vincentritter

vincentritter, 1 month ago to random

Happy to announce that Scribbles (https://scribbles.page) is now open for registration 🥳 Blog post announcing it properly as the week progresses.

Really couldn't be here without all the early adopters! Thank you so very much for all your feedback ✌️❤️

vincentritter, 2 months ago to random

I started a new informal blog about some code stuff. Basically things I find useful, or find, whilst working on my projects — mainly for me to search for stuff later on in life when I forget. Good for "behind the scenes".

Vincent is Coding.

It's a new domain, so might not resolve just yet 😬 https://vincentiscoding.dev

vincentritter, 2 months ago to random

Scribbles Explore is now available for anyone, no matter if you have an account or not. This was by design at the start, just so I could gauge how it will look like. Have a look and see what people are writing about 😀 https://scribbles.page/explore

vincentritter, 1 month ago to random

> "There is now a new blog settings screen called "crossposting" that shows you all of your available feeds, which you can copy and add to Micro.blog, EchoFeed or any other services that digests RSS feeds and then cross posts them."

— Crossposting (https://scribbles.page/updates/posts/crossposting) on the Scribbles Update Blog

vincentritter, 4 months ago to random

Believe it or not, title-less posts for Scribbles is in every other feedback email I got. So that's a thing now.

I was a little reluctant, but you gotta skate where the puck is going — whilst maintaining utmost care of your product and code.

Will tweak the design to take that into account — with feedback of course!

#buildinpublic

vincentritter, 1 month ago to random

Was great fun working on the initial categories feature for Scribbles [https://scribbles.page] over the past few days. That's now live. More to do of course, but super duper happy with this initial release. Also had some fun by doing some small "live" updates ✌️❤️

vincentritter, 2 months ago to random

Enough coding for the evening. Did some #scribbles stuff, and also added something to the homepage [https://scribbles.page/home]... random blogs (if they're part of Explore). Just grabs 8 random blogs each time you reload. Fun. More to do here. So gonna leave it forever now 😋

vincentritter, 1 month ago to random

Slowly but steadily coming up to 1 year of #tinylytics [https://tinylytics.app]. Can’t believe it launched last June. First commit was 8th of April last year.

vincentritter, 1 month ago to random

Added a simple "crossposting" screen in your #scribbles blog settings to copy your feed URL's or add straight to #EchoFeed using the button.

Oh and yes... surprise! Category specific RSS feeds are in there for at least a week 😜

Needs a bit of TLC, but am happy.

✌️❤️

vincentritter, 1 month ago to random

If you're using the awesome Pika (https://pika.page) blogging platform, and want to use Tinylytics (https://tinylytics.app) for analytics (you really should), it's totally baked (https://pika.pika.page/posts/bring-your-own-analytics) in now — including some others. Super exciting. Very thankful to Good Enough to do this in a great way! ✌️❤️

vincentritter, 1 month ago to random

If you're using shoutouts (https://shoutouts.lol), and maybe you should if you don't, I have tweaked the way shoutouts are shown in the dashboard — inactive ones are now hidden by default and they have their own dedicated page. Just hit the "Inactive" button and Bob's Your Uncle.

#shoutouts #changelog

vincentritter, 2 months ago to random

"Yesterday, after a request from Jason, I added support for Letterbird, a super nice service for embedding a contact form."

— Letterbird Contact Form on the Scribbles Update Blog

https://scribbles.page/updates/posts/letterbird-contact-form-ss8vsohy

vincentritter, 1 month ago to random

Micro.blog is currently down. I will try and revive it when I am back from the school run... so at least 1 hour from now.

vincentritter, 1 month ago to random

#scribbles #changelog

• 🚀 Added experimental support for adding proper "alt" text to images in the editor. An "Alt" button will appear at the top right of an image. It'll display a tick ✅ within if you have one set. You can still use a caption in addition to alt text. If no alt text is set, and you have a caption, it'll use that instead (as previously).
• 👾 Tweaked the public category page to now also bring across a meta description if you have a description set https://scribbles.page/changelog/posts/2024-05-01

vincentritter, 2 months ago to random

Coffee has been had. Now you have a Reply by Email option in Scribbles. Enter an email you're comfortable sharing and a link will appear at the bottom of each post, with a subject pre-filled.

Will flesh this out more as time goes. You can also find an override for the text that appears ✌️ https://scribbles.page

vincentritter, 2 months ago to random

Small itch I wanted to scratch for Scribbles... and live now, with a post coming later today or tomorrow... you can export any of your published posts straight to HTML or Markdown. Just go to your post and you'll see a new "archive" button in the header. Basic for now with nice filenames.

vincentritter, 1 month ago to random

"Shipped last week, you now have the ability to create categories to your posts with a super simple and slick interface to get started. Categories allows you to add one category per post so that you separate out your content into... well... categories of course."

— Introducing Categories (https://scribbles.page/updates/posts/introducing-categories) on the Scribbles Update Blog

vincentritter, 1 month ago to random

Quick tweak to the dashboard on Tinylytics (https://tinylytics.app). It'll now page sites if you have more than 12. Why 12? No one knows. Change that setting on your user profile page to suit your needs.

#tinylytics #changelog

vincentritter, 1 month ago to random

For my next project I will be creating a feed reader, based on the look and feel of Scribbles, that doesn’t make you scratch your eyes out and doesn’t make you feel bad for “omg, you didn’t fucking read this yet???” 😬😜

vincentritter, 2 months ago to random

Added support for status.lol to Scribbles. Just head on over to your blog settings and add your "address" in the "status.lol & shoutouts" section. Shoutouts will come next week I reckon. Both will show in the footer.

vincentritter, 2 months ago to random

“Meta is an objectively awful company in every possible regard. I don’t like the company, and I am acutely aware of the terrible things that they have done and continue to do.“
A great quote from Adam’s previous post. This is why I don’t understand the deal about people jumping on Threads 🤷‍♂️ Never have.

vincentritter, 2 months ago to random

"Late last week, thanks to Sticker Spotter, I worked on general improvements on handling posts with just images....Next up I finally enabled a hidden option that allows you to show an image preview on your post list..."

— Image previews option and tweaks on the Scribbles Update Blog

https://scribbles.page/updates/posts/image-previews-option-and-tweaks-snjc-pez

vincentritter, 1 month ago to random

Made a few minor UI tweaks to Tinylytics. Now you can hide the Kudos and Uptime tabs on a site by site basis (subscribers only). Also tweaked the way the embed code and site id are shown when it's all working (less cluttered). Plus some other minor things that only I will notice.

#tinylytics #changelog #buildinpublic

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vincentritter, 20 days ago to random

I’m keeping an eye on Daylight (https://daylightcomputer.com/) Computer. Looks great.

vincentritter, 2 months ago to random

Well, difficult day. I had the most fun this morning with some coding. Feeling a little drained now though. Perhaps some light coding to end the day and some ambient music to ease me into slumber.