Howdy! I'm Michael Bishop. @miklb
Chef, web mechanic, general mayhem maker.
Welcome to my corner of the web, chronicling life in a digital world.
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I’ve really wanted to make the jump back to static and use @eleven_ty this time. Mostly to get more famliar with Node/JS, but also because I love the flexibility. This site currently runs on WordPress, but that experiment is beyond its use by date. Wanting and doing are always two different things for me. I’ve…
I find myself more now than ever wanting to visualize a workflow before beginning to build it. Often that means a basic flow chart. But a simple digital tool that worked on Mac seemed elusive. Until I began poking at Mindode more. I mentioned I started exploring it last month and it's been a pleasure.…
As I get older, the Jan 1 demarcation of a trip around the sun has even less meaning. New Years resolutions have never been my thing, I've always thought that what ever day the calendar says is the right day to start a good habit. Good habit building has been my focus the last three…
Quick thoughts and asides
February 18, 2019
Coming soon(ish) 
This 30+ year listener/supporter of WMNF thinks firing was the wrong way to go. A restructuring could have happened without that severe an action. If there is more, it needs to be public ASAP.
February 17, 2019
Feature request for Mojave: option for highlight and accent colors in both light & dark themes. 
February 16, 2019
Speaking of hot sauce 👀 saw little feature on Leah Chase on NBC News. Made point to ask her about chastising Obama for putting hot sauce on her gumbo. Snapped this painted in the median outside Dooky Chase 
Pretty cool to see my site load in the WorldWideWeb emulator. The OG internet browser. https://worldwideweb.cern.ch
I don’t know if ignorance is bliss but I’m willing to give it a spin for a few hours.
This Shinx isn’t going to catch itself
Anyone have experience changing the main domain for a WP multisite install?
February 15, 2019
Testing.
Went looking to update/clean up my .zshrc file which led me down a rabbit hole that ended with this zsh quickstart kit. Might need to tweak some colors and dial back some type-ahead features, but really liking it.
Dumpster dove a USB keyboard so I could see if I can get my old Mac mini running for a little home server. It’s pretty old though…
February 14, 2019
TIL if you ls -l in iTerm you can ⌘-click the directory name and it will open in Finder. That’s handy.
February 13, 2019
Today—all of it, feels so heavy. Like it’s going to take years to dig out of.
WordPress friends? Any free form builder plugins you can recommend? Need one for a nonprofit just getting started & I seem to have lost my Gravityforms dev license to an old email address.
The goal is to not owe taxes. Refunds are a zero interest loan to the government that they repay. I’d use this confusing element to fight the likes of TurboTax to make it easier to file & also easier for business to properly withhold.
February 12, 2019
I’m getting survey fatigue folks. I’m sitting on 3 right now that I want to fill out. Simmer down now.
I don’t know who she’ll be but I’m waiting for the presidential candidate that talks about restoring the co-equal branch status of Congress & won’t be Obama in being executive branch defender.
February 11, 2019
If you aren’t following @jensimmons thinking through and discussing browser CSS standardization(?) you are missing out https://github.com/mozdevs/cssremedy/issues
Due to a forgotten branch that I merged into master, I’m finding myself rewriting all of the HTML rather than backing out the merge. Feels good.
So weird to see my front yard without the oak. Called city about month ago to confirm it was dying. Originally warned me could take 2 years to get tree & stump removed. Now to plan its replacement.
I keep seeing reference to the “Bezos blog.” He doesn’t have a standing blog, it’s a post on Medium. Just substitute journal for blog if you aren’t sure. I read the journal entry == I read the blog post. I read their entire journal == I read the whole blog. You get the point.
February 10, 2019
Y’all has become broadly accepted for good reason, wondering if time to bring back allsyou or too soon?
Just had a thought. I know you can run arbitrary Jekyll plugins in a GitHub action–I bet you can send/receive webmentions too!
Some days I feel like I spent my whole life trying to find my way out of the maze that now that I have, I’m not sure what to do.
Am I wrong to the think “women’s oxford boyfriend shirt” really doesn’t need the word “boy” in the description? Like, why is that still necessary?
February 9, 2019
I just found the aesthetic for the new blog design 🔥
Digital plumber reference && a well written piece on the imporance of the craft of building a website
Plumbers might get excited about PEX piping, but they also understand that their job is to ensure the water gets from the main to the faucet as expeditiously as before.
Water and data flow through pipes of their own, but whether data flows easily from server to client depends.
I have a 64gb iPhone 6 & 128gb 6s+ for sale/trade. Both space gray, have had battery replaced. Mac mini/Apple pencil compatible iPad on my want list.