📰 Blog

Micro.blog is more than a pretty good blog hosting platform. It’s the distillation of everything I know and care about for the web. I hope to be working on it for many years to come.

— Manton's updated about page. Great stuff!

Was working on a few Sublime Feed bits this morning. Bringing across accent colours that are randomly set or you can add your own for each subscription. They are also reflected in your subscription list. This is just super basic and needs way more work. Happy it's pulling feeds & updating.

Well, happy that the super duper basics of feed subscribing and background fetching works for Sublime Feed. Here is some super basic feed with Manton's and mine posts from the feeds ✌️ So much to do 😅

Just some minor tweaks to choosing a feed screen for Sublime Feed. It adds what type of feed it is and also does a better job of handling feeds that don't include the hostname (DF for example 😱) — not to mention missing titles (sigh). Anyway, good exercise. Looks nice.

I've got some basic feed fetching and subscribing logic done for Sublime Feed. Looks OK so far. It handles a feed URL and adds a subscription straight away. If it finds multiple feeds it will give you an option to choose it. I might add a "description" also if it exists. Now to grab posts... 😋

If you're using Gluon and have push notifications enabled, please know that I made a mistake many years ago... so you have to go to the app and "re-activate" for your accounts please. If not, it'll be a little quiet until I figure out some migration... but that won't be today.

So happy to see all those amazing posts on the Scribbles Explore page — some are so very personal and open! Thank you all that write on Scribbles. It gives me hope that there are really great people and content out there.

And so it begins. Server set up and running. Deploys are working... now I just gotta actually start with some useful stuff 😋

"Well, it's been a little while since I wrote an update here. The truth is, is that it's been moving pretty fast!"

— Updates and a changelog on the Scribbles Blog

If anyone has noticed, last week we replaced the little profile pop-ups on Micro.blog with rewritten ones. These were done with AlpineJS under the hood, but I went ahead and replaced that with Stimulus. They work so much nicer and way easier to work with now.

Let's see if anyone notices 😋 #changelog

If you're using the awesome Pika blogging platform, and want to use Tinylytics for analytics (you really should), it's totally baked in now — including some others. Super exciting. Very thankful to Good Enough to do this in a great way! ✌️❤️

Made a few minor UI tweaks to Tinylytics. Now you can hide the Kudos and Uptime tabs on a site by site basis (subscribers only). Also tweaked the way the embed code and site id are shown when it's all working (less cluttered). Plus some other minor things that only I will notice.

I guess I made a start to my feed reader. Copied across some basics from Scribbles... and it's up and running. Just need to fill in the blanks now 🤪

If you're using shoutouts, and maybe you should if you don't, I have tweaked the way shoutouts are shown in the dashboard — inactive ones are now hidden by default and they have their own dedicated page. Just hit the "Inactive" button and Bob's Your Uncle.

Quick tweak to the dashboard on Tinylytics. It'll now page sites if you have more than 12. Why 12? No one knows. Change that setting on your user profile page to suit your needs.

"You might be running that blog, site or page that is no longer used — but you want to hold onto the data for archival purpose — look at those good times, or bad. Well, now you can."

— Introducing archived sites on the Tinylytics Update Blog

I was thinking of branching off Tinylytics into different apps, for example tracking app usage with events and whatever else I can think of. Although now I am thinking of just adding an optional "pro" mode, which is an add-on subscription, that unlocks a bunch of extras. Thoughts?

"...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???” 😬😜