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.
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… 🤓
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…
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.
Click the image to buy one of your own!
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.
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.
I just added the mug as an on-demand option.
Enjoy!
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.
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.
It works really well when used along with FastScripts by Daniel Jaklut.
property allowedCharacters : {33, 35, 36, 37, 38, 42, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 61, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122}
property givenPasswordLength : 21 -- sets the preferred password length
repeat while true
try
set givenPasswordLength to text returned of (display dialog "Enter desired password length:" with title "Password Generator" default answer givenPasswordLength)
set givenPasswordLength to givenPasswordLength as integer
if givenPasswordLength is not greater than 0 then error "Please enter a valid positive integer."
exit repeat
on error errMsg
display alert "Error" message errMsg as warning
return
end try
end repeat
repeat while true
try
set generatedPassword to generatePassword()
set dialogResult to (display dialog "New generated password:" & return & return & generatedPassword with title "Password Generator" buttons {"Cancel", "Refresh", "Copy"} default button "Copy" cancel button "Cancel")
if button returned of dialogResult is "Copy" then
set the clipboard to generatedPassword as string
exit repeat
else if button returned of dialogResult is "Cancel" then
exit repeat
end if
on error errMsg
display alert "Error" message errMsg as warning
return
end try
end repeat
on generatePassword()
set generatedPassword to ""
repeat givenPasswordLength times
set randomCharacterPosition to random number from 1 to count allowedCharacters
set generatedPassword to generatedPassword & (ASCII character item randomCharacterPosition of allowedCharacters)
end repeat
return generatedPassword
end generatePassword
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…
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.