Watched the first episode of the new Ted Lasso. Love that Nottingham Forest are in it! You reds! ⚽️
Had a minor panic this morning that my fan was broken. The blades were barely spinning, but a few well placed whacks to the guard seem to have spun it into action. Might be time to find a better one though.
Going to try a little experiment today and keep MarsEdit open while I work in an attempt to be more active on my micro blog.
I’ve been using Apple Podcasts for the last few months, but it’s slow sync is causing me to look elsewhere again. I’ve setup Overcast again, but something about it feels dated these days. Considering PocketCasts since it’s the only one that has apps on Mac, iPhone, and iPad.
My new Jekyll powered blog is now live. It’s an initial release and I plan to iterate on it going forward.
Great win from England tonight, on to the semi final against Denmark. One game at a time. ⚽️🏴
Welcome to version 8 of my blog
As the title says, welcome to the eighth official version of my blog. This one has been a while in the making. It started as a new theme on Wordpress over a year ago, included a short holiday on Ghost before ending up being powered by Jekyll. That makes this the first version of my blog not to be powered by Wordpress and in all honesty it’s a refreshing change.
Since I’m using a new engine to power things, I’ve decided to take a bit of an iterative approach. What you see here is what I would call the Earliest Testable Product (ETP). It has all the basics I would like to include on my blog, a home page, an about page, an archive page, and the blog posts themselves. My intention is to gradually add features over the coming months, improve the design of some elements, and ultimately add a place to display some portfolio pieces.
The biggest decision about this new version of my blog was the move away from Wordpress. The CMS has powered this site since the very beginning, but recent versions have made me start to question how suitable it is for a site such as this. Wordpress has begun to feel quite heavy and complicated with lots of new features being added that I had no interest in. I began to crave a simpler way of doing things. Something flexible that didn’t require my Mac for me to work on so that I can do things from my iPad as well. It’s the ability to develop from my iPad is a big part of the decision. It has become my go to device away from work and the one which I do most of my writing on so being able to develop the blog from iPad became a big factor in picking the new engine.
In the next few weeks I plan to put together a roadmap to work through for both features and design improvements, at least until I get the key things implemented. In the mean time, if you see anything that seems out of place or broken, drop me an email.
Imported my Goodreads library to Micro.blog. Now to sit down and go through my want to read page and actually see how many of the books there still warrant a place on the list.
I’ve noticed a trend recently that I’m not using Alexa that often anymore and instead I’m using Siri on my iPad or iPhone. It could be because I have to rely on Siri in the car and it’s gradually spread from there.
Thinking about installing the iPadOS 15 public beta. Normally I wait until the 3rd one but seems to be more stable this year. Also considering installing the macOS 12 beta on my personal Mac since I no longer rely on it for work and I want to play with Shortcuts.