Blogging
This hit me. Web development has always been my passion and hobby — not a side hustle, not a product. Just something I love to do.
I came back to Micro.blog earlier this year after being away for five years, and I've been tinkering with my blog ever since. Learning what I can do with it, trying …
My last big update to the blog was back in April. Since then I've been quietly adding small things here and there, nothing major. But today I decided it was time to do a full redesign.
Here's the why behind it. My header, feature area, and subscribe box were all painted in heavy navy blocks, one …
I read a post from Dan Q this week called You Don't Have to Blog Like Me, and I agree with every bit of it, 100 percent. There's no right way to do this, it really is just preference. His post is basically a permission slip: you don't have to tag things, keep a schedule, have a feature image, split …
Jim Nielsen's post about blogging landed right after I wrote about dickovers, and it's basically why I bothered writing that post at all.
have a willingness to state something that seems obvious to you.
— Jim Nielsen
Yes. This.
So my RSS tab in Perch runs on Inkwell, Micro.blog’s RSS reader, using my micro.blog token.
Inkwell’s own apps have this thing where posts are split into three tabs — Today, Recent, and Fading — and stuff just naturally ages out instead of turning into a giant unread pile. Manton talked about this …
I've been tinkering with the blog again. Honestly, I can't help it.
The biggest change is the header. As you scroll down, it collapses into a floating pill — clean, minimal, just "Toby Geeks Out!" sitting at the top of the screen. The inspiration came from glass.photo, which has one of the slickest …
Back in February I installed the Newsletters plugin for Micro.blog — @manton’s own — and then completely forgot about it. Today I stumbled across it again and finally dug in. It creates a dedicated /newsletters/ index page listing all your past issues. Neat! Except it came with absolutely zero …
I've been writing blog posts on and off for over 20 years. I survived the Blogger era, bounced around platforms, and eventually landed on Micro.blog — where I've been happily tinkering ever since. I dabble in HTML and CSS for fun, I'm a perfectionist about how my posts look, and I have a long …
Been tinkering with two apps and they’re both coming together nicely. Perch is my custom Micro.blog client (books from my bookshelf, movies and TV from Trakt). Draft Studio is for my long-form writing here and OULDHH, sending drafts straight to Micro.blog and Wix, no copy-paste. More on Perch soon.
The past few weeks have been less about writing posts and more about building the thing that holds them. If you've visited the blog recently and noticed things looking a little sharper, a little more intentional — that's not your imagination. I've been deep in the code, and I want to tell you what …