MandarisI 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
On the brink of separation, Ethan and Sophie escape to a beautiful vacation house for a weekend getaway in an attempt to save their marriage. What begins as a romantic and fun retreat soon becomes surreal, when an unexpected discovery forces the two to examine themselves, their relationship, and their future.
Here is the trailer on YouTube
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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.
Not cool.
Still, I really enjoyed spending time with my wife, so thank you film for giving me that opportunity.
Description from The Movie Database
Although strangers Sara and Jonathan are both already in relationships, they realize they have genuine chemistry after a chance encounter – but part company soon after. Years later, they each yearn to reunite, despite being destined for the altar. But to give true love a chance, they have to find one another again.
Here is a link to the Serendipity trailer on YouTube.
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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.
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.
Happy Holidays.