Changes for a mnml update are nearly complete and may drop by the weekend.
I also have some great ideas in the works for my next Micro.blog theme…
Thoughts
My youngest turns 28 today. As each year passes, it gets harder and harder to fathom the actual number.
I’m doing localization work on mnml this week. If you’d like to contribute by translating some strings, contact me using the “Email” link in the footer. I could take the Google Translate route, but I just don’t trust it enough.
A small/moderate earthquake in SoCal this morning (5.2, located in 📍Julian, CA). It’s a reminder that the big one is long overdue… 🫨
I got a great start to a macOS browser cache management app worked up this weekend. This one’s the new passion project to get more familiar with SwiftUI.
Tax checks mailed. 😩👋🏻💸💸💸
I always get the brew update and brew upgrade commands backwards. To me, “update” should be updating packages, and “upgrade” should be installing the latest version of brew.
I vibe coded a mini-cms for LAMP stack with Cursor last night and a little this morning. While not the cleanest or securest of code, it got the job done. I can create posts in Markdown and they render as HTML. All code was generated solely by prompt. A fun distraction to see what the app could do.
I knew as soon as I launched OmniFocus 3 that I’d have to see if v4 was as good or better. Of course it is and I’ll have to drop the $75 USD for an upgrade. Good Mac apps would make me really poor if I weren’t careful.
After listening to @canion and @martinfeld talk about Andrew’s appearance on the Omni Show on Hemispheric Views Ep. 134 this morning, I remembered I had an OF Pro 3 license. So I downloaded the Mac & iOS versions to use for work projects. I used to be a huge OF nerd. Not sure why I strayed…
Taking my first foray into vim. Don’t ask why. I like to torture myself sometimes…
It looks like the RV will be in the shop for our early May trip as well, so we’ve rescheduled and booked a hotel in Palm Springs for that weekend instead. Early May is the perfect time to visit “The Springs.”
WTAF, Apple??? If I delete a stupid app like Playground from my phone, don’t reinstall it, please… Jeez. 🙄
I finished reading Hell Yeah or No by Derek Sivers today. I’m starting it over again tomorrow, reading an entry every day or two and making notes on it. There’s no rush to get through the book this time around. I plan to take it slow and really think about what I’m getting from what I’ve read.
Wearing my Micro.blog tee at work today and a coworker asked me what it was about. Had the opportunity to share and answer questions for about 10 minutes. Maybe she’ll sign up…
Eh, what the heck… I’m back on Bluesky again.
Well, I didn’t get a bike ride in this weekend, but my wife and I did make the mile walk down to pier plaza to sit and watch the tourists for a while. Thankfully, only a minor contingent of whackos were out (it is a beach city after all) and no MAGAts to deal with whatsoever.
I have a ton of chores to catch up on this weekend, but the weather is going to be absolutely gorgeous. I need to whittle down that chore list to spend some time doing a beach bike ride. The weeds in the yard will still be there (only bigger) next weekend.
I think if I had a dream job, it would be to work with HTML and CSS styling all day. That’s where I find my flow state.
There’s something about being in the desert at night. Total stillness and then coyotes calling out to one another. Or the brightness of so many stars you could seemingly reach out and touch each of them. I’d forgotten that the desert is where I feel the most at peace. I needed this.
I sit on the HOA board for my community. We’re trying to put together a flyer to get more people engaged. Coming from a design background, I’m finding it amusing to hear all the ideas coming from other board members, though they have no design experience whatsoever.
Today consists of washing and gassing up the RV for a trip to the desert this weekend. Naturally, today is cold and rainy. As badly as I want to procrastinate right now, I have to get moving on the task…
I whipped up a new Micro.blog theme that I hacked out of mnml this morning. I’m calling it smplr. You can fork it if you like… I don’t have any plans to release it as a Micro.blog community theme though.
Okay… Micro.blog domain updated to “jimmitchell.blog” and a DNS redirect from jimmitchell.org set up using ForwardDomain.net. All is working as expected. Next up is to move to the new Mastodon instance (social.jimmitchell.org to jimmitchell.social) sometime later today.
I’m in a quandary… I purchased the jimmitchell.social domain yesterday intending to use it for a new Mastodon instance, then had second thoughts about it. Then I find jimmitchell.blog is available. It would be the perfect domain to use here on Micro.blog. What to do? 🤪
And 2024 taxes are complete. Ended up not being quite as bad as we thought it was going to be. Glad to have that one done.
I got both the pneumonia and shingles vaccines in one sitting yesterday. Today, I’m feeling like a freight train hit me. Add the DST change to the mix and I think I’m out of commission for the day. That makes it the perfect day to work on taxes…
I was totally surprised to receive a letter from the judge who presided over the jury trial I sat on week before last thanking me for being willing to perform my civic duty. When did doing your civic duty become something you need to be thanked for? It’s just something you do as an American citizen.
Some mnml updates about to drop…
I hear everybody talking about Vivaldi as their browser of choice. I think I’ll have to give it a spin for a while.