many people are off work, and the world slows down a bit. The craziness of earlier December has passed, the excitement of Christmas Day is over, and you can enjoy some slow, quiet downtime before welcoming in a New Year.
: Ok, there are still a LOT of places that need my attention with my new theme. I’m really looking at them as chances to improve it.
: Creating Labarum (Part 1): Design and initialization I wanted to create a new theme for Micro.blog, and I thought I would document all the steps that I went through. The creation of the theme was an iterative process for me and this tutorial works in that way. I’m also not a web designer and I’ve focused mostly on the technical aspect of this theme. This theme and tutorial were put together over the span of a couple months and things changed both in some of the technical aspect and how I thought of the theme.
: That 90’s Show Official Trailer Check out the official trailer of That 90’s Show, starring Kurtwood Smith and Debra Jo Rupp, below, coming to Netflix January 19th, 2023.
: I was writing a series of blog posts in Ulysses but I’m moving them to MarsEdit before posting. I’ve had a couple weird things happen when editing after something is posted. The problem is all the images that I was planning to add.
: I wanted to take this day after Christmas to wish you all well.
: Please don’t drive at night with your high beams if you don’t need to.
: I feel that the only people who would take the job of CEO of Twitter at this point would only be doing it to get that huge golden parachute that CEOs get when they are fired.
: I think the best thing Elon has done this year is demonstrate that CEOs don’t magically make things better.
: I keep seeing people sign up for mastodon.social. It makes me think about how I felt a little overwhelmed to look at all the toots(?) on the local server when I was on one of the smaller instances. I’m curious to see how many toots are going through there now.
: Just saw the following on Precious Chicken and just tested in the local copy of my theme. <meta name="keywords" content="{{ with .Params.tags }}{{ delimit . ", "}}{{ end }}" /> I’ve got a couple places to refactor! Hopefully this tip shows up in the timeline correctly!
: Why do all my yearly subscriptions renew in December? It’s another year and Apple is asking for me to pay $24.99 to keep my iTunes Match subscription. This is supposed to allow me to store all of my music backups1. This year is harder because I’ve had a full year of the Apple One subscription which gives me music and more. The reason that I’m sticking with it for one more year is that I’ve seen what’s been happening with other streaming platforms like HBO and Netflix and I want to make sure I have something until I come up with a better solution of storing my music.
: I think I’ve really come to enjoy having longer posts that don’t have a title.
: I signed up to mastodon a while ago and chose mastodon.cloud because I liked the name and was worried about capacity. I didn’t know that mastodon.social was going to be the popular one. It’s an interesting time as I see posts from a lot of the people I used to follow. Although, I do need to find a new client. This one doesn’t allow me to change the font on links.
: My thoughts about twitter I still have my account active. I haven’t gone in and deleted all my tweets and contacts at this time. In fact, to write this, I logged in to see that I have been a user since December 20081. I’ve enjoyed the service for years, and it was nice to login and see what was happening with all the people that I was following and check out different hashtags related to topics that I was interested in.
: Ran my theme through the a schema tool and it came out without errors. I’m going to make one more change and then mark that off of my todo list. I also ran it through the WAVE accessibility tool and there weren’t too many errors that I can control.
: Movies I’m excited to see in 2023 Guardians of the Galaxy 3 Ant-Man Spiderman across the Spiderverse Barbie
: Mark Zuckerburg might be enjoying all the publicity that Twitter is generating.
: Just spent a boat load of time attempting to get the open graph, twitter, and the start of schema tags to my theme. I don’t know how many people are going to be able to use it going forward, but it does give me something to be proud of when I share my links.
: The arm rests on my “nice” office chair are breaking and I haven’t had it for a year yet. I guess it’s true… No arm rests for the wicked.
: Just a little reminder to everyone that you don’t need the new year to make a resolution to try something new or different.
: A quick review of Willow (Episode 1 & 2) Short review It’s alright, but I hope that it gets better over time. Longer review Let me say this first, before I get into it more. I loved the Original Willow movie when I was kid. It came out in 1988 and must have been 8 when I saw it on VHS. I even remember reading the first two books in of a series that came out in 1995. I don’t want this just to be good.
: Can you tell when I got Covid?
: I’m going to start writing down some end of the day questions. I’ve identified the following 3 that resonated with me. What went well today? What do I want to improve on for tomorrow? What is my favorite part of today?
: Should I’m someone who says a lot of things about self improvement. And I have to say that I’m a much better person now than where I was 10 and 20 years ago. This doesn’t mean that I’ve hit all my goals but it does feel good to know that I have made progress. Unfortunately, it feels like a lot of the things that were promised as the American dream are just outside of reach.
: I can’t find my notebook 📓 and it’s really throwing me off.
: I just hit a high as far as weight and blood pressure is concerned. I’ve got to get back to my regular exercise routine.
: I just spent the last two hours trying to get the meta tags working in micro.blog. I should push this kind of thing to the test blog.
: Somewhere in this picture is a “gift” that my dog made. Careful where you step.
: Something about this felt sad and hopeful at the same time.
: Still working on my Novel for NaNoWriMo…. Although very, very slowly.
: I got a new keyboard yesterday. I hope my wife doesn’t tire of the new click-clack sound that I’m making in our shared workspace.
: She was taking a long time so I thought I should capture the moment.
: Pretty tired right now. The only reason that I’m awake is that I’m trying to be there to support my daughter as she’s working on some homework.
: A quick review of Wakanda Forever Super short review: I liked it. Longer short review: I really, really wish that I had more sleep before and after watching the movie. This movie does a lot of things that we don’t really see in a “super hero movie”. You get a feeling that the people making it were really trying to convey what it means to really lose someone. That in itself can be the entirety of a movie.
: I wonder how many posts are going to use “barrel of monkeys” for today’s word challenge. I’ve only played that game once and can’t say that I’m in a hurry to play it again.
: I’m now using my theme for my main site. I’ve got a “short” list of enhancements lined up.
: I used to call it fast-food, now I just call it franchise food.
: I don’t know if this is an accomplishment or a sign of a problem with my memory, but I was looking at a github repository and it said that I was a contributor. I don’t remember working on this at all.
: I’m not seeing replies on my site and I want to know if it’s because I didn’t add it properly to the theme or not. Could you respond to this if and when you get a chance?
: I don’t think there is much aluminum in this.
: I set a timer ⏲️ for a journal entry. I have it on my todo list to journal 10 minutes a day, but I was observing that I mostly just write a few words and then mark it off.
: This is what my desk looks like when I came back from vacation.
: I’m sad that so many people felt that they had to leave twitter. I used to really like the service, but I’ve found this place and it is a real upgrade.
: Woke up late so I’m going to have to adjust the vacation plan.
: There’s no suspicion about who ate my pop tarts this morning. It was me!
: Listening to the radio when they mentioned “Black Friday Month”… that’s just to far.
: Apu is on the display here at Universal Studios.
: I told my family what the word of the day was and we had a session about how the minister as going to minister the mister who was a minister.
: One of the things about NaNoWriMo that I’m experience as I create this story by the seat of my pants is creating characters as the story progresses. Who are you and why are you here?! A special kind of fun.
: I’m on vacation and I’m certain to go over my calorie target.
: The more I use it, the more I enjoy using Ulysses for writing my novel for NaNoWriMo and the posts for Microblogvember. The feature that I’m using the most is the word count and scheduled posting.
: Wow… I don’t think we’re going to have a consensus on anything with the upcoming US midterm elections.
: Today, I meditated in the hopes that it would give me the one beautiful ray of insight that would make everything perfect. Results unclear.
: Sometimes, I wonder if I am in an echo chamber when it comes to my thoughts and ideas. I’m willing to rethink things, but it seems like the alternatives are so departed from reality.
: I recently saw the Weird Al Biopicand I really enjoyed it. It’s short and does leave you wishing for more. Check out this Rolling Stones article to learn more about how it got made.
: When I was younger, I thought the rules applied to everyone. Now, I feel that if you’re rich enough, you are exempt.
: This morning, my watch alerted me that it was birthday of someone who had stopped following me on social media. I think he stopped following me because of my political views. I’m a little sad, but I understand. I still wish him well.
: As I’ve gotten older, I feel that a number of the people I viewed with admiration has changed. The only consistent people have been family and friends… mostly.
: I always wondered if I could use the phrase poetic license in a sentence and not sound pretentious.
: PlayStation VR2 launches in February Today, I’m very pleased to announce that PlayStation VR2 is officially launching on February 22, 2023. PlayStation VR2 Sense controller charging station, designed specifically for the PS VR2 Sense controller, will also launch the same day. — PlayStation VR2 launches in February at $549.99 – PlayStation.Blog I was talking to my wife about this and we came to the conclusion that it’s probably a good time for them to release it.
: Took Lillie to the vet today.
: One of the great things about working from home is that you can feast on anything that’s in the kitchen at any time.
: Starting the work of writing for NaNoWriMo. The first word is the hardest at this point…
: My daughter just told me about how one of her fellow students started crying during one of the lockdowns. This isn’t normal kids shouldn’t be feeling that a potential shooting is regular thing.
: Declared email bankruptcy at the beginning of the month. Let’s see how many emails I have at the end of the month.
: I recently bought this really cool action figure from the local game stop near my house. I don’t have a lot of feelings about Lando Calrissian as a character, but I thought it was strange that I was able to pick him up for about $3.
: When you’re broke, it’s hard to look at your bank account, let alone create a budget. When your task system is out of whack, it can be hard to open the app, let alone re-build it. Where do you even start? Blog | Being Productive I found this article about being productive and it kind of spoke to me as I’m feeling a little broke AND out of whack.
: I’ve been home sick all day and I’ve been thinking about how I still have some planning that I’d like to do for the upcoming NaNoWriMo. I had actually sat down to take some notes on my computer when I noticed that it wasn’t turning on. Not the way that I wanted to part ways, but I’ve known that this was coming for a while. The timing isn’t great, but I think the restrictions on where and how I can work on might help in the same ways as haikus.
: My personal notebook has died.
: Up late procrastinating because I’ve got to find some place to board me dog as the person who was going to take care of her can’t. She’s got papilloma. On top of that, I’m behind on my deadline.
: I’m posting from my iPad to see how I feel about this.
: A Day in the Life At a local tea shop while I wait to dry my daughter to her next social event after school here in Sacramento, CA at 3:01 PM.
: Went for a walk today. It’s interesting to see how dry things are.
: This is part of the reason that I’m hesitant about moving my notes into Obsidian. In the time that I wasn’t using the app, it had unloaded my settings.
: Well, it looks like SNL will have enough material for this week.
: Is this the biggest gap between the release of iOS and macOS?
: The phone service hasn’t been working on my cellular phone for the last couple of days. Luckily, the internet is provide by another company so I’m able to connect like this. Hopefully no family emergencies in the meantime.
: So, I ran out of space in dropbox. I don’t remember if there was an email about a policy change and to be honest it probably got lost in junk mail or in the tons of other emails that I get on a regular basis.
: Planning the story for NaNoWriMo this year.
: This toy isn’t going to see morning.
: She has the whole house to sit in.
: I just don’t know anymore…
: Took this picture last night in my apartment complex. A lot of light pollution, but I feel that there is something there.
: I’ve been posting to my test blog by accident for the last month. 🤦🏾♂️
: Mandaris On Monday A short one on Monday.
: Mandaris On Monday A short podcast episode with no agenda.
: My rent is going up $285. Feeling down.
: A Mini Podcasts I’m just going to release this without any fanfare Topics: planning for the afternoon giving a speech Andor She-Hulk
: Putting together a new morning routine. This is the second day that I’ve used it.
: The robot apocalypse will be caused by a parsing error.
: Started today with some yoga. I have been having some problems with my legs for the last couple of days and it has really helped.
: The more they change the more they stay the same. Happy new OS day!
: The heat is affecting everyone.
: 💪🏾Push-up challenge!!! Day 31! The Last Day!!! @ronguest @jemostrom @gr36 @Gaby @Mandalorian @odd
: Ace of spades isn’t a song that you should play when giving a driving lesson.
: Do what you need to do in order to be the best you.
: 💪🏾Push-up challenge!!! Day 26! The last Friday of this challenge!! @ronguest @jemostrom @gr36 @Gaby @Mandalorian @odd
: 💪🏾Push-up challenge!!! Day 25! You can do this! @ronguest @jemostrom @gr36 @Gaby @Mandalorian @odd
: The air conditioning unit broke today.
: Weird weather here in sunny California
: 💪🏾Push-up challenge!!! Day 17! You can do this! @ronguest @jemostrom @gr36 @Gaby @Mandalorian @odd
: 💪🏾Push-up challenge!!! Day 15! It’s time to muscle up for Monday! @ronguest @jemostrom @gr36 @Gaby @Mandalorian @odd
: 💪🏾Push-up challenge!!! Day 14!! It’s Sunday! Time to push it into gear! @ronguest @jemostrom @gr36 @Gaby @Mandalorian @odd
: 💪🏾Push-up challenge!!! Day 12!! It’s Friday! Let me know if you want me to stop prompting you about the push-ups over the weekend. @ronguest @jemostrom @gr36 @Gaby @Mandalorian @odd
: My Mac was created in 2015 and isn’t slated to run the upcoming operating system, Ventura. Honestly, I don’t know if I’m going to experience a lot of FOMO over this.
: 💪🏾Push-up challenge!!! Day 11!! Can you push yourself to 11? @ronguest @jemostrom @gr36 @Gaby @Mandalorian @odd
: It might be time to clean the office area.
: 💪🏾Push-up challenge!!! Day 10!! Day 10 and 10 Pushups! @ronguest @jemostrom @gr36 @Gaby @Mandalorian @odd
: 💪🏾Push-up challenge!!! Day 9! Sorry for being late with the post. I hope that you all managed to get your reps in! @ronguest @jemostrom @gr36 @Gaby @Mandalorian @odd
: 💪🏾Push-up challenge!!! Day 8!! Day 7 I was at the beach without reception. Today is a great day to start up again. Do what you can and enjoy the feeling of your body getting stronger! @ronguest @jemostrom @gr36 @Gaby @Mandalorian @odd
: 💪🏾Push-up challenge!!! Day 6!! After this it’s time to clean up the house. @ronguest @jemostrom @gr36 @Gaby @Mandalorian @odd
: 💪🏾Push-up challenge!!! Day 5 Alive!! This one was super hard for me to finish. @ronguest @jemostrom @gr36 @Gaby @Mandalorian @odd
: Beautiful things in this world.
: 💪🏾Push-up challenge!!! Day 4! Let me know if you want me to ping you everyday like this. @ronguest @jemostrom @gr36 @Gaby @Mandalorian @odd
: 💪🏾Push-up challenge!!! Day 3! A little late in my day but never too late! How it going @ronguest @jemostrom @gr36 @Gaby @Mandalorian?
: Hey! There’s something I knew but haven’t started to implement as much as I need to. If someone likes something I don’t, I DO NOT NEED TO SAY ANYTHING! Not every point needs a counter point. There doesn’t have to be a winner on whether pancakes are better than waffles!
: 💪🏾Push-up challenge!!! Day 2! How are you doing? @ronguest @jemostrom @gr36 @Gaby ?
: 💪🏾Push-up challenge!!! 10+ pushups everyday for the rest of the month. Who’s with me?
: Dear world, Taking full screenshots and then pasting them into ms word to send to me is not helping. Thank you for trying.
: Accessible Social Welcome to Accessible Social, a free resource hub for digital marketers, communication professionals, content creators, and everyday social media users.
: If you’d like me to sign your pgp key, send me a message.
: Time to give the dog a bath!
: Sometimes I just like looking at the trees at my apartment complex.
: Playing with Ulysses Tables This is just a simple test of publishing with the latest version of Ulysses. Some small header. ❯ hugo -D Start building sites … hugo v0.94.2+extended darwin/amd64 BuildDate=unknown WARN 2022/07/05 18:19:20 found no layout file for "HTML" for kind "page": You should create a template file which matches Hugo Layouts Lookup Rules for this combination. This is an image. Foods Food Time Mass Burgers Dinner Massive Pancakes Any Lots Boogers Kindergarten N/A
: I told my wife that I was grateful to have her in my life.
: Definitely a lot of work no going in the journal.
: I’m angry and frustrated. I don’t understand how these people can live like this.
: I announced #JustDoItJune and got sick with Covid. Now I’m shooting for #JustManageJune and it feels like every day. Still counting it as a win.
: The only good thing about Covid is that it’s counting all the times I walk around as exercise. Which it certainly feels like.
: Starting to feel normal after contracting Covid. In my sickness, I installed the iOS beta.
: Wrapping up for the night and I’m actually at peace with a lot of different things. How can I feel like this more?
: Sometimes you hit it on the dot, Siri.
: I don’t know if I’m hungry, thirsty, or just stressed. But I just want to keep eating.
: Seriously, do not send me a text about an email with no further details about said email. You are part of the problem!
: I’m challenging myself to #JustDoItJune and in that spirit, I’m starting today.
: After having my tooth extracted, this is how I eat a banana 🍌.
: I missed a couple days of the photo challenge because I got busy and sick over the weekend. I’m hoping that I feel better today and use the rest of May to finish making a theme for micro.blog and prep for WWDC. Someone please remind me not to install the beta.
: May 2022 Photo Challenge Day 13 prompt: community This is a track meet.
: Someone is giving away a tv. I might take it to e waste.
: Oatmeal with different sides and strawberries for lunch.
: May 2022 Photo Challenge Day 12 prompt: tranquility
: May 2022 Photo Challenge Day 11 prompt: maroon Second time getting this under the buzzer
: Teaser for the new season of Westworld! I didn’t know that I was going to be so excited about this.
: May 2022 Photo Challenge Day 10 prompt: pot
: May 2022 Photo Challenge Day 9 prompt: bloom
: May 2022 Photo Challenge Day 8 prompt: union
: My wife says that I haven’t put any effort in. I don’t feel that way. I understand that I have missed some clues as to what she wants but I don’t… Maybe that’s what it is. It’s what “I” think and feel. How are we on such different pages?
: May 2022 Photo Challenge Day 7 prompt: park
: May 2022 Photo Challenge Day 6 prompt: silhouette
: May 2022 Photo Challenge Day 5 prompt: earth I guess we’re back to normal since the pandemic is over. We can get back to destroying the earth 🌍
: May 2022 Photo Challenge Day 4 prompt: thorny If I don’t deal with this, life will get thorny.
: The clipping on this is not only bad taste but a bad sign of what might come.
: May 2022 Photo Challenge Day 3 prompt: experimental
: May 2022 Photo Challenge Day 2 prompt: photo
: May 2022 Photo Challenge Day 1 prompt: switch!
: Seriously? How did this pass QA?
: Oh! I never knew it made such a difference!
: I want to know myself so that I can appreciate more of who I am without hubris and improve in a healthy way.
: My dog taking a walk in the rain.
: Lillie taking a afternoon nap.
: Poop hit the fan at work and everywhere else for me. I’m turning of social media until Sunday. I’ll miss ya.
: Turns out I was sending some of my posts to my test account.
: As an example of our brains working against us, I just had a thought cross my mind. Is it too late for me to be awesome? Why would I think that? What is the definition of “awesome” that I’m debating on? To all of you, go out and be awesome!
: I wish Apple had continued working with enhancements to books. Apple has a lot of good ideas that seem to get a little bit of traction and then stagnate. Sure, not as bad as what google does with some projects, which is to kill them even when there are no alternatives.
: Lillie playing with a frisbee.
: So my dad called me asking if I had a Facebook account. He needed one to access the stream of his cousin’s funeral. It just feels so, so very bizarre that this is how we live and die.
: Top 10 Hugo Themes for 2022 - CloudCannon Found this on Reddit and thought some of you might be interested in making this work for micro.blog.
: Obsolete body parts While his two-implant system is still working, he doesn’t know how long that will be the case. “As long as nothing goes wrong, I’m fine,” he says. “But if something does go wrong with it, well, I’m screwed. Because there’s no way of getting it fixed.” -Their Bionic Eyes Are Now Obsolete and Unsupported - IEEE Spectrum I never thought about something like this happening. I’m more familiar with the distopian fantasy featured in Repo!
: I’ve been wondering… since the changes in 1password have happened how many people are leaving. I’m looking at my budget and wondering what things would make consider leaving. For example, I have netflix and they are going to be raising the price for me from $13 to $15.
: I might have bought too much flour.
: Should I work on a new theme? I’ve been thinking about this for a little bit of time after putting some effort into the Pure theme. Pure is a very nice theme that makes it very hard to read to content and using HTML5 semantics. I really think that most people will be happy with it. But I’m not most people. I like working on projects and tweaking a personal web design is one of those projects that don’t really have an “end”.
: A lot is going on in the world. Here is a picture of my dog blending into her natural environment.
: A small defense of Apple Arcade I was recently listening to episode 49 of the Hemispheric Views podcast and they had a brief segment on the gaming and I responded in the discord associated with the podcast, but wanted to add it to the blog for perpetuity. Well… in a short defense of Apple Arcade, it has helped me with a small game addiction that I was having with a game called Empires and Puzzles. Empires and Puzzles is one of those free to play games with tons of little things that would make things soooo much better… but you have to pay for it.
: Just spent more time trying to come up with my next project than actually working on it. What is the name? Still haven’t come up with it.
: I recorded a podcast on my laptop and the audio quality was very bad. I don’t want to share it even though it’s only 4-5 minutes long. There’s a lot of feed back. I think I’ll still count it as a success that recorded it. I’ll have to look up some tutorials and try again soon.
: Due is Helping This was originally two messages that I put in discord, but I thought I’d put it on my blog for others to see. I’ve been using the app “Due” to help me track things like medications for me and my dog as well as a wind down for work. The issue is that I’ve got 7 reminders for the day. Is there a way to sort these into folders? Should I put the effort into that because as I type it, it feels a little petty and sort of like pushing food around on a plate.
: Podcast Episode The Second Thanks to everyone who listened in. I’m still putting things together and I’m looking forward to the next episode.
: First In A New Podcasts Habit The first step is always the hardest. I thought I would start with something small and see where it goes. I’m hoping to make at least 20 of these before the end of the year.
: Today, I got to inbox zero with my personal mail. It felt great to get it all sorted out. We have a ton of email in Family Mailbox but nothing in there needs my attention.
: Lillie taking a nap on the bed
: Hiding in her natural habitat… blankets.
: Found out that I was posting to my test blog for the last couple weeks as I was working on changes to the theme.
: A Podcast Announcement Going to get back into making podcasts and other kinds of media.
: Just found out that a friend of mine has died from Multiple Sclerosis. He’d been diagnosed for more than a decade. We knew that the end was near, but it’s still sad. He was part of the reason that I love mac. Thank you for being in my life, Nat.
: How was your first day at work @ChrisHannah?
: I’m debating on getting BBEdit or upgrading my license of Sublime Text. Am I putting money towards an identy that no longer defines who I am? Should I just “settle” for VS Code?
: Giving Lillie her first bath of the Year I gave Lillie her first bath of the new year. Your browser does not support the video tag.
: Trying to determine if something goes into notes or a dairy.
: Making bacon for the morning.
: The Matrix Resurrections is meh Let me say this and there will be spoilers I really, really liked the Matrix when if first came out. It was revolutionary in the effects and probably the first piece of media that ever outside of my high school required reading that asked me to question reality. Although, I remember walking over to a local theater and watching it without knowing what it was about. I think I might have thought it was going to be a clone of Dark City.
: Love and kindness to all this Christmas season!
: There goes a 167 day streak.
: This is how we spend our Halloween. Just chilling.
: I took Lillie to the vet yesterday.
: The best thing about the new OS was that I installed in on the family’s home computer and now one noticed.
: Found this in my daughter’s art work.
: I deleted twitter off my phone today. I didn’t delete my account, but I thought I would remove the temptation of checking out what is going on over there.
: With all the R. Kelly stuff coming to light, I’m finding some joy in listening to some songs by Aliyah.
: I finished a half marathon I recently ran a half-marathon. I thought I’d include the little video that they took off me limping across the finish line. Your browser does not support the video tag
: 6 Ways to Participate in World Mental Health Day - The Secret Ingredient World Mental Health Day takes place every year on October 10th. It was established by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1992 to raise awareness and mobilize efforts to address mental health issues around the world.
: An Interactive Introduction to Zettelkasten I came across this page in a newsletter that I read. It’s a pretty cool introduction to Zettelkasten. Zettelkasten is a note taking process and a personal knowledge management system rolled into one. It is spreading like wildfire in tech and academic circles. I promise it will supercharge your learning process. — An Interactive Introduction to Zettelkasten
: I took a little break from social media and apparently Facebook did too. I hope people started to see the problems with the service. Like one of the episodes of the animatrix.
: Always loving a good sweat! fitness.apple.com
: Micro.blog photoblogging challenge, Day 1 We didn’t get a touch down.
: I’m really hoping that Apple announces new laptops in the next week or so. I want to get something good for the kids.
: Waiting on Teenagers My oldest is doing her first high school activity. She’s going to be hanging out with some other kids to work on a float for homecoming. Something that I’m not a fan of not only because of the pandemic but the fact that it’s really late on a school night… and then I think… I’m turning into my dad. Either way, I find myself wait at home until I get that call that it’s time to go get her.
: Downstream - Relay FM Downstream is a new podcast about the future of streaming media. Tech and entertainment companies are vying for our attention and money, all to see who will become the media giants of the 21st century. J — Downstream - Relay FM Jason Snell, one of my favorite podcasters, has a new podcast out about media streaming. It’s something that I’ve grown more and more interested in as we have seen so many new services being introduced in just the last couple of years.
: Going to bed early tonight As soon as I said to myself that I was going on o bed early, a voice in my head said “No, your not”. Today wasn’t rough by any stretch of the imagination, but it promised to be one that I’ll look back on as a list of minor accomplishments in a hodgepodge of tasks that I have in front of me. In a way, that’s a good thing because it means that I’m employed and have a purpose in my life.
: There is room here in the shallows Long ago, I had wanted to be a writer. More specifically, a fantasy writer. Someone who could weave tales of far off places and people. I didn’t put the time in and despite a couple attempts at NaNoWriMo, I haven’t done a lot of writing that I would point to. I feel that I get caught up in the idea of what it means to write something meaningful. I am comparing my writing to others on micro.
: Spending sometime going over my list of tasks. Just using a pen and print out of my OmniFocus items.
: I hate my allergy medicine It makes me very, very drowsy. It becomes incredible hard to focus on anything for a prolonged period of time, a problem that I’ve been facing more and more of as the pandemic continues. I feel a lot of pressure to perform exceptionally well at my job because there is more and more discussion for everyone to go back into the office. I really want to make the case that I’m just as productive working at home as I am at the office.
: My family is having a guest over tonight and it’s the first time that we’ve allowed someone to come over since the pandemic started. This is also the first time that Lillie has seen someone in our home and she was not happy about it at all. She saw our guest and started barking and growling. I tried calming her down and then decided to take her for a walk. As soon as we stepped out the door she wanted to go back inside.
: waiting at the airport I’m waiting for my parents at the airport. I’ve been waiting for almost an hour even though the flight came in early. Apparently there is something going wrong with the luggage and now we’re all waiting for something to happen. After driving around the terminal for 10 minutes, I parked over in the free parking lot. It’s actually pretty nice except for the people driving around it like it was a freeway.
: What are you doing in my bed!? Sleeping. 🐶
: Jr High Dungeons and Dragons My youngest daughter joined a Dungeons and Dragons at her high school and was really excited about the possibilities. She’s been having a couple problems connecting with people so my wife and I are just as excited for her. We even went out and helped her pick out her first set of dice. Then the big day comes around… And she comes home frustrated! The entire play session was wasted because they had not one but two dungeon masters.
: When I’m stressed, I get mean to myself. Little unnecessary comments. Where did I learn this and how do I turn it off.
: I’ve been invited to be part of my friend’s new DnD campaign. It’s using DnD rules but part of a world that he’s spent years coming up with. I’ve played a couple times in the past but this is my first time where I’m actually concerned about learning more of the lore. It’s also a little nerve wracking as I don’t know if the other players have to same knowledge of the game that I do.
: Making dinner! Close up of the dishes
: Hey, there are about 100 days left in the year. Does anyone have any challenges that they would like to tackle?
: I’m wearing my watch on my right arm because I found that wearing it on my left discouraged me to measure my blood pressure. I’m getting older and heavier.
: My wife has been telling for weeks that there were going to be shortages on certain kinds of food. Not in the post-apocalyptic kind of shortage where we’d have to think about eating someone sort of shortage. But more of a we’d need to not be wasteful because there isn’t a much of this as we’re used to kind of shortage. It just made me think about how much food that we waste, not just me and my family, but society in general.
: Hey @maique! Here is a picture of one of the sandwiches. I think I spend too much time rolling the meat in the sandwich in an attempt to get some texture.
: Someone keeps knocking the stuffing out of her bed.
: It’s the little things in life that really, really irate me when it comes to Apple’s software. All I wanted to do was read the MacStories iOS and iPad review on my iPad and it feels like I’m being punished in some ways. Now the problem is that I have the file on my Mac, but there is no indication of how much of it has been loaded to the server or when I can expected it to be completed so that I can read it on my iPad.
: There are soooo many text editors to choose from these days. If there was ever a time that you wanted to explore different ways to write text on a Mac, this would be that time. I’m currently bouncing between a few as I work through my goal of writing 100 words a day1. I’m planning on writing more about this after the month is over, but I will say that it’s been kind of fun to see what they all have to offer.
: It was a pretty full day, I woke up later than I usually do and looks sometime making coffee. My daughter had a soccer match and it felt good to be able to see it without worring about smoke and heat. I also attempted to watch Dune tonight, but I didn’t get much further than 16 minutes before everyone else left the room and I turned the movie off. I also spent the evening with my wife watching the movie “We Broke up”.
: the day after the tears Yesterday was pretty chaotic. It feels like today went to an opposite extreme. Just feeling lethargic and the dread that I’m going to mess up. I started to think about what my daughter said about wanting more control of her life. With the pandemic, I don’t know if there is anyone who feels in control. We decided that we’ll go for more bike rides and I came up with a plan to start the day with writing in the more what kind of self care we are going to do.
: Being a parent is so, so very hard to do. Not only are you supposed to be responsible for yourself as an adult but you have a responsibility to someone else. Someone who didn’t choose to have you as a parent. I think that’s been one of the hardest things about this pandemic. We’re stuck with the same group of people day in and day out and I feel like I’m not doing enough.
: Something about this fire hydrant
: Being drunk means never having to say your sorry About two days ago, I had a friend start shouting some stuff in a group chat that a few of my friends were in. Nothing wrong with that by itself, it’s a private chat that we use our personal devices to connect with. The problem is that some of the stuff was just 100% not cool and we could all tell that he’d been drinking that night. I didn’t make a big deal about it but thought I’d text him the next day privately to ask him if everything was alright.
: The Apple events are usually fun for me. I usually put it on my calendar and watch them live either by myself or with a friend. This year, I went over to a friend’s1 home and we watched it live as they announced all the different products. And… And I think Brianna Wu has summed it up better than I can. The tech analyst in me is not very impressed with #appleevent.
: Wow @jayeless! I was working theming the default marfa theme using the color scheme from nord and just playing with the idea of making it it’s own seperate plugin, but what you have done is absolutely beautiful.
: Went into the office today. I went into the office today to have a little bit of a change of pace as my productivity at home has kind of wound down in the last couple of weeks. I had forgotten how much of a hassle it can be. First, I had to pack up my laptop. And even though I didn’t need to pack all the dongles because I have a docking station at work, I still need to unplug my current home set as I don’t have one here.
: It’s been a pretty long weekend. My wife was telling me that we hadn’t had this many activities in a weekend since the pandemic had started. We were out of the house almost all of Saturday because of my daughter’s volleyball tournament followed by a birthday party at the skating ring. Sunday was filled with a trip to the farmer’s market, seeing my parents, going to another birthday party and then a volleyball clinic.
: Well, I’m up in Chico, Ca this morning to take my daughter to a volleyball tournament. She’s really passionate about it or maybe it’s because her friends are also doing it. Either way, it makes her smile. For me, coming to Chico causes other emotions because I went here for college. Do I walk around campus! Or do I go to a couple of my old favorite restaurants to see if the food is still as good as I remember?
: Smart Glasses by Facebook and Ray-Ban Mix Cool With Creepy Ray-Ban’s Stories look like classic sunglasses. Except they’re made in partnership with Facebook and have built-in cameras that are hard to spot. I really liked the video that is included in the article. Joanna Stern is a master of the craft and really like a well crafted article. As for the glasses, I remember that there were a couple articles about people getting into fights after people found out that they were being recorded.
: I woke up before my alarm this morning and actually sat up and did some meditation. The day before I had thought about what I was going to do for a morning routine but haven’t committed to writing anything down on paper. I know that my life is better if I have some kind of start up where I give myself time to do all of these things. But what are all the things I should do?
: In my Toastmaster’s club we recently talked about what things you should have ready incase of an emergency where you need to leave your home. Something that seems to be more and more common. For example, I live in California and we’ve had a major fire for the last 3+ years and I don’t think we’re going to be seeing many koalas in the wild. Not to meantion all the places effected by climate change.
: Meeting invites using the default tools from apple is kind of messy.
: For close to 48 hours, my home has been without air conditioning. I’m very, very thankful as today will hit 106° F (41° C) with a 67 AQI and that is not air that anyone should be breathing. Luckily, it was a very easy fix for the repairman and they were in and out of my home fairly quickly. I’m not too happy with the fact that they person didn’t put a mask on.
: Last night, the air conditioner stopped working. This made for a very long and very hot night. Unfortunately, this causes me an enormous amount of stress due to the fact that I’m renting and the lease is set to renew in October. With the housing and rental costs going up to unheard of levels, I don’t really want to make waves. What if this is going to be a huge repair?
: I joke woke up from a nightmare this morning. I dreamed that might wife had left her job which I am 100% ready for but that we went to Disneyland to celebrate it. As we were at the park it got dark and we were in line at a counter that looked more like a Chucky Cheese counter, we got some gum that was shaped like the Millinium Falcon. As I ate the gum, I got dizzy and then I lost my family in the crowd.
: I went to go walk our dog, Lillie for the second time in just as many hours. On the way to little dog park, I saw the basket ball hoop come down. When I got there, I saw that one of the kids that lives in the area had taken it down to try and fix the net. At first, i didn’t want to get involved. A kid outside after 8 o’clock.
: I can’t be the only one who likes “Off the wall” more than “Thriller”.
: As some of you may know, I live in an apartment complex. One of the perks is that it has a little gym on the premises. It’s something that they put on the brochure to attract new tenants and justification to raise the rent. I do enjoy the convenience of it and it is a pretty good size room, but you do get a feeling that it’s mostly a check box for management and not something they see as an ongoing project.
: GoDaddy is cutting off Texas Right to Life’s abortion ‘whistleblowing’ website - The Verge I might have to rethink my opinion of GoDaddy.
: We’re very fortunate to be able to get our children cellphones at a reasonable price thanks to hand-me-downs and Mint Mobile. It’s definitely not a necessity, but has made things a lot smoother when it comes to communicating with the kids about their various after school activities. Although the youngest hasn’t always followed through on making sure that her phone is on the charger every night as part of our agreed bed time routine.
: We’re very fortunate to be able to get our children cellphones at a reasonable price thanks to hand-me-downs and Mint Mobile. It’s definitely not a necessity, but has made things a lot smoother when it comes to communicating with the kids about their various after school activities. Although the youngest hasn’t always followed through on making sure that her phone is on the charger every night as part of our agreed bed time routine.
: In my home, I’m the one who wakes up and makes sure that everyone is able to get to where they need to be that day. In a lot of ways, I help set the tone for how the morning is going to go. I hear the alarm and then stumble out of bed and go down stairs to make lunches and coffee for everyone else and then wonder why it took me 20 minutes to make two sandwiches1.
: Lillie's Friend Our dog, Lillie, has gotten a friend. It’s the cat next door. She comes running to the door to see her when I open the verticle blinds and stare at her. After a while Lillie will come and paw at me to let her outside to play with the cat. The thing is the cat only likes my dog for a little bit of time and will play with her for 3 minutes before laying down and ignoring her.
: This is a small test to see if the micro.blog mac app allows for post using hugo shortcodes. I forced a bot to watch over 1,000 hours of Batman movies and then asked it to write a Batman movie of its own. Here is the first page. pic.twitter.com/xrgvgAyv1L — Keaton Patti (@KeatonPatti) August 13, 2019
: I’m thinking about challenging myself to write 100 words every day on micro.blog for the month of September. But there are already a lot of challenges in my life, so I don’t know if this would be more therapeutic than other choices that I’ve made.
: I came across this today. how-i-experience-web-today.com
: If on micro.blog is using this app. pushup.page.link I made it all the way to 20 push-ups. The trick is that my phone is right in front of me and I don’t want to fall on it.
: I bought a chemex and Audio hijack… Did I catch the podcasting bug?
: She likes to look down on the peasantry.
: I want to start writing more. The first thing that comes to mind is the fact that I don’t have as much to write about.
: I turned off cross posting (again).
: This spider only bites the cleanest hands.
: I feel like I’m fighting all my tools today.
: Now she’s taking her toys with her to what used to be my bed.
: Made some pork chops ! The results of the grill.
: It hurts sooo much in a good way!
: In a rare moment in my life, I find myself tripple booked.
: The only thing that I agree with Led Tasso about.
: Led Tasso breaks my heart. 😭
: So, my co-host for my very short lived podcast has dropped out. Does anyone one want to do a short run podcast of Schmigadoon?
: Michael Jackson’s original Thriller demo. The words are completely different. Wild. It was hard for me to listen to because it’s so close and yet very different to what I’m expecting.
: Three telemarketing calls in the last 20 minutes. I don’t know why this continues.
: A little bit before work starts.
: I don’t believe it! But it feels incredibly good!
: Songs of Schmigadoon S01E01 This is the pilot episode of a podcast covering the Apple TV+ show “Schmigadoon”.
: One of those days where the move ring doesn’t want to work with me.
: I have to put my swift programming dream on hold (again). I’ve got to focus on a different tech stack for work.
: I love Ted Lasso but this last episode was awkward to watch with the kids.
: I sent an email to all the toastmaster clubs that are part of my local area and I only heard back from one club. This could be why there wasn’t any volunteers to be area director this year. It’s hard enough to keep one club going, let alone connecting to a larger organization.
: Things change with time. That is something that is abuntantly clear to me. I’m not the person I was yesterday and I will not be the same person a year from now. The only thing I have complete control over is how in the moment I am and how I look to the next.
: This tool tells you if NSO’s Pegasus spyware targeted your phone – TechCrunch Over the weekend, an international consortium of news outlets reported that several authoritarian governments — including Mexico, Morocco and the United Arab Emirates — used spyware developed by NSO Group to hack into the phones of thousands of their most vocal critics, including journalists, activists, politicians and business executives.
: Time to get the weights out. I bought these in high school and have probably used them 40 times since then.
: I just had this thought… Am I the Ted Lasso of my loved ones? If that’s a question, then how do I go about being a better person?
: 🖥 Swift macOS There are plenty of books, videos, and online resources for developing iOS apps. Despite the fact that iPhone and iPad apps require a Mac for code development, there is little information about actually creating native Mac applications. The examples provided below demonstrate various aspects of Mac app development using the latest versions of Swift and SwiftUI. Hopefully these examples will provide a useful resource for Mac developers. The code repository for this website is located on GitHub at wigging/swift-macos.
: I’ve realized that I’ve over committed myself to other people.
: Playing poker with my daughter. It’s a win-win.
: The fence at the new “dog park”
: The new beta of iOS 15 introduced tags. I think this is great because I use notes to share information with my family. They don’t want to use a third party app but I’d like to have my flexibility.
: Went for a run and it didn’t record the distance.
: As I was running this morning, there were a couple times that I stopped. I would forward and say “how about I just run to that garbage can?”. Life is like that find your own little garbage cans along the way.
: I just need this to get to 13.1.
: Picture that my daughter drew
: I went into the office and realized that I lol probably never use this again.
: Dead Startup Toys Behold these beautiful mutants, hoisted on petards of their own solid-aluminum-unibody construction. We salute these voyagers, flown too close to the blood-red suns of their own fever dreams, on wings made of oh-so-flammable dollar bills, whose inexplicably sincere hopes became our most surreal entertainment... — Dead Startup Toys Came across this site on twitter. It stuff like this that keeps me entertained.
: It’s hard sometimes, but I think it’s worth it.
: Swift Concurrency by Example - free quick start tutorials for Swift developers Swift Concurrency by Example walks you through the many and varied ways of running concurrent code in Swift, including async/await, tasks, actors, and more. — Swift Concurrency by Example - free quick start tutorials for Swift developers
: I have 12 more weeks before the half marathon that I signed up for is supposed to happen. Hopefully, I don’t hurt myself #fitness
: I’m really enjoying how my homepage on micro.blog.
: I’m really enjoying Song Pop Party.
: I just spent half an hour working with Hazel so that I can sort the files that I download. Tomorrow, I’ll go over it again with my SO so that we can both be on the same page.
: Goals for being an officer in Toastmasters I wrote the following email and sent it to my fellow officers. I haven’t heard back but it’s only been a day and we’re all getting back from the holiday. Hello, I’m sending this to all of this year’s officers. I want to get it in writing what your goal is for yourself as an officer and to have open and honest communication with the people that I share the responsibility of leadership of this club with.
: I think this might be my favorite feature of iOS.
: Nitro + PDFpen: Extending PDF Productivity to Mac, iPad and iPhone Another company has been acquired. Today, I’m excited to announce Nitro’s acquisition of PDFpen, the much-loved suite of PDF productivity apps for Mac, iPad and iPhone developed by Smile, Inc. — Nitro + PDFpen: Extending PDF Productivity to Mac, iPad and iPhone
: It’s cool to look back on this stuff.
: First perfect month of Fitness+
: I turned off all of my mail rules to see how much mail I was getting. Turns out it’s a lot.
: My family says this is the only thing that I can watch today. fitness.apple.com
: I’m going to be the President of my Toast Master’s club. This is either going to be fun or kind of suck.
: I’ve been doing yoga this week and just realized that I’m making a habit of working out in the morning.
: I set up cross posting again to see if bridgy works.
: I keep going back and forth on whether I should cross post my content on Twitter. On one hand, I do have some contacts are only on the service and it has given me years of free entertainment. The other, it has a lot of people and opinions that I most certainly don’t agree with
: Messing around with clips again
: Meanwhile, someone forgot to take a water bottle out of the freezer.
: Looks like someone is giving up drinking.
: I changed my site to use the Nord Theme.
: My daughter said she doesn’t like science and I felt that I had failed.
: The Safari beta was available for a little bit for Big Sur, but the images didn’t open up. They has since removed it as a download.
: I woke up this morning almost swearing that I could smell the heat of a 109 degree day.
: JuneteenthConf - Celebrates Black Excellence in technology One of my friends is going to be speaking here!
: Lillie doesn’t like to walk.
: I tried… I was going through the Async/Await and concurrency videos. I feel dejected. I’m not ready yet. I feel like kicking myself for not starting sooner. breathe Start again.
: The mew OS knows what breed Lillie is.
: Day One acquired by Automattic Today, I’m thrilled to announce that Day One is being acquired by Automattic Inc. This is incredibly exciting news. For the past 10 years since I started Day One, I’ve worked to not only create the best digital journaling experience in the world, but one that will last. By joining Automattic, I’m now more confident than ever that the preservation and longevity of Day One is sure. This acquisition will provide Day One access to the same technological, financial, and security benefits that WordPress.
: She’s tired from the periods between her naps.
: Going to start up my swift development again.
: Now that the pandemic is over, we can go back to not washing our hands. #MorePeopleThinkThisThanTheyShould
: I’m upping my exercise goal to 20 minutes a day.
: I found myself chastising myself for looking at the “what’s new in swift" video because I’m not an expert in what is “old" in swift. This is negative talk that doesn’t get me to where I want to be. I’m working towards making myself better and it starts with stuff like this.
: My RSS feeds are filled with things from WWDC. I kind of wish more of this was in the presentations instead of finding out from the grapevine.
: My daughter asked me about async/await and now I’ve got homework. #WWDC
: That sound during the multitasking section was horrible!
: I was really excited by WWDC, but the highlight of today is that my daughter was asking me for advice on productivity.
: Sharing from Runkeeper I just ran my 3rd longest run with Runkeeper! runkeeper.com/cardio/6f…
: Not feeling 💯 because of my second covid shot, but I think I can finish my rings before the end of the day.
: First day with Apple Watch. I’ll post what my rings are at the end of the month.
: A fresh new Firefox is here I thought it was important to high light this section in the announcement of the new version of Firefox. Backed by Mozilla, the non-profit that puts people first Firefox was created by Mozilla as a faster, more private alternative to browsers like Internet Explorer, and now Chrome. Today, our mission-driven company and volunteer community continue to put your privacy above all else. Even as the internet grows and changes, Firefox continues to focus on your right to privacy — we call it the Personal Data Promise: Take less.
: I just got an Apple Watch and none of my friends do. I would like to challenge anyone else. Mandaris@me.com. I’m out of shape and have a goal of 10 minutes a day to start.
: My Apple Watch ⌚️ came in today. The family bought it for me as a gift 🎁. I’m excited 😆. The need part of me thinks “they should wait” but you can’t always postpone something just because something new will come out.
: She definitely has a presence about her.
: Speaking of WWDC, @manton & @jean is there going to be a WWDC badge or tag for next Monday?
: I’m taking next Monday off to watch WWDC. I usually watch it with my good nerd buddy friend and make a day out of it.
: Does anyone use Fastmail for contacts?
: And that’s part of the reason I’m not in a rush to see this movie. Why is this even a question? Some of this stuff I’m hearing just doesn’t make sense.
: This is non Lillie’s yoga mat.
: I jumped rope for 10 minutes and I feel so, so, so out of shape. I’m starting training for a half marathon in October.
: I put “Clean up personal notes" in my task management application yesterday. I opened up my notes app and I don’t even know know how to start anymore.
: Yesterday was pretty good in that I stayed on task and just kept the distractions to a minimum. I’m hoping to capture that same feeling today. I really enjoy writing things down which is ironic because I just got on the OmniFocus 4 beta.
: Mental Health Association San Francisco May is Mental Health Awareness Month1 and I wanted to spread the word a little bit more. I’m in California and wanted to let people know about some resources that you may not have heard about. The Warmline The Peer-Run Warm Line–which began operation in 2014–is a non-emergency resource for anyone in California seeking mental and emotional support. — Mental Health Association San Francisco Honestly, every month should be Mental Health Awareness Month, but we should probably focus on at least one month and promote it throughout the year.
: Giving [Alfred](www.alfredapp.com ”Alfred - Productivity App for macOS”) a try this week. I’ve got a license for [LaunchBar](obdev.at/products/… “LaunchBar - Meet the future of productivity”) but haven’t been using it.
: #Update# By me checking, I’m saying that I’m feeling excited and not entitled to it. It will come when it’s ready. #OmniFocus
: I keep checking my invitation for OmniFocus 4 from @omni.
: Manton Reece - Webmention and Twitter Micro.blog get’s better and better! This is all a long way of saying: when you post a link to your blog post on Twitter, tweet replies will be collected and included under your blog post on the web. — Manton Reece - Webmention and Twitter
: I made sure that my mastodon user name for micro.blog is set up. If you are interested it is @mandaris@mandarismoore.com.
: Hello @help Is there something that needs to be set for my domain so that I can use ActivityPub? I have the certificate. No rush.
: I’m connecting Twitter to my micro.blog account to reconnect with some of my friends.
: She keeps messing up the couch 🛋 cover.
: Hello @manton this is what I had in mind. I thought it was attached with my previous post.
: Hello @manton! Would it be possible to include an “Add Book” button for the individual shelves? I understand that the “Book Search" button is at the top, but it’s not really where my eyes go. This is just one person’s opinion.
: Hey @manton are you doing anything with FloC In the meantime, if you’re a website owner, you have to opt your website out of the origin trial. You can do this by sending a server header. A meta element won’t do the trick, I’m afraid. — Adactio: Journal—Get the FLoC out
: Sometimes you have to “back” to pen and paper. I shouldn’t say “back” because it’s not like I was making that much progress without it.
: I shaved and apparently the whole family thinks I’m a monster now.
: Finished reading: Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear 📚 I’ve got to go back and start re-reading this one. There are some habits I’d like to take up.
: First Look: OmniFocus 4 for iPhone and iPad - Learn OmniFocus First Look: OmniFocus 4 for iPhone and iPad - Learn OmniFocus I’ve had the good fortune of being one of the first people outside of Omni to put OmniFocus 4 for iPhone and iPad through its paces. Now that the embargo has been lifted, I’m excited to share a taste of OmniFocus’ exciting future. This future is built on modern Apple technologies that will help ensure a consistent user experience across all of the platforms that Omni supports.
: Just went through most of my passwords in [1Password](1password.com “The world’s most-loved password manager”) to get rid of the compromised passwords. I took a lot longer than I thought, but I’m hoping that clearing them out now and staying on top of it will be easier.
: A Monday In May (Belated) Just a short post as I get back to podcasting.
: Just because you haven’t heard anything new about the situation, doesn’t mean that it has gone away. gofund.me/54d462c0
: OmniFocus 4 First Look & Invitation to Help Test I’m always excited by something new! Today, we are excited to provide a first look at the update currently in development for iPad and iPhone, and invite you to share feedback with us via the OmniFocus 4 TestFlight! — OmniFocus 4 First Look & Invitation to Help Test - The Omni Group My only hesitation is that the last time they had a major version of OmniFocus, Apple changed the design language that they used and they had to start all over.
: That was nerve wrecking. #covid
: Feeling sick and now we’re having a little mommy-daddy discussion about how I might have gotten our children sick. I tell you the hits just keep coming.
: My dad came by and asked me to hold two pairs of shoes for him that don’t fit me, him, or anyone else in my family for a year and give them back to him. #what
: Mental Health Awareness Month 2021 Mental Health Awareness Month began in the United States in 1949 and was started by the Mental Health America (MHA) organization (then known as the National Association for Mental Health). Each year in mid-March Mental Health America releases a toolkit of materials to guide preparation for outreach activities during Mental Health Awareness Month. During the month of May, MHA, its affiliates, and other organizations interested in mental health conduct a number of activities which are based on a different theme each year.
: List Markers and String Styles - CSS-Tricks But what if we want to style the markers differently than the contents of the list items? That’s always been difficult at best. Now, thanks to the ::marker pseudo-element, it’s a whole lot easier. You don’t get the full range of CSS to apply to the markers, but there’s still a great deal that can be done.
: I’ve been thinking about it for a while and it definitely feels like base camp has moved from being something in high regard to “just another company”. Further cementing my thoughts that the only company that has your ideals is the one you create.
: Had a medical scare today. Not life threatening but it definitely doesn’t help my opinion of the health care here in America.
: Going through the old passwords It feels pretty good to have some of these passwords cleaned up.
: I’m not a paid subscriber to fantastical. So I now see this every time I open the app.
: I’m doing a review and I cleaned out all my emails. That felt weird until I realized that I had put everything that needed my attention into OmniFocus. I can’t focus on anything so I need something to track this stuff for me.
: Most exciting thing on my desk.
: This is the same image from the same app being sent to Sunlit. Sorry about this, I thought you knew about it and was just waiting to roll it out.
: This is what I see sometimes @manton This is from Apollo to Micro.blog
: Kind of how I’ve been feeling lately
: It’s interesting to see all the replies about the remote being sold separately. Given time, it might be the most memorable thing about the AppleTv announcement.
: SVG test post from MarsEdit This is another attempt at putting an svg in a post.
: I didn’t know that acorn allowed you to put svg into a text window.
: Anyway, I woke up before the alarm went off and spent the last half hour having fun on Micro.blog and working on my old blog that I swore I wouldn’t do anything with. 👨🏾💻
: Buying a House: Home Prices Soar in U.S. Market Where Demand Outpaces Supply - Bloomberg Demand is so fierce that almost half of U.S. homes are selling within a week of hitting the market, a record pace, according to Redfin. Annual price growth reached 17% in March, the highest in data going back to 2012. Urgency is amped up, with real estate agents commonly limiting bidding to a few days and then pitting buyers against each other. — Buying a House: Home Prices Soar in U.
: Google is making it easier to leave them. Thank you!
: On our way back from the vet
: I think that’s a good sign that Safari is second on the list.
: Lillie is literally chewing up the stairs.
: I’m thinking about doing a small run podcast about Falcon and Winter Soldier
: I wrote this in 2017 and it feels like it’s the same arguments.
: Thinking about creating a micro.blog just for Lillie
: She doesn’t listen sometimes.
: Automatic Affirmations It’s hard for me to keep myself on target sometimes and to look back at my accomplishments. This can be hard in a digital world because I have trouble reviewing what I’ve done in the past. For years, I’ve attempted to track tasks in OmniFocus1. I’ve looked at the completed perspective in OmniFocus. And I’ve messed around with a couple widgets on my homescreen, but it sometimes it gets a little fiddly and the recent Shortcut outage has made me want to put something like that on hold.
: Well, I’m at that point of being so out of shape that I’m tired from standing up to help my daughter make a cake. #TimeToChange
: I took today off. I’m going to just relax and play around with Xcode.
: My daughter made shrimp and polenta.
: Hey! @manton @help Did you know that hover is offering this as an option for connecting? I’m going to click the button (after saving my settings).
: I’ve decided that I am going to finish [100 days of SwiftUI](www.hackingwithswift.com/100/swift… “100 Days of SwiftUI – Hacking with Swift”) before June. I’m on day 32 and I’ve got 71 days to finish.
: She’s supposed to be helping me work.
: I don’t know why so many people are in a rush to get kids back into school without addressing the fact that not everyone is vaccinated and nothing was done about school shootings. There was one every week in the US during 2019.
: It’s raining outside so this is where she’s going to be for a while.
: My daughter took this picture.
: The first work day since [daylight savings](en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dayl… “Daylight saving time in the United States is the practice of setting the clock forward by one hour when there is longer daylight during day”) is hard.
: OK so I’m trying to get the dog up and she just does not want to move with me today.
: Taking care of the neighbors dog
: I want to write more. I also want what I write about to have some kind of substance. Maybe I’ll just add to the volume of things that I write and something good will come out of it. You have to give things an opportunity if you want them to grow.
: Getting into a habit is easy. Getting back into it is hard because I’ve made it a habit of not doing something that is hard for me. Like changing for the better and then beating myself up over it.
: Spent some time cleaning the floors this evening. It’s a never ending job, but it feels good to make some progress even if it’s a little bit.
: Wolfwalkers - Wikipedia I just finished watching “Wolfwalkers” on AppleTV+ with the family. Wolfwalkers follows the story of Robyn Goodfellowe, a young apprentice hunter who arrives in Ireland with her father during a time of superstition and magic to wipe out the last wolf pack. While exploring the forbidden lands outside the city walls, Robyn befriends a free-spirited girl, Mebh, a member of a mysterious tribe rumored to have the ability to turn into wolves by night.
: After cleaning shrimp 🍤, I can see why they cost a little bit extra. I also block out the thought of the hundreds of shrimp 🦐 I’ve eaten that weren’t.
: Lillie hanging out by the entertainment center
: This is how Lillie expresses her distaste for waking up.
: She’s supposed to be helping me!
: Today is the last day that of WandaVision. I even put up some shortcuts to avoid spoilers.
: Messing with Apple's built in Grapher Spent some time looking at the grapher application found on the Mac. I like the fact that I can just put an equation into it, but it’s frustrating in the fact that it looks like there hasn’t been any improvements in the usability of it for a while. I wonder if this is because the program is meant for “serious” math? The examples that it ships with is a whole bunch of things I haven’t seen since college.
: My daughter drew this over her lunch.
: Micro.blog February Photo Challenge 📷 Day 30: Privacy This is a private conversation.
: Micro.blog February Photo Challenge 📷 Day 29: Light With this, I can get more light on my 🧠
: Micro.blog February Photo Challenge 📷 Day 28: Up She’s looking up at a bird.
: We took Lillie to the vet today. The weird part is that I collected a stool sample this morning but didn’t know that it had to be less than two hours old so now I’ve got to get another sample. I never thought I’d have to put so much effort into collecting poop.🐶
: Micro.blog February Photo Challenge 📷 Day 26: Pompasetting Hers is a picture of Lillie all dressed up with nowhere to go.
: This is from Ulysses. I have to clean up the kitchen after making coffee.
: Micro.blog February Photo Challenge 📷 Day 26: Favourite This might be my favorite moment of the day. That and using both spellings of a word. English is not always a great language.
: I keep getting the day wrong on my photo challenges! 😫
: Micro.blog February Photo Challenge 📷 Day 25: Code Waiting for Xcode to load my preview.
: Micro.blog February Photo Challenge 📷 Day 24: Baby We were walking and then she just stopped and pouted like a big baby.
: Some months ago, I made a promise to myself that I would only work on 1 tech project at a time. Since then, I’ve been working through some tutorials create by Apple and Paul Hudson’s Hacking with Swift. I fell off of the wagon of programming daily, but I hope to restart today.
: Micro.blog February Photo Challenge 📷 Day 23: Bananas Going for the literal definition of bananas today.
: Micro.blog February Photo Challenge 📷 Day 22: Color She’s sleeping for a spell.
: Me: Hey Performance Testers, can you update the test environment this code is from several weeks old. PT: Oh, that’s weird. Me: So what have you been testing? PT: Testing?
: Micro.blog February Photo Challenge 📷 Day 21: Color Second attempt to post this. These don’t get a lot of use.
: Micro.blog February Photo Challenge 📷 Day 21: Color These should be the color of dust. Re-edited.
: Micro.blog February Photo Challenge 📷 Day 20: Weather Ready for any type of weather.
: Micro.blog February Photo Challenge 📷 Day 19: Alive She makes the home come alive.
: Micro.blog February Photo Challenge 📷 Day 18: Home This stuff is looking for a new home.
: 100 Days of SwiftUI - Day 34 (Part Deux) It’s been a while since I posted a score on one of the tests. I’m doing it this time because I’m pretty proud of myself for doing this section again. I really want to understand this part going forward.
: 100 Days of SwiftUI - Day 33 (Part Deux) Today felt much better when it comes to getting the material. I’m really glad that I decided to do it again, and wish that I had done it earlier in the day so that I can reflect on it more. Maybe I can sleep on it?
: Micro.blog February Photo Challenge 📷 Day 17: Still Most of the time that she stays still, she’s sleeping.
: 100 Days of SwiftUI – Day 32 – Hacking with Swift (Part Deux) It feels good to accomplish something like this. The first time I looked at the material, I felt I was just going through the motions. Maybe it was a little bit of burn out with changes at work. Today, I spent as much time just messing around with what I can do and I think that it’s a much more enjoyable experience.
: Micro.blog February Photo Challenge 📷 Day 16: Erudite I got to use these to find the meaning of the word.
: Testing from the share sheet cats fighting
: Micro.blog February Photo Challenge 📷 Day 15: Reflection Who is that handsome young man.
: 100 Days of SwiftUI – Restarting from day 32 – Hacking with Swift Sometimes life changes a little bit or something comes along and makes you rethink what you are doing. I was going through the last couple of days and I realized that this portion wasn’t sinking in as much as I would like. I could power through it, but I don’t want to. Animations are really cool and can make an application really pop. Also, this whole process is self directed. I don’t want to push something if I am not satisfied.
: Micro.blog February Photo Challenge 📷 Day 11: Conpassion It’s amazing how much more I learned from her.
: Are there any stout lovers following me? 🍺
: Micro.blog February Photo Challenge 📷 Day 13: Make I call it making breakfast but my partner says I’m making a mess.
: 100 Days of SwiftUI – Day 33 – Hacking with Swift I’m pretty happy that today’s lesson lands on a Friday. It will allow me to do more experimenting over the weekend! Today we’re going to be getting into more advanced animations, and it’s where you’ll start to get a deeper understanding of how animations work and how you can customize them to a remarkable degree. — 100 Days of SwiftUI – Day 33 – Hacking with Swift
: Micro.blog February Photo Challenge 📷 Day 12: Sporg This sporg might outlive is all.
: 100 Days of SwiftUI – Day 32 – Hacking with Swift Today is an introduction to animation and I’m really looking forward to it. Today we’ll be looking at easier animations, but tomorrow we’ll progress onto more difficult stuff – it’s a good idea to be aware of both, so you can tackle whatever problems come up in the future. — 100 Days of SwiftUI – Day 32 – Hacking with Swift Today’s post is going to be short because I’m going to be doing some experiments in swift with binding animation and the xcode-beta that I’m running has already crashed twice.
: Micro.blog February Photo Challenge 📷 Day 11: Machine Crank those widgets!
: Who are these people who like using 11 point font and why do you hate me?
: I’ve been using Big Sur for about a week and it took me until today to realize that I didn’t like the way the new mail looks and feels. Which probably means that I haven’t been checking my email for that week. 👨🏾💻
: 100 Days of SwiftUI – Day 31 – Hacking with Swift The apps continue to show more and more of what I can do in Swift and I’m really enjoying the feeling of getting through the challenges. Obviously I want to get you towards SwiftUI greatness as fast and effectively as possible, but that takes a lot of consistency from you. To be fair, it is already day 31 and you keep coming back, so you’re fulfilling your part of the deal – well done!
: Micro.blog February Photo Challenge 📷 Day 10: Energy I wonder how many people are going to use pictures of ☕️ or tea for today’s challenge.
: 100 Days of SwiftUI – Day 30 – Hacking with Swift For today’s activity, I started it in the afternoon after a long day. I spent too much time looking up keyboard short cuts to get the Xcode preview to start (command+option+p). Here are some good links. Git Tower Xcode cheat sheet PDF Swift Education PDF Mobidev talk Website and Videos Better Programming (Medium site) After I got that out of my system, I was able to start focusing on the task at hand.
: Micro.blog February Photo Challenge 📷 Day 9: Muddy The sprinkler system at my apartment complex does quite work.
: I’ve been attempting to do 100 push-ups a day for this month. I break it into sets of 10 and do it on the hour. If I miss a set, I got to make it up on the next hour. Carrot and stick approach.
: Beautiful article via The Loop to the site called cake. www.cake.co Certainly interesting to hear another take on Steve Jobs.
: 100 Days of SwiftUI – Day 29 – Hacking with Swift A lot of people have mixed feelings about Monday’s. For me, I look at them with gratitude that I’m still employed. After this last weekend, I’m just happy that I don’t have to think about that disaster called a super bowl and can get back to “Hacking with Swift”! Imagine my surprise to see this as the first line of today’s activity! It’s time for another new project, and this is actually the last easy project we have on this course – after this the difficulty level ramps up a little as we tackle bigger apps, so enjoy this while it lasts!
: Micro.blog February Photo Challenge 📷 Day 8: Hope I hope that I can open this one day.
: It’s the little things that make me wonder about the new version of the OS.
: Micro.blog February Photo Challenge 📷 Day 7: Craving I was craving this and forgot to take the picture before eating it.
: 100 Days of SwiftUI – Day 28 – Hacking with Swift I’m pretty happy that this review day landed on a Sunday. It lets me go over my previous posts and to enjoy the Superb Owl. That’s where I want you to reach with SwiftUI – to know that when you have a new project idea you can reach for part of project 1, part of project 3, part of project 4, and beyond, and already be 75% towards your goal. You’ll get there – just keep coming back each day!
: 100 Days of SwiftUI – Day 27 – Hacking with Swift I’ve decided to change the default title for these posts to reflect what resource that I’m working on and make sure that all post related to my journey with Swift are in the “SwiftSlowly” Category. Today’s activity is about CoreML and I can already tell that it’s going to be something that I’m going to have to review a little more. Today we’re going to build our project, combining both SwiftUI and Core ML in remarkably few lines of code – I think you’ll be impressed.
: Micro.blog February Photo Challenge 📷 Day 6: Sport I pick these up sometimes.
: Upgraded to Big Sur today. I hope that I don’t regret it.
: Swift Slowly: Day 40 - Hacking Swift 26 I’ve finished a quarter of the program! I’m pretty proud of myself for doing that. With everything going on it was good to have a nice project like this to work on. That being said, I was very happy to see the following quote. However, I want to say that if at any point you’re feeling tired, or if life just gets in the way, take a break! If you come back to your code in a day or two, you’ll be more relaxed and ready to learn.
: Micro.blog February Photo Challenge 📷 Day 3: Pets
: Swift Slowly: Day 39 - Hacking Swift 25 Today is a consolidation and challenge day! I’m a quarter of the way through this and I’m pretty excited and grateful to have made it this far. With that comes a little more stress as I’m venturing out on my own to do small challenges along the way. Which brings me to the challenge! Challenge You have a basic understanding of arrays, state, views, images, text, and more, so let’s put them together: your challenge is to make a brain training game that challenges players to win or lose at rock, paper, scissors.
: Made a short video of my dog in a dress.
: This is how hard it’s to get her up in the morning. I’d let her sleep but she’ll poop on the floor later.
: Micro.blog February Photo Challenge 📷 Day 3: Layers My dog under a layer of blankets.
: Swift Slowly: Day 38 - Hacking with Swift 24 It’s the middle of the week and it’s a good time to do some Swift development! I’m a little struck by one of the things that Paul wrote in today’s exercise. Albert Einstein once said, “any fool can know; the point is to understand,” and this project was specifically about giving you a deeper understanding of what makes SwiftUI tick. After all, you’ll be spending the next 76 days working with it, so it’s a good idea to make sure your foundations are rock solid before moving on.
: New “Coming 2 America" trailer! I used to watch this with my mom on a regular basis.
: Micro.blog February Photo Challenge 📷 Day 3: Comfort This is my dog Lillie laying in what used to be my bed.
: Micro.blog February Photo Challenge 📷 2 Micro.blog February Photo Challenge 📷 Day 3: Comfort Dog sleeping I wish I could go back to sleep for a couple more hours.
: Apple Releases macOS 11.3 Beta with New Safari Features, Reminders Sorting, Music Updates, and Improvements to iOS and iPadOS Apps Running on M1 Macs - MacStories The new beta looks really interesting. I’m plan on upgrading from Catalina this weekend.
: Swift Slowly: Day 38 - Hacking Swift 23 Today’s activity is research. I’m a little nervous about what is coming next because this was the first time that I saw the syntax for templates and custom containers. I’m going to have to read it again before I go to bed and hope that it makes more sense in the morning.
: Micro.blog February Photo Challenge 📷 Micro.blog February Photo Challenge 📷 Day 2: morning beverage I bought an aeropress years ago and it’s really made a difference in how I enjoy coffee.
: I told my wife that one of my friends just found out that they had “The Big C”. A poor choice in words in the fact that it could really mean two things at this point.
: Micro.blog February Photo Challenge 📷 Micro.blog February Photo Challenge 📷 Day 1: Close up This is a pic of what I see when I look straight down. So I decided that I’m going work hard to see my toes again.
: Swift Slowly: Day 37 - Hacking Swift 22 Today, I was reading reddit like I normally do and I came across a quote on the GetMotivated forum. Slow success builds character. Fast success builds ego. I think it fits with what I’m doing with Hacking with Swift program.
: Blockquotes in MarsEdit MarsEdit has a wonderful feature that allows you to take a snippet from a website and start a post to put in your own page. When I use it, I feel like I’m closer to some of my favorite blog writers. There is this problem… I told myself that I’m not going to do another technical project until I finish the Hacking with SwiftUI challenge. But… I think going a little into customizing some software shouldn’t count, right?
: I went walking after the storm earlier this week. Lots of fallen trees every where.
: Swift Slowly: Day 36 - Hacking Swift 21 Project 2, Part 2 almost sounds like a title for an action parody, but it’s the title for today’s work. I think the following really captures what I’m feeling: Oprah Winfrey once said, “do what you have to do until you can do what you want to do.” By the end of this 100 days course I hope you’ll be able to do exactly what you want, but in the meantime stick with it – you’re learning key skills here!
: Swift Slowly: Day 35 - Hacking Swift 20 I’m fresh off the high of creating my first application and I SO want to charge ahead. I keep thinking “It’s a marathon, it’s a marathon, it’s a marathon.” Today’s activity is pretty fun in that it allows me to experiment with colors. I spent some time just messing around with how to expand my application.
: Swift Slowly: Day 34 - Hacking Swift 19 Today is challenge day! I’ve been looking at the page for about 20 minutes. Then surfed the internet for another 20. I’m procrastinating. I’m intimidated because I’ve been playing with Swift for a while but this is the fist time that I said “Hey, I’m going to make an app”. It’s always been accompanied by some tutorial instructions. Well, let’s start! The first thing I did was use Xcode to check in the initial tutorial code changes.
: A couple pictures of how I had to plug in my devices at my local laundry in order to get my devices power.
: Swift Slowly: Day 32 & 33 - Hacking Swift 17 & 18 Power was out for two days and the this was one of the first things that I did1! It felt great to get back into the swing of things. I also took the quiz that is associated with the application and scored 12 out of 12! Tomorrow is Challenge day for this project, so I’m going to use the time that I have tonight to go over some of the previous days and to check out Paul Hudson’s video on 5 Steps to Better SwiftUI Views.
: We’ve been without power since Tuesday. I’m using the power from a near by laundry room to charge my UPS. It’s like a scene from “The secret of NIMH”.
: Power has been out since yesterday. So I guess my streak of programming every day has come to and end.
: Swift Slowly: Day 31 - Hacking Swift 16 Day 16! Starting the first project after a long day of work. Part of me wants to just veg, but I’ve wanted this too long! 100 Days of SwiftUI – Day 16 – Hacking with Swift: Today is the project overview day, which is where we’ll be looking at the isolated pieces of code that you need to understand in order to build our project. Tomorrow we’ll move on to the implementation day, where you’ll put those new techniques into practice with our app.
: Swift Slowly: Day 30 - Hacking Swift 15 I’m posting this for hacking with swift 14 & 15. Tomorrow, I start the first project and I’m very excited! Wish me luck!
: Swift Slowly: Day 29 - Hacking Swift 13 Review day!! I’m using this time to go over the basic types again.
: Swift Slowly: Day 28 - Hacking Swift 12 The neighbors were up arguing from 3-5 in the morning and it woke the whole family up. I’m having trouble focusing, but I wanted to get started with learning about optionals today. This is the last section of 100 days of SwifUI that contains quizzes so I’m pretty excited about what happens after this. I want to praise CodeRunner again for its excellent tool tips when code is incorrect. Xcode also does a good job of keeping it compact and then letting you expand the dialog and allowing you to fix it by clicking one of the buttons.
: Swift Slowly: Day 27 - Hacking Swift 11 I’m up past midnight and thought that programming is probably the best thing to do. So tonight/today, I’m learning about Protocols and extensions. When it came to extensions, I think I learned just as much about the once that I got wrong as the ones that I got correct.
: Wow, you would think that something like this wouldn’t be allowed to be entered. And yes, I see that the validation triggers!
: I made a promise to myself to just have one technical project at a time. It was hard to let go and today I really, REALLY wanted to spend sometime messing around with html/css. 💻
: Swift Slowly: Day 27 - Hacking Swift 10 Today is really cool because not only am I celebrating the inauguration of Joe Biden, but I’m on day 10 of Hacking with Swift! Pretty proud of myself for the most part because most of my errors where me not reading the question correctly.
: Went for a walk and came across these turkeys 🦃.
: Swift Slowly: Day 26 - Hacking Swift 9 We continue with structs today and I think I’m getting it for the most part. The issues that I run into are ones where I don’t pay attention to property names. This session wasn’t as long as others, but I feel that I needed that after going through closures.
: I think I might have to rewire my home set up.
: Swift Slowly: Day 25 - Hacking Swift 8 Today, is an exploration of structs. A lot of Swift seems to be built using structs. I wasn’t 100% awake when I was doing the computed properties section. I tried mixing property observers and computed properties, and that does not seem to work. I understand it as the value cannot be both observed and computed at the same time. I still enjoy the fact that the questions keep us on our toes.
: Swift Slowly: Day 24- Hacking Swift 7 Closures part 2! Paul Hudson says that this is where closures start to look a little bit like line noise and it can be hard to follow functions that use closures as parameters. Needless to say, I’m happy that I started this section early in the day.
: Swift Slowly: Day 23 - Hacking Swift 6 Closures!!! It took me a while to understand1 but this run through has really cemented how I look at them and just working with them in different tutorials. For example, I had no idea what the section on “Closures as parameters” actually was saying. Now I can read the code and understand it. I’m really excited and proud of myself! I did get a little too excited when I start the trailing closure syntax, but I can see where I went wrong versus just scratching my head about it.
: It looks like she is running for office.
: Swift Slowly: Day 22 - Hacking Swift 5 Today, I decided that I’d use CodeRunner to look at the examples found in the tutorials. It’s part of SetApp. It’s simple and I can just run the code that I want without the overhead. Plus it catches errors that are in code, which helps when I’m going through tests and logic. At this point, you can really, really tell that the lessons are building on top of each other and you can’t rush through them.
: Swift Slowly: Day 21 - Hacking Swift 4 Today is all about loops. I learned that you can’t loop over a tuple. I think this is because you can’t guarantee that every item will be the same thing. I got to spend some time look up how to get a real going because it feels like forever to check my answers in a playground sometimes.
: Swift Slowly: Day 20 - Hacking Swift 3 I want to point out that I really enjoy the brief discussions on why things are the way they are in Swift. I got into a grove with the operator overloading and made the assumption that ** was an exponent operator. I found myself talking through the training and that really helped me with understanding. I think I’m in the same boat as Paul when it comes to the ternary operators.
: Just finished the 1997 film Selena. Good movie but really depressing.
: Swift Slowly: Day 19 - Hacking Swift 2 The introduction of complex data types: Arrays, Sets, and Tuples. I normally get sets and tuples mixed up hopefully not after today. I spent some time going through my older run throughs of the material. In a previous attempt to make it through the 100 days, I had created an Xcode playground with pages for the different days. I’ll brush this bad boy off and use it to take notes. One of the gripes that I have that waiting for results feels kind of nerve wracking as I’m looking at the little spinner in the corner of the status bar.
: Guess who isn’t allowed upstairs!
: Swift Slowly: Day 18 Working through Paul Hudson’s excellent 100 days of SwiftUI. I thought about changing the title to reflect the fact that I’ll be going through this but decided to stick with this to show that it’s part of a greater arch. Notable things Having the _ as a number separator is kind of fun to think about because it reminds me that not every language looks at the comma , the same way.
: Our dog isn’t allowed upstairs.
: I feel pretty good about limiting my technical projects. Although I do have feelings that I’m missing out, the absence of that feeling of what “I should be doing X”, makes it worth it.
: Swift Slowly: Day 17 The last day of my run through! I get to run the completed application. Tomorrow I’ll start going through Paul Hudson’s Hacking Swift tutorials.
: Swift Slowly: Day 16 Work got busy and then the Country’s Capital got attacked so I didn’t put any time into my programming. Well. It’s time to get back to it. I don’t want not working on my task to be a habit! Section 4: History View Purpose: Create a simple view for the history of the the user’s scrums. The tutorial certainly reads very well, but every once in a while, you run into a scenario where I feel that they probably could have made it a little better.
: Any beginning to intermediate tutorials that anyone would recommend? I’m doing a slow series of training myself to understand swift and swiftui. 👨🏾💻
: Swift Slowly: Day 15 This is the last section of the tutorial. There were a lot of distractions today, but I’m going to finish this so that I can move on. Section 2: Integrate Speech Recognition Purpose: Introduce the code that will allow the application to record speech. Although the time to go through this is pretty quick, you would really want to go back and take your time to understand how it’s calling access.
: I don’t feel like doing development today. I got to push through some how.
: Swift Slowly: Day 14 This is the last section of the tutorial and I’m wondering what I’m going to do after this. I’m going to just do one section today because tomorrow is a big work day.
: I’ve been working towards learning swift a little more everyday and blogging about it. I was hesitant that it would annoy my readers and that I was spending more time writing about me learning swift versus actually learning it. At this point, I feel that it’s really helped.
: Swift Slowly: Day 13 Yesterday, I stopped so that I could spend time with my family. I’m going to pick up from the draw an arc spot.
: Swift Slowly: Day 12 Today’s tutorial is about drawing. I’m almost done going through the entire tutorial and wondering what I should look at next.
: I don’t know if this is new but seeing the notifications builds trust that it’s working. I say this after seeing it pop up once.
: Swift Slowly: Day 11 Continuing with learning about persistence tutorial <img alt srcset="https://docs-assets.developer.apple.com/published/8b6dcf46ffef24b1ac64555436587521/600/SUI_100-003.png 1x, https://docs-assets.developer.apple.com/published/0f0b16a34e0c11fdc102fb25bb806d15/600/SUI_100-003@2x.png 2x" src="https://docs-assets.developer.apple.com/published/8b6dcf46ffef24b1ac64555436587521/600/SUI_100-003.png" width="362" height="auto">
: She wasn’t ready to wake up.
: Start of with a little exercise.
: Swift Slowly: Day 10 Today’s tutorial is about persistence. I think that’s a good one as I make my way through these various tutorials.
: After watching the ball drop this year, I know that what we needed to do was have the year sponsored by Kia and planet fitness.
: I just spent an hour going over a 15 minute tutorial. It was great. I think I might have to work on the workflow between taking screen captures and marsedit.
: Swift Slowly: Day 9 Getting back into the swing of things and I’m continuing with the tutorial. Today is about State Management.
: I was trying to lose weight this year. I’ve been creeping up more and more these last couple of months.
: So, I bought a controller to for my Mac and my daughter asked to use it. My swift development has come to an abrupt halt.
: I haven’t forgotten that I was going to work on my swift development. I just used that time to spend with the family. That’s part of why I’m thinking of it as #swiftslowly. I want to understand this and not give up on myself by making it a habit.
: I wonder if this is new in the beta?
: Swift Slowly: Day 8 I’m continuing with the Managing State and Life Cycle section of the Apple SwiftUI Tutorial. Section 4: Add a State Object Purpose: Learn about State Object This sections was pretty small and introduced the concept of “Source of Truth”. At this point, I got a little side track with trying to get an understanding of how it all comes together and getting the above picture. Section 6: Extract the Meeting Footer I’m not a fan on the syntax for closures and views.
: Swift Slowly: Day 7 Today marks the 7th day that I’ve committed to blogging about my development. This continues the walk through with Apple’s updated1 SwiftUI tutorial.
: I don’t understand why “Trading Places” isn’t celebrated as a Christmas movie as much as “Die Hard”.
: Swift Slowly: Day 6 As this is Day 6 of my self directed move to learning swift, I’m thinking about how this series of tutorials is only supposed to take 3-4 hours. I think that might be if you just copy past the code or maybe to get people started without worrying that this is going to take all day.
: I’m going to nominate @Burk for Micro Monday.
: Swift Slowly: Day 5 On day 5 of the tutorial and I think I’m growing more comfortable with the keyboard shortcuts. I’m hoping that future versions of Xcode will have more information in the quicklook for different classes. At the minimum, they could offer a link to get more information or have example of the different styles on one page. Accessibility I still enjoy the promotion of accessibility at the very beginning of someone’s journey to be a better programmer.
: Swift Slowly: Day 4 Today’s tutorial was pretty good. I did run into a small problem with specifying the destination view. I think it’s pretty cool that I’m recognizing some of the closures in swift.
: Mike Tsai pointsto a great article about Google and it’s case of antitrust brought forth from Texas. mjtsai.com
: Swift Slowly: Day 3 Day 3 is the third day of the tutorial. I spent most of this time just reading over the document and I stopped myself because I want to make this a daily habit and not something that I put down and never come back to.
: Swift Slowly: Day 2 I’m working on the second part of the tutorial. The autocorrect is much nicer when it is filling out items from data structures that I’ve created, but I’m still having trouble with some of the longer method signatures. I took a moment to look up a tutorial online and I think tomorrow will be much better.
: Swift Slowly: Day 1 Started iOS App Dev with SwiftUI Tutorials. Why? I know it’s my X numbered attempt to learn swift, and I gave myself so many deadlines/goals. I thought that this time would just be me attempting to learn enough to finish an app that has been haunting me for years. I hope that by writing about my experience in the open that it will help me move forward. The experience I decided to set a small goal of finishing up the first steps of the tutorial
: The Forest app has upped their game for the holidays.
: Designed to Deceive: Do These People Look Real to You? Well, this is a little unsettling. There are now businesses that sell fake people. On the website Generated.Photos, you can buy a “unique, worry-free” fake person for $2.99, or 1,000 people for $1,000. Link: www.nytimes.com/interacti…
: Sometimes you have to use what tools you have to use what tools are available to you. #bulletjournal
: I spent some time removing things from my todo list. I actually started to tear up a little. It’s really hard to let some things go but I have to be honest with myself. Seeing the list of things that I wasn’t doing made things worse than if I never thought about doing it.
: I spent the first 4 hours of my day in my own mind. Did I find anything? I hope so.
: One thing that I like about Micro.blog is that it’s breaking me from the habit of looking at all the people I’m following to see if they are following me.
: Dr Drang says Good-bye to Setapp I’m walking away perfectly happy with the year I spent with it. link I understand where he is coming from. I think I’ll be sticking with it over moving to purchasing or upgrading various applications. A set monthly cost helps with budgeting.
: I’m going to recommend @maique for [Micro Monday.](help.micro.blog/2019/micr… “A weekly tradition for finding new people to engage with.”). He’s a photographer with a tiny movie star for a daughter.
: I really like being able to share my subscriptions with my family. I just hope that they find them as helpful as I do.
: I’m feeling pretty tired today, but I’m going to power through on some goals that I’ve set for this weekend. #determined
: I’m spending sometime with iA writer I’m spending sometime with iA writer. It’s definitely a nice interface for writing things. I just wonder how I’m going to add the descriptions to the images.
: So, I’m starting the process of removing the number of things that I’m working on. Part of that is letting go of some of the domains that are related to someday/maybe projects.
: I wanted to echo this tip from Brett Terpstra related to the proxy icon functionality found in macOS Big Sur. Remove the proxy icon hover delay in Big Sur 💻
: A new addition to the family.
: I didn’t make it to to the end of NaNoWriMo this year. I did enjoy spending time writing with my daugther during the various sprints. #NaNoWriMo 📝
: Took some pictures as I went for a walk The leaves are really look nice as they continue to change. I really enjoyed taking pictures of the sky. I was trying to capture the moon just above the trees.
: What’s Going Up? Getting back into my podcasts.
: Every other day, it feels like I log into mastodon and see this kind of error.
: Playing with PeerTube Recently, YouTube had an outage and I saw someone mention PeerTube on Reddit. It got me a curious and I spent about 15 minutes looking through the main page. In a lot of ways it reminded me of what we’re trying to do with micro.blog. I don’t know if they have enough to move it forward, but I think I’ll be checking it out in the future. Until then, here is a gym that I found today.
: Random thought: I’m going to attempt to us my non-dominant hand more often.
: The internet wasn’t working this morning and it made it one of the most productive mornings that I’ve had in a long time.
: messing-around Sometimes... I wonder why I have so much trouble on focusing on what is important.
: For some reason, this looked interesting to me.
: What’s New in Hazel 5 – Noodlesoft Hazel 5 is out. My first reaction on hearing the news was a dread that it had moved on to needing a subscription like so many of the other apps that I have. It’s not, it’s an upgrade price of $20 dollars and even has a trial. So if you are interested, check out the new Hazel. What’s New in Hazel 5 – Noodlesoft:
: Just realized that part of the reason that my day wasn’t going so well is that I didn’t spend any time with my morning routine. No journaling or reflection really throws things off.
: Oh fantastical, if only I hade my life together enough to justify paying for you.
: Empty Software Dialog I saw the little red alert on my system preferences that there is a new update. I’m going to wait to update for now. I’ve got enough things going on in my life and I don’t want to spend time worrying about what software is or isn’t going to run today. Update: Cognitive bias. Is macOS Big Sur stable enough to upgrade on your Mac?
: Went for a walk this evening. I want to get out here before the weather changes.
: Microblogvember challenge Prompt: say Say what you will, but Pancakes 🥞 might be one of the greatest foods ever. It’s enjoyed all over the world. #mbnov
: I thought I would try to use clips again.
: Microblogvember challenge Prompt: elderly I hope one day, when I’m elderly, that this year isn’t the one that society doesn’t fall completely on its face. #mbnov
: I’ve decided to put all of my technical projects on hold for the rest of the year.
: Microblogvember challenge Prompt: force Procrastination is a horrible force that can make you miss so much that this world provides. #mbnov
: I found a copy of one of my favorite childhood movies. I remember watching this video a LOT and I’m sure that I annoyed my parents a lot with it. youtu.be/kohMLek-y… Numbers count!
: Almost convinced the wife to buy a PlayStation 5 so that the kids can play with the VR capabilities. I think I’m going to say no because there might be an upgrade to the PlayStation VR headset. The system itself might only be a daddy gift and that isn’t fair.
: NaNoWriMo status This is me attempting to post my NaNoWriMo status image from the files application.
: I went for a long walk today
: Hello @help i keep getting this error when I attempt to post using the sunlit app. I’ll plug 🔌 my phone in later to see if I can get something in the console. Does it look like an issue you’re familiar with?
: I’m feeding the little squirrel in my backyard. It’s really malnourished and the tail isn’t as fluffy.
: I deleted my Twitter app. I figured it would not be good for my mental health as we go into the election. Tomorrow night will be one for the history books. Unlike the election of Chester A. Author.
: Microblogvember challenge Prompt: concentrate I’m having trying my best to concentrate on my goals for NaNoWriMo. The story is in my head but not on my laptop. #mbnov
: Microblogvember challenge Prompt: Dreary I’m having my favorite dinner, pizza, but I’m still feeling dreary. #mbnov
: The house is kind of mess with all the things we ‘think’ we need plus we’re dog watching.
: Prepping for NaNoWriMo I’m getting ready for NaNoWriMo this year. I’m really nervous about this because I haven’t been writing much of anything for a while and this would be a huge commitment. I’d have to write an average of 1666 words a day! I might do that on a heavy email or documentation day at work. But this would be something different, this would be for me. It would also be for my daughter who will also be doing the challenge.
: I understand that Big Sur isn’t here because they are probably waiting for the Apple Silicone macs to be released. At this point, I don’t really know what the new OS would do for me at this point. I haven’t heard anything good about it.
: Feeling a little bogged down and saw this windmill.
: Went for a walk today. The leaves are turning brown. Normally I’d think of it as being picturesque but now I’m a little worried about fires.
: Giving up on the dream. Decided to find a new home for my tech books.
: At home is Sacramento, CA (USA) 7:47 AM and it’s somebody’s birthday 🎈 A Day In The Life #adayinthelife
: Checking out the squirrels in my backyard here in Sacramento, Ca. A Day In The Life. 🗓🌎
: Trying to find the post from a couple days ago where someone was talking about a nice place to live. They speak a mixture of Spanish and Portuguese.
: I suspect a lot of people don’t know how to go about owning a home. Being part of “Generation Rent”, I’ve got to start from the bottom up.
: Episodes For The Future Starting the podcast up again.
: I want to recommend @dejus for micro Monday! His pictures have certainly brighten my days.
: Today is the presidential debate. I think @manton planned the new release so that way so we can use highlights on all the wonderful alternative facts that we’re going to hear the next day.
: Running iOS 14 and this is the first time I felt the GM was buggier than the beta.
: This story got me. kottke.org
: Making The Most Of It Taking a moment to talk about where I am today.
: Dirty air… Worst than what you see in the science fiction movies about a future distopia.
: This book just came in. I’m hoping to use it as my first book entry for micro.blog.
: The Signal To Start Quick musings about how we sometimes need that signal to stop and start.
: Short Thoughts On A Bigger World A short podcast on where I’m at today.
: The First Episode Is The Most Awkward This is actually my second podcast. The first one never got to see the light of the internet. The hard part is seeing what happens a month from now.
: I disconnected my twitter account from micro.blog because I want to start filling this with podcasts and more videoes.
: I figured I would play around with clips again.
: Got update the css on the blog One of the things about having a personal blog without analytics is that you don’t really know if anyone is watching. For example, I was attempting to get grids to work on the main page so that I can have an optional side bar. It’s not looking too hot. Hopefully, I can get it up and running soon. If not, I guess I can revert the changes.
: Today, I’m going to spend a lot of time going through my own Today, I’m going to spend a lot of time going through my own documents and knocking off some todo items.
: Horrible day. It could be sooooo much worse but s#!+ today really sucks.
: I’ve been very negligent in the last couple weeks and now I’ve got 36 items in my todo box and an unknown amount of things in my email inbox. Taking a moment to center myself and avoid my normal pattern of negative talk and just seeing what I can do to make the situation better.
: My daughter looked at the console while playing Minecraft and I was impressed that she was able to understand it so quickly.
: We are having meatloaf to dinner!
: Just spending a minute with my thoughts. I’m going to do some push-ups and then clean up the icons on my phone some more.
: I was talking to a neighbor and they said “I have nothing under control”. None of us do.
: I wrote about how I couldn’t do something because I’m in America. I never thought I would write a sentence like that.
: Poked my head outside my bubble. It’s rough out there, but I cling to the belief that things are better than they were 100 years ago.
: I’m at a recycling center I’m at the recycling center. They give you tags with a number and you get called one at a time to have your materials exchanged for cash.
: I’m using exercise as my stress relief. I set myself up to lose 30 pounds in the next year. I’ve gained 2 so far.
: Intel’s stock is really taking a hit.
: Went for a walk. It was 90+ degrees.
: I remember that last year people were talking about the reliability of the iOS betas. That’s not a real topic this time and I feel that should be celebrated.
: My favorite new feature? A new date picker!
: My podcast feeds are going to be filled for the next couple of weeks.
: No humans were hurt during the creation of this keynote.
: This is a pretty good keynote so far.
: I saw a guy riding a bike and holding two chainsaws. I said “only in America“ and he smiled and said “you’re right”.
: Hey! If there wasn’t enough stress in my life.
: The family has challenged me to take smaller bites as I eat. Now life has no meaning.
: Went for a walk to just relieve some stress.
: My brain 🧠 hurts today. Found myself yelling at the screen because someone used comic sans in an email for work. breathe
: Easily rename your Git default branch from master to main - Scott Hanselman I remember a speech I heard years ago about the fact that if a master dies the slave is still not free.
: After “last night”, I think this is appropriate.
: It’s 3:50 AM. The wife and I have been talking for the last 2 hours about where we are in life and the upcoming issues. I vaguely hear sirens in the distance.
: Went to bed feeling anguished.
: A nonsense post with a clip from Apple’s clips app.
: Working on system is o post mind maps
: My daughter wants to watch “Stranger Things”. I’m going to let her because it’s less scary than what is going on in the world.
: Chilling in the dentist office.
: Palm tree 🌴 in front of my dentist’s office.
: I just hope that “after this” things will get better. But how long is “after this” and “what am I going to do now” are just questions I don’t have answers to.
: Hmmmm… Got to turn this around.
: I finally got my 30 day challenge pin!
: Went for a walk to a nearby fountain.
: Feeling a little chubby today.
: My watch doesn’t work anymore.
: Drop-in switcher for previewing minimal CSS frameworks I’ve got a real interest in simple interfaces and came across this recently. Drop-in switcher for previewing minimal CSS frameworks This is a quick drop-in CSS switcher to allow for previewing some of the many minimal CSS-only frameworks that are available. See the demo or drop the switcher into your own page to see how different frameworks would look together with your content. Link: github.com/dohliam/d… I’m currently redisigning my website and will probably use one of these as a starting point.
: Made a little picture in my journal.
: Can you see the baby turkey 🦃
: Took a different approach to my journal today. I set a timer for 10 minutes and just kept writing. Most times I just write until the thought stops.
: My family made cinnamon rolls. Usually, I’m the baker 👨🏿🍳 of the family.
: More pictures of the park during quarantine. It seems remarkable that I was more worried about the power lines back then.
: If you haven’t noticed already, I’m trying to post a picture every day for 30 days.
: Hello @manton! Would it be easy for you to implement a trim on the accessibility description? I use the double tapping of the space bar to write a period. It shows up when I use the JavaScript sidebar on my site. Super, super nit picky.
: The only good bug 🐜 is a dead bug!
: Turkey Bur Making turkey burgers 🍔
: Getting dressed up to see the dentist 🦷
: About to hang up some pictures in the house.
: It’s been a while since I’ve been on top of things like this.
: Went for a walk with my new iPhone SE.
: Color challenge day 3 Yellow Ethernet cord
: Color challenge 🌈 Red mouse.
: The older cook books seem to have the better recipes.
: Got to clean up the back area today.
: Picked up my sleep apnea test machine.
: Shrinkflation on the cream found in an oreo. I guess I have to get them double stuffed.
: An apple a day keeps anyone away, if you throw it hard enough. -Stephen Colbert #mbmay 💬
: I bought flowers from my favorite flower 🌺 shop.
: I met someone who said that the coronavirus is just a hoax. I don’t feel that this person is dumb, but it’s really disconcerting to meet people who think differently about this. I wonder if this is in the same vein as meeting some who doesn’t believe in the holocaust.
: Not much happening this weekend.
: Watching my kid play roblox.
: I thought I would give [Ulysses](ulysses.app “The Ultimate Writing App for Mac, iPad and iPhone”) a try for writing in. The short story that I’ve been working on hasn’t been updated since summer of last year.
: I’m thinking about posting the number of tasks that I finish this week.
: Years ago, if you said that the president wanted people to look into using disinfectant as a way to cure viral infections, I’d laugh. This isn’t funny.
: I take a lot of pictures of food.
: Updated to Catalina on the family machine.
: If they die... I came across this little number. Stay safe everyone! Someone needs to be around to write the history books.
: I wish Game Center had worked out better. Maybe they can bring it back with a new update of “Sign in with Apple”.
: I’m doing a little more everyday.
: Maybe I’ll catch up with @danielpunkass one day.
: Just finished a seven day streak of working out. Hoping to continue with positive routines.
: A cool thing about working from home is that it has given me a lot more flexibility with my time. After you establish boundaries, you able to make work happen for you. For instance, today I was able to get some stuff done earlier in the day, finish my work, and then take a nap.
: I know there are a lot of people who are going to be reviewing their budgets during this pandemic.
: Ok today, I’m going to focus on doing a couple things. Going through my email and calendar Going through my receipts I was going to plan some other stuff but I feel that is enough for one day.
: I’m going to fish this book.
: Things like this are part of the reason that I don’t upgrade to Catalina.
: Haven’t finished all of these on the same day in a while.
: I’ve been trying to coin the term “Corona Kids” for all the upcoming births in December.
: The case for postponing macOS 16 A couple of my friends have been saying they needed to slow down for a while. I don’t know if anyone asking for a new version. It’s good to have continued development, but sometimes it’s good just to iron out the kinks.
: This is the third week that I’ve worked from home. I’ve moved my “work area” every week in that time. Still working towards getting it “right”. One thing I know is that office furniture is definitely not going on sale anytime this month.
: Not a time for playing around.
: I’ve decided to use the automation in drafts to forward things like this text to places like micro.blog or my journal.
: I think that home automation is going have a huge improvement next year.
: Spent almost and hour getting my website to be parsed properly by IndieWebify. My site was always close but now it’s passing and looking good. mandarismoore.com But it seems all my content has been going to micro.blog.
: Firefox and Safari are really great browsers.
: Is anyone else other than me running Mojave?
: Buckle Down For The Second Week Initial podcast! Decided not to let imperfection stop me from posting. Just some thoughts on the sheltering in place and how it’s affecting me and the family.
: itunes.apple.com My fitness app granted me permission to eat an entire battery!
: Still thinking about making that podcast. Perfect is really being the enemy here.
: It's a very different time It’s just the uncertainty of it that has been wondering. It’s a lot different than the times that I’d wonder how I was going to feed my family, it’s the uncertainty of what other people are going to do.
: Today is the first full day of me working from home due to covid. I think I might start a podcast.
: The keyboard shortcuts stopped working on my laptop 👨🏾💻 and I started to freak for a minute.
: Ah man! I didn’t make the 30 day challenge. Oh well, it was still a load of fun.
: Photoblogging Challenge. The prompt for to day is: Vision #mbfeb
: Photoblogging Challenge. The prompt for to day is: Leap #mbfeb Leap in Cholesterol
: I’m noticing a lot of adds for Apple Arcade in the last couple weeks. Listen you already got my money… I can’t finish the games I already have!
: Photoblogging Challenge. The prompt for to day is: Below #mbfeb
: Photoblogging Challenge. The prompt for to day is: Double #mbfeb
: Photoblogging Challenge. The prompt for to day is: Escape #mbfeb
: Idea that I had about doing sketch notes for swift.
: I spilled tea all over my backpack 🎒
: Photoblogging Challenge. The prompt for to day is: Hurdle #mbfeb This stack of pancakes is certainly a hurdle… But someone has to do it.
: Photoblogging Challenge. The prompt for to day is: Double #mbfeb
: Photoblogging Challenge. The prompt for to day is: Station #mbfeb Ready to blast off!
: Photoblogging Challenge. The prompt for to day is: Spectical #mbfeb
: Photoblogging Challenge. The prompt for to day is: Progress #mbfeb Maybe not every day but moving forward.
: Photoblogging Challenge. The prompt for to day is: Scale #mbfeb
: Photoblogging Challenge. The prompt for to day is: Space #mbfeb
: Photoblogging Challenge. The prompt for to day is: Oppose #mbfeb
: Photoblogging Challenge. The prompt for to day is: Cool #mbfeb
: Photoblogging Challenge. The prompt for to day is: Rest #mbfeb
: Photoblogging Challenge. The prompt for to day is: Balance #mbfeb An ant crawling on the wall. I would have done some yoga 🧘🏾♂️ but…
: Photoblogging Challenge. The prompt for to day is: Warmth #mbfeb Air fryer
: Keep up mulling this blog post about fantastical. Just having trouble putting it into words.
: Photoblogging Challenge. The prompt for to day is: Rise #mbfeb
: Just realized that I can included an accessible description of my images.
: Photoblogging Challenge. The prompt for to day is: Attachment #mbfeb Because it’s an attachment to another attachment
: I think I’ll look for a night time writing prompt for tomorrow night. For tonight, I’m going to just run through some of the high lights and call it a night.
: Photoblogging Challenge. The prompt for to day is: Plain #mbfeb
: I set a timer to do some writing ✍️ today. 20 minutes goes by really fast when you’re having fun.
: Photoblogging Challenge. The prompt for to day is: Sign #mbfeb
: Photoblogging Challenge. The prompt for to day is: Lull #mbfeb
: Photoblogging Challenge. The prompt for to day is: Contrast #mbfeb The contrast of the green and red of the tennis court
: Update to editorial It’s good to get an update and even better that he’s focusing on his mental health.
: Photoblogging Challenge. The prompt for to day is: Above #mbfeb
: Photoblogging Challenge. The prompt for to day is: Plant #mbfeb
: Photoblogging Challenge. The prompt for to day is: Hide #mbfeb
: It’s kind of weird that they are releasing this in March. Maybe they should have targeted WWDC 2020 to avoid growling from people in my sphere of influence. mjtsai.com
: Photoblogging Challenge. The prompt for to day is: Spot #mbfeb
: Listen people, not everyone needs to run for president to enact change. There are many things you can do to make the world better.
: Trying to think of a picture that encompasses the word “spot”.
: Photoblogging Challenge. The prompt for to day is: Reflect #mbfeb
: Photoblogging Challenge. The prompt for to day is: Sight #mbfeb I cheated with this one.
: Photoblogging Challenge. The prompt for to day is: Open #mbfeb
: I re-enabled crossposting from micro.blog to promote the 30 photo challenge.
: Just deleted a post because it doesn’t help make the world a better place.
: I won first place at my speech contest!
: Fantastical It feels like fantastical is going to move to a subscription.
: And that just part of what makes smoking 🚬 so disgusting to me.
: When I’m trying to get control of my life, I find myself fighting that feeling of shame for not doing it earlier. I have to take those negative emotions and let them go. There isn’t a reason for me to hold onto something that isn’t moving me forward.
: I love the ability to set a hyperkey Make Your CAPS LOCK Key Do Double Duty As a Modifier Key and Caps Lock – 40Tech: Your Caps Lock key might be underused on your Mac. If you’re a big automation geek, why not use it for something else, in addition to its built-in functionality? I love using this functionality. I share a computer with the rest of my family so it’s cool to have this around without changing profiles.
: Just used certbot to make sure that my site was served over https and I found it super fun and -dare I say it- easy.
: I’ve got three notebooks 📓 that I can use for projects and I left all of them at home. 🤦🏾♂️
: Playing around with MindNode 7.
: Interesting article about google. mjtsai.com
: It’s the little things in life.
: The year started with great aspirations but now is time for Planning and Actions to make it happen.
: I’ve decided to give Headspace a chance.
: Woke up from a nightmare. Really need to take a second before trying to get back to sleep.
: I feel better after yesterdays little brush with the internet.
: One of the hairs from my mustache was ripped out by the root!
: The morning before work starts.
: I just looked at the archive of my personal blog and it says that I’ve been blogging for 10 years.
: Decided to place ALL of my python projects on hold so I can focus on my swift development.
: Thinking about going all in with the Swift programming language next year.
: Let’s try this again…
: Playing around with a new app idea. MindMap
: Downhill | Uncrate Really looking forward to this movie. I like the Will Ferrell drama films. I saw this trailer with my wife and we’re both on board. Downhill | Uncrate: DOWNHILL Family vacations are usually as difficult as they are enjoyable, and Will Ferrell and Julia Louis-Dreyfus' European skiing trip is about to push their relationship to the limit. The couple and their kids are at a ski lodge when an intentionally-triggered avalanche looks like it's about to hit the lodge — and Ferrell's character grabs his phone and runs.
: Why am I always questioning what I do with my website and domain?
: Website is back up and Running!
: Email isn’t working today. I’m not in a hurry to fix it.
: I think… … I think I might hate christmas. Little “c”.
: Spending some time programming in swift. It’s kind of frustrating when swiftui gives me an error I can’t understand.
: Spent most of the day being productive AND watching “The Mandalorian”.
: Just saw the latest Star Wars and I enjoyed it a great deal!
: One of my coworkers bought an iPhone after having used android for years. I found myself saying things like “This is a bad year for that”. I guess this is how we fall out of love with something like this.
: Playing with a mechanical keyboard.
: I want to write more, but I don’t know what to write about. Plus I don’t want to write about how I’m not writing. … more than I just did.
: I really need to wake up fully before I post something online.
: Fighting the desire for a nap.
: Spending a little time thinking.
: Someone tore off the back of my chair.
: “I’ll just tweek this part… should only take me 5 minutes”…
: I’ve been feeling the itch all week to write some more code. So addictive.
: Went to bed early last night and woke up sick.
: Today was a pretty good day. I’m looking forward to what happens tomorrow.
: Switching my domain from enom to hover. Worst case scenario is that I don’t have email for a couple days.
: Wonder Woman 1984 | Official Trailer - YouTube Really looking forward to the new Wonder Woman movie coming out. Wonder Woman 1984 | Official Trailer - YouTube
: Woke up but feeling very loooow on patience today. I’m going to do some breathing exercises and see if that’s enough to shake off this funk.
: A simple movie test. Created a small movie to see how much effort it would take if I wanted to challenge myself with making a new one every week. cartoon_test.mov It looks like something that would be cut from one of the Disney straight to VHS movies. But it’s still cool to make something
: Slow day today. Sometimes we need these in order to clear our mind.
: I’m very happy that it’s Friday. The weekend has a lot of opportunity… Probably going to be moving furniture around.
: Gave a donation Wikipedia.org today. It felt good and I encourage others to do the same.
: Finally got those Nachos I’ve been friending for.
: If will power is a muscle, I’ve been really using it today.
: I’ve decided to give reeder a try to stay on top of the news.
: Microblogging all month for December!
: I’m happy right now. I’m not able to get everything done but I’m still happy with the process.
: Microblogvember prompt: Second I find myself reading a lot of comics and having thoughts about living life over. The thing is that every second is figuratively a second chance.
: Working out early in the morning. The energy drink I had this afternoon is keeping me up. Still better this than idle hands.
: I’m going to challenge myself to post something new everyday for the rest of the year. #goals
: I never knew this could happen!
: I’ve been having some problems focusing recently. I spent a lot of time sleeping today and I’m going to start a meditation practice to see if that helps.
: Taking a moment before work.
: I just lost myself reading code... It was all python based and focused on scratching my own itch.
: Moved my blog to micro.blog today.
: I can’t be the only one who still prickles at the thought that save as isn’t directly under file.
: Don’t park that chicken here!
: 100 Days of SwiftUI – Hacking with Swift 100 Days of SwiftUI – Hacking with Swift: Welcome to the 100 Days of SwiftUI! This is a free collection of videos, tutorials, tests, and more, all drawn from around my work here on Hacking with Swift, and all designed to help you learn SwiftUI effectively.
: I’m thinking about doing the California International Marathon as part of a relay team. I think I might have caught the running bug.
: So, I connected MarsEdit to my micro.blog account tonight. It’s a nice little editor.
: Trying to read without my glasses. Pointless!
: The family computer won’t boot up. Not a great moment in computing.
: Waiting for Windows to restart… 💀
: I don’t know what to say about this.
: Woke up to reAd about another shooting. Instantly tired of having to think about “another”.
: I left my lunch at home. 🤦🏾♂️
: I got the writing bug today but I don’t know where to go first.
: My favorite place to take a picture
: First day of diet… So hungry…
: I hope that I get some sleep tonight. I’ve been really exhasted the last couple of days. Maybe it’s a sign that I’m super out of shape (physically and mentally).
: Going over bills with the wife. Listen people, if you don’t budget it, you are only hurting yourself.
: It’s a little weird. Normally, the videos for WWDC are posted that day. I really want to see the keynote and SOTU. #wwdc
: Just looking at the sky before work.
: Spending some time grilling.
: Just found out that the Day One app has a way to create little drawings that you can put in your journal.
: Sometimes I forget how good I am at technology.
: I’m running on a 13" Mid 2009 MacBook Pro. I still love it, I don’t have the latest software and I think that makes me appreciate the fact that this has worked for so long.
: Just finished reading about “Why” Charles Manson and his “family “ did what they did. It’s sad that people have these theories.
: Spending some time just looking at the screen…
: Moving all my blog posts from Dropbox to git this weekend. Haven’t decided on GitHub or bit bucket.
: I’ve given up comics for lint. I don’t know what to do with myself right now.
: I wish I was doing more writing.
: I haven’t touched my inbow in days and I’m really starting to feel it. I got to get back into the swing of things before it starts to hurt.
: Really hard to restart a habit where I’m constantly thinking about how good I imagined I was. Comparing how good an imaginary version of myself to where I am now hurts unless you take a step back a realize it’s a potential goal.
: For years, I’ve been using Apple Pages to work on my resume. Today, I think I’m going to have to leave it. A lot of the places and tools are expecting either docs or odt. I can submit a pdf but it’s a little disappointing how poorly it gets parsed.
: I wrote this last year and haven’t done anything to make it happen.
: Yesterday was filled will a lot of anger. I was angry that no one was listening to me at work. I was angry that no one was listening to me at home. I went to bed with that anger and waking up still fighting those same battles if only in my mind.
: I know a lot of people are excited that there is a new Spiderman trailer, but I’d be happier to see Gramora in a new gardians movie.
: It wasn’t the best day, but I’m praying that this is the worst day I experience this year.
: Well, today is starting off with a lot of friction.
: Didn’t know the bathroom was this clean…
: Happy Almost End if the First Week of the New Year!
: Every time I consider switching… This time it couldn’t finish with the smiley face.
: A picture of someone happy to be here!
: I turned off cross posting to twitter because it meant that I had to places to check for replies. Also some people didn’t know where to respond to me or where the real me was. It’s a hard problem to solve. I’m still going to be here on micro.blog, but I’ve got to really straighten out what I want to do moving forward.
: Thinking about taking a picture every day. This is just a simple one to get me started.
: Sitting at my desk and just enjoying a quiet contemplative moment.
: Got my domain renewed for another year and verified on Micro.blog.
: Thinking about going all in with Micro.blog and even doing a podcast next year.
: This is what I meant. 15 items to review. It means I’m not going through my list properly.
: I got to get this under control.
: I still like the idea of micro blogging. It feels good to just sit down and write without having to worry about what the title and category of my writing is going to be. It reminds me of the beginning of the book “Writing down the bones”. I’ve been semi active with it for almost a year now and I’m actively pursuing different projects to make my blog work with the service.
: I’ve got a smart folder set up that just looks at how many pieces of email I get in a day. It’s sitting at 84. That’s not including all the ones that I deleted. That’s just ridiculous.
: Can’t wait to get home and watch the good place!
: Going to give have an advent calendar of compliments for everyone. Let me know if you’d like a little pick me up!
: Today is almost over! So much has changed and I haven’t spent any money!
: So happy to have tomorrow off.
: I wasted a lot of time this morning. I’ve got to change my thinking and write down my morning routine.
: When I was younger, I wanted to be a writer but let the world tell me no. Now I feel a pain every time I have to write something for work.
: For the first time in my life, I’m eating salad with out dressing.
: Smoke on the brain. Not getting much done.
: The waiting game is the worst game ever.
: Weird day of getting weird things done.
: Wow, the iPad Pro looks pretty good. Don’t know if I can justify it.
: Trying to eat healthy snacks makes me not eat as many. So, I guess that works.
: Just finished Robocop. It took me two weeks because I could only watch it when people weren’t in the room.
: Might be getting a new iPad… for someone else.
: Let’s try this whole “day” thing again.
: Very long day. Still have a lot on my mind. No definitive answers yet.
: Looking at the Office 2019 suite and it seems nice.
: I’m going to start a 30 day challenge for making some everyday.
: I got invited to use OmniFocus on the web!
: Spent some times going through my Apple notes. It felt good to see some old favorites.
: I signed papers today. Hacktoberfest 2018: How you can get your free shirt — even if you’re new to coding | freeCodeCamp News
: Just went through a ton of email. I get a lot of junk.
: Ask for help can be hard sometimes.
: Went through OmniFocus today and nothing needed to be reviewed.
: Playing Dungeons and Dragons
: So, I reset my iPhone and now I’m only going to load the applications as I need them.
: Blue berry sausage #abomination
: In the office early. The sun hasn’t risen.
: I’m celebrating my moment of inner peace by checking out social media.
: Just winding down for the night.
: My feet smell really badly. I think I should see a doctor.
: Website is still in funky state but I’m not at home to fix it. I know my fans are disappointed.
: So, I moved my site back to github for hosting. It’s going to take a couple minutes for everything to populate.
: My website has been down for days… I don’t think anyone noticed.
: Sunday, a day of rest… Supposedly…
: My family likes making ciphers for fun.
: Really enjoying the latest update to GamePigeon. Message me if you want to connect.
: No such thing as too many Star Wars toys on the desk.
: I feel good for the first time in weeks.
: I love “The good place”. The problem is that I watch it on Hulu and it isn’t available until the next day. Meaning I’m on a social media blackout until I get home.
: I think today was pretty decent.
: I’ve got a headache and past due deadlines. One feeds into the other!
: First Evernote starts having their 40% sale and then I see this deal for 25% on Dropbox. Should I be worried? #nope
: My little workout from yesterday.
: I’ve been doing some exercise. A little here and a little there. It makes a difference.
: The view out of my window is inviting.
: All my deadlines are due on Friday and I don’t feel I’m going to meet them.
: Korean fried chicken was delicious! 😋
: I strive to make my code legiable to the future me. It’s a great investment.
: Started a new meditation 🧘🏾♂️ practice yesterday. If I remember to do it today, it’ll be two days.
: Went for a walk and… there was sooo much sweat 😓
: Friday is here to kick off the celebration that Monday is only 3 days away!
: Calling in sick today. Just need a moment to think.
: Just trying to take care of myself.
: I was thinking I was having a bad day, but a coworker convinced me to look for what brings me happiness in my life.
: Is there some kind of update coming out this week?
: Not a great day for me today. Where did all the time go?
: Sunday is supposed to be a day of rest… and I sit here about to do paperwork.
: Long day today… Just thinking about how to make the most of the evening.
: Drafts continues to be one of the most powerful apps that I’m not using.
: These fake flowers bring real joy.
: Working at Apple is just what Jony Ive is doing until his voice acting career starts to take off.
: Hanging out with a good friend to watch the Keynote. It’s the small things in life.
: Still working out kinks to get my blog to feed directly into micro.blog. Here is my latest post
: The most exciting thing about the new iPhone X announcement is that I’ll be able to buy the 7 and 6s for even less. #secondhandphones
: Just watching the kids have a good time.
: Re-enabled my micro.blog account today. Just want to see how it feels to reconnect with the community.
: Spending time at a new restaurant. It’s nice to experience something different.
: Still not a fan of Apple’s decision to take a bunch of functionality out of iTunes and leave us with nothing.
: Work has been kinda weird these last couple of days. Trying to find a little bit of peace in a crazy schedule.
: I never understood why people post pictures of there lunch. Maybe to remind themselves of what they have?
: Sitting at the cafeteria at work. Just wondering if I’ll be doing what I’m doing 5 Years from now.
: I found out that one of my coworkers liked West world as well. I’m excited to have someone to talk to about it.
: I’ve got 44 minutes before I have to head home. I’m planning on using this time to improve my blog.
: I made a cake last night. Not happy with the frosting but I thin the rest of it should be fine.
: I don’t have any where else to post my clips but Twitter! I’ve got to come up with a better plan.
: We’ve been together for a long time.
: Just enjoying a salad while hanging out with my family.
: I don’t know where I want to go with social media.
: Well, starting another day and it looks like allergies are already fighting against me.
: I don’t know what this is, but it makes me calm.
: Another picture of a desert island
: Just made a quick sketch for no other reason but to relax and smile
: The view from a window next to my cubicle.
: Woke up early to get to work today. It’s nice to have a sense of accomplishment this early in the day.