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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.

I came across this the other day.

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".

This is sometimes how I think about my posts on the labarum theme.

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.

With that being said, I can’t do everything.

In fact, I should not do everything.

Case in point, I was looking into getting my mastodon account verified and I was attempting to pull the host and username from the metadata that Micro.blog provides.

Otávio created a plugin [GitHub Repo] that references $.Params.mastodon.hostname but this is only available on the post level. I’d like it in the head so that I can get associated accounts validated and for other tools like browser extensions.

I sent an email to @manton and he verified this behavior. I put some code into the theme and it will eventually work without users having to do anything more.

But, what can I do until then?

I thought about making my own plugin that a user can put in the values for hostname and username. I could make my own separate branch of the theme that would have this hard coded. Since I’m working on this, maybe I could also add a separate piece to add more control over avatars and images.

I could … I could … I could …

No.

I know that I’m not the only one who feels that they could implement things to make things better. But, this isn’t my specialty. This is a fun project.

I quick search of plugins and I found the Meta tags plugin [GitHub Repo] by Manton.

I put the snippet that I wanted in and boom!

Problem solved.

The lesson?

I, you, and everyone out there don’t need to make everything.

Don’t let your perfect vision of what things are supposed to be stop you. Use the time that you have now to make and do something else.

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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.

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.blog and one of them is Matt Langford. He’s got a wonderful theme called Tiny Theme.

In it, he has different logic to test whether a certain plugin is installed and then perform logic for it.

{{ if templates.Exists "partials/reply-by-email.html" }}
  <li>{{ partial "reply-by-email.html" . }}</li>
{{ end }}

With labarum, I place these all in one <div> and hope that the underlying plugin doesn’t decide to add multiple lines some day in the future.

I’m using the browsers nature of not rendering the empty block elements.

What about tinylytics for labarum?

I ran into an issue when I attempted to add the tinylytics plugin for Micro.blog to the theme like the other plugins. Most likely a user error on my end caused by a conflict between when I initially added tinylytics and this plugin.

I didn’t want to have this update halted while I attempted to fix this.

As always, feel free to contact me with any and all feedback.

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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. I’m not going back.

I think that’s kind of the whole vibe of the movie.

Things happen in a scene and then we go on to the next scene. A lot like the game.

Sure, I will tell people that I liked it but I don’t think I’ll ever watch this again.

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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.

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.

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?

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.

I took a step back and decided to listen to the entire album from the beginning with the view point that this is supposed to be different.

I’m listening to it again as I write this and I think it falls some where between a cover version and an acoustic mix. I think the article that I linked to does a better job of explaining it.

For me, the cognitive dissonance sometimes gets me out of the grove. The album moves from something that I would look at to pull songs from for a dance party to an album that I would look at for a speakeasy; a party where people are expected to talk over it.

That’s not to say it’s a bad thing. It’s definitely a different take on a record that I listened to on a regular basis.

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I've used this for several years. I've found a couple gems and it's really cool to see fresh takes on apps.