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    not-quite-one-month-anniversary roadmap

    inspired by li's roadmap I guess I will share an updated and mostly-off-the-cuff version of mine, based on a quick scan of my original goals and the mountain of todo list items I have accumulated since then:

    • I gotta get h-entry consumption working so I can "reblog" everyone else who's publishing with it (and bully the rest of you into adding support so I can reblog you too)
    • The post editor has some rough styling edges that I would like to sand down a bit. I want the headline and body fields to grow with the post. The buttons are ass and I would like them to not be ass
    • I need to write some static pages for a blogroll and possibly some other stuff? This isn't actually programming or anything, I have no excuse for not doing this sooner
    • I want a "pinned tags" widget that makes sense on the page in both desktop and mobile
    • posts should be editable without using the git repo
    • posts should be draftable (I agree with li, localstorage is probably fine for now, though it would be nice to have some alternate strategy
    • I need to pull out a bunch of blog-specific things that have been hardcoded and put them into Eleventy Data Files so that my blog is more easily customizable and also probably so I can just take this code, .gitignore the Content and Data files, and force-push back into the octobug repo to have a clean working Eleventy base template.
    • I admit I have not been making any progress on also making it possible to use Octobug with an existing static site setup / your own metadata structure. It's going to be kinda hard and finicky and weird and I'm not looking forward to it, sorry!!!!
    • I have a couple other very stupid but pretty funny ideas that I'm going to keep a secret for now 🤫

    it's fun that me and a few other people have spent the last ~month tricking each other into using our accumulated programming skills to improve our lives. I mean that genuinely. Ok I really gotta take a shower now bye

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    tuesday dinnertime octobug update

    the site upgrades are piling up, I should really backport them to octobug 🤔
    among some post editor improvements (better mobile support!) NEW posts should have a new permalink structure while OLD posts retain their old URLs (to hopefully avoid bombarding feeds with "new" posts, and to avoid breaking what I'm sure are hundreds of links to my first ~25 brilliant posts)

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