Release version 1.0.2 of Sidebar for Tiny Theme. Biggest change is that the sidebar is no longer using after-post-list micro-hook. This should fix any styling issues for sites that are using the before-post-list micro-hook. It also frees up this micro-hook for site authors.

The downside of this approach is that this plugin now overrides the _default/baseof.html template of Tiny theme, by installing the sidebar just after the main content. This is arguably not good, and will probably need to be changed in some way (might be that we’ll need to add another micro-hook to Tiny theme). But it should work for sites currently using version 2.7.1 of Tiny theme.

Is it okay to post about things you’re doing that might be a complete waste of time and go nowhere? It is? Ok, good. So roped myself into starting yet another level editor for something. It’s either start from scratch, or try and get QT working on my machine. I know where I’d rather spend my time.

We’re going through a bit of a dry spell at the moment, where we haven’t seen decent rain in weeks. So naturally I thought it would be safe for me to wash my sheets. Nope! 🌧️😒

I’ll be honest, I don’t like berry compote. I’ll eat it as it’s the “healthest” component of my dessert. But I’d be happier if it was just the cream and créme brulée.

Oof, so glad it’s a Friday. Work’s been quite busy this week. It’ll be busy for the next few weeks as well, unfortuately. But at least I’ll have these two days to recover. 🍻

Been thinking about, and reading about, AWK recently. It’s a facinating tool: not as specialised as grep or sed, yet not quite a general purpose language either. Yet it still seems to fill a nitch.

Kinda wish that Keyboard Maestro has a way to retrigger the last invoked macro. It would be nice to bind that to ^ ⌥ ⌘ ., much like . is used to repeat the last command in Vim.

I did do a quick search online to see if such a feature existed, and the solutions I found in their Discourse suggested doing things like parse the log file, extract the last macro name from there, etc. Oof! I won’t be doing that.

Subscribed to a bunch of oneamonth.club members this morning. It was enough for my bank to call me about it. I guess making several transactions of $1/£1/€1 each does look a little suspicious.

Immensely enjoyed the ATP member special where John goes through his window management. Very illuminating. I do recommend watching it on YouTube rather than listening to it as a podcast.

From Merlin’s wisdom project:

Related: most kids can be surprisingly entertained by your making them just a little bit terrified.

Not sure I was ever entertained by being a bit terrified as a kid. I think I left feeling more angry.

You know how iA Writer shades anything coming from an LLM to indicate that an AI generated it? I wish Goland did the same thing for copy-and-pasted code. That’ll save me from missing changes of a pasted code fragment that’ll inevitably show up as duplicates in the review.

Spun out the sidebar I added to my site into a standalone Micro.blog Plugin, called Sidebar For Tiny Theme. This can be used to add a sidebar with your blog-roll recommendations to any blog that’s using Tiny Theme. Click through to see usage and examples, and let me know what you think.

I feel envious of those that are happy to work on one thing — project, job, cause — for a lifetime. I’ve never felt that myself: after a while, I need to move onto something else. I wonder if it’s the same feeling one gets when they fall in love. Can’t say myself (I’ve never fallen in love either).

Dreamt that I was writing a blog post about software design and how it relates to eating vegetables. Not sure the analogy works so I won’t be writing it here. The setting was nice though: I was drafting it on a Swiss train pulling into Geneva where I was to meet up with family at the station.

This year’s Ides of March started with some stormy internet weather this morning. May have been behind a few production issues we had. Always a fun way to start a Friday. 😒

Internet weather’s fining up though.