Today’s adventure in excessive packaging (drinks can for scale):

1. A very large box

Large shipping box and Pepsi can

2. 3 small bags amongst the bubble wrap

3. The even tinier contents of those bags

đź’¬ Replied to: a post

“Replied to a post by Katherine M. Moss Katherine M. Moss Katherine M. Moss (cambridgeport90.net)a post by Changeling mx It’s been a while since I’ve listened to them. Dang. Nice, and good luck!
Katherine, I noticed the other day that some of your posts, like this one, is duplicating content, and…”

The double content in Autonomie thing might be my fault… I noticed an issue in the search page, when using Post Kinds, which in turn led to a change in when Post Kinds applies filters, breaking the previous integration with Autonomie. Using the latest version of the theme from GitHub includes the necessary fix for it.

(Sorry for the inconvenience, everyone!)

đź“– Read: A Complete Guide to Flexbox | CSS-Tricks (CSS-Tricks)

“Our comprehensive guide to CSS flexbox layout. This complete guide explains everything about flexbox, focusing on all the different possible properties for the parent element (the flex container) and the child elements (the flex items). It also includes history, demos, patterns, and a browser support chart.”

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I’ve lost track of the number of times I’ve had to refer to this article over the last several months. Flexbox is amazing, but sometimes it’s not the most intuitive.

🔖 Bookmarked: Google uses Gmail to track a history of things you buy — and it's hard to delete

“Google collects the purchases you’ve made, including from other stores and sites such as Amazon, and saves them on a page called Purchases.”

I’ve been clicking around for 10 minutes now, and I can’t find the option to turn this off. It’s apparently under “search settings preferences” (like that’s an obvious place for an unrelated feature linked to GMail), but there’s nothing stands out as controlling this “feature”. To delete the records, you have to delete the email the purchase was parsed from.

I’m glad I didn’t expect much to come from Google’s much hyped “privacy matters” announcement.

Work in progress Imperial Knight

Finding myself at the “I hate this model” stage. The white panels are a huge pain, the black trim is a time-consuming pain, and I need to figure out where to incorporate some red…

It’ll all turn out ok in the end. Then I need to repeat everything on the other 2.

I don’t know exactly when it was added, but WordPress.com finally has a way to export your media uploads! When I moved off of WordPress.com, a couple of years ago, the only way to “get” your media was to export your posts, and your new site would download the files as the posts that used them were imported. This was obviously very error-prone, wouldn’t work for media not used in posts, and spectacularly failed to work for me — leaving a great deal of my uploaded media stranded on the WordPress servers. With this new export option I’ve just downloaded 1.5GB of media from two sites I had hosted on the service, so I might finally be able to reconstruct several old posts. Happy days!