Golang 1.11 successfully installed…

Writing a long form post about my experiences learning how to modify micro∙blog themes… I expect part 1 to be out some time next week. I have the computer set up, software all installed. There’s education ahead! 😃👨‍💻

I’m typing this post on my Raspberry Pi 400, using Firefox instead of Chrome. I have no sound, and tomorrow I will visit the local shop where I bought my monitor for a solution. It’s no biggie, as a dev machine, but I want sound anyway.

Found this beauty alongside a bike path on my 🏃 Already yesterday, but I forgot to take a picture then, awestruck as I was 🌸 I’m told it’s an evening primrose.

I already have a monitor for my Raspberry PI4 (will arrive tomorrow). It’s the Full HD LCD-monitor 243V7QDSB/00 - Philips. I’m about ready to start some serious programming—well studying for it, anyway. 🙏 @sod for pointing me in the right direction. BTW I’m such a worry ward.

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 😓 ✋❌… ➕🆘🙏