2026 Update: I have retired my music blog for both issues of cost and interest.
Since 2023, I’ve been writing micro album reviews. These are mostly for myself to remember albums I’ve enjoyed but I realize other people might find them useful for finding new music. I will be adding more as I listen.
I added three new albums to my music of summer 2024 playlist but, sadly, something has broken the RSS display on my site. Hopefully I can find and fix the error soon.
First, An Event Apart ended their amazing conferences and now A Book Apart has closed up shop. I can’t help but feel like the Internet is continuing to become a lesser form of itself.
Looking for some good tunes? My music page has been updated for summer with more albums coming as I listen. Powered by @bjhess awesome Album Whale.
I really tried to like the Arc browser but I’m just over it. In my opinion, they haven’t “reinvented” anything about the actual web browser. It’s just extra layers of utilities on top of the same tracking-hungry Chrome engine.
I’m going back to the simplicity of Safari.
Seeing everyone post their subscription lists was the push I needed to finally close my Blot account and recode my main website with a simple HTML/CSS/JS stack. If I can just figure out why Firefox and Chromium are messing up my mobile menu, I can call this done. gregmoore.me
I’ve made enough drawings for my D&D group that it was time to give them an online home. Sadly, I had to give up trying to make it work on my Micro.blog so they can be found on Cara.
More improvemets to my website including:
I managed to make some much-needed improvements to my theme such as a dark mode, color refinements, and some bug fixes.
It took a little over a week but I finally completed version 1 of my fully custom Micro.blog theme. I already have major changes I want to make to it but I’m going to leave those for after the holidays. I’d like to blame thank @mtt and @SimonWoods for giving me the push I needed to learn something totally new.
🤦🏼♂️ That feeling when you’ve spent nearly two days trying to laboriously troubleshoot a CSS error and then manage to fix it in seconds the next day when you, on a whim, rebuild the SASS file.
Trying a new music page as a more dynamic replacement of my Full Album Favorites list. It runs off of my Album Whale RSS feed (hat-tip: @bjhess)
I have more to do but the only real bug has been the Marfa theme wrapping every damn thing as an unordered list.
Conversation with my own brain while trying to fall asleep last night:
🧠 “Make a custom theme for your Micro.blog”
🧔♂️ “I already have too many personal projects and everybody just uses the timeline or apps anyway.”
🧠 “Remember Hey Loura!?”
🧔♂️ “I’ll start in the morning.”
Just discovered an awesome new music site, Album Whale, co-created by the amazing @bjhess. It helped me quickly create a much prettier list of my favorite full albums of all time.