We have AI, self-driving cars, and space tourists. Getting a custom favicon for your blog to show up? That’s where technology draws the line. 😅

I’ve been tinkering with my Bear blog and added a few new things: a Postroll to share recent posts I’ve enjoyed, a hand-curated Blogroll, and shiny new tag filters for the Notes page. Living up to my Project Over-Engineered theme name 😅

I added a new photos section on my other blog, showing the photos I post here. To me, Bear and Micro.blog really do feel like a perfect match. ✍️

Yesterday I wrote about not having decided how, or if, I should connect my two blogs. Now I’ve added a Notes section that shows my latest micro posts. I think it looks quite nice, and doesn’t interfere with the rest of the blog. ✍️

I’ve been thinking about (no surprise there) what to call follow-up posts from other bloggers. Eventually, I decided on “Reader’s reflections” and added a bit of style to reflect (no pun intended) that choice of word. Here’s a look. ✍️

I asked ChatGPT to create a script that sorts posts on my Bear blog by year. This was the result on the first attempt — I’m amazed 🤩 I’ll need to work on the styling, but still, very impressive! ✍️

I figured it was time to give my new theme a proper name and description ✍️

Theme Name: Project Over-Engineered
Description: Just tidying up. Forever.
Version: It.Works.On.My.Machine
License: Nah

I’ve been working on the design for my “new” Bear blog over at robertbirming.com. There’s still a lot I want to do, but it’s getting there. To be honest, I’ve really missed the styling part of Bear (and other things too, for that matter). It’s just so… easy. ✍️

Since I still haven’t been able to decide about mixing short and long posts, here’s my previous one, but on my other blog (you can never have too many blogs, right? 😅): Happy cinnamon bun day ✍️

Yay, I got my ”IndieWeb is Punk” T-shirt today! 😎 This awesome creation is a perfect example of what the… Continue reading ✍️