Vincent Ritter

πŸ€“ Dev diaries

All my active project posts, collected here. This is at the heart of what I do and I love.

Active projects:

These are my active development projects at this time. You can go through any of them for more info and see specific posts for the project.

Sublime Feed

The first RSS feed reading service that's tailored for a more calm approach that doesn't make you want to scratch your eyes out. Embrace the FOMO and go with the flow of life.

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Scribbles

Start your own blog in seconds, with a beautiful minimal theme and an amazing editor that doesn't get in your way. Customise and make it yours.

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tinylytics

analytics for small websites

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shoutouts

A place for everything you love, like or want to shout out about on your website.

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Recent posts

Small itch I wanted to scratch for Scribbles... and live now, with a post coming later today or tomorrow... you can export any of your published posts straight to HTML or Markdown. Just go to your post and you'll see a new "archive" button in the header. Basic for now with nice filenames.

"Yesterday, after a request from Jason, I added support for Letterbird, a super nice service for embedding a contact form."

β€” Letterbird Contact Form on the Scribbles Update Blog

To be fair to the early adopters of Scribbles, come April 1st (2024) I will be adding the new pricing β€” if you have registered before that date, you can still grab the Lifetime and also the special yearly. I'll have new monthly and yearly plans for new signups after the 1st ✌️❀️

"You see, my plan was to launch Scribbles on April 1st for anyone to register and get blogging β€” and you know, it's probably ready for it too.
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I've been happy with onboarding everyone manually over the past few months, with great conversation happening at a personal level, and that got me thinking."

β€” Thoughts on invite only on the Scribbles blog.

Feedback is very welcome. You know my email ✌️❀️

I did add some extra Nitpick settings to Scribbles last night β€” I'll write about them later this week. Plus I have one feature I am still working on, but it's there already β€” just needs some polish. You'll know what it is when you spot the setting 😋

I'll be upgrading the Tinylytics server today and you should expect 10 minutes downtime.

"Late last week, thanks to Sticker Spotter, I worked on general improvements on handling posts with just images.
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Next up I finally enabled a hidden option that allows you to show an image preview on your post list..."

β€” Image previews option and tweaks on the Scribbles Update Blog

Don't want to say too much yet, but I am planning a monthly automatic archive, downloadable as CSV, for statistics in Tinylytics for paid plans. That means you'll always have that raw data available, and you can do what you need with it. Especially if you subscribe and then cancel. Data is yours!

This morning I also added initial support for Shoutouts.lol to Scribbles. It works pretty great with just the default embed and I added my own opinionated styles β€” but you can override that of course. Still a bit more to do here. Find it under "Statuslog & Shoutouts" in your blog settings.

A few weeks ago I rewrote the whole routing logic for blogs on Scribbles. Super proud of what I did and even redirects if you landed on an old Scribbles based URL... but I never wrote about it. Long story short... really happy with the way that works now. So good.