🖋️ LongForm
Want to reduce the noice and just focus on things with a little more meat - the this category is for you. Like so much on this site we have a ‘WIP’ as i take some out - and put some in - but safe for at least starting in 2026.
A Suggestion to Improve The Micro,Blog UI?
Currently, the official Micro.Blog app has a permanent menu that sits at the bottom of the screen, like this.
There is a second menu that can be found by clicking on your user image, top left, that looks like this.
Suggestion … add the 4 choices in the first example to the second menu.
Why? So I have only one place to go to for all possible operations.
Bonus thought.
In settings, allow me to hide that bottom menu in user settings.
🎥 Extraction 2, 2023 - ★★★½
If you enjoyed the first - you'll enjoy this one. It is what you might expect. Just wondering if Hemsworth is trying to compete with Keanu on most 'kills per minute' in a movie.
🎥 Ticket to Paradise, 2022 - ★½
Talk about ‘phoning it in .. not my choice to watch and would not recommend, particularly if you know the Mamma Mia stories … both of which I have not seen, but I think the two sentence summary of the first would be identical to this one.
Crud Begone
In various places I play in - including professional ‘anti-tracking and privacy’ groups - I am constantly stunned by the link sharing that goes on. Stunned because people that should do know better always seems to share links ‘complete with’ the tracking crud that can so easily be removed.
It is so bad that when someone pastes the crud URL, I will post the crud free URL.
Nobody comments. Nobody does the same. Nobody stops posting the crud.
So, delighted to read about this move by Apple.
🔗 Apple hits email analytics again in iOS17
To be clear - I remove all crud, Apple’s intent is to only remove the crud that ties back to the individual. But it’s a start.
Not sure yet how it works, and in what circumstances, but already I think it is a pity it is only in mail.
Money
That ain’t workin', that’s the way you do it
Money for nothin' and your chicks for free
The best things in life are free
But you can keep them for the birds and bees
Now give me money, (That’s what I want)
That’s what I want
Money
Get away
You get a good job with more pay and you’re okay
Money
It’s a gas
Grab that cash with both hands and make a stash
For the love of money
People can’t even walk the street
Because they never know who in the world they’re gonna beat
For that lean, mean, mean green
Almighty dollar, money
Money, money, money
Must be funny
In the rich man’s world
Search versus Search
For the longest time I have had the wonderful plugin 🔗 ’Search Space’ by @sod running on my site. It is truly fantastic - use it all the time to find post I know I have written in the past - that I want to link to - like here .. imagine how long that would have taken to build without a powerful search.
I also use Hitchens by @pimoore for my site, and Pete rather conveniently included ‘Search’ as part of his template. Not sure what he is doing behind the scenes to make that work - but like all of Hitchens - it just worked out of the box.
But … BUT … ever since installing @sod ’s plugin, having two searches has annoyed me, but I lived with it. Although I knew how to hide the built in search in CSS, I did NOT know how to identify the element that needed hiding, Until NOW.
Thanks to Jason I can now find and identify the elements I need to drop into the CSS. (Again, I new all about ‘Inspect’, but for whatever reason I had a mental block when it came to finding the specifics.)
No longer - and as a result, I now have only 1 🖇️ Search on my site.
No idea if @sod is reading this - maybe I will ping him separately - and find out if he is working on an update - because I do have a few ideas.
An Experiment
Just trying out a little something after reading a thread in help that @MitchW started - let’s see ….
Of course - for it to really work, I do need some extra text - so in the spirit of exploration - tip-o-the-hat to lorem ipsum …
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Suspendisse varius sollicitudin consequat. Etiam cursus blandit nisl accumsan fermentum. Phasellus faucibus velit non porttitor tincidunt. Ut quis erat ac nibh auctor tempus. Sed a metus sed dui pulvinar dapibus pulvinar et nisl.
Sed consectetur, magna sit amet vestibulum dapibus, augue orci dignissim nulla, nec interdum ligula nibh at dui. In in dolor sit amet urna tempor pulvinar. In ut odio et ligula faucibus placerat. Proin pulvinar ex et sagittis molestie. Vestibulum dignissim faucibus diam, quis lacinia lacus mollis et. In fermentum ex quis consectetur semper. Nullam ut metus quam. Suspendisse potenti.
🎥 Dirty Grandpa, 2016 - ★★½
It's got Robert DeNiro in the main role ... slam dunk - right? Sadly - no.
🎥 Cloverfield, 2008 - ★★★
Three stars is generous, because I didn't get through it. Just spotted it on AppleTV as a promo - so thought I would try it out, since I never saw it the first time round. (I know I know). Maybe it just hit me wrong?
🎥 Big Night, 1996 - ★★★★
I watched it in the theater when it came out. Love Tucci and this did not disappoint. (Just thought it was time to post a positive review - because I have been sharing some clangers recently.)
🎥 Asterix & Obelix: The Middle Kingdom, 2023 - ★★½
I used to love the Asterix comic books. But have never really enjoyed the films. So not sure why I thought this time it would be different.