🗓 Microcosm - 2023 Dec 30-31
DEC 31 2023 22:00
🍿 Just watched Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget with the family. Cute sequel to the original and a couple of my kids declared it better than the first!
DEC 31 2023 20:14
Just occurred to me that having a pinned entry would be kind of cool for the front page and an interesting implementation project at some point.
DEC 31 2023 20:08
📡 Noticed some feed and settings screen layout inconsistencies that bother me so starting to look more closely at clarifying those. Currently the title of both my json and atom feeds is simply "status updates by" because I think the field referenced is under the Activity Pub section which I'm not currently doing anything with. I think the Micro Blog ping, Blue Sky support, and Activity Pub stuff is cool, but my priority at this point is the feeds.
DEC 31 2023 15:49
Just had a brief moment of panic when I realized I still needed to submit my timesheet for this pay period at work. Had plenty of time to spare, but it had completely slipped my mind since I've been on vacation for the last week.
DEC 31 2023 13:27
Okay, worked as expected with an older posts button that takes you to page two.
DEC 31 2023 13:22
By my count, this post should be the first one to knock my initial post off the front page. Curious to see what that will look like.
DEC 31 2023 13:19
Going to have to play with creating a custom theme for this microblog. Nothing major, probably just color scheme tweaks really.
DEC 31 2023 13:04
🧙♂️ Didn't expect to be able to get to Platinum in Constructed for both of my accounts on Arena this month, but it worked out. Mainly used mono red burn for my primary account but mono white humans worked quite well for getting there with my secondary account.
DEC 31 2023 08:22
Still sick with an annoying cough at times, but feel like I'm improving and quite a bit better than where I was a few days ago.
DEC 31 2023 08:16
⚽️ TOT 3 - 1 BOU FT
Entertaining and solid bounce back win after the disappointment at Brighton. Next up Burnley on Friday in our opening game of the FA Cup.
DEC 31 2023 05:35
⚽️ Spurs play in about a half hour. I set my alarm for 5:45 am, but woke up entirely on my own about 40 minutes ago.🤷🏻♂️
DEC 30 2023 22:30
Pushed my changes up to GitHub and submitted a pull request. Now we'll see if it passes muster and gets merged into the project. It was actually pretty fun figuring out everything I needed to do to make all that happen after not really doing anything programming-related in a long long time.
DEC 30 2023 20:08
I have to give props to ddev.com as a very efficient method of deploying a local containerized php dev environment. I hadn't heard of the project before today and it made setup completely painless compared to the php container setup I cobbled together on my own several months back.
DEC 30 2023 19:46
Time Zone configuration setting improvement implemented, tested locally, and successfully deployed here on octobloc.xyz (worked much more smoothly actually). Going to commit my changes and submit a pull request shortly.
DEC 30 2023 14:59
Trying out the mobile posting functionality now while installing Docker on my iMac. Figured I should do things right when hacking on the microblog script and set up a proper containerized local development setup.
DEC 30 2023 14:00
🧰 Parsedown/erusev/parsedown/) appears to be the obvious solution to adding Markdown support as it's fast, MIT-Licensed and has no dependencies.
Incidentally, kind of wish this app/project had a unique name other than just microblog.
DEC 30 2023 13:10
Heh, did a lot of unnecessary work because despite a comment to the contrary you do still need to specify the Time Zone in the microblog config.php file to get the UTC offset to work properly. Still a worthwhile exercise to familiarize myself with the way the code works
DEC 30 2023 12:37
Whipped up a little php code to allow me to try to change the UTC offset to the correct one for my timezone. I've got a selection menu working, but there's still some more template logic to track down I think.
DEC 30 2023 10:05
First thing I need to do now that I've got things up and running is configure my timezone.
DEC 30 2023 10:01
Also just noticed that the two supported feed types are atom and json, and probably not rss 2.0. I'm no feed expert, but using atom vs rss 2.0 is a little weird to me in that it requires a title entry per post.
DEC 30 2023 09:54
Somewhat surprisingly it doesn't seem to support Markdown for posts though.
DEC 30 2023 09:51
I've been looking for a simple self-hosted microblogging solution for a while and I think Mini Microblog is almost exactly what I've been wanting.