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’ve been a busy guy today. More updates to mnml are available for those using the theme.
This update adds compatibility for these Micro.blog plugins:
Thanks to @cygnoir for asking me to support them.
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.
Pushed a few minor tweaks to mnml that should show up in Micro.blog installed plugins shortly (v2.0.8). Keep an eye out…
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…
It seems I’m on a mnml theme development roll this weekend.
I don’t know why it didn’t dawn on me to do this yesterday, but I just added an option to easily set the Fediverse Creator meta tag in mnml – if you’d like to be able to do that sort of thing.
The version 2.0.6 update is available in your Micro.blog plugins area. This will probably be all the changes I make for a while. Well, maybe…
Enjoy! ✌🏻❤️
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.
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.
Each of these settings are outlined below…
Many Micro.blog themes are coded to use your main account profile photo for the header image. If you run multiple blogs on the Premium plan and want to use the same theme for each of them, your sites aren’t easily distinguishable.
If you do want to distinguish one site from the other, this setting is how you do it with mnml. It also saves you from having to use some weird image for your Micro.blog account in order to brand your site the way you want.
All you have to do is add the complete URL to any image, and it will display instead of your profile photo. I recommend a simple image no larger than 256 pixels square for this, but feel free to experiment.
If you leave the URL field empty, mnml uses your Micro.blog account profile photo instead.
Easy-peasy.
Some people have asked how they can show their blog’s categories on the Archives page, while others have told me how much they like the fact mnml doesn’t do that.
Being the people pleaser I am, I came up with a way to make everyone happy. If you want to show categories, toggle the setting on and like magic, they’ll show up just like in the screenshot above. If you don’t want to display them, leave the setting off.
Lastly, I’ve added a credit line to the footer of mnml to drive people to Micro.blog, the theme’s Github page, or my own site.
Some of you may not mind having something like this at the bottom of your site pages, and I’m grateful to those who leave it on. But some of you may hate it, so you have the option to turn it off completely. I won’t be hurt if you do.
Finally, if you’re someone who likes and/or uses mnml, consider supporting my development efforts. Just a buck a month from a handful of people makes all the difference in the world towards enhancements like these.
Enjoy!
Let me know questions or if you think of an enhancement I might not have.
📷 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.
Since these are making the rounds again… I made more changes to my app defaults in the last year than I first realized.
| Category | Application |
|---|---|
| Mail Client | Apple Mail |
| Mail Server | iCloud Mail with custom email domains |
| Notes | |
| To-Do | Things |
| Photo Shooting | Apple Camera |
| Photo Management | Apple Photos |
| Photo Editing | Pixelmator Pro |
| Calendar | |
| Cloud File Storage | iCloud & OneDrive |
| RSS | |
| Contacts | Apple Contacts |
| Browser | |
| Chat | Apple Messages |
| Bookmarks | |
| Read It Later | |
| Word Processing | Microsoft Word |
| Spreadsheets | Microsoft Excel |
| Presentations | Microsoft Powerpoint |
| Shopping Lists | |
| Budgeting and Personal Finance | Microsoft Excel/Bank Mobile App |
| News | |
| Music | Apple Music |
| Podcasts | Overcast |
| Mastodon | Mona (and sometimes Ivory) |
| Password Management | 1Password |
| Code Editor | |
| App Launcher |
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.