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Reflections, projects, and ideas worth sharing in more than a passing thought.

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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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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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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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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My Internet Journey

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 was a fancy way of saying I played in the mud nearly every day.

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A Bicycle and Barbed Wire

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.

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Pour One Out for Henry

I’m saddened to learn of the passing of Henry Carvajal yesterday after battling cancer for a year and a half.

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The Day I Met Martin Mull

Hearing of the passing of Martin Mull reminded me of the time that I sort of met him quite by accident.

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On The Fragility of Life

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.

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My 2023 Mac Apps of the Year

I planned on publishing a post like this myself.

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Tinylytics for Micro.blog v3.1.0

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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.

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My App Defaults

I’ve always preferred to support indie developers, so will usually go that route if their app is as good or better than the Apple default.

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The Beatles Song That Really Isn't a Beatles Song

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.

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Tinylytics for Micro.blog 3.0 Released

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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.

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Tinylytics for Micro.blog v2.1 Released

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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.

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Tinylytics for Micro.blog 2.0 Release

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I’m happy to share that my Tinylytics for Micro.blog plug-in has been released as a 2.0 version.

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Tinylytics for Micro.blog Updated to 1.0.6

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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.

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New Plugin: Tinylytics for Micro.blog

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I published my very first Micro.blog plugin today: Tinylytics for Micro.blog. You can find it in the Micro.blog plugin directory.

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