Friendsgiving, 2020 - ★★

Movie poster for Friendsgiving

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.

This is a site with a lot of great examples of what you can do with CSS and semantic HTML.

Labarum: Ruling the horizon

A screen shot with numbers pointing to various issues with horizontal rules.
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 used the Inspect feature of the browser to check out what was determining the behavior of the line and saw that the ducking was caused by setting overflow: visible in the normalize.css. This isn’t the first time that I’ve run into an issue with something like this. As the browsers move closer and closer to interoperability, I’ve been questioning whether having normalize.css as part of the theme is important.

Ultimately, I decided to add the following css rule to fix the issues and will have to reevaluate later.

hr {
  color: var(--accent);
  overflow: auto;
} 

Feeding the Robots

I’ve been reevaluating the meta tags I had defined in a previous post. I was happy that it passes the validation tests but I’ve been thinking about how I share my writing.

Original, I truncated the description fields because I read that it’s better for SEO. But why? Search is results are getting worse and worse. It’s ultimately up to whatever social network to take the information and display it. Going forward, I am using the .Summary for the description.

I also added a property that allows you to set your mastodon username if you’re using something other than micro.blog.

I tested putting all the meta comments into one line to reduce repetition as in the following.

<meta property="og:title" itemprop="name" 
  content="MicroPost - &#123;&#123; .Site.Title}}" />

Unfortunately, the W3 validator marks it as invalid. I switch it to having multiple lines that use the same content. I thought about contacting the people who set the criteria for the test, but decided not to at this time.

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. BusyContacts is now the one I go to when I want to do more than just add information.)
  • 🌐 Browser: I separate my browsing with different browsers. Safari and Vivaldi are primary and Firefox (both regular and dev) for other stuff.
  • 💬 Chat: Messages.app
  • 🔖 Bookmarks: Safari
  • 📑 Read It Later: Later? Safari
  • 📜 Word Processing: Pages (Yes, but I don't write like that any more)
  • 📈 Spreadsheets: Excel
  • 📊 Presentations: Keynote
  • 🛒 Shopping Lists: Notes.app (Shared note with checkboxes)
  • 🍴 Meal Planning: Talking with my with wife
  • 💰 Budgeting and Personal Finance: Excel
  • 📰 News: YouTube
  • 🎵 Music: Apple Music
  • 🎤 Podcasts: Overcast
  • 🔐 Password Management: 1password

Rob Knight has a wonderful collection of people who are sharing what their default applications are.

Lillie in the morning

Dog on blanket

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.

Tv showing the magic school bus

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.

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar, 2023 - ★★★

Movie poster for The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar

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.