Notes

Drinking a Sjarel—Olense Tripel. http://sjarel.com/

In reply to https://jlelse.blog/thoughts/2021/01/newsletters-blogs.

I’ve made that exact remark, too. It’s a tech bubble thing, I think, like static site generators and “modern JavaScript build pipelines.”

If anything did greatly reduce blogging’s popularity among the general populace, it would be Facebook and Twitter.

Haha! One of my many projects-that-never-saw-the-light-of-day was called Stocklistr. (I only remember because there’s this entry in my password manager, still.)

Bookmarked https://www.robinrendle.com/essays/newsletters.

I, too, very much prefer blogs over newsletters! But, I mean, did they? Was it newsletters?

Newsletters killed blogs[.]

RSS?

Alternatively, websites today […] can’t notify people of new work[.]

Sounds a wee bit like, “These days, everyone is using static site generators.” (Pardon my French, but no one who isn’t also a dev uses an SSG.)

Added “unread counts” to my RSS reader’s Microsub implementation. Fun fact: the reader itself—the new one—doesn’t display them. But Microsub clients will. Some (not very) creative use of Laravel’s hasManyThrough, withCount, and $casts array is all it took!

In reply to https://jan.boddez.net/notes/ce775972bf.

In fact, what I need from an invoicing app is so simple (manage customers, create/edit invoices, send email) that I’m going to attempt to tackle this myself. Like, I don’t charge VAT—I’m that small a business. I don’t really do anything recurring, either. And mostly hard-coded templates would work just fine. Heck, I used to use Google Sheets before, and send everything out myself!

So, Invoice Ninja v4 doesn’t work with PHP 7.4 and up, and while that may not be too difficult to work around, there is a v5. Which likely won’t work with my main hosting plan. On top of that, I’m trying to get rid of my VPS and the jungle of Docker containers.

Made Liège waffles today, and they’re delish. https://dagelijksekost.een.be/gerechten/luikse-wafel

Tailwind is, like, the complete opposite of the CSS Zen Garden of yore. The latter was about fully redesigning a site without ever having to touch its HTML—only thing that changed was a single stylesheet. The former lets you redesign a site by altering all of its markup (while leaving the stylesheet untouched).

Created a more “app-like” version, where the main content would sit somewhat to the right, with the logo and “Settings” and “Log out” links in a narrow column all the way to the left, and the category/feed “accordion,” complete with inset box shadows and what not, in between. Then lost the columns. Found the scrollbar on the feeds column too overbearing. Tried a “suckerfish-like” dropdown menu, and got rid of it again. Then went for this much simpler version, with a Bootstrap-like hamburger menu on mobile. 🤷

In reply to https://jan.boddez.net/notes/5a36edf90e.

Last time, too, looks like. :-D

First time posting through Omnibear.

Bookmarked https://werd.io/2020/three-new-years-resolutions.

I’m not here to hustle, gain followers, be a thought leader, build wealth, work myself to death, or rise to the top of the career ladder.

In reply to https://jan.boddez.net/notes/7797d076e3.

One remaining issue is with entry URLs that don’t end in a slash. While relative image URLs work great, PicoFeed, it seems, will base jump links on the nearest “folder,” i.e., one level “up” (the path). Makes sense, but not for fragment URLs.