Weeklog 2025-13
Sunday, March 30, 2025
It’s been a while since my last Weeklog post, so it’s time to summarize recent events in another one. A lot more happened than I realized at first.
Posts
Exception: Illegal Instruction - The Sad Mac T-Shirt
Saturday, January 25, 2025
A nostalgic t-shirt featuring the “Sad Mac” error for fans of vintage Macintosh computers is available for purchase from Cotton Bureau.
Huge mnml Theme Updates
Saturday, January 18, 2025
The latest update for the mnml theme now offers users the choice between grid and masonry photo layouts and the option to display images from specific categories.
mnml Theme Update - Photos Page Redux
Friday, January 17, 2025
A new update (v2.2.1) for the mnml theme improves image loading and resizing, and provides a CSS trick to adjust photo grid width.
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.
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.
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.
Even More mnml Updates
Saturday, December 21, 2024
I’ve been a busy guy today. More updates to mnml are available for those using the theme.
Another mnml Update
Sunday, December 15, 2024
It seems I’m on a mnml theme development roll this weekend.
Micro.blog mnml Theme Updates
Saturday, December 14, 2024
If you’re a Micro.blog user who uses my mnml theme, I made a few updates I’ve been ruminating on for a while that makes it a little more customizable.
Once you’ve updated from your Micro.blog plugins page, you’ll see a new settings option to manage the customizations.
No Words
Wednesday, November 6, 2024
I went to bed concerned with what I was seeing, but with the hope that democracy would do its thing and a tyrant would be defeated.
The Unofficially Official Micro.blog Swag
Wednesday, October 30, 2024
You may have seen my teaser for this yesterday. Or not… 😁
Do you love Micro.blog and wish you could represent the platform while you’re out and about at the grocery store, sporting event, work or nerdy conference?
Changing Link Colors for the mnml Theme
Sunday, October 27, 2024
Since this question will likely come sooner or later…
When I was developing mnml, I wanted to give users the ability to set their own link colors for both light and dark modes. However, in my testing, there were challenges that would have caused colors a user set to get overwritten if I needed to release an update. So, another approach was needed.
Week Log 2024-43
Friday, October 25, 2024
Taking ideas from a few others, I’m going to try something new and start a long form post of things that happened during the week. The goal is a stream of consciousness that gets published with minimal editing. Just write and publish – though some copy editing is allowed…
Social Media Hasn't Killed the Personal Blog Yet
Saturday, September 21, 2024
Remember the late 90s and early 2000s when personal blogs were the thing?
Pour One Out for Henry
Friday, June 28, 2024
I’m saddened to learn of the passing of Henry Carvajal yesterday after battling cancer for a year and a half.
Macbook Air M3 15" First Impressions
Tuesday, April 2, 2024
My initial thoughts on the MacBook Air M3 15" fully spec’d model…
Tinylytics for Micro.blog v3.1.0
Sunday, November 26, 2023
I’m excited to share I’ve released a new version of my Tinylytics for Micro.blog plugin, bringing it to version 3.1.0. You should see an update in your site’s plugins section soon if not already.
The Beatles Song That Really Isn't a Beatles Song
Friday, November 3, 2023
There’s a lot of hubbub in the news and online about the “new Beatles song” that dropped yesterday. As a life-long semi-pro musician, this headline hits a sour note with me.
Tinylytics for Micro.blog 3.0 Released
Thursday, October 19, 2023
It took a minute to wrap up, but I’m happy to announce that my Tinylytics for Micro.blog plugin has been updated to version 3.0, adding a bunch of new options to bring it to parity with Tinylytics.app features @vincent has released over the last couple of months.
Tinylytics for Micro.blog v2.1 Released
Tuesday, July 11, 2023
Hot on the heels of uptime monitoring on Tinylytics, I’m stoked to share that my Tinylytics for Micro.blog plug-in has been released as a 2.1 version to take advantage of it.
Tinylytics for Micro.blog 2.0 Release
Saturday, July 8, 2023
I’m happy to share that my Tinylytics for Micro.blog plug-in has been released as a 2.0 version.
Tinylytics for Micro.blog Updated to 1.0.6
Sunday, July 2, 2023
Fresh on the heels of new Tinylytics.app updates, my Tinylytics for Micro.blog plug-in has been updated to take advantage of the new Kudos feature introduced in the latest release. If you look at your installed site plug-ins, you should see an update available as 1.0.6.
New Plugin: Tinylytics for Micro.blog
Tuesday, June 27, 2023
I published my very first Micro.blog plugin today: Tinylytics for Micro.blog. You can find it in the Micro.blog plugin directory.
A Better AppleScript to Compress Files or Folders
Friday, April 14, 2023
A while ago, I created an AppleScript that allows you to compress files and folders by simply dropping them onto the applet.
It's Your First Dreamforce. What Should You Expect?
Saturday, November 9, 2019
Yay! It’s your first Dreamforce! You’re pumped to finally be part of the magic…
Passing Your Salesforce ADM201 Certification Exam
Wednesday, October 15, 2014
From the first week I began working with Salesforce, I decided attaining certification was something I wanted to pursue.
Salesforce Flows, Visualforce and Context
Wednesday, July 23, 2014
I was asked to find a solution for our field reps that would simplify the process of adding a completed task to their activities when they visited one of our retail stores.
Making a Field Appear Required on a Visualforce Page
Friday, October 19, 2012
I’ve been working on a force.com app with the requirement that a user must enter a valid email address on a Visualforce page before being able to save a record.
AppleScript to Add Files in the Mac Finder
Friday, August 12, 2011
Today I had the need to add a bunch of named text files to a folder in the Finder on my Mac.