Just got hand delivered mail, a letter and a bar of chocolate. Guess what the fate of that bar is? Spoiler: not my stomach.

Trying to understand the templating language behind micro∙blog is hurting my brain. I have really no idea how to tackle my problem of site navigation, where the previous post is out of scope of the current section—or the next post if the current post is last in its section. 👨‍💻

I filed two bug reports in the MB Help forum:

• Bug report - single quote in Posts search creates error message
• Bug report - emoji in web interface not working properly

/cc @help

Went for a bike ride of 28 km, with at 10 km a brief walk of 5 km in a forest I hadn’t been before. So I came prepared with a route on my Garmin Forerunner 245 sports watch. On my bike ride back I got lost, so I used my iPhone with Apple Maps to get home.🚶🏼

My new avatar for my Dutch running blog, fully ¹ implemented as favicon. Many thanks to @sod in MB help, who was invaluable in pulling this off. The pixel art was drawn in Pixaki on iPad.

This article came up from my search: “Why do I want to understand other people?” Nothing earth-shattering or novel, but useful to be aware of, in case you (read: I) weren’t. Why do people overshare? The psychology behind revealing personal details TL;DR 😭〰🙄🧘‍♂️™️ℹ️❓🤐

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.