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I’m ready for some beta testers. If you’re interested in trying out and giving feedback on my micro.blog client send me an email at loura@hey.com ☺️. The video was taken on my surface duo2 which is a bit wider than a normal cellphone.

Finished reading: Counting the Cost by Jill Duggar 📚

I listened to the audio book which was narrated by Jill. Listening to her voice choke up at parts really drove home the emotional impact of her upbringing.

Look at these neat creatures I found on the sidewalk, next to the road

metal sculptures in the shape of chomping creatures on the sidewalk

Finally made it to a Kung Fu class. Pretty sure I’ll have a migraine from it in a few hours but it was a great class. Started learning Army Sword and got to practice my favorite fatal flute form ⚔️

Turns out you can use Hey’s workflow feature as a lightweight Kanban board for a hobby project.

screenshot of a Kanban board using Hey email workflow feature. There are five columns and a series of tasks inside them.

Finished reading: The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler has 📚

My daughter picked this book out for me based on the cover art and it turned out to be pretty fantastic. It was interesting and thought provoking. The ending left enough openings for a sequel but it was a little weak in my opinion.

My sister made a fabulous cake for my son 😍

Cake with green and white frosting. On top is a hand painted happy birthday sign with an iguana on it.

Made some progress enhancing the posting UI today. The web client is also responsive to device size and has and dark/light mode.

two screenshots side by side showing a micro.blog client post page. One is with a light UI and one with a dark UI.

Just testing something out. Making sure I didn’t break anything.

My hey.com email subscription is set to renew this month and I’m going to keep with it. I find the UI relaxing and the workflow feature is a nice touch. I do find certain tasks to take too many clicks but I can put up with it. Especially after I wander over to Outlook or Gmail ::shudder::

Phase one of my not so super secret project, a Micro.blog web client, is complete! No frameworks; just hand-rolled HTML5/CSS on the front and deno in the back. Now it’s time to add a tiny bit of JS to smooth a couple things out. Then, maybe… beta testing?

At 2:30am my brain decided to ruminate about all my perceived problems for four hours. I now require coffee to be a functional adult. It’s gonna be a looooong day.

Day 5 of September Photoblogging Challenge. The prompt is forest.

And the busy season begins: homeschool, work, kid chauffeur, keeping active, keeping the house in order, and finding time for my hobbies.

Screenshot of a phone screen showing two calendar lists and a TODO list.

Probably not its intended use case, but the Micro.blog bookshelf feature made it a cinch to put together my son’s free reading list this year.

Day 4 of September Photoblogging Challenge. The prompt is orange.

It’s full on homeschool prep today. My poor printer has its work cut out for it. Tomorrow starts 8th grade for my son and my daughter starts 6th grade at the local public school.

Day 3 of September Photoblogging Challenge. The prompt is precious.

Maui the cat napping stretching out on the couch.

Day 2 of September Photoblogging Challenge. The prompt is buildup.

One of my favorite knick knacks on my shelf.

Knick knack of a chicken pushing out an egg.

Day 1 of September Photoblogging Challenge. The prompt is abstract, suggested by Greg, aka @greghiggins.

Close up painting of birch bark and yellow leaves

I took the kids to the beach yesterday for one last summer vacation outing before school starts up next week.

sunset at beach with two kids playing on the shore line in the sand

Huh, I guess you can’t have a user confirm a form submission without JavaScript. At least not that I could find. Darn. 🤔

Tuesday night is game night🐉🗡️🎲

Three little frogs enjoying the koi pond with me at lunch.

Koi pond with three frogs on some lillypads.

This is a test post.

Hello World

A photo from August 2020, when Fuzzyboots was just a little kitten, and we had yet to decide where all our furniture was going.

Woman doing a tai chi sword form with a small orange tabby kitten pawing at the tip of the sword with curiosity.

Finished reading: 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann 📚.

This book had me contemplating the difference between what I was taught about Native Americans growing up and what this book and current research suggests. I had a lot of moments where it felt like what the book was saying, in terms of agriculture and land management, that just seemed so obvious but never occurred to me to wonder about. I was startled to find out about how far back some of these civilizations went and how a perfect storm of events swept through and erased almost all of it. Fascinating.

I missed posting this photo on Caturday but this cute guy doesn’t care 🐈

orange tabby cat in a paper bag.