Speaking of productivity… I’m trying out focus modes on my devices after listening to episode 780 of the Mac Power Users podcast a few days ago. It’s great to not be distracted at work unnecessarily. I’ve set the mode to automatically activate and deactivate by geofence around the office.
I’ve been trying different ways of working with Apple Reminders for task management over the last week. I think I’ve found what works best for me and will blog about it once I’ve smoothed the edges a bit. Loving the Apple Calendar integration. I guess that makes me more of a defaults guy now.
Well I’ll be dipped… USPS found my package and dropped it off just now. It’s a positive note to end an otherwise meh day.
😡 Good old USPS… Totally mis-delivered my Field Notes order. That’s $50 down the drain. I have zero faith the wrong recipient will do the right thing, and USPS will simply say “but, it’s delivered…”
I have a sickness… When I see something misaligned by even one or two pixels in one of my designs, it will drive me absolutely nuts until I can fix it. I’m too much of a perfectionist.
“Pretty is something to be observed. Beauty is something to be admired.” - My wife as she and I were talking about Melania Trump.
She’s spot on… The woman may be pretty, but she’s far from beautiful.
I never really cared much for, or about TikTok and the other “corporate” social platforms, and I still don’t… The IndieWeb is where’s it’s at.
If you’re a user of the Micro.Masonry plugin, it got a full rewrite this morning to handle large image collections far more gracefully than it did before.
The latest update for the mnml theme now offers users the choice between grid and masonry photo layouts and the option to display images from specific categories.
📷 I took our 15-year-old Chihuahua to the vet for a checkup. She’s on almost as many pills as I am now. Poor old girl.
Trying out a guestbook option on the site. Who will be the first to sign?
Yo! Cotton Bureau merchandise is on sale for 20% off until midnight tonight using the code “FLASHSALEFRIDAY” at checkout. If you’ve been on the fence about getting that Micro.blog merch, today’s the day for it. Here’s the page…
I’m going to migrate my long standing TextExpander snippets to Raycast today and apply that bit of money to a Raycast Pro subscription. There’s so much Raycast power I’ve not even tapped into yet…
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.
A new update (v2.2.1) for the mnml theme improves image loading and resizing, and provides a CSS trick to adjust photo grid width.
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.
😬 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…