Every time we visit the Naval Aviation Museum in Pensacola, I’m reminded how incredible it is. Truly a gem.

Baseball Day Two.

Baseball Day One.

Pizza night in Waco.

Homestead Heritage in Waco, TX.

A little bit of time in Waco, TX this week.

It’s been a busy few weeks of life for us, but we’ve managed to squeeze in some fun times as well. This was from a nice Sunday lunch at a local spot. Tomorrow, we’re taking the kids on a week long road trip to relax and catch some baseball games.

As a theme designer, I frequently provide basic support via email. As a primarily Apple ecosystem user, my go-to email clients are Apple Mail on both macOS and iOS, along with iCloud.com. For the most part, they do what I need them to do. Unfortunately, they don’t have a solid built-in way to share code snippets. Yes, there are snippet sharing services that will do the trick, but sometimes you just really want to have some inline code in an email that looks and acts like you expect.

In trying to solve this problem, I discovered that you CAN add a beautifully styled code block to Apple Mail with an odd workaround. If you display a code block in a web browser, you can then copy that code block and paste it into a new email. It’ll honor the font choices, styling, text-wraps, everything.

So naturally, I had to create a...

Email Changes

Over the years, I’ve changed my email setup countless times. Off the top of my head, I’ve used everything from Gmail to ProtonMail to iCloud Mail to Fastmail (and more). Every time, I’ve taken the steps to transfer email between old and new services. For the last few years, I’ve been using iCloud Mail with custom domains. For the most part, I was content with the setup.

However, as things in my life have changed over the last couple of years, I need more integrations/automations connected to my email. I recently made the decision to switch back to Gmail. I know, I know, privacy and security and all that. At the end of the day, I made the decision (after a lot of research) that the trade-offs weren’t as severe as some people claim. Is it perfect? No, of course not. But it’s acceptable in my case.

My work email...

It’s our 12th wedding anniversary!

A sneak peak at (some) of the settings that will be available in Tiny Theme 3. I am still looking for additional beta testers if you’re interested.

A plant and herb festival might just be @kalena’s heaven on earth.

With just a little css (and a drop-in Javascript snippet), you can style your own replies on Micro.blog. Here’s an example with a different border and a “Post Author” badge. This example was done using Tiny Theme.

Baseball

I’ve always been a big baseball fan, and fortunately I married one too. We’ve passed that love of the game on to our kids. My son had his first 2 double game in coach pitch and was ecstatic. And he’s particular about calling them real doubles or due-to-errors (which is common in coach pitch). He hit both of them right down the third base line.

Health Related

My family (not my wife or kids) has had some recent health related setbacks in the last year. To this point, everything has been beat and we’re fully expectant that the current stuff will have the same result. But all of that has made me consider going back to an AppleWatch for the health features. I haven’t pulled the trigger yet, and I may not, but the thought is in the back of my head.

Desk Setup

I’ve returned to a multi-monitor setup at...

You don’t know crawfish unless you’ve had it in a very specific region of Louisiana. That does not include New Orleans.