One of the big reasons I wanted my own theme back, regardless of the blogging engine, is my ability to handle notes. With the porting exercise that I did yesterday, I am now back to writing and showing notes the way I want. The title does not come in the way. In short, I toned down the polish.
I have a bookmark for a new post which takes me directly to this nice, empty page. Sometimes, the unfinished parts are what make something feel authentic and personal....
I logged into my system today with a plan to jot down what I had in my mind. What I did was keep my mind numb and just strolled around the web. I hate doing that, but I do that often to know something does not sit right.
Inspiration. Motivation. All are just words. They don't appear silently. Even if they do, they don't help.
I might be as inspired or motivated as I have been during my productive best periods, but it's all moot if I cannot get things rolling. Such have been the days recently....
I finished reading We Solve Murders by Richard Osman today. It's a quick read with an extremely weak plot. The story almost comes to a halt midway through, and hardly anything happens. The core plot does not progress; we only learn about some events in people's lives. It's not a good mystery for a book with "murders" in the title.
After The Thursday Murder Club, this is another Osman's book I didn't enjoy. They are rated well, but aren't for me....
For the past few days, I have wanted to write a lot, but I have stopped so many times. I read views from many people I have learned to trust and have loved them for their opinions. Yet, while they discuss this particular situation, I see them steer themselves toward opposing sides with little room for agreement. I avoided reading through most of the threads to keep myself away from the negativity.
I do not deny the discourse's seriousness and applicability to all the people involved. But in my...
I released a minor upgrade to the Post Stats plugin, which fixes the incorrect count of posts with images. This release also introduces a setting to disable the year recap, removing the section from the stats page. This setting will be useful if you add the shortcode on a different page and don't want it included on the stats page. It will also allow you to remove the recap from the stats next year.
This completes the changes that I had initially planned....
When my health is down, it becomes challenging to focus. I have been spending a few such days since last few weeks now. I have been unable to focus on my health; instead, I am stressed about everything. That invariably leads to the pressure of things that are yet undone. One of the things not done is to focus on health. It's a vicious cycle that I am not a big fan of.
It's time to correct that....
Yesterday, I wrote about how this place intentionally lacks a content feed. No section has a reverse chronological list of posts, which is also due to the type of posts I write. I do not post multiple times a day, only a few times a week.
I did for a period, primarily when the micro posts originated on this blog and were syndicated to other social networks. Since I stopped doing that last year, I also stopped needing to give my blog a timeline view. If the posts become regular, a view that best...
Make your writing workflow frictionless if you want to blog more. That means eliminating every additional step between your thoughts and the words on the editor. Intending a new post should take you directly to a blinking cursor. I lacked that with my default blog platform, which has been bothering me for quite a while now. I corrected that today.
What it took to publish this post tells me I am on the right path. As much as I love the sophisticated writing interface, I am fascinated by plain, l...