Tiny Theme + Tinylytics Update: I just pushed an update to Tiny Theme AND the Tinylytics for Tiny plugin that enables the new uptime stat. Use a shortcode to display your site’s uptime history. The plugin continues to work with Tinylytics free accounts, but uptime requires a paid account.

Mastodon: Twitter killer that’s hard for normals to understand.

Bluesky: Twitter killer that’s slow to dev & hard to join.

Threads: Twitter killer that ignores followers & keeping posts in order.

Nostr: Twitter killer that no one knows about.

I just can’t imagine why Twitter isn’t dead yet.

I’ve been serving on a Jury everyday this week. It was a fun experience (in between the boring minutia), but I’m glad it’s finally over. Back to normal life now.

👩🏻‍⚖️ Jury Duty day one ended with a whimper. No selections, only a “see you tomorrow morning.” But I did learn what supplies I should bring tomorrow.

My short post on Nostr and Bluesky Domain Verification got some moderate (a few thousand hits) Hacker News treatment yesterday and today.

I need some product suggestions:

  1. A sling/pack that can be worn crossbody. I’d like it on the small side (2L max). Looking at Bellroy Venture Ready Sling 2.5L but it’s sold out.
  2. An AppleWatch Ultra band that is beach friendly. Considering the Ocean Band & Nomad’s options. Open to suggestions.

My Favorite Mac Apps and Utilities

As someone who uses a Mac almost every day, there are a quite a few smaller utility-type apps that I frequently use. I decided to make a list, perhaps it’ll be useful to someone.

How to Verify your Domain on Nostr and Bluesky (for Micro.blog users)

Adding domain specific verification to Nostr and changing your Bluesky username to your own domain can be accomplished by creating .well-known text files. If you’re using Micro.blog and would like to do this, it’s pretty easy.

Ahh, there are shareable profile links. Follow me on Threads.

Find me on Threads (mattslangford).

July 4th Family Day.

Family photoChild and Kalena swinging

Tiny theme has been updated and a new Tinylytics for Tiny plugin is now available. You can easily add site statistics, a hit counter, and a kudos button to any site using Tiny theme.

I can’t say enough about how great Tinylytics is. @vincent’s done some amazing work! With his help, I’ve been able to add support for it (including a hit counter shortcode & styled kudos button) into Tiny theme. It should be available in the next couple days, but you can see/test it on my site now.

Seems like as good a time as any to do yard work. Here goes nothing. 🔥

I just updated Tiny Theme to lay the groundwork for a couple new features coming soon. Coupled with that is an update to the Summary Posts plugin for it. Basically cleaned some stuff up, made some stuff a little quicker, added some future proofing, and…ya know…that coming soon stuff.

I love it when Github goes down in the middle of a big push.

I’ve been migrating email providers this week for the organization where I work. Domains and DNS and DKIM and Routing and Migrations and Policies and Dealing-with-People, oh my!

I’ve been on a great run of books lately. Cloud Cuckoo Land. The Lincoln Highway. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow. The Last Thing He Told Me. Now I need something new. Any suggestions?

My son (6) woke up with a plan today. Make muffins with mom, go to a nearby town (40 min drive) to eat poboys, hit a couple shops, return in time to play a board game and watch the Braves, and make homemade pizzas for dinner. So that’s what we did. Good day!

I really want to like Readwise Reader, but I just can’t get there. It does a lot good but almost nothing perfectly. I’d rather have apps/services that do limited things well than ones that do a lot of things kinda okay.