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Mac Themes Garden

Introducing Mac Themes Garden! | damien’s zone

It is a website showcasing more than 3,000 (and counting) Kaleidoscope from the Classic Mac era, ready to be seen, downloaded and explored! Check it out!

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The Law of Enterprise Software

On Laws of Nature, Excel and Word - Nitor

Every piece of enterprise software eventually evolves into either reading or writing Excel files.

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Weeklog 2025-13

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.

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Exception: Illegal Instruction - The Sad Mac T-Shirt

A nostalgic t-shirt featuring the “Sad Mac” error for fans of vintage Macintosh computers is available for purchase from Cotton Bureau.

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Huge mnml Theme Updates

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.

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mnml Theme Update - Photos Page Redux

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.

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mnml Theme Update - Photos Page

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.

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Apple Six Color Hello T-Shirt

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.

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Unoffically Official Micro.blog Swag

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.

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AppleScript to Generate Strong Passwords

I’d totally forgotten I wrote this AppleScript until I needed to create a strong password this morning. If you’re a Mac user and need to generate unique strong passwords, give this script a try.

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Even More mnml Updates

I’ve been a busy guy today. More updates to mnml are available for those using the theme.

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Six Color Tiger MacOS Wallpaper

Because I can never just create one thing and then walk away from it, here’s another Apple six-color inspired wallpaper.

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Apple Six Color Inspired Wallpaper

I picked up a license for Acorn 8.0 this morning and immediately started playing with features.

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Another mnml Update

It seems I’m on a mnml theme development roll this weekend.

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Micro.blog mnml Theme Updates

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.

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App Defaults 2024

I made more changes to my app defaults in the last year than I first realized.

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Giving Thanks

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.

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No to Everything Else

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.

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Showing the American Flag Respect

How to Respect the American Flag - National Flag Foundation

The American Flag is a representation of our country, our people, and our devotion to our nation. Respecting the American Flag and the principles that it symbolizes requires us to treat it with a high level of care at all times. The United States Flag Code sets forth key guidelines for properly handling the American Flag.

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No Words

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.

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The Unofficially Official Micro.blog Swag

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?

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Changing Link Colors for the mnml Theme

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.

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Week Log 2024-43

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…

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Let Your Yes Be "Hell Yeah!" and Your No, No

Hell Yeah or No | Derek Sivers

If you feel anything less than “hell yeah!” about something, say no.

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Still More WordPress Drama

Employees Describe an Environment of Paranoia and Fear Inside Automattic Over WordPress Chaos

“We were unaware that Matt redirected sign-up emails until current Automattic employees contacted our support team,” a spokesperson for Blind told me, adding that they’d “never seen a CEO or executive try to limit their employees from signing up for Blind by redirecting emails.”

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Unsung Heros of the Deep Sea

The deep-sea ‘emergency service’ that keeps the internet running

Ninety-nine percent of the world’s digital communications rely on subsea cables. When they break, it could spell disaster for a whole country’s internet. How do you fix a fault at the bottom of the ocean?

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Text-Only & Minimalist News Sites

A List Of Text-Only & Minimalist News Sites - GreyCoder

Text-only websites are quite useful, especially today, because web pages are increasingly filled with ads, videos, and bandwidth-heavy content.

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Even More WordPress Drama

WordPress.org’s latest move involves taking control of a WP Engine plugin - The Verge

It’s not clear what security problem Mullenweg is referring to in the post. He writes that he’s “invoking point 18 of the plugin directory guidelines,” in which the WordPress team reserves several rights, including removing a plugin, or changing it “without developer consent.” Mullenweg explains that the move has to do with WP Engine’s recently-filed lawsuit against him and Automattic.

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A Useful BBEdit AppleScript

Soft-Wrap Text in BBEdit - Uncorrected

An oldie but goodie from John Gruber that I just discovered while looking for ways to soft-wrap text in BBEdit:

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Social Media Hasn't Killed the Personal Blog Yet

Remember the late 90s and early 2000s when personal blogs were the thing?

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