Finally gotten around to improving Bluesky 💙 cross-post markdown parsing for my micro-blog! As you can see, links finally work properly & the so-far unsupported text emphasis is dropped. So glad to have done, because it was stopping me from using this feature properly. No longer an issue!
Love cracking open a new notebook & setting it up for the upcoming year, learning from things that didn’t work & iterating on the practice! 📓⚡
As a side-note, I really need to improve the markdown parsing and facet creation for the Bluesky syndication…
APOD (Astronomy Picture of the Day - https://apod.nasa.gov/) has quickly become my favourite RSS feed and is a lovely surprise every morning for me! 🪐🌌
Picked up The Word for World is Forest as a “quick & light” read… Boy was I wrong! 💙📚
I really appreciated my decision to use sqlite to store my posts, as it allowed me to implement a very straight-forward migration mechanism, when I was adding the BlueSky federation/syndication.
I especially enjoyed the built-in
PRAGMA user_version;
to keep track of which migrations have already been run on a given .db file.
Yesterday, I finished If Then by Jill Lepore. What a book! Meticulously researched and written in a shockingly readable style. Highly recommended to anyone who wants to learn how far back attempts at using computers to influence people’s opinion go! 💙📚
As of right now, my posts on my personal micro-blog are automatically syndicated to BlueSky! 💙 POSSE ftw!
So I’ve received my invite code for Bluesky… Strongly considering federating my posts made here automatically over there (or at least have the option to do so)…
I can’t believe it took me this long to create an about page for current, but it’s finally up!