Dinner tonight at my folks house. First BBQ of the season and it didn’t disappoint!
A great day at Stirling today
Jennifer and I spent the day watching Drew play at Stirling Golf Club today in a Stephen Gallagher Foundation event. Stirling is a fantastic golf course with great views of the castle from just about every hole on the course.
Despite a rocky start on the first three holes, Drew found his groove on the back nine and finished second in the net scores. These events are a great opportunity for him to learn more about his golf game and play many courses across the west of Scotland and the central belt. Back at it tomorrow for another SGF event at Whitecraigs Golf Course, which is thankfully, just down the road.
One of my biggest Obsidian peeves is that the graph view doesn’t retain the settings you change. Yes, some plugins do this, but surely there’s been discussions about persisting these settings without a plugin.
After putting the Kagi Small Web badge on the bottom of my blog, I wanted to add more badges.
So, using the different avatars available to users of Dailymuse, I have added badges for each of the muses and generic one for Dailymuse.
Nice to work on something fun for a wee change.
A good win for our junior team tonight and good to see the new irons are working out for Drew. Onwards to our next match on Monday night.
I picked up one of the Atoms to Astronauts mugs this week. I couldn’t pass up on the space edition.
New blog theme
Despite telling myself I would only update my website theme once a year, tonight I decided to throw that rule out the window and give it a new look.
Gone are the hand-drawn-style dividers and the Kagi-inspired black, white, and gold theme, to be replaced by a Rosepine theme featuring earthy tones. Very apt now that we are coming into summer here in the UK.
I have made a bit more use of a card design for the website’s images, blogroll and reading pages.
For fonts, I am using Lora for body text and Fraunces for headings. I quite like to split my font selection this way.
To make future changes to the colour scheme, I have set up five CSS variables that represent the theme’s main colours. Any other colours are derived from these five variables using the color-mix function.
I definitely scratched an itch with this one, as I felt the previous theme was too stark and lacked some warmth. I’ve found it in this colour selection and by changing the fonts the website uses.
Me and Jennifer watched Remarkably Bright Creatures tonight. A wonderful story told on the small screen. Thoroughly enjoyed it. 🎬
I had hoped to try out Claude Design with a couple of Rails applications this morning. Disappointing start so far.
You can only link code from a GitHub profile, which I don’t use, or using a local folder through the browser, but you need Chrome or Edge to do that.
Guess I’ll need to wait a while.
A busy day in the Lang household today
Our oldest, Ethan, returns home for the summer after his first year at McKendree University in Illinois. Just getting his breakfast order ready now for him walking through the door.
He was home at Christmas for a few weeks, but with the whole summer ahead of us, it will be good to get a proper catch-up with him and get a few rounds of golf together.
Later today, our youngest, Drew, is playing in a Stephen Gallagher Foundation event up at Paisley Golf Club. The first individual competition of the season for him, and with a new set of irons in the bag, I’m sure he’s going to have quite a few good rounds of golf ahead of him over the summer.
Once that’s done, it will be back home for a family dinner for four. Our first time together sitting down to a meal since Christmas.
Looking forward to a summer of family, bbqs, golf and good times.