🏗️ BlogBuild on John PHI⑊PIN

Sun, 31 May 2026 14:10:56 +1200

Redefining categories on Micro.Blog as part of my revamp and where I can - extending my rules to automate category allocation.

What I really need now is an automatic ‘un-categorisation’.

Going forward posts marked 🖋️Longform will really be Longform - not just posts with a title - but to go back and manually check all the history? One by One? That is not going to happen.

Sun, 31 May 2026 13:22:39 +1200

Thinking blogrolls on Micro.Blog. Could they work in the same way as Inkwell?

i.e. don’t import an OPML - point to an OPML.

I can see a collection of topic driven OPMLs that I can then expose in different places - but to only have one place that I need to update?

Good idea - or am I nuts?

Wed, 27 May 2026 09:53:51 +1200

🔗 Scripting News

I need an easy way to do a mini-podcast. An idea that should be said verbally, but it’s short and self-contained, about the length of an untitled blog post, like the one you’re reading now.

💬 Dave Winer

I had the same idea back in 2019 @dave - I even created a 🔗🎙️snicklecast to describe what a 🔗🎙️snicklecast - and why it is.

Never cracked the ‘simple’ part though.

I THINK there is something like this in MicroBlog on a higher tier than I sit at.

Wed, 27 May 2026 07:50:54 +1200

👁️ Turns out when I wrote - “🖇️ We are back” - we weren’t quite. Just learned another little thing about Micro.Blog that I had never completely absorbed. Thank you @sod - we are now back .. at least functionally - css and layout remains a WIP.

Sun, 03 May 2026 10:35:12 +1200

In Obsidian there is a plugin called ‘Style Setting’ written by ‘@mgmeyers’. I wonder if a similar plug in could be developed and worked on MicroBlog?

It’s a user friendly mechanism for people to talk to the custom CSS using simple form changes that get applied to the CSS?

… just in case there is anyone out there with some spare time on their hands @AndySylvester 😉 … and I am not sure whether this would be before or after creating a presentation layer for Feedland et al so I can have it look like the rest of my sites.

To me - before would make most sense - and the first use case could be interfacing just to the Feedland CSS?

Filed in ‘A Boy Can Dream Can’t He’?

Wed, 29 Apr 2026 12:01:57 +1200

👁️ A new - to me - error on my Micro.blog timeline …

// @manton @sod

Still seems to work though.

Tue, 28 Apr 2026 10:59:32 +1200

👁️ Story of my life:

Just waiting for the cache to catch up.

Seems to be worse on Micro.Blog than anywhere else - and yes I have a bigger than average site and yes this version of Hugo moves like molasses - but when I move to upgrade to a better version - my site breaks - #BecausePlugIns - how to work out which? Uninstall them all and reintroduce one by one.

My plugin list:

… so no.

Then again - there is also this …

What IS a boy to do?

Sun, 05 Apr 2026 10:00:56 +1200

🔗 Revamping Post Stats - Amit Gawande

@amit - thank you for reminding me and thank you for doing it.

Although the insights are a little scary ….

Wed, 01 Apr 2026 08:16:21 +1200

I just rolled back my Hugo version to ‘recommended far too many errors with what I assume are incompatible plugins.

@manton - suggestion - on each plugin have a warning re whether the plugin is compatible with whatever the Hugo version is so plug in provider checks once and flags accordingly … not all of the community checking every plugin trying to work out which works an which doesn’t on whatever Hugo version is running.

Set default of all plugins to be the base recommended Hugo.. and then each developer can modify after they have tested?

🚧Rebuilding My Micro Blog

Thu, 27 Jan 2022 09:56:14 +1200

By simply adding stuff / pages and plugins to my blog without thinking something eventually had to break - and it did. My thanks to @manton and @pimoore for pointing out the error. Turns out Hitchens doesn’t include a ‘Replies’ page - which caused my archive to disappear.

Flat Earth time. I mean - everything. (Barring two hidden pages being used for 🖇️ 🔎The Readers Republic ).

The Rebuild

Install Hitchens ✅ - thankyou @pimoore
(need to move my footer into Hitchens footer.)
Install Conversation ✅ - thankyou @sod
Install Surprise Me ✅ - thankyou @sod
Reply By EMail ✅ - thankyou @sod

Next Steps

Install Bookshelves - courtesy @moondeer
Install Webmentions
Install Cards - courtesy @moondeer