Rather than a simple walk around the neighborhood for exercise today, I’m actually getting out on a real hiking trail, even if it’s classified as easy with very little elevation gain. It’s time to get some dust on the trail runners again…

Okay… I pulled the trigger on moving my Fediverse presence back to Micro.blog. If you followed me on my “dot social” instance, you should have been automatically moved here. I’m going to try hard to keep it this way. ✌🏻

The date has been set for my TCAR surgery. Of course it’s the Wednesday before the Monday I was supposed to return to work. That means I’ll have to take a little extra time off for recovery. Dang it! I’m so ready to get back to the day job already.

I’m in a “simplify all the things” state of mind, which means I’m once again giving serious thought to moving my Fediverse (Mastodon) presence back to Micro.blog and spinning down my single user instance… 🤔

mnml: Pinned Post Feature

At the behest of @josephaleo yesterday evening, I took the time today to add a new “featured” or “pinned” post feature to my mnml theme for Micro.blog.

You can update to v2.7.1 in your Micro.blog plugins area soon if not already.

Here’s how the feature works…

Say you have a category you always want the latest post to stay pinned to the top of your home page for, no matter how many other posts in different categories you may publish. It might — well, does — look something like this…

Mnml pinned post.

After updating to version 2.7.1, all you have to do is set your preferred category name in the new mnml theme setting, like this…

Mnml pinned setting.

In this example on my sandbox site, the latest post in my “Featured Post” category stays pinned on the home page, no matter what. When I publish a new post in the “Featured Post” category, it then becomes the pinned post at the top of the home page.

The category can be anything you choose. In the case of @josephaleo, he wants to pin the latest “Podcast” category post on his home page to feature his latest episode.

If you like this enhancement, or would like to simply support mnml‘s continued development in general, buying me a coffee is always a pleasant surprise.

Some mnml Updates

I was a little bored today, so I added a theme setting to my Micro.blog mnml theme that allows you to toggle post counts on or off for the archive page categories as well as tweaking some styles.

Archive category count example.

I also added the archive post count feature to the mnml: Archives by Year Micro.blog plugin, so you’ll have to update that plugin if you’re using it and want to show archive page category post counts.

I started wearing my Apple Watch more over the last couple of weeks to track cardio rehab efforts.

I realized this morning I’ve become a Slave to the Rings™ yet again…

It’s time (unintended pun) to put it away and go back to wearing a “real” watch.