I kind of like you can make home screen icons in iOS 18 larger and the labels disappear now, but I really wish there were a way to hide app labels AND keep icons their original size. I feel old(er) rocking the large icons…
I decided to alias my Mastodon account from mastodon.social over to social.lol where all the cool kids seem to be hanging out these days. I lost about 50 followers in the move, but that’s okay. I’m on a better instance this way.
Let Your Yes Be "Hell Yeah!" and Your No, No
Friday, October 18, 2024
Hell Yeah or No | Derek Sivers
If you feel anything less than “hell yeah!” about something, say no.
I added my Micro.Masonry plugin to the Micro.blog plugin directory this morning (well, last night and updated this morning). If you’re looking for a nice masonry style layout for your Micro.blog photos page that’s mobile responsive, give it a look.
Still More WordPress Drama
Thursday, October 17, 2024
Employees Describe an Environment of Paranoia and Fear Inside Automattic Over WordPress Chaos
“We were unaware that Matt redirected sign-up emails until current Automattic employees contacted our support team,” a spokesperson for Blind told me, adding that they’d “never seen a CEO or executive try to limit their employees from signing up for Blind by redirecting emails.”
For reasons unknown to me, my Tinylytics plugin for WordPress has had (what I’d call) a large spike in downloads over the last few days. Not that it matters much… It’s just interesting to see it.
Now that I’ve moved to just one site on Micro.blog, I’m thinking long and hard again about “going all in” and aliasing my Mastodon username back here. If I do, maybe I can make it stick this time. I’ll ruminate on it through the day, and then make a decision tonight.
📷 The Hollywood sign, peeking over the hills.
Unsung Heros of the Deep Sea
Tuesday, October 15, 2024
The deep-sea ‘emergency service’ that keeps the internet running
Ninety-nine percent of the world’s digital communications rely on subsea cables. When they break, it could spell disaster for a whole country’s internet. How do you fix a fault at the bottom of the ocean?
Text-Only & Minimalist News Sites
Monday, October 14, 2024
A List Of Text-Only & Minimalist News Sites - GreyCoder
Text-only websites are quite useful, especially today, because web pages are increasingly filled with ads, videos, and bandwidth-heavy content.
Even More WordPress Drama
Monday, October 14, 2024
WordPress.org’s latest move involves taking control of a WP Engine plugin - The Verge
It’s not clear what security problem Mullenweg is referring to in the post. He writes that he’s “invoking point 18 of the plugin directory guidelines,” in which the WordPress team reserves several rights, including removing a plugin, or changing it “without developer consent.” Mullenweg explains that the move has to do with WP Engine’s recently-filed lawsuit against him and Automattic.
I shared this nugget a while back, but it’s worth sharing again… If you have a domain you’d like to forward to another domain with just a simple DNS modification, I totally recommend ForwardDomain.net to accomplish it.
The move from WordPress to Micro.blog is now complete…
- Content I wanted to keep has been imported.
- Backup of assets from VPS taken and archived.
- DNS records updated.
- VPS decommissioned and deleted.
- Domain forwarding for .dev to .org TLD confirmed.
I got the core features of a new Micro.blog masonry style layout photos page plugin worked up this morning. I still need to add the ability to set preferences for number of columns and image gaps, but I’m liking the results. Check out my photos page to see the results so far.
Jimmy Vaughan was the opening act for Eric Clapton tonight. So great to hear some good Texas Blues. It’s also great to see guys who are pushing 80 years old still out there doing their thing.
📷 At the Hollywood Bowl to see Eric Clapton.
A huge shout out to Aaron Vegh for the quick turnaround on a solution to a Croissant issue (not a bug) I reported after “wedging” my Threads account into a state of inability to delete. Super friendly and quick support responses as well. That’s what I dig about the indie dev community.
I tried using Arc as my default browser for the day yesterday. I don’t think I’m quite ready for it, so I’m returning to Safari. I’ll keep playing with Arc here and there so maybe one day it feels more natural and I’ll make the move permanently.
Well, my monthly call with my mentor got canceled last minute, so I think that’s my cue to go outside and get some fresh air with a walk.
A Useful BBEdit AppleScript
Friday, October 11, 2024
Soft-Wrap Text in BBEdit - Uncorrected
An oldie but goodie from John Gruber that I just discovered while looking for ways to soft-wrap text in BBEdit: