Today’s song:
Miseria Cantare (The Beginning), by AFI
🎶
Mumblings
Over the past few months I have become more serious about maintaining my own site, with my own domain (my name, even), and putting in a concerted effort to both care about and work on what I do on the web. Essentially, I have been trying to care more. That started in November and hits the newest milestone today.
This, my hosted Micro.blog, will now be home to the following:
- Typical microblog posts; status updates, photos, links, etc.
- Longer posts in a journal style.
- Thoughts about, and questions for the Micro.blog community.
- Experiments that have yet to find a home, be it on my main site or elsewhere.
- Kitty updates!
I’m happy to have established this new arrangement, having gradually settled into it over the past couple of months; all of February, March, and most of April have been eaten up by moving home and in that time Micro.blog was enough of a writing retreat to help me find relief from the variety of stress that comes with moving.
I have shifted much of the list above from my main site to here, coinciding with better establishing exactly for what I’ll be using my main site. This has happened at the same time as archiving my Twitter account for the second time since November, my broader thoughts about which I’ll be writing about soon but in the meantime I had this and then this to say about it. I have now deactivated my account and will no longer attempt to use Twitter within a personal context.
When it comes to Micro.blog I have;
- Changed my username to my full real name.
- Updated my About page, which is now quite long.
- Created a Now page much like the one on my main site, only made for personal information.
- Created a third page called Monday, a live archive of my Micro Monday recommendations.
Finally, I am now using the recently released Marfa theme, and have made edits thanks to help from:
- Marcelo Marfil – the author
- The theme is used by Marcelo on his own site which itself is worth following. He has also made it available on GitHub and is active on Micro.blog.
- Roel Willems – the contributor
- The theme was quickly enhanced by a guide that Roel wrote, as part of his Micro guides collection. He has also made himself available for further help as part of his contributions to the Micro.blog community.
- Manton – the provider
- The theme would not be so easily available were it not for Manton’s continued work in updating Micro.blog with improvements, bug fixes, and everything in between. A year of Micro.blog underscores this fact, and year two is off to a great start.
I’d like to thank all of the people involved for making it possible to use this theme in such a way as I have.
Discovering Micro.blog, especially with regard to the community, has become a great moment in my online life and I’m so very happy to have settled a branch of that life with Mumblings. I look forward to spending even more of my time here and that wouldn’t be possible without all of you, you magnificent early adopters.
Welcome to Mumblings, my personal every-day blog. :)
Get more done with the Google Assistant on Wear OS by Google
Oh look, Wear OS updates in the run-up to I/O. How about that, @mikedotfm. 🤔
On the 18th of May a city-wide free arts festival takes place in Liverpool. I love living here.
Verizon will force its struggling Oath products onto Galaxy S9s
Bloat with a capital ‘B’. Good job, Samsung. 👍
Students at a high school in Dearborn will be evaluated by teachers before prom. If their dresses aren’t appropriate, they’ll be given a Modesty Poncho.
A new @monday. Yay! Hi @Sergio_101 👋
… Galaxy S9 and S9 Plus owners have a variety of ways to keep their content close.
– Justin Denison announcing new 128GB and 256GB Galaxy S9 and S9 Plus models
Giving your early adopters a kick in the teeth is an interesting strategy. Nice work, Samsung.
Testing the improvements.
The United States has accepted only 11 Syrian refugees this year.
– Adrienne Mahsa Varkiani outlines the US contribution to the murder of the Syrian populace
Rising property prices have made it harder for millions of people to buy a home and the number of households renting privately has reached a 30-year high, according to the English Housing Survey.
Grief is an unpredictable companion.
I can plug it directly into my MacBook Pro, no dongle.
– Colin Devroe reviews the Pixel 2
I agree with a lot of this and have found a number of other delightful features. This is Android at its best on a phone.
at the very least, there will be a chronological timeline
– Dom Hofmann is building the successor to Vine and there are open forums for it.
A resurgence of chronological feeds would be awesome.
adding gender pronouns as a top level profile feature to everything i work on moving forward.
Another move is happening, whilst one is close to completion. Seriously, we should have a Micro.blog Movers pin. 🙃
One of the goals for my work on the web is to make things as simple as possible as often as possible. This post on inessential is a great example of the spirit with which I am attempting to operate. Thanks, @brentsimmons!
I had no idea there was a (seemingly) robust open source, self-hosted URL shortener.