Recently micro.blog added a powerful new feature to create photo collections. Using this feature you can group photos together and then use a special micro.blog shortcode to reference that collection in a blog post or page. This is a powerful feature and one of the things I …
Keep reading · 2 minutes: Micro.blog Collection Creator ShortcutI’m very excited to welcome David O’Hara @davoh to micro.blog. David shares great images, essays, and thoughts and I’m hopeful he will find micro.blog a great platform to host all of that. One of the Christmas Blogs! 🎁
I just got the first version of Micro.blog Collection Creator shortcut working. It allows you to paste in the contents of an existing post, or any text with a list of urls on your site, and it will add all referenced uploads to a collection you choose. Will share after cleaning up!
A year of blogging for $12? I love this! 🤩
Several people have already correctly guessed that Micro.one will be a ridiculously low $1/month. I hope this helps it reach more people. It will also be a perfect gift subscription to give to friends and family.
I’ve been enjoying the Snow Fall plug-in by @manton on my website and it has me thinking that it would be really fun to have a web version of Simon Støvring’s Festivitas. A string of lights along the top of the browser with various configuration options would be cool.
I created a hierarchal view of my blog pages so that I could try to organize this better. This shows why I wish the Pages section of micro.blog was a bit more sophisticated. I took the outline and then gave it to ChatGPT and asked it to recommend a better way to structure it.
The random five winners of the Weekly Thing Christmas Blog gift have been selected! A little Python to do the selection… import random # Define list of names values = [ "name", "name", "name", … ] # Shuffle the list random.shuffle(values) print("Randomly selected values:", …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Weekly Thing Christmas BlogsWas seven years ago today that micro.blog opened up to public signups. Doesn’t feel like it has been seven years! Even better it still is the fastest and easiest way to get words and images on the web.
I like this W3C Statement on Ethical Web Principles. These principles are not merely theoretical; they constitute a call to action. They encourage everyone involved in the web’s evolution to assess their contributions’ societal and environmental impacts. We can create a web that …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Ethical Web PrinciplesI’ve been publishing the Weekly Thing for over seven years. Sometimes I need to have an image associated with it. Some of those times it is actually required. So, I’ve had a mild need for a logo to represent the Weekly Thing for a while. However, the Weekly Thing is a somewhat …
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