Friday, January 27, 2023
As an experiment, I went through my following list yesterday afternoon and disabled Boosts on everyone. As a result, things are much quieter here than they ever were on Twitter.
Just a thought.
Thursday, January 26, 2023
Trying out including emoji in a note with the Jemoji plugin. 
Wednesday, January 25, 2023
Once more for good measure. Let's see what happens if you omit the link...
It looks like I may need to do the syndication bit manually, at least until things get sorted out in the relevant pull request. In addition, although there are no permalinks on the Notes homepage, these items are still reachable if you think about what to do for a moment.
Individual notes still have a date based on their filename, but I'm removing this part from the layout to see if it looks better.
Tuesday, January 24, 2023
A note with no title. Let's see how this goes. Still need to add meta tags, but it's a start.
Another Test
With any luck, this note will find its way to Mastodon.
Thursday, January 12, 2023
Syndicate All the Things
With any luck, this note will find its way to Mastodon. A longstanding bug affecting Brid.gy signups is still open so who knows if it will actually work...
I don't plan on leaving Twitter just yet, but using POSSE gives me the most flexibility depending on how things play out.
Tuesday, April 26, 2022
Indieweb Test
I'm trying to use webmentions again with the plugin. To make this work, I had to downgrade my Jekyll install to 3.9 - good to know it is still being maintained.
Might be time to start familiarizing myself with Mastodon.
Tuesday, August 24, 2021
Webmentions Again
Testing webmentions (again) using Brett's fork of the Webmention.io plugin.
Sunday, May 09, 2021
Feed Readers FTW
TFW both feeds render correctly in Reeder 🍾
I wish I could rewrite the previous sentence - swapping in NetNewswire in its place - but alas, Feed Wrangler support is still forthcoming.
Saturday, May 08, 2021
JSON Feeds
Continuing with the theme of all things feed-related, notes and posts are available as a pair of JSON feeds.
Thursday, May 06, 2021
RSS for Notes
Notes published to the site now have their own RSS feed. While there are other ways to interleave these posts into the regular feed - I wanted to keep things as simple as possible.
Still, the ideas here might work for adding a feed for the linkblog.
Long Version Control
Noun.
The process which often occurs after a substantial change to a project where - either due to complexity or the passage of time - it is near impossible to remember what was actually done. This makes creating sensible commits difficult and usually involves running git difftool on individual files to come up with a reasonable explanation of how the problem was solved or a new feature added.
Side effects can include a large number of editor windows and cognitive overload.
A form of Yak shaving.
Wednesday, May 05, 2021
Work in Progress
Behind the scenes, I've been working on a number of fairly substantial changes to the site. While the look hasn't changed all that much, under the hood, it's a definite step up.
In the spirit of the Indieweb, notes - e.g, microblog-style posts, reposts, and replies - are in and the linkblog has been improved (they're both powered by Jekyll's support for collections). I also rebuilt the way layouts are handled and - in true Jekyll style - all of them now inherit from the default one.
Liquid templates have their quirks, but the whole process wasn't overly difficult.