Hey, I’m Jim Mitchell. Wrangler of nerds. Herder of cats. Butcher of code. Abuser of ellipses... Statistically, I probably like you.

Here’s what I’m up to

The all-hands event is done. Some minor glitches, but considering there was zero opportunity given for a dry-run, I think it turned out okay. It’s funny to hear conversations around me now that I’m back at my desk. Everyone has an opinion. I’m making a list of the haters so I can recommend they do the job next time.

The AV experts came in this morning to review my setup for the all-hands meeting tomorrow morning. Both gave it a thumbs up and actually complimented me on my work. Feather, cap, say hello.

I managed to get myself voluntold to be the person who sets up and runs tech for a company all-hands meeting next week because of the fact that I know the difference between an XLR and RCA cable. That means today will be a guessing game of what the previous person did to make these things happen. Oh, and I have to keep the seven meetings I already had on calendar for the day too.

I updated my site this morning to begin using the first five words of posts that don’t have a title as a slug (similar to how Micro.blog behaves), rather than using a numeric post id. I think the URLs look better this way.

I’ve been exclusively using my Keychron K3 keyboard for all typing for the last month, shuttling it back and forth to work with me. I forgot it at home today and had to use my work Apple keyboard instead. I forgot how much I like the feel of it. I think a switch back to this keyboard is in order.

Apologies to anyone who might have seen a bunch of posts in my RSS feed yesterday. I was working on making Clodd CMS fully Micropub compliant and running the work through the Micropub.rocks test cases.

Is it okay if I share my screen?

If you call a meeting, do the work to earn it. Make sure the right people are there, make sure you’re prepared and make sure they are too. Use any excuse you can to cancel the meeting and replace it with a memo, one that’s short, clear and designed to accept responsibility.

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Cache Out v1.5.0 Released

I'm excited to share that an update to Cache Out was released yesterday, adding new browser support along with several other enhancements.

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