The pagoda in the city park of Bergen op Zoom, Netherlands. Each ring represents a century after the founding of the city. Erected in 1987, designed by Dutch sculptor Arie Berkulin. Photo by me, today.

Thanks through persistence of the help forum I got my new blog whipped into shape, me kicking and screaming STS 😆 Only thing now is that some of the relative URLs have been auto-transformed into full URLs to my MB URL, so they lead to the subdomain instead my own domain. 🛠⌨️

No wonder obesitas is so prevalent in developed countries. My self-prepared lunch was far less caloric and much healthier too. Also, ugly, uninspired architecture! Typical motel you can find in any western country, but I guess that’s the point here.

Since I failed the tutorial on MB Help to add a favicon to a test site, I thought I need to remedy my lack of understanding of basic web developed. W3Schools told me I also need to invest in a laptop computer, since I can’t resize on an iDevice. Like money grows on trees! 😠

Not sure if this qualifies as a favicon. It’s 32 x 32 pixels.
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Had to share this one from 2008. Numbers 1, 11, and 111! You don’t get to see that very often in a running road race. 🔢 🏃 Also, total toddler 👶 cuteness there.

I jogged 🏃 around a nearby artificial lake, called Binnenschelde, after the nearby river Scheldt. It was peaceful and quiet, and I greeted many fellow runners and hikers. Some had isolated themselves with headphones, obviously not interested in nature sounds💨🍃🦢

21 percent (> ⅕) of my 593 posts on my Dutch language blog “massaged” into MarkDown in 5 days. This could be done by mid-September! 😁 My initial guess was July 2022, so that’s an improvement.

There’s still the matter of learning how to modify templates, of which I know nothing.

Now I know you can’t control much of MB, other than through templates, I need to learn Hugo CMS. GoHugo.io recommends the video tutorial on YT by Mike Dane. First hurdle, no Mac, nor PC. Maybe rent (a shared) one online? The cheapest (1 hr/day) costs €100/yr 😓 ✋❌… ➕🆘🙏

I asked a question in the MB help forum, getting started, and I’m only getting very technical suggestions by people who seem to be web developers, which I am not. I guess “help” is no help here, since it’s all too technical for me.

I had to deal with tabs for the very first time on Mobile Safari in iPadOS 14. It was so confusing that I had to turn off the iPad and restart it. Who invented this mess? 😐

Walked 10 km around a nearby village called Halsteren. A lot of farmland, small scale. Also, lovely church, and schmalzy street names. 🚶🏼

I was in a good mood when I left home for a long slow distance run. Nothing wrong with being positive about what’s to come. It turned out even better than I expected. So, apparently, I wasn’t positive enough. Lesson learned, be ecstatic before each 🏃 Anything less is undeserved.

More patience, for my brand new domain name to propagate in the domain name hierarchy. I chose Hover as my registrar and gave the podcast Connected a little kickback. I like those guys, Myke, Frederico and Stephen.

That Drafts Action script to post to micro.blog is super handy. I used it today for the first time ever. Also, very pleased with my blog, despite some grueling days when it seemed like everything went awry, and I paid my subscription fee for naught. Patience, patience! 😮‍💨⌨️

Now my MB woes seem to have subsided, after only four days of stressing over my posts not showing up on my home page. The blog is called Loopgenot, and it’s in Dutch. It deserves its own domain name, which will be the next “life event” to do (never registered a domain myself) 🤞

Running in a group of 🏃 🏃‍♀️ between the heather just before sun set.🌳🌅

😮 I already did 31 blog posts out of 596 in two days. At five percent, that would mean only 40 days to completely converting my old blog. Some posts don’t need editing, just being reposted, so Hugo picks it up (the other trick from @til didn’t work; tried that already).

Just posted on help.micro.blog: How can I read in chronological order? Because, you know, sometimes you want to. I just don’t know how to accomplish this in MB elegantly.

I suppose re-editing 3 out of 592 posts a day of my new MB blog (read: 3-4 hours a day) makes me both invested in and proud about that particular blog. Quick calculation gives me 200 days, or roughly a month of non-stop—i.e. without doing anything else—editing. It’s a huge task…