Yo! Cotton Bureau merchandise is on sale for 20% off until midnight tonight using the code “FLASHSALEFRIDAY” at checkout. If you’ve been on the fence about getting that Micro.blog merch, today’s the day for it. Here’s the page…
I’m going to migrate my long standing TextExpander snippets to Raycast today and apply that bit of money to a Raycast Pro subscription. There’s so much Raycast power I’ve not even tapped into yet…
I’ve decided to un-alias (de-alias?) my Micro.blog Fediverse handle from my social.jimmitchell.org Mastodon username. I will, however, continue to cross-post to my instance. We’ll see how this goes. It might mean conversations happening in two different places, but I think that’s okay.
mnml Theme Update - Photos Page Redux
Friday, January 17, 2025
Hot on the tail of yesterday’s mnml update, I’ve released another update (v2.2.1) that better handles the loading and resizing of images when changing the size of your browser window.
mnml Theme Update - Photos Page
Thursday, January 16, 2025
As I mentioned yesterday, I recently discovered that the photos page for my mnml theme was not rendering images on the photo page very well without using one of the plugins available in the plugins directory. I’ve released an update to version 2.2.0 that fixes this.
😬 Much to my chagrin, I discovered that the photos page for my mnml theme is not rendering photos very well without a plugin. Eek. This will be getting addressed tonight.
Dusting off the old T-SQL Kung Fu skills to quickly pull together summarized data for the higher ups. I miss this kind of work sometimes…
A week of less than 10% humidity is wreaking havoc on my hands. They’re dry, scaly, and cold, which is making it hard as heck to type anything. I don’t do lotion often, but I think it’s going to happen today.
Another experiment I’m trying this week: Giving Apple Reminders a shot in place of Things. This one may not stick. The friction to get a reminder entered to my liking quickly is way more effort than Things' quick entry. We’ll see…
I’m experimenting this week… First: Coffee without sweetener. I’ve been a one Stevia packet guy for years. I’m going to ditch it for straight black coffee. Second: Analog notes in a Field Notes memo book instead of digital notes in Obsidian. Both should be interesting.
Somehow, I suddenly have far more usb-c to lightning cables than I know what to do with.
I’m taking another look at Drafts today. I had a pro subscription a year ago, but I never took the time to really dig into what it was capable of before it lapsed. I’m kind of seeing the potential here, but this is definitely an app I’ll have to RTFM on…
Apple Six Color Hello T-Shirt
Wednesday, January 8, 2025
Since I’m on the topic of t-shirts and swag, I just published a new design on Cotton Bureau of my take on the classic Mac “hello” graphic with the retro Apple six color palette.
Woah! Broke 10,000 lifetime views as tracked by Tinylytics on my site today thanks to @manton’s boost of my Micro.blog swag post. Not earth shattering news by any means, but it is a nice number to see.
Unoffically Official Micro.blog Swag
Tuesday, January 7, 2025
If you’ve missed my previous posts about the Unofficially Official Micro.blog swag available on Cotton Bureau, here they are all in one place.
So… Given the Meta news today, I’m 100% done with Zuck’s platforms and will be deleting accounts as soon as I’m home tonight. I think I’m going to ditch Bluesky while I’m at it since I’ve gotten nothing worthwhile out of that one either. Mastodon and Micro.blog is where I’ll be from now on.
AppleScript to Generate Strong Passwords
Tuesday, January 7, 2025
I’d totally forgotten about this resource until I needed to create a strong password this morning.
It’s such a trip when I browse to a referring site I see in my daily Tinylytics stats and find the site using my mnml theme. Just… Wow. 🤯
My wife, son and I went to a local restaurant to have an early New Year’s Eve dinner. I was happy to see that the 20 or so TVs they had in the establishment were all VIZIO 65" P-Series models. Thanks to Mama’s on 39 for contributing to my paycheck!
New Year’s Day means three things in the Mitchell house: The Rose Parade on TV, a big bacon and eggs breakfast, and Chili con Carne simmering on the stove. I’m adding a twist this year and smoking a round cut first. I think it’ll add a nice twist to an already family favorite.
Happy New Year all…