I was recently asked about bookmarks, and I realized my browser/bookmarks workflow might seem a bit odd…

• My main browser at home is LibreWolf, which is a privacy-focused Firefox fork (kind of what Brave is next to Chrome, but not really). It uses a Searx instance for searches.
• For work and “We don’t like your VPN” places (like my bank for example, or health insurance) I use Brave. I believe it uses its own search. (I switched to Google, as this is my “boring me, vanilla guy, nothing to see here” kind of deal.)
• For blogging at home, I use Firefox. It uses DuckDuckGo (the default) for searches
• For writing (journal and sometimes blogging) I use EWW, which is the Emacs' built-in web browser. It uses Wikipedia as a search engine.

Sometimes I launch a URL directly from KeePassXC. I have a section of pages I visit often, so it’s another way of logging into those with the credentials ready to go.

I do have bookmarks saved where it makes sense. For example, my Brave browser has bookmarks for various bills-paying related sites; but LibreWolf does not have bookmarks I use often, because these are launched from KeePassXC.

Another way I sometimes browse the internet and save pages is with org-mode - but not the way you probably think. I don’t have a “bookmarks.org” somewhere or a file with different URLs. Instead, the links depend on the task or project they’re attached to.

For example, if I want to buy a new hard drive, I will have the task in org-mode and several links in it leading to search results across different sites. Another example is a link to a location, say a museum, I visited on a certain day. This works well because the connection I make mentally makes sense to me; if I want to find the model of the hard drive I purchased, for example, I will look up the task that had to do with it and find it. When I work in org-mode, the links will open in EWW. If I need a full browser (to visit the hard drive link from Amazon), I just need to press “&” to open my external default browser with that link.

Do you have your own weird way of saving locations on the net? Do you even bother? Or do you keep a tidy list in your Safari/Firefox/Chrome?

Transferred my domain to micro.blog successfully. taonaw.com will take you to the new blog now, complete with SSL, courtesy of @menton and the MB community.

The old blog will stay up with an alternative link. I hope to migrate posts over slowly, at least some.

The CSS is fixed, with the help of my partner. No more white highlights or pink ones.

to quote @manton: “The Alpine theme is a “Hugo theme for Micro.blog, based on Marfa theme, which was based on NeoCactus and Cactus for Jekyll.”

Alpine had a white color highlight for links, while the other (Marfa?) had pink ones. We had to find and adjust both stylesheets.

A bit of The Matrix thrown into a cheesy heroic story about freedom. Good for a chill night for easy viewing, don’t expect anything special.

The twist in this movie is not really a twist, because by this point we’re used to it, like turning around full 360. Bla bla aliens enslave humans, bla bla brain washing humans, bla bla somehow humans' brains can’t be brainwashed completely, bla bla true love will unlock everything, etc etc.

Left unexplained: why do such advanced aliens need humans to fix their own machines? Why keep any humans alive? What’s the point?

Cool tech, cool toys, nice action, awesome drone noises. Tom Cruise with his Top Gun sunglasses is still flying like a bat from hell.

I spent over an hour trying to fix a few annoying #CSS issues on the blog, and I give up for now. Certain changes I make seem to work the first time around but not later.

For example, I could specify I want links to have an underline (text-decoration: underline;). I don’t always see the effect in the preview pane inside Micro.blog, but I do see that in a private browser window. So I make an additional change, and… nothing. I switch back to text-decoration: none; and… links are still underlined.

This drives me nuts. You can’t change something if you get different results for the same copy-paste CSS code. There’s an option to reset the cache in Firefox, so it doesn’t do that, but it still doesn’t seem to work, and by this point, I lose track of what I’m trying to change.

Enough for now; I’ll try a bit more later.

The problem with waking up to tweak your blog at 4 in the morning is that you don’t keep notes. When I wake up a second time, I’ll try reconstructing what I did in the Wiki.

Here’s my attempt at it for now.

I decided that if I wanted to tweak my theme, I wanted to deal with a more basic-looking one than paper. So I switched to Alpine.

From there, the next order of business was to get the familiar look of TAONAW: the cream-beige-like background color, completed with the blood-red title. There are also the fonts, but at that point, I didn’t feel like dealing with loading them from Google. I kind of like the simpler look anyway.

Then it was time to deal with the bigger headache: changing the theme’s date and time to a nice, sane ISO/24 format. Ah, that meant it was time to deal with Hugo yet again: exactly what I don’t want to do with my time blogging on Micro.blog. But I whined about this enough already.

Each theme is different, so while I knew what I was looking for, I didn’t know exactly where. Don’t ask me how my insomniac-5-in-the-morning brain (I was working on the CSS for a while) figured it out because I have no idea, but I found it. Judging from the .txt clutter on my desktop, my hasty last-second saves of the original template code before I messed things up, I was winging it.

So here we are.

I need to work on the colors more and tweak fonts and spaces, but I think it’s time to call it. When I wake up from brainstorming a new tech project like this, it means it’s going to stay. Unlike Jack, my blogging companion on this particular journey, I think I’m adopting Micro.blog as a permanent blogging solution. This here will be the place for my vents and - excuse the term, but it’s accurate - mind farts; the Wiki will remain the “serious” place to store knowledge I get the chance to chew on.

Between these two, I think I have my writing covered. I will start the process of transferring some posts from my old blog over, but there’s no rush. I’m leaving it as is for now. For new content, this is the place.

That’s all I’ve got right now. I’m happy it’s early Saturday, and I can wake up in a few hours and make myself a nice fresh cup of coffee.

I’m trying out CoPilot (blame Wheezy Waiter for this). I discovered that my Fitbit Sense, which I got for free because my Ionic was recalled, doesn’t really integrate with Apple health.

This is not a big shock, especially now that FitBit is a Google toy, which they’re going to cancel sooner than later. What is nuts though is that after I connected my Sense to the iPhone, I wasn’t able to connect it back to my Android, no matter what I tried (including a factory reset). I tried to connect the Sense back to the iPhone and succeeded with no issues. Not only that, the sense downloaded firmware updates that seems like I was missing on the Android. There are a few features working now that weren’t fully working before.

This makes me think I should switch to an Apple watch if I want to keep up exercising and use a watch for payments etc (my bank information is on my iPhone).

2FA, the holy grail of security. Until you don't have access to your phone number anymore.

Good-luck trying to reset your password or your account. It's all based on 2FA.

"to reset your password, please verify the code we sent to this number"

"yeah, I don't have that number."

"sorry to hear that, please verify your information so we can reset the password"

"how do I verify..?"

"please verify the code we sent to this number..."

I will use keepassXC forever, thank you.

Maybe I have a thing for pizza. I mean, most folks do, no?

A walk to one of my local pizza joints around the neighborhood in the cold weather is rewarding for leaving the apartment.

I’ve been thinking of what I posted here, on micro.blog, and how I want to keep up posting content. There’s nothing solid at this point, just a lot of floating ideas.

Well, and trying the MB mobile app, of course.