Mandaris

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.

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

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.

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.

Sometimes, I just like to take the picture and enjoy the feeling that it brings to me.

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.