Woohoo! Surprised to have gotten the initial email from the WordPress plugin review team on my Tinylytics plugin today. Lots of things to fix, but they’re all pretty simple. TBH, the review came back better than I thought it would for being my first attempt at a WordPress plugin.

I type (abuse) ellipses so much, my keyboard at work has taken to adding double periods to sentences for me, forcing me to delete one of the periods.. Or maybe it’s simply encouraging me to end all of my sentences with an ellipsis? One may never know…

Well friends, I’m sorry to report — or maybe I’m relieved to report — that Project Yeard has officially terminated at the fourth month. The last two weeks have been a challenge, but I waited until a good beard day before doing the chop to be sure of my choice. It was the right one to make.

For months I’ve been perplexed by messages in the Mail app inbox on my iPhone inexplicably moving to the trash. I finally figured it out… The palm pad of my left hand at the index finger sometimes “taps” the trash icon as I move to turn off the phone, moving the message just before powering down. 🤯

I submitted my Tinylytics plugin for WordPress to the plugin repository for review yesterday. It’s going to take nearly two months before they’ll be able to get around to reviewing it due to the sheer number of plugins already waiting in the queue. That’s just nuts…

Easy-peasy… New .xyz domain updated on Micro.blog. Old .org domain redirecting to new one using ForwardDomain.net. iCloud custom email domain added. And finally, I un-aliased (de-aliased?) my M.b ActivityPub username from my Mastodon username since, well, a new cooler domain and all.

It appears the coveted domain acquisition will not happen despite my best efforts. Why? The current holder has decided money is more important and would rather auction it off to squatters than sell it to someone who actually has a use for it. I’m not paying 4-figures for a domain.

Yay capitalism…

Incoming rant alert…

Want to know how much I hate email replies that simply say “thank you” in the body and nothing else? I can’t think of anything I dislike more, that’s how much.

Thanks for listening. Now carry on…

My wife and I just laid the ground rules for a monthly date night to break us out of the ruts we let ourselves get into. Dinner at a place we’ve never been to, and then at least the first set of a band somewhere, no matter how bad they might be.

Still trying to get my hands on the long-coveted domain from the other Jim Mitchell (.net TLD for those curious), but it’s dragged out long enough that I’m about to throw in the towel. There’s something about .net versus .org that lends nerd cred to a domain name which is why I covet it so badly.