2025
- A new
title-matchesattribute, which can be used to filter the list of posts to those with titles that match a regular expression. Check out the documentation on this for some examples. - Fixed an issue where using the shortcode without any attributes resulted in an empty list. The cause of this was Hugo returning some strange things when a shortcode is called without arguments.
Back in Castlemaine for the weekend. Enjoying a walk around the Botanical Gardens.
Devlog: UCL — Comparing UCL To Some Early Ideas
Comparing UCL to an idea for a hypothetical command language for a now-defunct CLI project, which aimed to combine shell-like REPL functionality with scripting capabilities.
It’s always something with NPM, isn’t it:
Here’s an idea: why don’t YOU rename that directory, NPM?
🔗 Wikipedia: White-winged chough
I’ve seen this bird before and I had no idea what they are: black, white tips on the wings, red eyes, and an interesting call. Their presence in a random YouTube video I was watching revealed the answer.
Currently waiting for a Zero Trust 2FA email to arrive. It’s been about 8 minutes and I still hasn’t received it. I could always request a new code, but the minute I do that, the old code comes up and I have to wait another 5 minutes for the new code to arrive. Of course if I don’t do that, and the original code email failed for some reason, then I’ve waited 8 minutes for nothing.
Why does Stripe delete test subscriptions after 90 days? What resources do these test subscriptions actually take up? I can understand deleting them after, say, 2 years, but 90 days seem a bit short.
“Get out more” goal for August achieved. ✅
Boardgames at the Melbourne Central Lion Hotel. Played Codewords and Avalon. Was fun. I didn’t stay long but I’m considering this a success. Will probably go again.
I rather services that were not localised than badly localised. Saw at an addressed in my calendar with Melbourne VI at the end. What the heck does “Melboune VI” mean? Melbourne the 6th? I then realised that it was short for Victoria, the state, typically abbreviated as Vic in Australia. But being a US service, they assume that states only had 2 characters. No, bad assumption. If you can’t do it right, don’t even ask for the state.
I generally dislike people writing one sentence a message in Slack or any other messaging app, especially when they’re pushing out messages rapidly, constantly pings my phone. But I think I like the idea of one question per message, allowing the responder to answer it in a thread.
🛠️ VisBug
Same ShopTalk show mentioned VisBug which I’ve never heard of before. It’s a Chrome(ium) plugin that has a bunch of layout, colour, and text tools allowing you to view and modify style properties of the elements on a webpage. Could be useful.
Some good advice.
Talk to anyone working on the Go language and they'll tell you about the JSON parser they built. Maybe the CSS designer equivalent is making their own CSS reset. 😏
Big week this week. Lots of new experiences coming up, mainly doing things with other people. I don’t work well with new experiences involving other people. In fact, they kind of terrify me. My mind goes into overdrive thinking about… what? About things going wrong? No, it’s not that. I think is mostly a fear of people having a negative opinion about me. About showing up with differing expectations or insufficient “preparation” about the task at hand. Will try to approach it by doing as much prep work as I think I need, then just go with the flow. But I won’t lie to you, I’d be happier when this time next week comes around.
Wish I had a reason to buy a reMarkable 2 tablet. Passed by one while shopping yesterday and gave it a test. Wow, it feels so good to write on. Was able to write out my signature. I’ve not been able to write my signature on any electrical device.
Bought new shoes today, meaning it’s now time to do a value analysis of this article of clothing:
Price was: $179.99
Lifecycle: let’s say 7 months
Monthly depreciation: $25.71 /month
So, shoe subscription entrepreneurs: this is the price to beat in order for me to consider your service.
At the cafe looking out the window at the pigeons wondering about. The suburb I live in is not as built up as some areas, yet there’s quite a large number of them living nearby. I have a bit of a soft spot for pigeons. Despite being introduced, I find them an interesting bird to watch. Doubly so when you consider their history and relationship with humanity.
Just saw a magpie have a go at a cyclist, twice. You know what this means: it’s officially swooping season again. 👷♂️
Released version 1.3.1 of Postlists for Micro.blog. Notable changes in this release are:
I also clarified the documentation a little, particularly around the use of the alpha sort order. Basically, if you have a collection of posts without titles, the alpha sort order may look a little strange, as it only uses the title when ordering posts. I’m not sure what I’m going to do to improve this — there’s no real way to sort based on post body — so in lieu of a fix, I just made sure to explain that. It’s not a great solution, but hopefully it’ll clear this behaviour up.
If you’ve got the Postlists plug-in installed, you should be able to upgrade to this version by going to the Plug-ins section in Micro.blog.
Can’t hear what your friend is saying? Instead of speaking loudly, consider taking your Air Pods out first. You may experience a difference. 🙉
Does Github just refuse to send emails out when a new issue is created? Opened a repository and found an open issue that was over a month old. 😠
Apologies for the delay.