My wife and I just laid the ground rules for a monthly date night to break us out of the ruts we let ourselves get into. Dinner at a place we’ve never been to, and then at least the first set of a band somewhere, no matter how bad they might be.

I decided to go all in on an Arq premium subscription today. Being able to backup up to five computers for only $10 more a year sold me. Arq is so unobtrusive that I forgot I was backing stuff up until the trial expired.

Still trying to get my hands on the long-coveted domain from the other Jim Mitchell (.net TLD for those curious), but it’s dragged out long enough that I’m about to throw in the towel. There’s something about .net versus .org that lends nerd cred to a domain name which is why I covet it so badly.

Every new year I tell myself “This will be the year I stop eating lunches at my desk”, and every year I’ve ended up failing on the very first day back in the office. This year was no exception. At least I’m consistent in my failings.

📷 Happy New Year from the top of SoCal!

I’m beginning the new year (a tad early) with a plan to read the LOTR storyline, starting with The Silmarillion. I’m a fan of the movies and read The Hobbit some 20 years ago, so I decided now was as good a time as any to tackle the task of actually reading all the books.

New theme for my site completed and installed. I like where it ended up. In total, less than 250 lines of CSS, including style reset and comments. I still have to add a dark mode media query, but that’s a small task for later.

Today’s challenge: Create a new responsive Micro.blog theme for my site using as little CSS as possible. I’m liking where this is going…

I just released a minor update to my Tinylytics for Micro.blog plugin that refactors some logic, squishes a couple small bugs and updates display labels. Look for v3.1.1 in your plugins area soon. If you want to see what changed specifically, check out the pull request on Github.