It’s hard to believe it, but today is my last day of medical leave. I return to the office on Monday. I’m both excited by it, and kind of dreading it. I’ve grown accustomed to the slower pace. If this is what retirement will be like, I’ll take it.

Finished: The Concrete Blonde by Michael Connelly 📚

Having watched the series on Amazon, I didn’t see the plot of this one coming. Well worth the read.

Changes

If you’re a regular visitor, things may look a little different all of a sudden.

Or if you read with RSS (you’re pretty awesome for doing that, btw), you might’ve noticed the site’s feed suddenly has a lot of older posts showing up as new in your reader, and all the little “thought” posts have suddenly vanished.

Well… It’s because I decided to make a change.

I’ve been running my apex domain (jimmitchell.org) on the Micro.blog platform for the last few years. If you or a friend ever needed a blogging platform, I would 100% recommend it.

But, I feel the need for something new.

As awesome as Micro.blog is – and like I said, it really, really is – I don’t have total control over my site using someone else’s semi-closed platform. Since I’m a certified type A control freak, the aspect of being completely hands-on is important to me.

Because of this, I chose to move my apex domain to a Hugo static generated site hosted on Cloudflare pages1. This lets me tweak my workflow so my content gets output exactly the way I want it, and it lets me leverage a robust global infrastructure to serve it all up.

You may be asking “What about Micro.blog, Jim? Are you leaving?”

No… I have no plans to leave Micro.blog whatsoever. The community there is wonderful and Manton is a top-notch aces kind of guy. My plan is to move my Micro.blog presence to a sub-domain (micro.jimmitchell.org) where I can continue to share my thoughts, links, photos and the occasional full post.

And yes, mnml will continue to get the same amount of love it always has.

The plan for this site is to write long form posts, along with code examples and other technical tutorials like I did before I moved to Micro.blog.

As always, thanks for your readership and support. It means a lot to me. Send me an email if you have questions about my decision, or reach out on Mastodon if you’d like to discuss it publicly.

✌🏻❤️

  1. I’m weighing the pros and cons of moving the site to a VPS in the future… ↩︎

LinkedIn Wants to Share Your Data

LinkedIn will use your data to train AI – how to opt out | Proton

On November 3, LinkedIn will begin sharing your data with Microsoft and its affiliates for AI training. You’re opted in by default, but there’s still time to do something about it.

As I’m gearing up to return to work, I’m catching up on my professional networks, including opting out of AI related stuff where ever possible.

A setting like this should never be opt-in by default…

As a PSA for Micro.blog folk… If you’re not necessarily a fan of the book covers being displayed for your bookshelf related posts, you can hide the image by adding .microblog_book{display:none} to your custom CSS. It’s a great Mb addition, but if you’re minimalist like me, this is how to do it.

I pulled one of my basses out of the closet to noodle with it this morning. It’s been more than a year since I last played and my hands are so out of shape it was like being a novice all over again.

As they say, for every day missed, you lose two days. I’ve got a lot of catching up to do.

Finished reading: The Black Echo by Michael Connelly 📚

A gripping read, but I did figure out the plot before the end of the book…

On to the third installment in the series.

Well… I woke up too early (4 am). It seemed like the right thing to do at the time, but I should’ve just stayed in bed a few more hours. I see a nap in my immediate future.

mnml Update v2.7.7 Released

The latest version of mnml (v.2.7.7) adds the following:

As always, you can upgrade through your plugins listing at your convenience.

A full list of changes can be found here.

Enjoy!

Started reading: The Black Echo by Michael Connelly 📚

Finished reading: The Black Ice by Michael Connelly 📚

mnml Update v2.7.6 Released

The latest version of mnml (v2.7.6) adds the following:

As always, you can upgrade through your plugins listing at your convenience.

A full list of changes can be found here.

Believe it or not, no styles were changed this time around… 🤯

Today’s my last day of cardiac rehab. I’m fortunate not to have had an episode resulting in heart damage. This helped me bounce back quickly.

My return to work is now two weeks away. I both look forward to and dread it at the same time. I’ve come to enjoy the slow pace of the last three months.

If you’ve been hoping for a die-cut IndieWeb is Punk decal, today is your day… Check it out on my new Printful store.

Sorry International friends - no shipping across the pond & beyond yet, but if you really want a quantity, contact me and we can work something out.

Even though I feel pretty darned good, I have to remember some parts of me are still healing. I rolled over in bed last night and managed to pull a spot on my right pectoral muscle. It’s not a bad pull, but it is annoying me this morning.

mnml Updated for Open Graph Images

I’m happy to report that mnml is updated (v2.7.5) to work with @manton’s latest Open Graph image Micro.blog enhancement.

From your Design screen, select the “mnml” Open Graph style option and start publishing! It will even use your mnml custom avatar if you have one set.

Give it a spin! Report any issues you run into if you do.

After watching the Bosch series on Amazon, I’m delving into the Bosch Universe books by Michael Connelly. I really like his writing. After watching the shows, it’s easy to connect Connelly’s characters in my mind’s eye while reading.

I have to be honest… The whole *OS 26 glass look is not bugging me too much. There’s some weirdness here and there, but I’m really not minding it so far. Of course I haven’t delved deeply into my workflows yet, so we’ll see later in the day.

And what’s the first thing I did this morning? I began updating all my devices to their respective OS 26 variants. I swore I wasn’t going to do this… 🤞🏻

Let’s not forget: The US flag flying half-staff today is not for a single right-wing extremist who was assassinated. No. It’s for the nearly 3,000 innocent lives, including eight children, who were murdered on September 11, 2001 – plus the numerous first responders who selflessly came to their aid.