Apple: Don’t like the Christmas presents that your friends and family bought you? How about buying a $999 phone from us instead?
Apple: Don’t like the Christmas presents that your friends and family bought you? How about buying a $999 phone from us instead?
Since looking my email situation last January, I’ve been using SaneBox to sort my emails and to flter out junk. But it’s nearing renewal time, and it’s $99 for a year. So I think it’s time to turn it off and see if I can live without it.
I’m watching Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts, and I’m already 99% sure that I want to reread the books again. I really wish I had my original books. I bet they’re stupidly expensive now.
I went to see the Cursed Child play in London just over a week ago, and I planned on writing a big review. But that never actually happened, so I thought I’d at least write a short overview of what I felt about it.
Some context:
Overall, I think that it was good. Maybe if I enjoyed the theatre more, then I would have liked the theatrical quirks, but they were lost on me.
I’ve got 294 unread articles in my RSS reader. I think it’s time to start unsubscribing from the feeds that I never actually read.
I wouldn’t go so far as to make this a new years resolution, but this year I think I’m going to try and write shorter, but more regular, blog posts.
Too often last year, I held back posts because I wanted to make everything into a really detailed piece. But that can hold me back sometimes.
When I get that small piece of insipiration for a post, instead of letting it attrack dust in the drafts folder, I need to get it written and published. It might mean that some potentially big pieces get broken up, but at the same time, I think it will mean a higher output.
Nothing makes a coffee better than a splash (or two) of a bit of single malt scotch. 🥃 ☕️
I’m about to play the new Minecraft 1.18 update, and decided that I’m going to attempt to stream from the PC for the first time.
No commentary, no webcam, just me attempting to play survival Minecraft, and seeing how streaming works on my PC.
In a world where everything is going wireless, one of my best presents this year was a pair of wired EarPods!
The period between Christmas and the new year is a weird one for me.
After spending the year connected to the internet, I hardly use my phone, or any computer for that matter.
It’s basically a week of seeing family, playing games, and drinking. And I always want it that way.
The official Pokémon Twitch channel is currently hosting a stream of a Charmander sleeping by a fire. And as weird as that sounds, it’s looks (and sounds) pretty good.
After some final touches, my custom theme is now usable.
I’ve named it Pure, and that’s mainly because I wanted very minimal styling, and to have it be a pure version of a theme. For the benefit of it acting as a “starter” theme for people that want to maybe want to start tweaking a theme but don’t want to start from scratch. But also for people (like me) that sometimes just want a clean and simple blog.
Not that it matters to anyone else, but I specficially structured the HTML so that even without CSS, the site will look correct, and be totally readable.
It’s a single column layout, and it’s very bare-bones, which is by design. However, I’ve tried to style it in a way where it still looks relatively modern, while keeping a minimal feel.
For a full preview you can check out my microblog, and if you want to see the code or to use it yourself, then you can find the theme on GitHub.
Some more tweaks and I think my theme is coming along nicely.
The only things I need to add now (hopefully) are pagination and comments. But those will have to wait until tomorrow, as it’s 3 am and I should go to bed.
For now you can see it on my blog.
I’ve added minimal CSS to my new Micro.blog theme that I’ve started to work on.
It adds:
hr elements to split header and footer from main content.font-family to sans-serif.blockquote elements.text-decoration.In it’s current form, I’m happy with everything except the link colours. For those I’m conflicted whether it should be one colour everywhere, or the default browser colours.
It should be ready for use, but before I start claiming that it’s officially ready, I just want to test a few more things like photo pages, code blocks, and maybe comments.
However, if you would like to test it right now, you can find the theme on GitHub.
I’ve built a very minimal Micro.blog theme, as in there is absolutely no CSS.
I’m happy with it. But I think I’m going to try and add just enough CSS for things like spacing, sans-serif font, etc. but still go with the pure look.
This may be weird, but I like it when websites work without CSS or JS. I really like it when they also make use of the intended HTML tags and it being structured cleanly.
For example, using elements such as header, footer, article, nav, etc. instead of a hundred div’s.
After a lot of tweaking, I think I’ve managed to get my microblog looking like my main blog.
I’m sure I’ll refine it over the next few weeks, but at least it’s at a point where everything is readable, and I can now start to share more.
Bulba 0.0.7 haș been released. dev.chrishannah.me/0-0-7.htm…
I’ve got it into my head that I want to get some of my writing over the last few years printed into a book, as a sort of preservation mechanism.
I’m not sure how best to organise or curate it, I’m sure will become clearer once I go back through the many blog lists I’ve written.
One thing’s for sure though, ever since I watched Patrick Rhone’s talk at Micro Camp, I’ve felt like I should be finding a more permanent form of archive for my “better” pieces of writing.
I think I’ll start some initial investigation tomorrow, but I think it would be a pretty cool idea to get a personal volume printed of my favourite pieces so far. And then having a regular volume would be nice.
Although this would be primarily a self-preservation exercise, making a digital copy available to others could also be a possibility.
I’ve been making changes to my (main) blog theme, and i’ve just pushed them all live:
After building a PC and getting back into World of Wacraft, I’ve set myself a little challenge: To start a new character and have a single aim of never dieing. As soon as I’ve died once, I’m going to delete the character.
From what I’ve seen about the new iOS photo sharing app, Glass, it could become the platform that I wanted Instagram to be. I’m #2352 in the queue, so hopefully I get in soon!
I’ve been in a weird mood recently, where Apple’s closed ecosystem and endless lock-in is starting to irritate me.
I have a free monthly newsletter that I run from my blog. It’s essentially a members-only blog post which is also delivered by email.
But I’m now not sure if the members-only restriction helps? Or if it just adds friction for readers.
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