The Unofficially Official Micro.blog Swag

Wednesday, October 30, 2024

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!

• Micro.blog Tee
• Micro.blog Phone Case

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…

Changing Link Colors for the mnml Theme

Sunday, October 27, 2024

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.

Week Log 2024-43

Friday, October 25, 2024

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…