Going to try to switch to full time Dark Mode on my Mac. Generally less eye strain, but getting used to it has been rough in the past. Maybe it will stick this time.
It’s interesting how much differently colored spools of the same filament material can vary. I like the feel of items printed in my red PETG way more than the black. Weird.
I wanted to be able to setup custom layouts per post (or per page) on my Micro.blog site (which runs Hugo under the hood).
My hackish solution was to leverage the Categories feature to inject a body class into the page. From there, I can setup as many custom layouts as I want, based on the body tag.
If a Category is named “Layout-*” then whatever comes after “Layout-“ will be injected as a body tag.
For example, “Layout-Aqua” becomes a body tag of “aqua”, which you can see in action here.
Here’s the code I’m using:
{{ $.Scratch.Set "layoutClasses" "" }}
{{ range .Params.categories }}
{{ $lowerCategory := lower . }}
{{ if strings.HasPrefix $lowerCategory "layout-" }}
{{ $.Scratch.Set "layoutClasses" (print ($.Scratch.Get "layoutClasses") " " (substr $lowerCategory 7 | urlize)) }}
{{ end }}
{{ end }}
body class=”{{ $.Scratch.Get “layoutClasses” }}”
</code>
In love with this code pen of pure CSS Aqua style buttons by Andrew Millen. Gotta find an excuse to use this somewhere.
The tools @manton has created for Photo Management here on Micro.blog are great. Alas, I’m super picky about photo management, and couldn’t help but give myself a tool to customize it all exactly how I want it.
My sync tool will create a post for each photo, a page for each gallery, and a Galleries page with a link to each. It also uploads a full-size photo to R2 to make available as a “full-sized download.”
The photo title, description, etc. is pulled from exif data that I set via Lightroom when I’m editing photos from a shoot.
Here is the list of galleries I’ve uploaded so far.
Next up: working on the layout/theming of all the pages.
There are still some things about photo handling at Micro.blog that aren’t to my taste (I want full-size uploads available somewhere, for example), but Photo Collections and the robust API that @manton has put together should make it pretty easy to fill in those gaps for myself.
I’ve been playing with the Photo Collections feature that was recently added to micro.blog.
It took me a bit to get the hang of it, but after that it was easy to add a few photo shoots and an index page for them: thegreenshed.org/photoshoo…
Half dome at night. Yosemite National Park. November, 2024.
Yosemite Falls. November 2024.
After a multi-year experiment trying to self-host my blog I’m giving up and going back to micro.blog. While it was a fun side-project, the fact is that it got in the way of posting, and I’m tired of that. I don’t have the self-discipline to maintain a blog engine myself, so I’m not going to.
Yosemite National Park California November 29, 2024
Camera: SONY ILCE-7RM4A
Lens: FE 35mm F1.8
Focal Length: 35.0 mm
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter Speed: 1/20
ISO: 2500
Exposure Compensation: -2
Yosemite National Park California November 29, 2024
Camera: SONY ILCE-7RM4A
Lens: FE 35mm F1.8
Focal Length: 35.0 mm
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter Speed: 1/40
ISO: 100
Exposure Compensation: -2
