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. 🤯
Thoughts
Quick notes, scattered ideas, and candid updates from whatever’s on my mind.
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…
Another mnml update to v2.1.1 that gracefully handles a “more” summary break added to content without a post title.
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.
A quick test of the new Photo Collections Micro.blog feature.
📷 Bombs away!
Seems my monitor woes may not be the Sequoia update after all. Rather, it looks like it’s the monitor itself. It exhibited the same behavior with a machine running Sonoma that previously worked fine. Bummer. I really liked that monitor…
This may sound whiny, so feel free to ignore it if you like… Today is one of those days I have to be “on” personality-wise for work (vendor meetings, holiday party, etc.), but I’m just not feeling it. The only option is to put on the happy mask and just get it done. 🤗
Hmm… After updating to macOS Sequoia 15.2 last night, my laptop seems to randomly decide it doesn’t want to see my external monitor.
The Walmart VIZIO acquisition closed today. So… That now officially makes me an Associate (employee) of the largest company in the world when measured by both revenue and FTE head count. 🤔
Well… Day one back from a week off and I do believe I’m ready for another week away already.
Giving Zen Browser a try today. So far, I really like what I see. The fact that it’s built on Firefox is a huge plus.
My wife and I discussing regrets this morning… If you can look back on a mistake, learn something from it, and apply it to your life now, there is no such thing as a regret to me. It was simply a learning moment. That’s why I have no regrets in my life. Every dumb choice brought me to right now.
The annual Thanksgiving bike ride along the beach. It never disappoints.
Wednesday, November 27, 2024 →
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Wednesday, November 27, 2024 →
I added a Now page to my site today. Nothing special, but it’s to serve as more of a reminder to myself about the things I need to keep in focus right now.
I took a mini-vacation this week with it being Thanksgiving and all, so I made a little time this morning to finally update my WordPress plugins with some fixes & updates they needed.
In case you haven’t grabbed yours yet, or didn’t know it was even a thing…
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I really like Ranchero Software’s philosophy when it comes to supporting NetNewsWire. This is what open source should be.
My wife and I getting creative in the kitchen tonight. Chicken breast tenders, ricotta, spinach, and sun dried tomato with a dash of garlic. It did not suck…
I’m happy to share that the long-running project from hell has successfully deployed. There will be additional user support over the next weeks, but today marks a milestone for a project that’s taken more than three and a half years to complete. I’m not sure how I feel about it just yet…
After receiving positive feedback to the scroll to top option added to the dev version of my mnml Micro.blog theme, I’ve added it to the public version and released it. If you’re using the theme, you can upgrade from your site’s Micro.blog plug-ins page. Enjoy!