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Welcome to the Microblog section of my website, here you will find short snippets, linkposts and imageposts in my own little social stream. These posts are syndicated directly to my Mastodon and BlueSky accounts. Filter by topic >>>
I've started making my way back through the CSS course in FreeCodeCamp's curriculum, the first lab being this simple design a business card exercise.
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Quick exercise on FCC this evening, building out a basic checkout page with accessibility features. Aria-labels are new to me, so I'll need to wrap my head around those a little more.
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This evening's code exercise was an easy walk through html tables on FCC. Click through for links to repo and build if of interest.
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I've always hated html forms, I don't think I've ever created one from scratch that actually worked. So hopefully in working through the FCC forms module tonight, something stuck.
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I spent a little time working through the html modules on FreeCodeCamp this afternoon, inbetween contemplating / prevaricating about playing around with Quartz SSG.
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I migrated my site to Kirby in March, and have finally finished cleansing posts, building the structure and feeds. I still need to refine some templating, but I can now concentrate on adding content.
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I'm using snippets rather than templates to build custom micro post types, saving time on file renaming later. Here is an example of one of the few link posts in my archive, in the new post type.
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I finally managed to display directly link and display related blog articles in my digital garden, much more robust than the workaround using tags yesterday. Read on for my cookbook implementation.
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I've come up with a way to link blog and digital garden pages together on my website using a hidden tag field. I would have preferred to reverse the linked page field, but struggled to implement.
I can get on now with building out the remainder of my structure, and tidying up and arranging my content. While for future posts the two sections are semi automatically linked, galleries build directly from uploads, and the new RSS feeds automate posting to the IndieWeb.
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I've spent half an hour getting RSS feeds working in my digital garden sections, so that I can share through echofeed. I wasted far too much time on this last weekend, lesson - test for empty fields!
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I've had a magical mystery tour through Kirby blueprints, sections, controllers, collections and templates - but I'm happy with how my digital garden section is growing.
Digital Garden
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I have re-engineered the galleries in my blog to load directly from image uploads, without using Kirby blocks. Got lost in css weeds and rebuilt from scratch with flex box. Code tidy up needed soon.
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I created a separate microblog on my site last night, with working tags - sliding my ephemeral content across. Styling still to do - but now understand how to design & build my digital garden section.
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I spent this evening attempting to automate hashtags through to RSS and beyond, using my website tags in the RSS feed. I'm really happy with the feed reader implementation, Mastodon would be great too - but for those pesky whitespaces.
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A quick note about setting up a second rss feed on my site for my fitness activities which are excluded from my main feed.
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I've made some final(🤣) amends to my new Kirby CMS site - site search, and a lightweight social share widget.
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Evening of mixed success. I got @mauricerenck@mastodon.online indieConnector plugin posting directly to Mastodon pretty quickly, and wrote (manual) conditional discussion links through to Mastodon/Bluesky, and page rank thumbs in the panel.
Dislike the absence of cards on the Bluesky crossposts from Echofeed, so need to work that out. I failed with webmentions. Had the Komments plugin collecting comments, but the moderation panel could not see them.
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👨🏼💻 Uploading my new theme later for testing🤞
Home - Latest + Digital garden
Category - List/full views
Category intros
Hero images
Flexbox/Grid
Borrows tinyly from @Mtt Tiny as nearing ⏰📦
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🧑💻A preview of my theme redesign, dark and light modes in desktop view. Just the small matter of templating it into Hugo to learn now.
I’m hoping to be able to identify the first image to lift into the hero section, if so the design will evolve a little yet.
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🧑💻 A while back, probably around micro.camp, I stumbled across @mandaris’ series on building the Labarnum theme here. I’m currently reading my way through from bottom to top to try to get my head around building themes locally in Hugo for micro.blog implementation.
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👨🏼💻 In working on the new theme my site, remembering that my frontend design skills are not that strong.
Merry Flexbox.
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My wee websites views are still mirroring the COVID–19 curve…. obviously everyone is staying in playing CM01/02 on computers of today….
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