Chuck Grimmett

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  • Just realized that when doing Wordle, I sound things out letter by letter, which doesn’t always match up to the English pronunciation of words. So today’s took me an extra step before it clicked.

    Wordle 849 4/6

    🟨⬛⬛⬛⬛
    🟨🟨🟨⬛⬛
    ⬛🟩🟩⬛🟨
    🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

  • It is calvados season.

  • Loving this linter for Obsidian. Nicely formatted notes make a big difference. https://obsidian.md/plugins?id=obsidian-linter

  • Anyone want a Bluesky invite?

    bsky-social-4xdtn-kvkoa

    bsky-social-66lla-dpgct

    bsky-social-p5ids-wmlzg

  • Surprise and delight of the day: Learning that a cocktail website I’ve been referencing uses some Jekyll tools I open sourced a couple years ago and links to them in their repo.

  • TIL ch is a length unit in CSS. So if you want to limit something to roughly 50 characters and add an ellipsis at the end if there is overflow, you can do something like:

    .className {
    max-width: 50ch;
    overflow: hidden;
    text-overflow: ellipsis;
    white-space: nowrap;
}
  • I was right! OB in Loki Season 2 is Short Round from Indiana Jones.

  • Notes on The Coaching Habit by Michael Bungay Stanier

    • Kickstart, AWE and Focus
      • “What’s on your mind?”
      • “And what else?”
      • “What’s the real challenge here for you?”
    • “What do you want?”
    • Ask “what” questions instead of “why” questions.
    • Avoid asking rhetorical questions

  • I got really lucky today!

    Wordle 839 2/6

    ⬛⬛🟩⬛🟩
    🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

  • One of the things I really like about macOS Sonoma: The ability to put widgets directly on the desktop. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213659

    I have:

    • Weather
    • To do list
    • Calendar
    • Recent notes list from Drafts.app
    • Shortcuts (for launching frequently used shortcuts from the shortcuts app)

  • We were finger painting with Charlie the other day and my wife Amanda started playing around with the brushes and ended up with this. I love it! Such nice texture. She had no plan and it took about 5 minutes. It would take me a month to create something like this with a generative art script in Processing.

  • Bookmarked Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 by Alastair Campbell.

    New A11y guidelines (WCAG 2.2) dropped today.

  • Wordle 838 5/6

    ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
    ⬛🟨⬛⬛🟨
    ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩
    ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩
    🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

  • I still do Wordle every day. I might start posting them again.

    Wordle 837 4/6

    ⬛🟨⬛⬛⬛
    🟩⬛🟩⬛🟨
    🟩🟩🟩⬛⬛
    🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

  • After updating to macOS Sonoma last night, I found myself unable to get online this morning. It took me a while to figure out, but the problem ended up being Little Snitch, a reverse firewall. I was running a version that wouldn’t run correctly on Sonoma, but since it was blocking access to the internet for everything I couldn’t update it. I had to go to System Settings > Network > Filters and turn off Little Snitch to stop filtering my internet connection through it, then I was able to get online and run the update.

  • Bookmarked FEMA and FCC Plan Nationwide Emergency Alert Test for Oct. 4, 2023 | FEMA.gov.

    FEMA and the FCC are doing a nationwide test of the emergency alert system on October 4 around 2:20pm Eastern.

  • Yes, this work will be Pro Bono*

    * All content written strongly in support of the lead vocalist of U2

  • Testing with blocks

  • Testing the output

  • Didn’t imagine I’d spend Friday night getting water out of my basement. Went and bought a non-submersible pump, but more water seeps out of the ground 25 mins after I pump all the water out. My first call Monday morning is to a guy who can put in a sump for me.