Thursday, November 28, 2024
I’m up early this morning. My plan was to get up at 4:00 am, put the turkey in brine and then go back to bed for a few hours. But as my mind is prone to do, I began pondering all the things in my life I’m thankful for. So I thought I’d share some of them.
Tuesday, November 26, 2024
I took some time off work during the Thanksgiving holiday after grinding on a work project for a really long time. I’ve found myself at a point over the last six months where I just don’t feel effective and needed to figure out why.
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. I was confident common sense and a true sense of patriotism would prevail. I slept soundly.
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?
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.
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…
Saturday, September 21, 2024
Remember the late 90s and early 2000s when personal blogs were the thing? Everybody had one and they were like online journals; authentic, raw, and an outlet for personal thoughts, ideas, and sometimes questionable opinions.
It kind of feels like those days are behind us, buried under the avalanche of social media. But are they really?
Sunday, August 4, 2024
I remember the first time I touched a computer. I was in my early twenties and worked as a customer service rep for the local water company, which is a fancy way of saying I played in the mud on an almost daily basis.
Monday, July 22, 2024
Here’s another one of those childhood memories that left a scar; literally. This one is about the time I tried to stop my out of control bicycle using a barbed wire fence.
It was probably as painful as it sounds. Honestly, I can’t remember if it was.
Saturday, June 29, 2024
Hearing of the passing of Martin Mull reminded me of the time that I sort of met him quite by accident.
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.
Tuesday, April 2, 2024
My initial thoughts on the MacBook Air M3 15" fully spec’d model…
Wednesday, March 6, 2024
Events happen in our lives that make us do a full stop and give a long, hard look at how things are. This was one of those events that slapped me in the face so hard I’m still having a hard time grasping it.
Tuesday, January 2, 2024
I planned on publishing a post like this myself, but @canion beat me to the punch, getting his out first… I’m going to use the same criteria he uses for making the cut:
For my purposes, to be considered an App of the Year, the software needs to be something I used extensively, value and enjoy. I also must feel I would miss them if they suddenly went away. Of course, it also needs to be a Mac App.
Friday, December 22, 2023
I’ve relaunched jimmitchell.org on the WordPress platform to have a space for my WP Tinylytics plugin. I’ll be using the site to “eat my own dog food” as they say while I develop the plugin for public use. The goal is to eventually make it available in the WordPress plugin repository.
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.
Tuesday, November 21, 2023
I wasn’t going to do a post like this… But what the heck, all the popular kids are doing it this week, so why shouldn’t I, right?
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.
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.
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.
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.
Saturday, July 1, 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.
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.
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. One of the readers left a comment asking for a way to achieve the following tasks:
- Select a folder from Finder.
- Store the folder name as “x”.
- Compress all files and sub-folders within the folder “x”, including their paths.
- Rename the resulting zip file as “x.zip”.
- Delete all the files that were used to create the zip file.
Tuesday, December 10, 2019
No matter how well-intentioned we are, sometimes we allow things to sneak into our lives under the guise of it being something important.
Saturday, November 9, 2019
Yay! It’s your first Dreamforce!
You’re pumped to finally be part of the magic. I bet you’ve already looked at a lot of other blogs to learn how to be ready before you landed here.
These are a few of my recommendations to make it a more memorable experience.
Sunday, July 29, 2018
One of my earliest childhood memories is traumatic. At least it would seem traumatic to a three-and-a-half-year-old little boy. Though it didn’t turn out to be the end of the world, it seemed like hell when it happened. I still carry the memory with me more than a half-century later, so it damaged me on some level.
Friday, July 27, 2018
Eventually you use up every excuse in your book for not doing the thing you keep saying you’re going to do. You’ve procrastinated yourself into a corner and realize it’s either time to just do it, or finally forget about it and move on.
Saturday, April 28, 2018
After nearly fifty years, I can still remember the first time I smoked a cigarette. It was early spring and my family lived on a farm in a semi-rural part of Colorado, a little north of Denver, at the foot of the Rocky Mountains.
Thursday, April 13, 2017
Life is so full of distractions. It seems everything is vying for our attention in one way or another these days, with most of it coming from our electronic gadgets.