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.

tinylytics

analytics for small websites

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Scribbles

Start your own blog in seconds, with a beautiful minimal theme and an amazing editorthat doesn't get in your way.

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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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Status for updown.io

A simple app to display monitored sites from updown.io, with current status and other stats.

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Gluon for Micro.blog

An app for both iOS and Android, built on React Native, for Micro.blog.

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Recent posts

Today I pushed out a long list of tweaks for you all. Before I get there though, just know that I am eternally grateful for all your feedback to date. Let's go.

β€” Canonical links, alt tags, published date picker and so much more β€” on the Scribbles Update Blog

Tinylytics processed 1 million page hits back in mid December, and it just passed 1.5 million. I mean this is crazy. Thank you all that make it possible ✌️❀️

This was a "let's deploy this at 4AM" kinda thing, but happy with the way the settings screen is looking on Scribbles. And because I wanted an "update" blog for it, I added support for switching between blogs when you have more than one. It'll always show your selected top most.

Creating a new one isn't yet done but will probably be there this week if I have time. There is so much more I have to do though, especially with Blog set up and the way I layout some of the settings.

Scribbles Blog & Settings screen
Scribbles blog picker

Just added an accent colour picker for a Scribbles blog β€” looks nice! That will change link colours and also the little dividers. I'll add support for custom accents because I know a lot of people love different shades of pink πŸ˜‹

Thank you all for the overwhelming interest in Scribbles! Just wow! I'm aware of everyone that has emailed and I'll be sending out more invites next week β€” so if you haven't yet heard from me, don't take it to heart ✌️❀️ Much to do and iron out.

Scribbles email has been sent. Can't wait ✌️❀️ I did a "reply all", so don't take it personal.

Anyone interested in testing Scribbles? Some dev posts here to get your interest 😋

Email me: hey@vincentritter.com.

Not sure if it's just me, but Gluon seems to hold the timeline position a little better since the last release. Anyone else? Maybe because I only follow a handful of peeps I guess 🤷‍♂️

This just looks dope! Just you and your content.

One little tidbit with Scribbles is that you can see the markdown text if you add .md at the end of the URL. Still not perfect (some oddities to work out). Example here.