Technically we're already in July, however wanted to get this written before I start the week. It's a little later as we were away for a few days over the weekend and I was just zoned out last night that I couldn't even think of pulling up next to my computer. Funny enough, I had the laptop all packed away and only took it out this morning. Nice to have a desk without anything on it (mostly).

Tinylytics

A few months ago I added a temporary new logo to replace my little blue circle. That was not by any means a final form, but felt good to get this out there as a small refresh to finally celebrate nearly a year of Tinylytics.

And now, to properly celebrate, I have a new logo that I am super happy with. Jim has been working with me on this (he did the designing from my terrible brief and my sketches that are worse than a 1 year old), and he's been so super patient with me on it. I can't thank Jim enough for what he's done — it gives me so much joy that words cannot describe how incredibly grateful I am. Thank you Jim!

Now that I have a new logo, I also want to make sure to update the homepage one of these days. One step at a time though.

I'd like to look at some performance tweaks as sometimes it feels a little slow when fetching the data of many sites in the dashboard... especially for high traffic sites. I do have some ideas to leverage Kredis here to display the hits data, but need a bit more thinking time.

Scribbles

Apart from the server upgrades a week ago, I am happy with the stability of it now. I did fix a few issues with URL's not always being generated and also an issue that would report your site as "set up" when you set a custom domain name but where it wasn't actually pointing to your Scribbles site.

I'm thinking about adding the ability to set up a proper menu that you can add yourself... I need more time to sketch that out and formulate a plan.

Oh... and I forgot... I tweaked the homepage slightly — hoping to do more here and show a few screenshots of the writing interface. Nothing fancy. Want to keep it all to a minimum.

Sublime Feed

Not a lot of movement here, although I did go ahead and created an updates blog for it, which you can find here. Hoping I'll keep this for some changelogs as I build. Most of my other projects failed to have this from the start, so it's nice to be able to document it all.

Mainly worked on some layout stuff and also how feeds are fetched in the background. On top of that Eric, a user and online friend of mine, wanted the ability to hide posts without a title on a feed by feed basis. So you can now do that. It works pretty great!

I might tackle the "email me when there is a new post" next as that's something I am interested in. If there are any folks that have specific ideas on how they want an API to look, just let me know — it's something I'll add for sure.

I don't feel like rushing this one at all so taking it easy.

Micro.blog

I'm working on the main app right now and slowly replacing the navigation library to use react-navigation. It is a bigger job although having a blast with being able to go through any other pain points I found from the code in general.

We already use react-navigation for Strata so it's a good fit to get it into our main app. That'll just keep everything more maintainable and consistent across all our mobile apps. Both Strata and the main Micro.blog share a lot of the code, so it's nice being able to use some code from Strata and bring that back into the main one.

Anyway, lots of fun and a good puzzle to solve as new problems arise — and that's why I love to code.

Other stuff

Yep, not much else really to share right now on the projects front.

See you next time.

— Vincent