Reading my last post back, it might sound as if I’ve accepted defeat.
Far from it. Make no mistake. I will do everything necessary to stand up against tyranny.
Do not give up. Do not give in. Continue to fight for truth, justice and what is right for all peoples.
The fight has only just begun…
I really dislike daylight savings time changes. Even “gaining” an hour, I’m all sorts of wonky and will be for a week. I hope one day legislation actually passes that does away with it once and for all.
As I teased yesterday, I registered a new domain and set up a site for the resurrection journey of my Mac app Yasu. Follow along there if you’re interested.
I challenged Claude.ai and ChatGPT to create a Python script to convert my Omnivore archive from HTML to Markdown using the same prompt. Claude.ai’s script outperformed ChatGPT’s in terms of functionality and flexibility. Although ChatGPT’s script worked, Claude.ai’s script provided better options.
Well darn. My IT Security brethren (and Legal) have finally given the kibosh to my beloved Fantastical calendar app, revoking the OAuth token to connect to my work calendar. It’s not worth fighting to keep, which means it’s not worth renewing my subscription either. We had a good run, Fantastical… 💔
I have managed to come down with a very slight cold. Nothing like I would get when I was a smoker 30+ years ago, but it is the first one I’ve had in more than five years. I think stress at the day job has contributed to it.
Yay Dodgers for winning the World Series. Boo Dodger fans for behaving like destructive looting thugs, yet again. 😒
Happy to report that after one day, interest in and response to the new Micro.blog tees was pretty incredible. Seeing that totally made it worth making it happen.
My wife (of all people) turned me on to a really interesting podcast series yesterday… American Elections: Wicked Game. I’ve listened to the 2020 episode completely and half of the 2016. It’s crazy how much I’ve forgotten of the events that happened during those cycles.
You may have seen my teaser for this yesterday. Or not… 😁
Do you love Micro.blog and wish you could represent the platform while you’re out and about at the grocery store, sporting event, work or nerdy conference?
Well, now you can. 🎉
Introducing the “Unofficially Official” Micro.blog t-shirts and mobile phone cases, approved for distribution by @Manton himself.
Get yours from Cotton Bureau today!
Full disclosure: This merchandise is sold at cost. No profit is being made apart from what Cotton Bureau may make themselves.
I know I’ll be placing an order for mine once I’ve hit publish on this post…
Surprisingly, after upgrading to macOS Sequoia 15.1 and joining the Apple Intelligence waitlist, I received it within a minute or two. I had anticipated a wait of at least a couple of days. Now, I’m trying to figure out how it can actually benefit my computing habits.
It’s said that “good artists copy, great artists steal.” I’d hate to be labeled a thief, so I’m going to borrow the idea and run a social experiment on my site by adding an exclusive Buck a Month Club. If you like my work, this is your opportunity to join 49 others and support what I do each month.
I love the California BallotTrax system. I dropped our ballots off at the local ballot box yesterday morning, and my wife and I got email notification that our ballots have been counted today. We’ve done our small part. You should too if you haven’t yet. In many ways, life and death is at stake. 🇺🇸🗳️
I’m working on this super-cool thing that I think a lot of Micro.blog users will really like. I can’t let the cat out of the bag quite yet, but I’m so giddy with excitement over it that I just can’t keep my big mouth shut…
Living on the edge…
Take that, fascist scum!
Since this question will likely come sooner or later…
When I was developing mnml, I wanted to give users the ability to set their own link colors for both light and dark modes. However, in my testing, there were challenges that would have caused colors a user set to get overwritten if I needed to release an update. So, another approach was needed.
If you end up using mnml yourself and want to change link colors, here’s how you do it…
In your Micro.blog custom CSS settings, add the following CSS snippet, adjusting the hex colors as you like. This example gets you a nice magenta color for both light and dark modes.
@media (prefers-color-scheme: light) {
:root {
color-scheme: light;
--link: #ee4692;
}
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
:root {
color-scheme: dark;
--link: #ee4692;
}
}
This lets you keep your preferred colors and lets me enhance the theme without suddenly surprising you. Win-win.
So… At the urging of Richard (aka MacPsych) through Mastodon a few days ago, I’ve cleaned up my personal site theme and released it to the Micro.blog community as “mmml” in the themes plugin directory. Use the preview button to see what your own site looks like with it. Feedback very much welcomed.
As I continue to slowly dip my toe into LLM/AI, I’m checking out Claude from Anthropic. I’ve been using ChatGPT on and off, and it’s cool, but Claude looks a little more interesting.
Taking ideas from a few others, I’m going to try something new and start a long form post of things that happened during the week. The goal is a stream of consciousness that gets published with minimal editing. Just write and publish – though some copy editing is allowed…
It’s been a few weeks since I returned to Micro.blog. I’d let my account lapse and was simply going to focus all my efforts on the WordPress VPS I was running. But the drama in that community kind of soured me. I could have ignored it and just plodded on, but it was really the breakpoint of several other things that made me decide to abandon it. In my return, I was reminded just how engaging the Micro.blog community is. I’m glad to be back.
I managed to snarf my Mastodon presence by moving around a little too much. When I started, I had a whopping 94 followers. By the time I was done, I was down to just seven. Thanks to Lou Plummer for the shoutout to help me recover a little (thanks Lou). I gained some interesting new followers in it. I’m not back to 94, but then I’m not at seven either…
I forked a couple of Manton’s Micro.blog plugins and tweaked them for my own needs. One of them turned out good enough that I might release it as a new plugin for others. Or, I might do a pull request on his version so he can include my features if he likes. I’m not sure which approach I’m going to take yet.
I took a refresher course on first-aid and CPR this week. I was certified as a Boy Scout in my early teen years to get my first-aid merit badge. Some things have changed since, but for the most part, I remembered it all and was the class star pupil.
Stepping on the scale this morning, my app says I’ve lost a total of 53.4 lbs since the height of the pandemic, which is encouraging. I’m at a weight lower than I was in high school and I’m wearing a pant size smaller than I can ever recall. Sugar is my nemesis and I have to battle it daily – but I’m winning. I almost started making hot chocolate a daily habit this week, but came to my senses after a couple of days.
I plan to get my head back into SwiftUI this week. I was progressing well, but let fatigue from the day job get the better of me over the last month – which I used as an excuse to sit on my butt and watch YouTube videos. The goal to resurrect my old apps will get nowhere if I continue like that.
Speaking of the day job, the LRPFH (long-running project from hell) continues to grind on. It was slated to go live back in April of this year, but delays because of one thing or another has pushed it out to next month – and that’s if all goes well for the next two weeks. I’m going to take a two-week vacation away from technology once we get this project fully live, which is supposed to be February 2025.
That’s it for this week. We’ll see if the Week Log series continues next week.
Time for the first meeting of the day…