• After having gone through the HTML Tutorial on W3Schools at almost breakneck speed (for my doing), I’ve hit a roadblock at HTML Layout. I guess I need to study this more thoroughly before continuing. HTML5 certainly was a step up from previous versions.

    ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป๐ŸŽ“๐Ÿ•ธ๐Ÿ—

  • Printers. They are affordable nowadays, compared to twenty years ago. However, this affordability comes with a constant need to fix problems that in the olden dot-matrix days didn’t need fixing ๐Ÿ–จ๐Ÿ’ฉ๐Ÿ˜–

  • Exempt

    As a home renter I wasn’t aware of the protection home owners get in certain states of the USA.
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    ballpoint drawing illustrating homestead exemption

  • Admiration

    If we admit it or not, we all have our role models, people we look up to and would want to emulate to better ourselves, be it race car driver, teacher or a tech entrepreneur. Our society wouldn’t be as great as it is if we couldn’t imagine a better world.
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    ballpoint sketch of LOTR Gollum catching the ring of power

  • Lifehacker - How to Move From Twitter to Mastodon

    Why [do it]?

    People get to know each other and are more likely to post about their genuine real-life interests than to share news stories or endlessly discuss politics.

    It just feels like a nice, friendly place to be.

  • Regarding my ballpoint drawings, asking if those are any good is the wrong question. Better to ask myself, is the experience of making them any good? Answer, so far yes! OTOH this is about getting better at it, not merely enjoying scratching on cheap lined paper, though it helps.

  • License

    Gatekeepers think that creatives need them to make precious goods, are even owed eternal gratitude and 30 percent payment of anything third parties produce. That didn’t stop some to still make their own stuff, despite rules and restrictions of the big guys.
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    Yogi Bear inspired cartoon drawn in ballpoint pen in a notebook

  • Ah, tomorrow will be a glorious day for ballpoint pen drawing. Here are my reference photos to give you a sneak peek.

    reference photos for ballpoint drawing

  • I believe I have all pins available on microโˆ™blog except one, which I can never get, because recommendations are very dependent on what someone else likes, a conversation, not a statement.

    15 of 16 pins unlocked

  • I’ve unsubscribed to everyone I followed on MB, and started following new users. It’s a slow process, since these people aren’t exactly friends (yet), whose quirkiness I can overlook. The Discovery tab is not very useful, since it’s human curated, and, therefore, opinionated.

    Meme: ๐Ÿ˜‹ When your best friend makes plans with someone else ๐Ÿ˜‚

  • I believe there’s a dinstiction between feeling better about one’s actions and trying to better oneself. The latter walks the bridge; the first lives underneath it.

    troll face
  • Feast

    Behold in the beast’s eye the celebration of what’s to come.
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    ballpoint sketch of two festive guinea pigs in Christmas garb

  • It appears Mastodon has no valid rss feeds for a user’s posts, other than if you run a bot on your own server that watches that user’s Mastodon feed and creates an rss feed on the fly. Or something similar. Mastodon is like Twitter in that respect, a closed web application ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป

  • Figure

    A certain multi-billionaire bought a social media site for a large sum of money. The impression he left was of a bull in a china shop, guessing he could get away with it, like 3, 2, 1 โ€ฆ liftoff!
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    ballpoint sketch of Elon Musk

  • I finished the Cloudcannon tutorial, and as usual, it went totally off the rails for me with too advanced stuff. Ah well, it seemingly only was to wet one’s appetite to start learning Hugo. Read more…

  • I’ve done it. Removed all my blogs except one from the microโˆ™blog Timeline, disabled all cross-posting.

  • I wasnโ€™t aware that there is such a thing as Consumer Subscription Software or CSS. And yes, microโˆ™blog is a CSS company, though, it seems, not for sale, as many CSS businesses are in this boom due to a recession, how illogical that even sounds.

  • In the light of recent developments, I made a mastodon account and linked to my microโˆ™blog feed for cross-posting. Hope it works ๐Ÿคž

  • This morning when I woke up early I was puzzled. Why so early, it doesn’t feel that early? Right, Daylight Saving Time, time to change the non-Internet connected clocks. Next week it’s your turn, USA and Canada, to change your time of day and sleep in on Sunday ๐Ÿ’คโฐ

  • After my corona vaccination 1.5 weeks ago, I had a dip in my weekly mileage. GPs advice, so I’ve found through online search, for kids after their vaccination is against any intensive sports. I missed that, and now know why I felt so bad during my training in the last 10 days๐Ÿƒโ€โ™‚๏ธ

    chart showing a dip in last weeks mileage