There’s been a terrifying weather event in Spain. A huge storm has hit several places in the Mediterranean, with horrific flooding especially in Valencia. Almost 100 people dead and many still missing. Enormous material damage. I turned on the radio and heard a panel of supposed pundits analyze the situation. Yesterday they were talking about the Middle East and tomorrow the topic will be Artificial Intelligence or whatever. The wankers no nothing at all and yet they feel entitled to give lessons to emergency services and first responders. I can’t express how much I “like” them. Radio off, of course. And I don’t pray, so I send my thoughts to the victims and my thanks to everybody that run to help them. 
I don’t celebrate Halloween, we didn’t have that tradition growing up in Spain. My kids do, the 1st of November is always a holiday and it’s as good a excuse as any for wearing costumes and partying hard the night before. I confess, I’m only writing this because I want to be featured in micro.boo 🎃👻
Turns out I activated Apple Intelligence on a Mac in Spain (EU). I changed the OS language to English and the region to the US in Settings and I did get through the waiting list in a few minutes.
But most of my shortcuts, Keyboard Maestro macros and other automations are tied to menus and commands in Spanish, so this is going to be challenging. I feel crippled without my usual automations and I’m not going to have time to fiddle with them for a few days.
And the first Apple Intelligence feature I tried (summaries in Mail) does not work because most of my mails are in Spanish and Basque, and a message prompts swiftly: Language Not Supported. Writing Tools only work with text in English.
So I guess I will be turning Apple Intelligence off until Spanish is supported. Or maybe I take a few days to adapt my automations to the language of the Perfidious Albion.
At least I can say Apple Intelligence did turn on the EU.
I liked the Sumo Theme for a while, but I just took my site back to old faithful Tiny Theme. It just feels good. And being both from @Mtt’s factory, the microhooks and custom theme and CSS worked like a breeze.
You gotta try this online Battleship game, it’s so much fun. And totally free (and totally open to your donations or contributions, too). I’m loving it.
There’s not a more beautiful language for music.
Thanks to Blake’s HTML For People online book, I actually understood the following text, which would have been gibberish for me just a week ago.
vincent
[@jaheppler](https://micro.blog/jaheppler) [@wcaleb](https://micro.blog/wcaleb) Looking at the screenshots, and what I can see is, that no styles have been loaded either. I can see an un-styled button in the middle of that page though. What is happening is that the lightbox should be hidden when it loaded, however because the styles don't seem to have made it over, it's causing this to show. Can you confirm the version of Safari you are on please? cc: [@manton](https://micro.blog/manton)
If macOS Sequoia’s Screen Mirroring let’s us control the iPhone from the Mac and now 15.1 adds the ability to drag and drop files, don’t you think touchscreens on the Mac are starting to make a lot of sense?
🔗
On Thursday, October 10, I released HTML for People into the wild. I emailed the 300-ish people who had signed up to be notified and then posted on Mastodon. The response blew me away. In a couple of days, my post got boosted over 2,000 times. The URL made it to the front page of Hacker News. Analytics shows tens of thousands of visits to the site.
My man, my teacher, Blake Watson explaining how he made this beauty and gave it to all of us newbies.
🔗
You can't hurt him with money. In fact I'm pretty sure we can't hurt him in any way. So why not keep the reporters employed, for once the seem to be doing the right thing and keeping us in the loop on why they're doing the awful thing they're doing. Usually we're kept in the dark.
Food for thought.
Today I learned
- To write my first webpage.
- To add my own content to it.
- To install and use Visual Studio Code.
- To style the webpage using simple.css.
- To add an about page.
- To add navigation buttons and turn the webpage into a website.
It’s public here: estebantxo.neocities.org
Next time Blake will teach me to build a blog!
I’m excited, I have always relied on web services (first it was Squarespace, then I tried Wordpress, and finally I found Micro.blog for good).
And now I am going to learn to make a blog with HTML. The last step would be to learn to host it myself, but that would probably be difficult, costly and less secure than relying on professionals. We’ll see.
#LearningHTML
My wife is going to kill me, but I love this picture of this morning.
Our field trip this morning took us to Ataun and Barandiaran’s museum. The surroundings were beautiful under heavy rain. And lunch in Mandubiako Borda was great.
While waiting for my wife, I started Blake’s HTML course and published my first index.html to a Neocities website.
https://estebantxo.neocities.org
Yay!
It’s Saturday morning. I haven’t had a free Saturday for the last three weeks, so I am actually excited. I’m going with my wife to a small museum in a small town in the last corner of my province. It’s raining hard. With this weather most of my fellow citizens stay at home, and there’s not much tourism this time of year, apart from the big cities, so I expect there won’t be much people at the museum. It’s an ethnology, speleology and anthropology museum, dedicated to a prominent scientist (and catholic priest) of my country, from the last century. It’s just an excuse to make a nice field trip and breath some new air. I woke up early and made two potato omelets (tortilla de patatas o tortilla española) so the kids have something for lunch if we decide to stay for the whole day. I’m writing this for no particular reason, just a bit of English practice while I wait for my wife to hop off the shower. We’ll be on our way soon.
🔗
Just recorded a great Overtired with [@kjaymiller](https://micro.blog/kjaymiller). New episode Monday!
Overtired podcast is back. Great news!
Trying to publish a photo using ICRO
A fellow lawyer from the UK found me through @manuelmoreale.com and made my day. He actually wrote me an email to say hello and share how many things we have in common (he’s 20 years younger than me, though 😅). Connecting in this vast internet void feels like magic. I’m really grateful.
🔗
Sale! Today only, upgrade to the Micro.blog Premium or Family plan and get 25% off for the next year. Create up to 5 blogs, video hosting, and more. 🏷️
Do not miss this chance. Micro.blog is much more than a blog hosting service and a POSSE tool.