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    okay let this be a lesson, I put my email address in a mailto link on a random weblog in 2024 and 10 months later I get 1-3 daily spam emails inviting me to a whatsapp chat in order to contract web design services

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    2. #bad ideas
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    one thing I'm discovering and grateful for about Octobug when using it across multiple blogs is that when something breaks with it, as long as there's a site that builds and updates when I write words into it, I'm just like "that's okay". I know that the YouTube embed code breaks the frame. I know that I haven't backported the whole thing where headlines can safely have markdown in them. I still haven't integrated WebMentions or whatever. that's okay

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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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    2. #octobug (feature requests)
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    it's easier to respond now
    thanks to an email link at the bottom of each post's permalink. I already treasure all of the emails I have received from people and look forward to future (nice) emails

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    2. #email
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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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    Octobug does tag autocomplete now
    It gets the list of tags from the server when you open the post editor

    And then as you type it shows the tags you've already used so you can more easily "do a bit" that you've done before, and safely put it in the filing cabinet drawer where it belongs.

    no I don't know why the tag field isn't able to use my webfont. I'll fix it later

    1. #json
    2. #don’t worry about it
    3. #text encoding!!!!
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