{ "items": [ { "id": "/2024/03/08/13-20-32", "url": "https://vincentritter.com/2024/03/08/13-20-32", "content_html": "
Happy to report that the Micro.blog iOS Share Extension now works a treat! No more crashes every other time 🥳 Hopefully there will be an update out soon with the fix. It didn't require a full rewrite.
", "date_published": "2024-03-08T13:21:00+01:00", "date_modified": "2024-03-08T13:21:48+01:00" }, { "id": "/2024/03/07/11-26-19", "url": "https://vincentritter.com/2024/03/07/11-26-19", "content_html": "Probably going to rewrite most of the share extension code for the Micro.blog iOS App. Have been banging my head about it all morning with no \"easy\" win. Sigh.
\r\nFor the folks using it, it should solve the \"every other time I open it, it crashes\" issue.
", "date_published": "2024-03-07T11:27:00+01:00", "date_modified": "2024-03-07T11:27:55+01:00" }, { "id": "/2024/01/31/22-21-18", "url": "https://vincentritter.com/2024/01/31/22-21-18", "content_html": "Alrighty! Time to spend on that \"secret\" project 🫣 Let's go!
", "date_published": "2024-01-31T22:22:00+01:00", "date_modified": "2024-01-31T22:22:05+01:00" }, { "id": "/2024/01/17/18-51-22", "url": "https://vincentritter.com/2024/01/17/18-51-22", "content_html": "I broke into MB HQ and have found the secret project they're working on. Here is a quick screen grab of the app I found running on one of the laptops.
", "date_published": "2024-01-17T18:53:00+01:00", "date_modified": "2024-01-17T18:53:54+01:00" }, { "id": "/2024/01/08/21-36-03", "url": "https://vincentritter.com/2024/01/08/21-36-03", "content_html": "Colour me excited!
", "date_published": "2024-01-08T21:36:00+01:00", "date_modified": "2024-01-08T21:36:47+01:00" }, { "id": "/2024/01/03/19-01-17", "url": "https://vincentritter.com/2024/01/03/19-01-17", "content_html": "Considering some of my comments yesterday on fixing bugs on Micro.blog, just know that there is a nearly daily fix being pushed out for small things (sometimes bigger). I know some are forgotten, but we'll get there — @manton always has fixes going out and you'll see them mostly through @news ✌️
", "date_published": "2024-01-03T19:04:00+01:00", "date_modified": "2024-01-03T19:05:59+01:00" }, { "id": "/2024/01/03/18-56-06", "url": "https://vincentritter.com/2024/01/03/18-56-06", "content_html": "Here is a screenshot of the secret project I'm working on with @manton... (mainly Manton though, I'm only working on the app). Can you see it? Oh wait... it's so secret... where is the screenshot? Seems it's gone 🤷♂️ Ah damn, I said there will be an app. Damn! Sorry. Back to my code. Bye.
", "date_published": "2024-01-03T18:58:00+01:00", "date_modified": "2024-01-03T18:58:48+01:00" }, { "id": "/2023/11/10/20-39-56", "url": "https://vincentritter.com/2023/11/10/20-39-56", "content_html": "I like going through the whole discover curation timeline on Micro.blog. Every other post is about \"Defaults\" 🤣
", "date_published": "2023-11-10T20:40:00+01:00", "date_modified": "2023-11-10T20:40:56+01:00" }, { "id": "/2023/11/09/22-55-38", "url": "https://vincentritter.com/2023/11/09/22-55-38", "content_html": "Again huge apology that Micro.blog's main service was offline for 2 hours 😬 I notified Manton around 15 mins into it. Due to the nature of it, we decided it's best handled by him... especially to avoid data loss (in worst case)... but first he had to get to the hotel 😋
\r\nAll A-OK now.
\r\nHosted sites were not affected, except some avatar images.
\r\nI'll be monitoring for a few hours more.
", "date_published": "2023-11-09T23:00:00+01:00", "date_modified": "2023-11-09T23:00:37+01:00" }, { "id": "/2023/11/08/23-48-03", "url": "https://vincentritter.com/2023/11/08/23-48-03", "content_html": "Site serving seems to be more stable now... will monitor for another few hours before bed time ❤️ Happy with the way things are looking though!
", "date_published": "2023-11-08T23:49:00+01:00", "date_modified": "2023-11-08T23:49:08+01:00" }, { "id": "/2023/11/08/23-33-29", "url": "https://vincentritter.com/2023/11/08/23-33-29", "content_html": "Sorry for the intermittent downtime for hosted blogs on Micro.blog. Seems there is a lot of bot traffic (from what I can see). Sigh. For now I've tweaked the way traffic distributes between the servers (that host the static sites) and see if things are improving.
", "date_published": "2023-11-08T23:34:00+01:00", "date_modified": "2023-11-08T23:34:51+01:00" }, { "id": "/2023/11/08/22-06-35", "url": "https://vincentritter.com/2023/11/08/22-06-35", "content_html": "We're seeing intermittent issues with hosted blogs on Micro.blog right now. Still monitoring due to a high load on the main servers. How my reloads show the pages at the moment:
😋🤷♂️
", "date_published": "2023-11-08T22:09:00+01:00", "date_modified": "2023-11-08T22:09:06+01:00" }, { "id": "/2023/11/08/21-26-29", "url": "https://vincentritter.com/2023/11/08/21-26-29", "content_html": "I'm aware of issue on Micro.blog and am monitoring for at least an hour now. Will provide an update when I can.
", "date_published": "2023-11-08T21:27:00+01:00", "date_modified": "2023-11-08T21:27:11+01:00" }, { "id": "/2023/10/25/17-56-17", "url": "https://vincentritter.com/2023/10/25/17-56-17", "content_html": "Getting pretty close with the share intent/extension on Android for Micro.blog. Everything is working. Going through some minor bugs I found. Perhaps this is ready sooner than later ✌️❤️
", "date_published": "2023-10-25T17:57:00+02:00", "date_modified": "2023-10-25T17:57:45+02:00" }, { "id": "/2023/10/24/18-36-34", "url": "https://vincentritter.com/2023/10/24/18-36-34", "content_html": "Spending some time to get the Micro.blog Android app share intent/extension working. It's passing data nicely and also shows up in the share sheet now, including for images via Google Photos (as an example).
\r\nLots more work to do though.
", "date_published": "2023-10-24T18:38:00+02:00", "date_modified": "2023-10-24T18:38:38+02:00" }, { "id": "/2023/10/23/17-36-27", "url": "https://vincentritter.com/2023/10/23/17-36-27", "content_html": "We've been a little late on updating the Android app for Micro.blog. That's on me. I know it's been 4 weeks since the last update (‼️)... We're gonna push out a new version this week with all the latest goodies. Also fixes an issue with not being able to activate push notifications on Android 13.
", "date_published": "2023-10-23T17:39:00+02:00", "date_modified": "2023-10-23T17:39:08+02:00" }, { "id": "/2023/10/05/11-52-09", "url": "https://vincentritter.com/2023/10/05/11-52-09", "content_html": "Another update on the Micro.blog image outage: This is now a confirmed issue with the upstream provider.
", "date_published": "2023-10-05T11:53:00+02:00", "date_modified": "2023-10-05T11:53:49+02:00" }, { "id": "/2023/10/05/11-38-25", "url": "https://vincentritter.com/2023/10/05/11-38-25", "content_html": "Just a quick update on the errors we are seeing on Micro.blog, it looks like the issue lies with Linode and their storage. Need to wait and see. Don't think this is our fault because I remember the SSL certs being renewed recently.
", "date_published": "2023-10-05T11:40:00+02:00", "date_modified": "2023-10-05T11:40:01+02:00" }, { "id": "/2023/10/05/11-23-01", "url": "https://vincentritter.com/2023/10/05/11-23-01", "content_html": "There are a few issues with displaying some images, like Avatars and Uploads, on Micro.blog. If you use the CDN for your hosted site images then these are also affected. This is caused by invalid SSL certificates (and I don't have access to renew these 😭 ...yet 😅). Updates when we have them.
", "date_published": "2023-10-05T11:27:00+02:00", "date_modified": "2023-10-05T11:27:51+02:00" }, { "id": "/2023/10/02/12-59-32", "url": "https://vincentritter.com/2023/10/02/12-59-32", "content_html": "Excited to start something new-ish on Micro.blog, for the website ✌️ You'll have to wait and see what it might be.
", "date_published": "2023-10-02T13:01:00+02:00", "date_modified": "2023-10-02T13:01:15+02:00" }, { "id": "/2023/09/28/11-26-41", "url": "https://vincentritter.com/2023/09/28/11-26-41", "content_html": "Micro.blog as a saved web app on Sonoma! Seriously awesome. I can see how it could be tweaked ever so slightly. Happy we took the time to make it look nice across different screen sizes.
", "date_published": "2023-09-28T11:29:00+02:00", "date_modified": "2023-09-28T11:29:17+02:00" }, { "id": "/2023/09/22/11-13-11", "url": "https://vincentritter.com/2023/09/22/11-13-11", "content_html": "One more Micro.blog app related fix we will have for the next iOS update: The post editor now scrolls nicely when the post is super long. Previously it wouldn't let you scroll 😋🤷♂️
", "date_published": "2023-09-22T11:14:00+02:00", "date_modified": "2023-09-22T11:14:55+02:00" }, { "id": "/2023/09/22/10-36-44", "url": "https://vincentritter.com/2023/09/22/10-36-44", "content_html": "Some awesome little tweaks coming to the post editor for the Micro.blog app soon. Specifically you can now open the \"Uploads\" section, grab any previously uploaded media and easily add it to the post, which includes videos and audio with ease. Still working on it, but it's pretty cool.
", "date_published": "2023-09-22T10:39:00+02:00", "date_modified": "2023-09-22T10:39:22+02:00" }, { "id": "/2023/09/11/19-40-16", "url": "https://vincentritter.com/2023/09/11/19-40-16", "content_html": "We're hoping to ship the next version of the Micro.blog app for Android this week also. This will bring it inline with iOS. Some exceptions, for now: Share Extension & syntax highlighting.
\r\nI am so happy we can work with React Native and work on one codebase ✌️❤️
", "date_published": "2023-09-11T19:42:00+02:00", "date_modified": "2023-09-11T19:42:26+02:00" }, { "id": "/2023/07/11/17-10-40", "url": "https://vincentritter.com/2023/07/11/17-10-40", "content_html": "If anyone is working on a Micro.blog app, theme and/or plugin, please let me know. I'm working on something \"unofficial\" over the next few weeks and want to... erm... preview something when it's ready.
", "date_published": "2023-07-11T17:13:00+02:00", "date_modified": "2023-07-11T17:13:24+02:00" }, { "id": "/2023/07/04/12-36-24", "url": "https://vincentritter.com/2023/07/04/12-36-24", "content_html": "Quick! Manton is traveling and I'm working on the Micro.blog iOS app. Anything you'd like me to look at that's a quick one to implement? 😋
", "date_published": "2023-07-04T12:37:00+02:00", "date_modified": "2023-07-04T12:37:23+02:00" }, { "id": "/2023/06/29/16-48-20", "url": "https://vincentritter.com/2023/06/29/16-48-20", "content_html": "Heading out for a walk, clear my head, then working on the Micro.blog app and finish cross-posting logic. Might pick up a beer and have it danger close to my laptop 😋
", "date_published": "2023-06-29T16:49:00+02:00", "date_modified": "2023-06-29T16:49:23+02:00" }, { "id": "/2023/06/28/22-13-41", "url": "https://vincentritter.com/2023/06/28/22-13-41", "content_html": "Currently working on cross-posting options on the Micro.blog app. Because we're cool and hip! 😋
", "date_published": "2023-06-28T22:14:00+02:00", "date_modified": "2023-06-28T22:14:31+02:00" }, { "id": "/2023/06/16/23-55-02", "url": "https://vincentritter.com/2023/06/16/23-55-02", "content_html": "We just shipped a new TestFlight version for the Micro.blog app. Notable changes:
Micro.blog is hopping along nicely again. Thanks for your patience. We fixed the troubled server.
", "date_published": "2023-06-03T01:26:00+02:00", "date_modified": "2023-06-03T01:26:23+02:00" }, { "id": "/2023/06/03/00-48-03", "url": "https://vincentritter.com/2023/06/03/00-48-03", "content_html": "Micro.blog should be back to serving the site without errors.
\r\nErrors occurred when the load balancer (the server that distributes traffic across different machines) picked the broken app/web server. Working on this one right now.
\r\nHosted websites are not, and were not, affected ✌️
", "date_published": "2023-06-03T00:50:00+02:00", "date_modified": "2023-06-03T01:09:10+02:00" }, { "id": "/2023/06/03/00-41-02", "url": "https://vincentritter.com/2023/06/03/00-41-02", "content_html": "Sorry for intermittent connection issues to Micro.blog. Looking into it.
", "date_published": "2023-06-03T00:41:00+02:00", "date_modified": "2023-06-03T00:41:27+02:00" }, { "id": "/2023/04/26/22-44-43", "url": "https://vincentritter.com/2023/04/26/22-44-43", "content_html": "If it's worth anything: Timeline Sync on Micro.blog has been discussed at length for some time now internally, we know what needs doing to make it happen across the app, web and api at the same time. However it will take time. New app first. Go from there ✌️❤️
", "date_published": "2023-04-26T22:49:00+02:00", "date_modified": "2023-04-26T22:49:49+02:00" }, { "id": "/2023/04/21/09-44-20", "url": "https://vincentritter.com/2023/04/21/09-44-20", "content_html": "Next up, working on XML-RPC posting for the new Micro.blog app. That will transition to Micropub based sites too, which naturally will include IndieAuth.
", "date_published": "2023-04-21T09:45:00+02:00", "date_modified": "2023-04-21T10:38:17+02:00" }, { "id": "/2023/04/12/19-45-05", "url": "https://vincentritter.com/2023/04/12/19-45-05", "content_html": "Really happy to get the share extension into the new Micro.blog app. It's available now on Test Flight for iOS. The beauty is that we could re-use most of the code. Once we ship for iOS, I will also make this available for Android users. This release also fixes an issue with blank views ✌️
", "date_published": "2023-04-12T19:47:00+02:00", "date_modified": "2023-04-12T19:47:51+02:00" }, { "id": "/2023/04/10/17-34-52", "url": "https://vincentritter.com/2023/04/10/17-34-52", "content_html": "A quick video demonstrating the toolbar options in the Micro.blog Share Extension (for the 3.0 iOS Beta). Gonna be internally testing the extension this week and hope to get this out soon.
", "date_published": "2023-04-10T17:37:00+02:00", "date_modified": "2023-04-10T17:37:23+02:00" }, { "id": "/2023/04/06/02-50-44", "url": "https://vincentritter.com/2023/04/06/02-50-44", "content_html": "Good progress with the Micro.blog Share Extension on iOS today (for the new app). Still much to do!
", "date_published": "2023-04-06T02:52:00+02:00", "date_modified": "2023-04-06T02:52:27+02:00" }, { "id": "/2023/03/30/15-21-32", "url": "https://vincentritter.com/2023/03/30/15-21-32", "content_html": "Super early preview... of the share extension for Micro.blog. Nothing there yet. But glad I have it set up with React Native and working (data comes through nicely – which you can't see 😋). Now the real work begins.
\r\nNice that it's like a mini-app.
", "date_published": "2023-03-30T15:23:00+02:00", "date_modified": "2023-03-30T15:23:37+02:00" }, { "id": "/2023/03/25/23-46-15", "url": "https://vincentritter.com/2023/03/25/23-46-15", "content_html": "Been working on re-adding the ability to upload images or files to the Upload screen for the new Micro.blog app. Here is a quick demo. Most likely will make an appearance next week.
", "date_published": "2023-03-25T23:48:00+01:00", "date_modified": "2023-03-25T23:48:11+01:00" }, { "id": "/2023/03/24/12-13-35", "url": "https://vincentritter.com/2023/03/24/12-13-35", "content_html": "Alrighty, in addition to showing upload progress in the MB app, I managed to add the ability to cancel an ongoing upload (which the button clearly states, but didn't do 🤣).
\r\nGreat for when things are slow and you decide to get on with... your day and go outside 😋😘
Working on adding the ability to add uploads on the Upload screen, however as I started, I was thinking... \"wouldn't it be nice if there was some sort of upload progress when picking an image on the post screen\".
", "date_published": "2023-03-24T10:45:00+01:00", "date_modified": "2023-03-24T10:45:04+01:00" }, { "id": "/2023/03/22/22-01-21", "url": "https://vincentritter.com/2023/03/22/22-01-21", "content_html": "Upload management is getting closer in the Micro.blog iOS & Android app. It handles images, videos and audio files. You can single tap to copy the URL, or long-press to grab HTML. Will probably add a context menu though, so it's similar to right click found in the Mac App.
\r\nHappy though.
", "date_published": "2023-03-22T22:03:00+01:00", "date_modified": "2023-03-22T22:03:36+01:00" }, { "id": "/2023/03/22/00-54-26", "url": "https://vincentritter.com/2023/03/22/00-54-26", "content_html": "Next up for the Micro.blog app, the Uploads screen. Still some tweaking to do and a few things to figure out. Tempted to add a + button to the top right, so you can upload more...
", "date_published": "2023-03-22T00:56:00+01:00", "date_modified": "2023-03-22T00:56:13+01:00" }, { "id": "/2023/03/20/20-30-20", "url": "https://vincentritter.com/2023/03/20/20-30-20", "content_html": "This is totally how I use the Micro.blog app... in the simulator 🤣✌️
", "date_published": "2023-03-20T20:32:00+01:00", "date_modified": "2023-03-20T20:32:19+01:00" }, { "id": "/2023/03/15/23-28-55", "url": "https://vincentritter.com/2023/03/15/23-28-55", "content_html": "Made a slow start on adding Pages and Uploads to the Micro.blog app. Pages is up first, so you can edit all your pages. Using the same icon as per website for now.
\r\nSimilar flow as per Posts, thanks to Micropub.
", "date_published": "2023-03-15T23:32:00+01:00", "date_modified": "2023-03-15T23:32:59+01:00" }, { "id": "/2023/02/15/16-55-39", "url": "https://vincentritter.com/2023/02/15/16-55-39", "content_html": "Micro.blog for web should be back as normal, and the official apps should also be serving images as usual. The CDN SSL cert ran out, so I disabled it for now, until Manton is back (who has AWS access) to renew it.
\r\nThere wasn't any downtime, just things looked a bit more Web 1.0, without images and styles 😋✌️
", "date_published": "2023-02-15T16:57:00+01:00", "date_modified": "2023-02-15T16:57:44+01:00" }, { "id": "/2023/02/15/16-26-37", "url": "https://vincentritter.com/2023/02/15/16-26-37", "content_html": "Howdy Micro.blog folks. There is an SSL issue with the CDN we're using (I suspect it ran out and was not renewed). This affects the web app, and images that are served on the timeline (shouldn't affect hosted blogs).
", "date_published": "2023-02-15T16:28:00+01:00", "date_modified": "2023-02-15T16:28:39+01:00" }, { "id": "/2023/02/11/19-10-53", "url": "https://vincentritter.com/2023/02/11/19-10-53", "content_html": "Just testing it all wraps...
", "date_published": "2023-02-11T19:11:00+01:00", "date_modified": "2023-02-11T19:11:28+01:00" }, { "id": "/2023/02/11/15-57-23", "url": "https://vincentritter.com/2023/02/11/15-57-23", "content_html": "Been working on the posts screen for the MB app. Still some bigger work to do of course, but glad it's rendering in a way I want (sort of). Kinda fun to work on, so check out the develop branch commits so you can pull out your hair on how I do things.
", "date_published": "2023-02-11T16:01:00+01:00", "date_modified": "2023-02-11T16:01:52+01:00" }, { "id": "/2023/02/05/01-25-00", "url": "https://vincentritter.com/2023/02/05/01-25-00", "content_html": "Adding a few more push notification options to the Micro.blog app, allowing you to toggle if you want to enable them on a per account basis. By default they are on, but you can pop in over to settings if you wanted. (Not yet released).
", "date_published": "2023-02-05T01:26:00+01:00", "date_modified": "2023-02-05T01:26:53+01:00" }, { "id": "/2023/02/02/02-13-29", "url": "https://vincentritter.com/2023/02/02/02-13-29", "content_html": "OK, Android is building again for Micro.blog. Funny enough, the last time it built without issue was back in January, and then I upgraded React Native on iOS. Oh well. Should have seen that coming. There were a lot of changes to config files that I had to manually comb through...
", "date_published": "2023-02-02T02:15:00+01:00", "date_modified": "2023-02-02T02:15:21+01:00" }, { "id": "/2023/02/02/00-59-23", "url": "https://vincentritter.com/2023/02/02/00-59-23", "content_html": "🥳 Patience and persistence is the key. Micro.blog app for Android building again.
", "date_published": "2023-02-02T00:59:00+01:00", "date_modified": "2023-02-02T01:00:09+01:00" }, { "id": "/2023/02/01/23-35-55", "url": "https://vincentritter.com/2023/02/01/23-35-55", "content_html": "Kiddo finally in bed. Tea is ready. Time to fix the Micro.blog app for Android.
", "date_published": "2023-02-01T23:36:00+01:00", "date_modified": "2023-02-01T23:36:28+01:00" }, { "id": "/2023/02/01/16-57-30", "url": "https://vincentritter.com/2023/02/01/16-57-30", "content_html": "As a funny aside, Google emailed a week or so ago saying there are issues that we should look at… and that they “might” remove the app. And so they did.
\r\nAnd this is why I want direct downloads. So no big tech child can do what they want.
Imagine if they could also stop a website…
", "date_published": "2023-02-01T17:00:00+01:00", "date_modified": "2023-02-01T17:00:00+01:00" }, { "id": "/2023/02/01/16-55-04", "url": "https://vincentritter.com/2023/02/01/16-55-04", "content_html": "Current status of getting Micro.blog back into the play store is that I need to fix build errors, which has been a rollercoaster ride. Too much work on the iOS side, including React Native upgrades, caused this (I think).
\r\nStill a few hours away from getting anywhere.
", "date_published": "2023-02-01T16:56:00+01:00", "date_modified": "2023-02-01T16:56:56+01:00" }, { "id": "/2023/02/01/16-51-36", "url": "https://vincentritter.com/2023/02/01/16-51-36", "content_html": "Micro.blog for Android is currently unavailable on the Play Store.
Google probably hired all the dropouts from Apple App Review… and they removed it for an issue that was resolved months ago (allowing reporting and muting). Guess they are getting mixed up with naming.
", "date_published": "2023-02-01T16:54:00+01:00", "date_modified": "2023-02-01T16:54:32+01:00" }, { "id": "/2023/01/30/19-20-03", "url": "https://vincentritter.com/2023/01/30/19-20-03", "content_html": "For the eagle eyed devs, on the new Micro.blog homepage, you can see we are using ES Modules, and a shim for... SAFARI. Really nice to be able to make this work without build tools. Gonna work on replacing \"legacy\" code for sign in and register now, so we can ditch jQuery there.
", "date_published": "2023-01-30T19:22:00+01:00", "date_modified": "2023-01-30T19:22:09+01:00" }, { "id": "/2023/01/25/21-03-19", "url": "https://vincentritter.com/2023/01/25/21-03-19", "content_html": "The new Micro.blog App for iOS (still in beta) and Android is now open-source. It's built on React Native. Most of the action happens in the develop branch. Happy to get this out there ✌️❤️
", "date_published": "2023-01-25T21:06:00+01:00", "date_modified": "2023-01-25T21:06:57+01:00" }, { "id": "/2023/01/24/22-16-58", "url": "https://vincentritter.com/2023/01/24/22-16-58", "content_html": "Hoping to open-source the Micro.blog App for iOS and Android soon. Then you can all cry how I code in Javascript 😋
", "date_published": "2023-01-24T22:17:00+01:00", "date_modified": "2023-01-24T22:17:48+01:00" }, { "id": "/2023/01/18/14-34-32", "url": "https://vincentritter.com/2023/01/18/14-34-32", "content_html": "And here is the HOMEPAGE of Micro.blog:
\r\nAnd yes, just for historical archives 😋😏
", "date_published": "2023-01-18T14:35:00+01:00", "date_modified": "2023-01-18T14:35:53+01:00" }, { "id": "/2023/01/18/13-41-05", "url": "https://vincentritter.com/2023/01/18/13-41-05", "content_html": "Just making some final adjustments to the new Micro.blog homepage. This is kinda the first phase of what we want to do, and we'll expand from what we have. I'm really happy with the way it looks.
", "date_published": "2023-01-18T13:42:00+01:00", "date_modified": "2023-01-18T13:42:32+01:00" }, { "id": "/2023/01/11/20-02-39", "url": "https://vincentritter.com/2023/01/11/20-02-39", "content_html": "Did someone say “marketing” website for Micro.blog? 🤷♂️😏
", "date_published": "2023-01-11T20:03:00+01:00", "date_modified": "2023-01-11T20:03:26+01:00" }, { "id": "/2023/01/03/22-09-12", "url": "https://vincentritter.com/2023/01/03/22-09-12", "content_html": "New update out to the Micro.blog Mac App. Manton has the details. Nice to see some of those timeline changes we made for the handheld apps come through, making it more consistent across platforms. Also, I really want to steal that icon for iOS now 😋
", "date_published": "2023-01-03T22:11:00+01:00", "date_modified": "2023-01-03T22:11:23+01:00" }, { "id": "/2023/01/03/01-08-13", "url": "https://vincentritter.com/2023/01/03/01-08-13", "content_html": "Who said the new Micro.blog app can't have settings? 😋
", "date_published": "2023-01-03T01:09:00+01:00", "date_modified": "2023-01-03T01:09:07+01:00" }, { "id": "/2023/01/01/19-37-58", "url": "https://vincentritter.com/2023/01/01/19-37-58", "content_html": "OK, Micro.blog app, come to daddy. Any on the side feature requests? Like small things to implement? Feeling generous.
", "date_published": "2023-01-01T19:38:00+01:00", "date_modified": "2023-01-01T19:38:46+01:00" }, { "id": "/2022/12/12/17-36-33", "url": "https://vincentritter.com/2022/12/12/17-36-33", "content_html": "Working on something new on Micro.blog and I wanted to take this opportunity to try out import maps and JS modules, because I want to avoid using any build tools. So far so good!
", "date_published": "2022-12-12T17:39:00+01:00", "date_modified": "2022-12-12T17:39:01+01:00" }, { "id": "/2022/12/08/15-56-12", "url": "https://vincentritter.com/2022/12/08/15-56-12", "content_html": "We're starting something new today. Can't wait to show you... next year when it's done. Also... I can't draw stars for the life of me.
", "date_published": "2022-12-08T15:57:00+01:00", "date_modified": "2022-12-08T15:57:02+01:00" }, { "id": "/2022/11/29/03-33-00", "url": "https://vincentritter.com/2022/11/29/03-33-00", "content_html": "Approaching 4AM. Yum. A bit of sleep and tomorrow I work on the Micro.blog app 😍
", "date_published": "2022-11-29T03:34:00+01:00", "date_modified": "2022-11-29T03:34:03+01:00" }, { "id": "/2022/11/23/10-08-20", "url": "https://vincentritter.com/2022/11/23/10-08-20", "content_html": "This graph tells you a lot of how absolutely smashing Linode is:
\r\nThe spots with no graph line = no service.
\r\nThey should get an award for the most unreliable service of this decade.
", "date_published": "2022-11-23T10:10:00+01:00", "date_modified": "2022-11-23T10:10:46+01:00" }, { "id": "/2022/11/23/09-02-28", "url": "https://vincentritter.com/2022/11/23/09-02-28", "content_html": "Ah, Wednesday morning. Micro.blog once again affected by our lovely hosting company. They're doing \"emergency\" maintenance work in the datacenter. All services might be affected by this. Will monitor.
Quick update on what is affected on MB:
All traffic is routed via Load Balancers, and they're having issues, so requests are not coming through 🤬😞
", "date_published": "2022-11-22T10:01:00+01:00", "date_modified": "2022-11-22T10:01:38+01:00" }, { "id": "/2022/11/22/09-52-06", "url": "https://vincentritter.com/2022/11/22/09-52-06", "content_html": "Hello Micro.blog gang... There are intermittent connection issues to Micro.blog this morning. This is an issue with our hosting provider... AGAIN. Nothing we can do except wait.
", "date_published": "2022-11-22T09:53:00+01:00", "date_modified": "2022-11-22T09:53:46+01:00" }, { "id": "/2022/11/18/23-03-28", "url": "https://vincentritter.com/2022/11/18/23-03-28", "content_html": "Ooo, I forgot I added a hidden feature to the latest beta for the Micro.blog app 😏🥸
", "date_published": "2022-11-18T23:05:00+01:00", "date_modified": "2022-11-18T23:05:40+01:00" }, { "id": "/2022/11/16/10-51-30", "url": "https://vincentritter.com/2022/11/16/10-51-30", "content_html": "Sorry for some intermittent issues with Micro.blog this morning. I've got an eye on it 👀
", "date_published": "2022-11-16T10:52:00+01:00", "date_modified": "2022-11-16T10:52:12+01:00" }, { "id": "/2022/11/12/02-28-09", "url": "https://vincentritter.com/2022/11/12/02-28-09", "content_html": "Following up on my post, I also added API endpoints to be able to set your timeline preferences (and get them)... great for developers to keep some of these settings in sync with Micro.blog.
", "date_published": "2022-11-12T02:29:00+01:00", "date_modified": "2022-11-12T02:29:38+01:00" }, { "id": "/2022/11/12/01-18-10", "url": "https://vincentritter.com/2022/11/12/01-18-10", "content_html": "Not promising anything... and needs more testing... but...
", "date_published": "2022-11-12T01:20:00+01:00", "date_modified": "2022-11-12T01:20:09+01:00" }, { "id": "/2022/11/10/23-52-31", "url": "https://vincentritter.com/2022/11/10/23-52-31", "content_html": "Following up to Manton's post on the new Micro.blog version for beta 3 on iOS, here are the changes:
One feature I added a few weeks ago, to the Micro.blog iOS beta app (not yet available in the latest build), is dynamic font sizes for the timeline views. It worked on Android already, but iOS is \"special\".
", "date_published": "2022-11-09T11:08:00+01:00", "date_modified": "2022-11-09T11:08:51+01:00" }, { "id": "/2022/11/06/23-56-38", "url": "https://vincentritter.com/2022/11/06/23-56-38", "content_html": "Coming soon to the Micro.blog app (beta), replies and other goodies. Just been tidying up a few bits this evening.
", "date_published": "2022-11-06T23:56:00+01:00", "date_modified": "2022-11-06T23:56:38+01:00" }, { "id": "/2022/11/04/12-05-46", "url": "https://vincentritter.com/2022/11/04/12-05-46", "content_html": "Micro.blog folks, there is an issue with our hosting provider, so requests are not coming through on our load balancer. The actual site is up on all servers, but the problem is routing traffic from the node balancer to our servers. We're monitoring.
", "date_published": "2022-11-04T12:05:00+01:00", "date_modified": "2022-11-04T12:05:46+01:00" }, { "id": "/2022/09/16/11-07-43", "url": "https://vincentritter.com/2022/09/16/11-07-43", "content_html": "We'll hopefully have the 2nd beta out for the Micro.blog app, on iOS TestFlight, soon. Been working on feedback this week. Should fix:
Whilst we've been mainly concentrating on the iOS part of the app, for Micro.blog, we are at 100% feature parity between both platforms (Android & iOS). All the tweaks and internal feedback will come over via an update to Android too... just saying 😋
", "date_published": "2022-09-13T11:06:00+02:00", "date_modified": "2022-09-13T11:07:24+02:00" }, { "id": "/2022/09/13/10-45-08", "url": "https://vincentritter.com/2022/09/13/10-45-08", "content_html": "I've been doing a lot of coding for the upcoming Micro.blog iOS TestFlight version the past few weeks. My hands hurt now... maybe time for a small break today. Some exercise and Yoga to stretch them out.
", "date_published": "2022-09-13T10:45:00+02:00", "date_modified": "2022-09-13T10:45:09+02:00" }, { "id": "/2022/09/10/12-21-21", "url": "https://vincentritter.com/2022/09/10/12-21-21", "content_html": "Small milestone yesterday. The first Micro.blog push notification came through from the new iOS version we're working on. 🥳
", "date_published": "2022-09-10T12:21:00+02:00", "date_modified": "2022-09-10T12:21:21+02:00" }, { "id": "/2022/09/09/23-23-57", "url": "https://vincentritter.com/2022/09/09/23-23-57", "content_html": "🤨
", "date_published": "2022-09-09T23:23:00+02:00", "date_modified": "2022-09-09T23:23:57+02:00" }, { "id": "/2022/09/09/16-29-00", "url": "https://vincentritter.com/2022/09/09/16-29-00", "content_html": "I'm really happy with the way the new Micro.blog iOS app has shaped up this week. To top it, also fixed many new bugs, which magically come across to Android also. This is one reason why I love a cross-platform framework.
\nCan't wait to release the beta.
", "date_published": "2022-09-09T16:29:00+02:00", "date_modified": "2022-09-09T16:29:00+02:00" }, { "id": "/2022/09/07/08-45-40", "url": "https://vincentritter.com/2022/09/07/08-45-40", "content_html": "Testing something, so send me your repliessssssssssss ✌️👨💻
", "date_published": "2022-09-07T08:45:00+02:00", "date_modified": "2022-09-07T08:45:40+02:00" }, { "id": "/2022/09/07/01-09-15", "url": "https://vincentritter.com/2022/09/07/01-09-15", "content_html": "Getting closer to the new \"early\" beta for the Micro.blog app for iOS. Just need to test push notifications tomorrow and some other bits and bobs that we'll find.
", "date_published": "2022-09-07T01:09:00+02:00", "date_modified": "2022-09-07T01:09:15+02:00" }, { "id": "/2022/09/06/12-29-00", "url": "https://vincentritter.com/2022/09/06/12-29-00", "content_html": "Once we open source the new React Native app for Micro.blog I think there's going to be a lot of developers that will want to punch me in the face.
For any folks interested, this is the \"default\" dark mode that will ship with the Micro.blog app. We're still testing Android, and the new iOS version will come when it comes.
", "date_published": "2022-08-31T14:46:00+02:00", "date_modified": "2022-08-31T14:46:09+02:00" }, { "id": "/2022/08/31/13-09-05", "url": "https://vincentritter.com/2022/08/31/13-09-05", "content_html": "", "date_published": "2022-08-31T13:09:00+02:00", "date_modified": "2022-08-31T13:09:05+02:00" }, { "id": "/2022/08/11/00-35-42", "url": "https://vincentritter.com/2022/08/11/00-35-42", "content_html": "Quick preview of dark mode in the official Micro.blog app (Android only for now) we're working on. Certainly not finished just yet.
", "date_published": "2022-08-11T00:35:00+02:00", "date_modified": "2022-08-11T00:35:42+02:00" }, { "id": "/2022/08/05/01-41-53", "url": "https://vincentritter.com/2022/08/05/01-41-53", "content_html": "We've deployed tweaks to the profile pop-ups on Micro.blog. I'm pretty happy with them. It's been a little longer detour than I expected.
\nMain features:
\nWe might tweak the time it takes for the pop-up to appear, but we'll keep it like this, as is, for a while.
\nIt's always helpful to deploy something like this and get feedback... and live with it for a bit - then adjust here and there to make it right.
Thank you all for the good feedback and also criticism ✌️❤️
\nIf you'd like to see anything else, let me know.
", "date_published": "2022-08-05T01:41:00+02:00", "date_modified": "2022-08-05T01:43:07+02:00" }, { "id": "/2022/08/03/17-27-26", "url": "https://vincentritter.com/2022/08/03/17-27-26", "content_html": "We're going to be tweaking those profile pop ups on Micro.blog. Now that we've used it for a few days, and lived with it and had some good (and bad) feedback. If you want to weigh in, let me know.
", "date_published": "2022-08-03T17:27:00+02:00", "date_modified": "2022-08-03T17:27:26+02:00" }, { "id": "/2022/08/02/01-45-34", "url": "https://vincentritter.com/2022/08/02/01-45-34", "content_html": "Guess I should just sherlock Gluon and put it into the official Micro.blog app 🤣
\nAt least I get to be involved in the sherlocking 😋
", "date_published": "2022-08-02T01:45:00+02:00", "date_modified": "2022-08-02T01:45:34+02:00" }, { "id": "/2022/07/15/17-34-27", "url": "https://vincentritter.com/2022/07/15/17-34-27", "content_html": "One weird thing since developing the official app for Micro.blog (on Android) is that Gluon usage on Android has dropped somewhat. And that's fine. It's nice to see.
", "date_published": "2022-07-15T17:34:00+02:00", "date_modified": "2022-07-15T17:34:27+02:00" }, { "id": "/2022/07/14/11-45-19", "url": "https://vincentritter.com/2022/07/14/11-45-19", "content_html": "Am working on an itch I wanted to scratch 😋
", "date_published": "2022-07-14T11:45:00+02:00", "date_modified": "2022-07-14T11:45:19+02:00" }, { "id": "/2022/06/19/22-11-45", "url": "https://vincentritter.com/2022/06/19/22-11-45", "content_html": "The real nice thing about the Micro.blog Discover timeline, except finding great new people, is that it’s finite… it just stops and there is no more when you reach the end.
", "date_published": "2022-06-19T22:11:00+02:00", "date_modified": "2022-06-19T22:11:56+02:00" }, { "id": "/2022/05/13/10-47-42", "url": "https://vincentritter.com/2022/05/13/10-47-42", "content_html": "Working on a new registration layout for Micro.blog. Not done yet and a lot more to do. Fun to show a \"work in progress\"!!! though 😋
", "date_published": "2022-05-13T10:47:00+02:00", "date_modified": "2022-05-13T10:47:42+02:00" }, { "id": "/2022/05/12/22-06-09", "url": "https://vincentritter.com/2022/05/12/22-06-09", "content_html": "Going to try and get out a new beta to the Android version of Micro.blog next week. Just a few minor bug fixes for now.
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