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"...welcome to a small but important update to Gluon.

* Bug fixes and general improvements."

— Release 2024.2 for Gluon 😋

"There is now a new blog settings screen called "crossposting" that shows you all of your available feeds, which you can copy and add to Micro.blog, EchoFeed or any other services that digests RSS feeds and then cross posts them."

— Crossposting on the Scribbles Update Blog

Micro.blog is back up and running 🥳

We're fixing Micro.blog at the moment. We've identified the issue. And yes, I woke up Manton 😋 Poor guy... although was hoping to hear his groggy voice.

Micro.blog is currently down. I will try and revive it when I am back from the school run... so at least 1 hour from now.

Shipped last week, you now have the ability to create categories to your posts with a super simple and slick interface to get started. Categories allows you to add one category per post so that you separate out your content into... well... categories of course.

— Introducing Categories on the Scribbles Update Blog

For my next project I will be creating a feed reader, based on the look and feel of Scribbles, that doesn’t make you scratch your eyes out and doesn’t make you feel bad for “omg, you didn’t fucking read this yet???” 😬😜

Happy to announce that Scribbles is now open for registration 🥳 Blog post announcing it properly as the week progresses.

Really couldn't be here without all the early adopters! Thank you so very much for all your feedback ✌️❤️

I know it's easy to get frustrated and vent on your blog, but if there is anything missing from any of my products, you can always email me — I reply to most emails very quickly. Otherwise I'll probably never see it. I don't always check "social". You know where I am ✌️❤️

Just a quick PSA for all Scribbles early adopters, this is the last week when you're able to grab the Lifetime plan. You'll always have access to the early adopter yearly plan of $30. I might send out an email to everyone that hasn't yet subscribed — totally get that it isn't for everyone too.

I’m behind on blogging. Need to write about:

• Categories on Scribbles
• New features & bug fixes on Scribbles
• Getting ready for normal sign ups on Scribbles
• … and more

Hey folks on Micro.blog, looks like one of the servers wasn't happy so you would have seen intermittent 502 errors. That's now fixed. Will keep monitoring.

I’d like to offer a 20 minute (can be longer), one on one, video call for any of my paying customers for Tinylytics, Scribbles and Shoutouts, to talk about any pain points and stuff they want to see improved. If you’re interested: hey@vincentritter.com

Will do these in May ✌️❤️

Need to get my act together.

This is why Macrumors is, quite frankly, a terrible site (just like 9to5). Quote about Siri:

“Despite regular updates and improvements from Apple, Siri has struggled to keep pace with its advancing rivals, and in an era of generative AI chatbots and large language models, Siri's failings have only been magnified.”

I bet you Apple sent that over to them. To be honest, I don’t even know why I actually care. I don’t.

Regular updates? What are they sniffing? Rotten Apples perhaps. Real stupid.

Was great fun working on the initial categories feature for Scribbles over the past few days. That's now live. More to do of course, but super duper happy with this initial release. Also had some fun by doing some small "live" updates ✌️❤️

Hoping to submit the small Gluon update to the App Store tomorrow. Hopefully it’ll be accepted. I marked myself as a no-trader, considering I should actually be exempt under the DSA as I’m a “micro” business… so most rules don’t actually apply.

Please let me know if you can see this either on Micro.blog or Social.lol. If you're on Micro.blog please let me know if it comes through as @ vincent ✌️ (sorry if I don't reply though).

I'm going to try and make some changes to my Micro.blog profile (so it won't display as social.lol), so I apologise if you stop following me by some chance — was nice knowing all of you and I guess I have to start from zero hahaha. Fuck.

Just logged into my Gluon account on Micro.blog, just to see that all my posts from my "vincent" account come from social.lol instead — arghhh... what did I do? That was not my intention. Hopefully I can revert that somehow.

"Just released a new TestFlight for 2024.2 Build 3 that addresses the following issues"

— TestFlight 2024.2 [3] on the Gluon Update Blog

Well, happy to report that Strata for Android is coming along super nicely. Everything is working. Needs some icon love now and a bit of polish (although it's looking fantastic already). Man, I love React Native for this very reason! More soon ✌️❤️

My website is a pain to maintain. Under the hood it's running Craft CMS, but boy is it annoying. Always wants updates every week, nags you and just doesn't stop. Then they're letting me know that the editor I use for years is no longer maintained and they recommend I move to another. Sigh.

Maybe I should... erm... hmmmm... write my own CMS? I know how to do that hahaha 🤪 Kinda 🤷‍♂️

I have many moving parts that are custom as is... hmmmm.

Well, difficult day. I had the most fun this morning with some coding. Feeling a little drained now though. Perhaps some light coding to end the day and some ambient music to ease me into slumber.

Working on Strata for Micro.blog for the next week or so and will bring it to Android. Can't wait to get this finally started — I waited too long.