I like when a bathroom has beautiful or insightful decor. I learned something new today about a train that debuted in 1936. Why did trains look so much cooler back then?
Our cucumbers are out of control. In one day we harvested six cucumbers, each bigger than my forearm. The situation is so dire that I’m having tajín-seasoned cukes with coffee for breakfast. 🥒☕
Sharing a gelato flight is a great way to cap off the evening.
@amerpie oooh subscribed. It was nice to see his shout out to you too! Glad to see you getting recognized for all the time you've been putting into your posts. I don't even own an Apple device and I still enjoy reading them while I sulk about not having many of the apps on Windows 😂
“Children need to be used under adult supervision”
This made me laugh.
A while back I posted about Fed Meetup, the app I built that won an internal NASA challenge. Today I received my prize, a NASA@WORK sticker that flew on a SpaceX Dragon capsule that splashed down back in April! I have now committed myself to using this water bottle for life… 😅
@amerpie Amen, I'm trying to stay mindful of that and not just get consumed by all the "urgent" things that won't matter when I look back.
Do you ever say something and then the gravity of what you just said hits you hard? I was chatting with a coworker preparing for retirement and casually mentioned that I have 30+ years left. 30+ years! What!? That’s a lot of time to make meaningful and good things. That’s the goal.
@writingslowly I've been thinking about this a lot lately. Something like "you have to know what's out there before you can go learn more about it". Building out a zettelkasten seems like a great way to broaden (and deepen) my knowledge of what is out there so I have more to pull from when I'm writing!
@writingslowly definitely going to read that!
@writingslowly this is exactly what I've been looking for! Saving these to my read-it-later app.
Added a colophon page. I wrote it in a who, what, when, where, and how format, and I like how it turned out. I haven’t seen others doing it this way. I considered adding a “why” section but decided against it. I’m not sure if the colophon is the right spot for that, but if not, then where?
Added a changelog to my blog. For now, it is very small and very meta. weidok.al/changelog…
I added a /chipotle page to my blog. I know this started as satire, but this might actually come in handy for me. weidok.al/chipotle/
scritch scratch swoop and slash
furious scribbles relent
taut hush, reflection
There’s some nice footage of Sierra Space’s Dream Chaser at the Armstrong Test Facility in Sandusky, Ohio at the 2:00 minute timestamp of this week’s TW@N video 😁 We have neat facilities out here in The Land! youtu.be/xQeA-KzTL…
I just used the Google Assistant to make a reservation this morning and it was pretty nice. It waited until the restaurant was open to call and then sent me a text confirming the reservation.
I replaced our mulch with gravel and started our first garden! We will have cucumbers and three varieties of bell pepper. 🪨🥒🫑
Ever wondered what the heck that fancy ChatGPT Large Language Model AI is actually doing? This animated 3D visualization is an awesome step-by-step guide! bbycroft.net/llm
Felt good to be back on the grill yesterday!
Is 1285 a good score on Google’s dino game? What are your high scores?
I updated the font across my site to Inter instead of system-ui, which was the Tiny Theme default. I found out Tiny Theme has all sorts of pre-defined font groupings in main.css, so what I actually changed the font-family to was –font-neo-grotesque, of which the primary font was Inter. I like it!
@amerpie haha "people with 'coffee' in your bio". I feel called out lol. I haven't used a Nespresso before.
@amerpie haha I have plenty of those types of books! This wasn't quite what I was expecting, as it wasn't very tactical about how to use checklists, but the stories were pretty compelling and I appreciate when someone goes deep on a seemingly simple topic!
@ronkjeffries are you behind a VPN? I've noticed the same thing when I'm logged into my work VPN. I'm wondering if it has something to do with the .al TLD or my nameservers... 🤔
@bobwertz A bee themed aces of spades... me too! weidok.al/2024/04/0...
@manton really looking forward to this on mobile (Android for me). That's where I'm most often writing directly in the Micro.blog text editor to fire off a post.
@l3db3tt3r This is awesome! It looks like you're on a different planet from me!
@Gabz You may already know this, but in markdown if you put a double space after a line, you can create a newline without the extra space between them. Just thought I'd give a heads-up because I like writing haiku sometimes too and I prefer not having space between. Example: micro.blog/jaek/3297...
@amerpie actually, what I said wasn't true. I haven't been inside of a US prison. I visited the prison in Masatepe, Nicaragua and that was a wild experience. They had two cells but one was not being used because we were painting it, so they had about 30 inmates locked together in the other cell with just a hole for a toilet.
@amerpie I've never been inside a prison, but I'm sure that would leave a lasting mark on your memory.
@amerpie nice post! I noticed some of your code blocks for the dataview queries got formatted weirdly. I think if you wrap the dataview queries in four backticks (````) it will work better. I ran into a similar issue on my Obsidian post with putting a code block inside another code block.
@amerpie That section on Managing Images is going to change my life lol. I somehow never considered how much I needed this! I take a lot of screenshots and paste them into notes, and they all just get dumped to "Bins/Images" with horribly unhelpful file names. Definitely going to try out that plugin.