I’m experimenting this week… First: Coffee without sweetener. I’ve been a one Stevia packet guy for years. I’m going to ditch it for straight black coffee. Second: Analog notes in a Field Notes memo book instead of digital notes in Obsidian. Both should be interesting.
Somehow, I suddenly have far more usb-c to lightning cables than I know what to do with.
I’m taking another look at Drafts today. I had a pro subscription a year ago, but I never took the time to really dig into what it was capable of before it lapsed. I’m kind of seeing the potential here, but this is definitely an app I’ll have to RTFM on…
Since I’m on the topic of t-shirts and swag, I just published a new design on Cotton Bureau of my take on the classic Mac “hello” graphic with the retro Apple six color palette.
Woah! Broke 10,000 lifetime views as tracked by Tinylytics on my site today thanks to @manton’s boost of my Micro.blog swag post. Not earth shattering news by any means, but it is a nice number to see.
If you’ve missed my previous posts about the Unofficially Official Micro.blog swag available on Cotton Bureau, here they are all in one place.
So… Given the Meta news today, I’m 100% done with Zuck’s platforms and will be deleting accounts as soon as I’m home tonight. I think I’m going to ditch Bluesky while I’m at it since I’ve gotten nothing worthwhile out of that one either. Mastodon and Micro.blog is where I’ll be from now on.
I’d totally forgotten I wrote this AppleScript until I needed to create a strong password this morning. If you’re a Mac user and need to generate unique strong passwords, give this script a try.
It’s such a trip when I browse to a referring site I see in my daily Tinylytics stats and find the site using my mnml theme. Just… Wow. 🤯
My wife, son and I went to a local restaurant to have an early New Year’s Eve dinner. I was happy to see that the 20 or so TVs they had in the establishment were all VIZIO 65" P-Series models. Thanks to Mama’s on 39 for contributing to my paycheck!
New Year’s Day means three things in the Mitchell house: The Rose Parade on TV, a big bacon and eggs breakfast, and Chili con Carne simmering on the stove. I’m adding a twist this year and smoking a round cut first. I think it’ll add a nice twist to an already family favorite.
Happy New Year all…
Another mnml update to v2.1.1 that gracefully handles a “more” summary break added to content without a post title.
My wife and I walked downtown for coffee and to check out the waves. Since our beach is south-facing, the wrap around west swell is producing unorganized closeout mush. We decided it wasn’t worth the extra walk to the pier for a closer look. The coffee from Philz was excellent, as it always is.
Hmm… Seems there’s some banding issues with the two desktop images I created yesterday after downloading them to my work laptop. They look fine on the personal laptop where I created them. Will investigate once I’m home. I wonder if Micro.blog adds extra compression to .heic files when uploaded?
I’ve been a busy guy today. More updates to mnml are available for those using the theme.
Because I can never just create one thing and then walk away from it, here’s another Apple six-color inspired wallpaper.
I picked up a license for Acorn 8.0 this morning and immediately started playing with features.
I made it through the certification bootcamp and actually learned some new things. It’s reinvigorated my interest for Apex and LWC on the Salesforce platform, which kind of makes me wish I could go back to just being a developer and create cool stuff again rather than being a nerd wrangler.
Pushed a few minor tweaks to mnml that should show up in Micro.blog installed plugins shortly (v2.0.8). Keep an eye out…
I’m second guessing whether I should have used the melodicmayhem.net domain I own for my Mastodon instance. That would have been a really cool instance name… But then, I really like being “on brand” with my jimmitchell.org subdomain. Makes no difference, I’m committed.