MandarisFor 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.
12 Days of Web
A year-end celebration of fundamental web technologies: HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
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. Sometimes we don’t get a chance to watch a lot of films so this one was something that we both picked. What was interesting was my wife thought I didn’t like romcom, but I do. It reminds me that there’s always room for romance and the way that I think of romance is not the only correct way of doing it.
I really recommend this for someone who wants something a little lite and a little fun. I enjoy the fact that the people inside the movie weren’t all bad. In some romcoms, you have these archetypes are just that way so the audience doesn’t like them. They do things that are really really dishonest or social unacceptable and don’t feel bad when they aren’t part of the happy ending. In this film, the side characters had their faults but they weren’t bad people; they just made some bad decisions or they just grew apart from the leads.
If you are interested, here is the trailer for Something From Tiffany’s
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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.
