Miraz Jordan

This odd looking thing is a Red Kiwifruit:

This fruit has a deliciously sweet berry-tinged flavour and vibrant red flesh … the distinctive red flesh stems from Anthocyanin - a unique and naturally occurring pigment within the fruit that is linked to cardiovascular and cognitive health.

Another fascinating interview: Ann-Helén Laestadiu: Sami, the reindeer people:

Stolen is the story of a young Sámi girl’s coming of age. It is informed by painful real-life events: the killing … of reindeer, and the hatred Laestadius has seen as a journalist directed towards her people.

Fascinating interview: Angela Saini on the origins of patriarchy - A Podcast of One’s Own with Julia Gillard:

Her latest book, The Patriarchs: How Men Came to Rule … explores the roots of gendered oppression and how patriarchal systems became embedded in societies and spread across the globe.

At 6 am I shone the torch into the quail run to check on lonely Fliss the quail. I spotted this Leopard Slug - Limax Maximus leaving the food dish:

Limax maximus is the largest slug introduced to New Zealand from Europe.

I don’t know why it’s taken me so long to make this little Keyboard Maestro macro to convert a Markdown link to an HTML link… I’ve needed it a lot recently.

Copy a Markdown link to the clipboard, run the macro which does a Regular Expression Search & Replace, paste.

After installing the Alpine Theme on two hosted Micro.Blogs, I was extremely keen to change the date format. That took me ages as I blundered around through different theme files. Eventually though, I mainly got it done.

The original

The Alpine Theme tends to write dates like this: 12:30 PM, JUL 1, as the theme's screenshot shows.

I really dislike that format and want my dates to look like this: 17:16 on 08 March 2023. That's a 24 hour time format followed by two digit date, month written out in full, 4 digit year. Plus changes to punctuation and whatnot.

Settings?

Ideally I'd go to some Settings screen and enter my choices there. Alas, that choice isn't available.

Where and how to change the theme files

First, if you need to, refer to Custom themes for instructions on creating and setting a Custom Theme.

For the Alpine Theme you need to change the date in 3 files:

• layouts/list.archivehtml.html
• layouts/post/single.html
• layouts/partials/post-item.html

Find the place where it says something like this

<time class=“dt-published” datetime=“{{ .Date.Format ”2006–01–02 15:04:05 –0700“ }}”> <a class=“u-url dates” href=“{{ .Permalink }}”>{{ .Date.Format “Jan 2, 2006” }}</a> </time>

Replace the second date & time with your preferred format.

In my case I changed {{ .Date.Format "Jan 2, 2006" }} to read {{ .Date.Format "15:04 on 02 January 2006" }}. I also added the text "Published on " before the date on one blog where that's fairly relevant. (Since changed to "Published at".)

The place where I couldn't change the date format was where my blog displays replies from others to my posts.

Also refer to the June 2019 article on @custom: Change the date format.

The annoying thing about cooking Foolproof slow roast chicken is I’m starving and there’s more than an hour of cooking left to go…

Hah! Against Copyediting: Is It Time to Abolish the Other Department of Corrections?:

I was less the advocate of adventurous commas or paradigm-shifting syntax than a weary cleaner of the tiniest, most sparkling closet, working through the nooks and crannies of written English with my lead-pencil broom.

Life with Sasha 🐶 these days:

I start to do a thing…

Sasha: Ohhh I really need to go out right now.

… We walk aimlessly, or sit or just stand.

😵‍💫

Dates on Micro.Blog bug me. I changed the theme on my blog and now see this date format: 1:11 PM, Mar 6. I hate it. The trouble is, to get my preferred format: 1311 on 06 March 2023 I have to go through a million theme files to find the right ones and change it in each. I’d like a single setting.

Thanks to @tracydurnell for linking to the recipe for Southern Buttermilk Biscuits. Friends have invited me to dinner so I experimented with making these. The one I’ve tasted is just fine.

I used White Vinegar plus Milk to replace the Buttermilk.

Those Ngutuparore, Wrybill are so cute. They came within about 3 metres of me as I sat on the sand. And they run so fast (see the second half of the video).

Length: 20 cm (7.87 inches)

Weight: 55 grams (1.94 ounces)

Probably not technically on Micro.Blog, but I love following @Words@social.vivaldi.net because of the gorgeous daily fox photos. Followed them on Twitter for years.