😡 Good old USPS… Totally mis-delivered my Field Notes order. That’s $50 down the drain. I have zero faith the wrong recipient will do the right thing, and USPS will simply say “but, it’s delivered…”
Thoughts
I have a sickness… When I see something misaligned by even one or two pixels in one of my designs, it will drive me absolutely nuts until I can fix it. I’m too much of a perfectionist.
“Pretty is something to be observed. Beauty is something to be admired.” - My wife as she and I were talking about Melania Trump.
She’s spot on… The woman may be pretty, but she’s far from beautiful.
I never really cared much for, or about TikTok and the other “corporate” social platforms, and I still don’t… The IndieWeb is where’s it’s at.
If you’re a user of the Micro.Masonry plugin, it got a full rewrite this morning to handle large image collections far more gracefully than it was before.
I took our 15-year-old Chihuahua to the vet for a checkup. She’s on almost as many pills as I am now. Poor old girl.
Trying out a guestbook option on the site. Who will be the first to sign?
Yo! Cotton Bureau merchandise is on sale for 20% off until midnight tonight using the code “FLASHSALEFRIDAY” at checkout. If you’ve been on the fence about getting that Micro.blog merch, today’s the day for it. Here’s the page…
I’m going to migrate my long standing TextExpander snippets to Raycast today and apply that bit of money to a Raycast Pro subscription. There’s so much Raycast power I’ve not even tapped into yet…
I’ve decided to un-alias (de-alias?) my Micro.blog Fediverse handle from my social.jimmitchell.org Mastodon username. I will, however, continue to cross-post to my instance. We’ll see how this goes. It might mean conversations happening in two different places, but I think that’s okay.
😬 Much to my chagrin, I discovered that the photos page for my mnml theme is not rendering photos very well without a plugin. Eek. This will be getting addressed tonight.
Dusting off the old T-SQL Kung Fu skills to quickly pull together summarized data for the higher ups. I miss this kind of work sometimes…
A week of less than 10% humidity is wreaking havoc on my hands. They’re dry, scaly, and cold, which is making it hard as heck to type anything. I don’t do lotion often, but I think it’s going to happen today.
Another experiment I’m trying this week: Giving Apple Reminders a shot in place of Things. This one may not stick. The friction to get a reminder entered to my liking quickly is way more effort than Things' quick entry. We’ll see…
I’m experimenting this week… First: Coffee without sweetener. I’ve been a one Stevia packet guy for years. I’m going to ditch it for straight black coffee. Second: Analog notes in a Field Notes memo book instead of digital notes in Obsidian. Both should be interesting.
Somehow, I suddenly have far more usb-c to lightning cables than I know what to do with.
I’m taking another look at Drafts today. I had a pro subscription a year ago, but I never took the time to really dig into what it was capable of before it lapsed. I’m kind of seeing the potential here, but this is definitely an app I’ll have to RTFM on…
Woah! Broke 10,000 lifetime views as tracked by Tinylytics on my site today thanks to @manton’s boost of my Micro.blog swag post. Not earth shattering news by any means, but it is a nice number to see.
So… Given the Meta news today, I’m 100% done with Zuck’s platforms and will be deleting accounts as soon as I’m home tonight. I think I’m going to ditch Bluesky while I’m at it since I’ve gotten nothing worthwhile out of that one either. Mastodon and Micro.blog is where I’ll be from now on.
It’s such a trip when I browse to a referring site I see in my daily Tinylytics stats and find the site using my mnml theme. Just… Wow. 🤯
My wife, son and I went to a local restaurant to have an early New Year’s Eve dinner. I was happy to see that the 20 or so TVs they had in the establishment were all VIZIO 65" P-Series models. Thanks to Mama’s on 39 for contributing to my paycheck!
New Year’s Day means three things in the Mitchell house: The Rose Parade on TV, a big bacon and eggs breakfast, and Chili con Carne simmering on the stove. I’m adding a twist this year and smoking a round cut first. I think it’ll add a nice twist to an already family favorite.
Happy New Year all…
My wife and I walked downtown for coffee and to check out the waves. Since our beach is south-facing, the wrap around west swell is producing unorganized closeout mush. We decided it wasn’t worth the extra walk to the pier for a closer look. The coffee from Philz was excellent, as it always is.
Hmm… Seems there’s some banding issues with the two desktop images I created yesterday after downloading them to my work laptop. They look fine on the personal laptop where I created them. Will investigate once I’m home. I wonder if Micro.blog adds extra compression to .heic files when uploaded?
I made it through the certification bootcamp and actually learned some new things. It’s reinvigorated my interest for Apex and LWC on the Salesforce platform, which kind of makes me wish I could go back to just being a developer and create cool stuff again rather than being a nerd wrangler.
Wednesday, December 18, 2024 →
Pushed a few minor tweaks to mnml that should show up in Micro.blog installed plugins shortly (v2.0.8). Keep an eye out…
Wednesday, December 18, 2024 →
I’m second guessing whether I should have used the melodicmayhem.net domain I own for my Mastodon instance. That would have been a really cool instance name… But then, I really like being “on brand” with my jimmitchell.org subdomain. Makes no difference, I’m committed.
I’ll be doing an intense online bootcamp training for my next Salesforce certification all week long – eight hours a day for five days. It’s all stuff I’ve been doing one way or another for the last 15 years, but being a people manager for the last three has made my mojo rusty. This should be fun…
I made the switch to my own hosted Mastodon instance via Masto.host today. The process was super-simple. I’ve wanted my own instance for a long time and see it worth the $6 a month to have control.
Speaking of mnml, I’ve just added styles for Micro.blog’s new photo collections feature. Keep an eye out for that update (v2.0.3) in your plugins area.