Archive by month
So I guess I am on a roll?
Added a small square as a decorative element (a little square) for the dates in the posts. That’s the small change.
I also figured out why Manton’s plugin, for archive by month, didn’t work for me. It clicked when I realized what went wrong last time.
The plugin is meant to replace the default layouts/list.archivehtml.html, not the one I have, which is slightly modified by TinyTheme. So what I just went and snatched the code from the above and pasted it inside layouts/list.archivehtml.html, write after the condition to activate the microhook partials/microhook-archive-lead.html in there. Now I have an archive page built around years and months. Good stuff.
ISO dates are back
Got ISO dates working on my blog again, just like the old days. Had to dig into microhooks and Hugo’s recommendation (hat-tip goes to Claude for making those more understandable). Turns out that “2006” is not just some random year value that can be replaced. Don’t worry, I’ll tell you why anyway.
What makes a good blog good?
Up early (again) with coffee in hand, pondering what separates the blogs I actually enjoy from the noise. It’s not the platform—Micro.blog, Bear, whatever—or perfect grammar. At the end, it’s the human showing through. What do you think?
My blog on Manue’s Prople and Blogs today!
It’s 4 AM, and I’m up again. I really need this insomnia to go away.
Apple Watch after 2 years
Apple Watch, year 2: excellent jogging buddy, sleep-shaming device, and an overpriced vibrating meditation reminder bracelet. MS Teams got banned immediately. But it’s not all bad.
Apple Mail - highlight a part of an email, and it shows up in your reply. Email threads are sorted by chronological order.
Outlook - Highlighting does nothing. Copy-paste automatically defaults to the original fonts and style, not that of the email. Email threads (“conversations”) have two timelines in one: chronological and reverse-chronological.
I’m starting to think they have a position for “torturer” they hire for now and then.
We've built an AI so good it will kill us with its kindness
I tried Claude like everyone else, and came back terrified because I found the best teacher I could have hoped for.
More signs of spring 📷
I took a walk and listened to the birds for a moment. It’s always nice to get chances like this in Manhattan:
Fighting with bots. I’m not provided the option I need (work/enterprise-related shipment, and the only option on the website or on the phone is for home service.) The bot doesn’t route me to a human, no matter what I try. Some service.
One of my automatic tasks for my Mac is to delete my downloads folder every weekend. At the start, I was worried this would cause me to lose important files, but I have backups and it actually made me more purposeful with how I save them.
What are some of yours?
So I fixed my blog again
Spent days debugging my blog’s broken microhooks, only to find Hugo was using the “default” file instead of my custom one. Turns out, a flipped template and a missing dash in a title were the culprits. Shoutout to Qwen3-Coder for the assist. AI can be a great tutor. My blog matters more than I thought.
A Minecraft Movie, 2025 - ★★½
Solid fun, a nice plot for a movie based on a video game. Highly expected, nothing too special, but a somewhat confusing plot - the one that is based on the real world feels almost as fantastical as the Minecraft one.
I seem to have fixed the issues on my blog. This required a deeper dive into my template and understanding how Hugo prioritizes pages. Qwen3 helped by answering my clarifying questions from the documentation and gave me a bit of confidence, which did the trick.
Some of the pages on my site are not working properly. I’m trying to figure out the problem and get it sorted out, but so far it’s a lot of head scratching. I’m replicating the same structure to a new, similar theme, with a newer Hugo build, so we will see how that works out.
Mushroom Soup 🍜
A first attempt at homemade mushroom soup. This came out pretty well, and I have a couple of ideas for next time.
‘Tis the season…
Gesundheit!
Seems like some of the pages on my blog are now working as they should. There’s supposed to be an introduction for the Archive page and the Emacs page. I’m using Tiny Theme, and the HTML for those micro-hooks is in place, which makes me think something went wrong with the update I did about a month ago.
I guess rebuilding the blog is the next step - which usually breaks the movies page… stand by….
Hank Green on why AI scares him:
“People tend to prefer their choices to be taken away.”
(The link below will take you directly to that part)
It’s an hour and a half long video with a long introduction and a video thrown in the middle, probably one of the longer rants by Hank Green, with an interview in the middle by Cal Newport, a computer science professor at Georgetown University.
I’m still watching this conversation. It’s a lot to take in, but I think it keeps going back to the sentence I quoted above. It has been true for a while (forever?), on different platforms (not just AI), and one of the most apparent examples for me is dating apps. Tinder started the trend of “swiping people” left and right, emphasizing how people look and present, and not who they are.
It’s easy to blame the app, but we who use them are not much better. Going through profiles on a dating app (even those that allow more detailed ones), the person usually sums up their being into a single sentence, with a “bumper sticker” style emojis presenting whatever ideology is popular this time around.
The very concept of a dating app today is a joke when you think about how impossible it is to summarize who the person behind the profile is. Yet, this is what we prefer and what we use. We all have decision fatigue, and it only gets worse as we get bombarded by even more information, so we rely on technologies like AI to summarize that for us as we grow lazier and our capacity to retain information and make knowledge decisions based on that information is diminishing every day.
I find myself highlight gems like these every 2 pages or so. The Cunning Man
Of Frued:
mankind, as always through history, has half-heard the call of the prophet, half-understood what he says, and vulgarized and cheapened whatever of his teaching may come its way.