I had no idea a Mercedes-Benz makes a special sound before a crash which helps “make the noise from the crash impact not nearly as harmful” to our ears. Now I Know.
That’s a smart feature. And here I was getting pleased having a few buttons aligned to the centre through CSS.
If you’re a developer or a tester, and you want to abbreviate the word “accessibility” in a bug report, then as my New York friends keep saying to me, “knock yourself out”. But when we’re talking about accessibility in a public environment like Mastodon, where we can connect with people who know little about it, using A11Y as a hashtag creates a clique that has the potential to lessen the reach of the subject matter.
With Snoopy’s last vaccination done, today was his first walk around society. My wife and I had carried him around earlier though so that the surroundings weren’t so new for him that he would go crazy whenever we take him on his first walk. That effort in the past must have helped because Snoopy behaved as if he had been on walks for ages. He didn’t run around sniffing and biting and eating stuff. He walked and jogged and played with my daughter, never feeling overwhelmed by the large world around him.
I have noticed peculiar behaviour, though. People judge you when they see a pet with you. They visualize you as idle and workless, living a worthless. Their eyes speak, “you care for a pet; you must have so much time”.
I am tired of these looks. I am tired of the questions. I am tired of the suggestions. Don’t be an asshole, man. Don’t ask me a question to satisfy your puerile opinions. I may not answer as per your wish.
You live yours; let me live mine. #Life.
One of my routines for the past week is spending a good couple of hours on my laptop reading and writing stuff before I go to bed. This all started with my change in daily routine, where I begin the day late and stretch it late. Mornings never allowed me a good couple of hours for anything. At night, I feel in control.
Knowing that I will spend time writing during the night, a task right at the end of the day also frees me from feeling burdened in the morning. Otherwise, I felt I had to get words in before the grind began, or I would ruin my chance.
Sure, #writing to a writer shouldn’t feel like a burden. But with my recent slump, the only way I knew was to push myself to get at least 100 words in every day. On anything and everything. I have been doing that for the last few days, mainly looking inwards. In a way, these are all my journal posts.
My growing liking for the write.as platform was timely too. I haven’t announced this blog’s feed to other known places. I don’t share these posts at all. No crossposting either. These thoughts aren’t open to comments in any way.
Would you write more (+freely) if you know no one is reading?
I had quipped recently. If these past couple of weeks are anything to go by, it’s true for me, at least.
Will I never publicise this feed? Or share any of these posts? No idea. But if I do or someone stumbles across this place and follows the feed, I am happy to gain a reader organically. After all, who doesn’t like his words being read?
I wish every theme on Micro.blog got its own test blog under the account of the author of the theme. That way, a demo site is always available to try the theme out before applying. Thoughts @manton?
We celebrated the Valentine’s Day with a creamy fruit cake and banana walnut muffin. A welcome surprise! 😍
The software that I use is generally not a conventional option. I don’t subscribe to the established #platforms. I either find them miserably dull or overly shiny for my liking. It helps that I know deep down that I am supporting a new and upcoming player for whom my business is worth. It means something; I mean something as one more customer. Not “just another customer”.
This also means that often the software is not fully baked. Some essential features are missing, or there are bugs around corner cases. I am an early adopter who pays more and still works as a tester. Sometimes, I get frustrated and switch to the popular option only to get out and back soon.
It is ok for me if you don’t have all the features, but deliver whatever you do differently. Have an identity. Stand out.
I turned off iCloud Photos & recovered the space that photos/videos were unnecessarily consuming off iCloud storage. I do not use it anymore, inspite of how hard Apple wants me to. It’s crazy that how poorly Apple handles photos and how difficult it makes for us to use them.
We had a service person visit us today – the plan was he would take some measurements & quote the price for the service. I’ve never met a service person as techie as this guy. Laser-based measuring tools. An iPad Pro for drawings, taking notes & quotations. Of course, with a Pencil.
Impression was made. The objective was achieved.
Amidst the city life, the sky looked and it looked pretty! 🌅
