🏗️ BlogBuild
Posts that relate to the rebuild of this blog that started early 2026.
👁️ Happy to report that the Social Spec by @manton is working as advertised. The bit that’s not is down to me.
🏗️👁️ Fixed - and a prime example why I shouldn’t have access to my server code. On the 26th i streamlined my htaccess file - completely forgetting that my 🖇️ philpin.com home page is not at root and actually in its own folder - all its glory is once more revealed.
(I use ‘glory’ in the loosest possible sense.)
When @manton first published the social spec plugin - I installed - it didn’t immediately work - moved on and forgot all about it. Seeing a shower of related posts this morning, reminded me to go check. I did - and I can’t see anything set wrong - after all - the set up seems to be nothing more than your email - IF you want to set your email - but for me
🔗 https://john.philpin.com/.well-known/about.md gives ‘Not Found’. and
🔗 https://john.philpin.com/.well-known/contact.vcf downloads a vcard - which is nice - but I would have expected a page and opportunity to download said card. (Fixable of course.)
Interesting though that john.philpin.com/.well-kno… does work - though not documented in Manton’s spec. If you are interested for now I am housing that on my main site 🔗 here
🔗 https://socialspec.org/news/wordpress-plugins/
🔗 https://socialspec.org/news/introducing-socialspec-dot-org
🔗 https://socialspec.org/news/hyperctl/
🔗 https://socialspec.org/news/micro-dot-blog/
and then
🔗 ℹ️ SocialSpec - Documentation - Micro.blog Help Center
🔗 https://github.com/microdotblog/plugin-socialspec/blob/main/README.md
👁️🏗️ ChatGPT gets more like HAL every day …
No. We agreed exactly what needed changing, but I didn’t actually make the change to the file.
🏗️ The ‘Forty’ Template in Blot is very very opinionated. It provided a good foundation to my 🖇️ wiki - but ‘I’ have now over written so much of it that I am no longer sure that ‘using Forty’ is entirely accurate.
🏗️ I am using Claude to co-build my Wiki and have now got a nice flow to it. Claude has access to a specific folder on my drive - we edit together and Claude does things like cleaning up my tags and other YAML - as well as pushing the local folder contents up to Git. Blot picks it up from there and pushes it out to 🖇️ https://wiki.philpin.com … like all good web properties it is an eternal WIP. Not ready from prime time - BUT as I say on the Wiki:
“we have leaned into the design philosophy of ‘build in public’ and not wait for perfect”
I also use the whole thing locally with Obsidian.
👁️ Normal service has been resumed. Again. My posts were once more failing to find their way on to the blog - much lesss out to the world.
FIXED - but this one was down to me.
I am officially now classed in ‘Myers Briggs’ as ‘EEJIT’.
🏗️⛑️ Interested to see an error suddenly pop up on my blog for a post that has been there for over three years. Never touched since.
I investigated - found the error - fixed.
I guess Micro.Blog is becoming less forgiving about amateur hour?
Just been advised by my hosting provider that I am running malicious code on my home page. I used their scanner to discover the offending file and asked Claude ‘what’s that about ‘. Toold me and now rewriting what we were trying to achieve to begin with. Uploading in a minute - if one cycle fixes it - I will be well impressed.
I am liking where 🔗 this is going - thanks for the post @AndySylvester - big fan of a UI that better fits me.
👁️🏗️ 🖇️ Latest Iteration
👁️🏗️💡Running some very large OPML imports into NetNewsWire recently as we are doing some testing - gotta say that the synching improvements that @brentsimmons recently added are definitely making a difference.
One More thing please: Nested folders and/or tags (as @dave uses in Feedland) 💗
🏗️💡Thinking about my photo page …
Ok - nobody else is going to say anything - so I will.
The conversation thread on my site has always bothered me … the reason is a little but ‘Alice in Wonderlandy’ - but bear with me.
You have a post - and maybe every blue moon or so someone actually comments.
For the vast majority of my posts - ‘Join The Conversation’ has always felt odd. What conversation? It’s a post floating in the wind. Ain’t nothing happening … until there is a comment. Now that’s a conversation. Ok ok - I take the point - but still - it is a step closer to one. Behold as part of my design update - automatically resolved.
Start The Conversation
then one day you get a comment, saying now the next person can now …
Join The Conversation
Your welcome. Thanks to Claude my co-developer on this one. I don’t think this change destroyed too much more of the planet.
Big moves forward on my blog design yesterday. Still some glitches to resolve - but a whole lot closer to the vision of what I want a post to look like than 24 hours ago.
👁️ Has ‘OTD’ gone away as a plugin? Or was it only ever on GitHub? Either way, cant find it. Different name? Asking for a friend.