Maira Martins

Last-minute panic

“You can’t just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood. What mood is that? Last-minute panic.” — Bill Watterson

July 2026: Summer vacations

This month my husband got vacations from work and I decided to take a proper break too and enjoy summer with him, fully! We traveled, met friends, went to the beach, drank a loooot of wine, and enjoyed our pool – this year the water temperature in the pool was divine, very similar to Brazil's northeast! Highlights 🫠 I thought 37°C was hot, but that's because I hadn't yet experienced 42°C with…

Re: Restless rating syndrome

"Hmmm, probably an 8. On the other hand, why wouldn't I give it a 9? It's among the top 3 movies I've watched this year." -- Robert, struggling to rate. Robert wrote a post about rating movies and how hard it is to rate a movie on a scale, so much he's been avoiding it completely. I have a suggestion to ease this terrible burden. First off, what happens when a new movie wins the spot in your heart…

Re: the wasted photos on your phone

Stop taking loads of photos of the same thing with your phone. Del wrote a brief note to self recently, about having too many repeated "waste" pictures on his phone. This is my reply, which hopefully helps him see his camera roll in a new light. I have come to accept that the purpose of those thousands of "waste" photos is not to be seen, shared, printed, but simply to be taken . Both Del and I…

Well, that sucks.

June 2026: The end of the weeknotes

I decided to stop the fortnightly weekly updates. When I started doing weeknotes , it felt like a great way to write short updates on movies seen, books read, things done. I had just started blogging on micro.blog back then and didn't want to "spam" the Discovery feed with these kind of short updates. Eventually, I bought a five-year journal that does the exact same thing for me but on pen and…

Junited 2026

Junited is a little blog-loving adventure where the blogging community gets together to share posts they enjoy and discover new bloggers along the way. I am joining Junited for the first time! During the month of June I'll update this post with links to content that interested/moved/inspired/baffled me. Let's blog :) Just put it on your blog by Shellsharks -- This is what I'd like to do with my…

I made a new Books page for my blog

I think I'm coming down with the flu or something. Every time I get to have a social life and meet my friends (3 or 4 times a year) I end up sick! I am so tired and sleepy I didn't have any energy to get up from the couch this weekend. Which is why I finally had the "time" to work on something I've been wanting for a while: a programmatic books page! I used Kev's comments on building a GUI Editor…

Mark Twain on Procrastinating

“Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.” — Mark Twain

Re: Ask for clarification

If you're questioning what someone told you for any reason, ask them for clarification. This post is a reply to Imperfect . On their post, they explain how someone asked them for help with something, and somehow they thought that person had gotten nothing done. Before letting irritation set in, they asked for clarification and found out the person had in fact done it all, and really only needed…