😡 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…”
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 did before.
Huge mnml Theme Updates
What do I like to do on a quiet Saturday afternoon? I like to work on making mnml even better than it already was, that’s what!
I like grid photo layouts well enough, but what I like even more is a nice masonry style photo layout. So, the latest version of mnml has the option to choose between a grid or masonry photos layout on your own.
Note: I recommend uninstalling any photos plugin you might already be using if you want to use one of the native options because it will override mnml’s options.
But wait, there’s more…
Because some may not want to display every single image from your blog on your photos page, and instead maybe just display images from a particular category, that’s an option now as well.
Mess around with the options until you find your happy place. Then blog your heart out.
A huge thanks goes out to everyone who’ve sent kind words, and a special thanks to those who’ve parted with cold hard cash to support my efforts on this project. Yeah, that’s a bit of a shameless plug… Do you blame me?
My mind is blown, and my heart is full.
Oh, and yes, I still have ideas to work on…
✌🏻❤️
📷 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.
mnml Theme Update - Photos Page Redux
Hot on the tail of yesterday’s mnml update, I’ve released another update (v2.2.1) that better handles the loading and resizing of images when changing the size of your browser window.
Go to your Micro.blog plugins page to update.
Also, if you’d like the photo grid to not quite be full width, here’s a trick to make it just a little narrower, like I’m doing on my photos page. After setting the full width photos page option, add this CSS snippet to your Micro.blog Custom CSS (Design > Open Theme > Custom CSS) and save it…
main.photos-wide {
max-width: 80rem;
}
That’s it. Adjust the max-width value to your liking. You can use either “px” or “rem” values. 1rem equals 10px in this theme, so 80rem is equal to 800px in the example above.
Other ideas are in the works. Keep an eye out if you’re using mnml… 🤓
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.
While I was at it, I included an option to display your photos grid in either a wide or narrow format. Wide format will show a four-across grid, whereas the default (unchecked) option shows a three-across grid.
It should be noted that if you’re already using a photos plugin, that plugin will override the theme’s default photos page and the wide page format will not be enabled.
If you want to see the wide format in action, check out my photos page.
There’s still a little work to do on this, but it’s a heck of a lot better than what it was.
If you have questions, shoot me an email or ping me on Mastodon.
Enjoy! ✌🏻❤️
😬 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…