Vincent Ritter

🤓 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

Added support for status.lol to Scribbles. Just head on over to your blog settings and add your "address" in the "status.lol & shoutouts" section. Shoutouts will come next week I reckon. Both will show in the footer.

Over the past week, I got a few requests about better handling image metadata, especially preserving colour space and the profile, so those images really pop and look great... and as intended.

Image metadata on the Scribbles Update Blog.

"Saying that, I covered in my last post about pricing that I will be introducing a discounted yearly closer to launch. That time is today."

An update on pricing and introducing a yearly on the Scribbles Update Blog

It's time ✌️❤️

"During the weekend I added the ability to surface unique hit data, or as some call it, unique sessions."

Unique hits data on the Tinylytics Update Blog

And to say it again... I finally added unique session/hits data to the dashboard 😋

Still experimental, but if you have unique hits enabled in Tinylytics, it will now surface this data next to the main hit counter. More to do here of course, but a good first step. This also works across date and path filters.

A site hit counter, showing 1810 hits with 975 unique hits next to it.

Scribbles Explore is now available for anyone, no matter if you have an account or not. This was by design at the start, just so I could gauge how it will look like. Have a look and see what people are writing about 😀

This is how I designed the last database table, and some logic, for the domain feature for Scribbles 😬

A scribble of a domains database table showing different properties that need to be added with some minor logic on what happens after it is created or destroyed.
"One manual step I was doing for a while now is set up domains for a Scribble blog.

...

Until today (well, yesterday)."

Domain management on the Scribbles Update Blog

The one thing I totally underestimated with Scribbles is the amount of support I've been getting on various bits, although it's getting less as I've been building. Perhaps I make it an invite only product, so I can stop sign ups if things get too much 🤔 No need to take on the world.

Just a minor PSA that I'm rewriting the domains logic for linking up hostnames with your blogs on Scribbles. It allows for self service, and an interactive easy flow to get you all set up. But now I need to "resolve" the way I tie it up with your blog a little different. Stuff might break 😅😬