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@maique Oh, that looks delicious. 😋 I might take up this practice as well. One routine in our household is adding joke items for the significant other to find during shopping: hugs & kisses, a life, poop, etc. A very grown-up thing to do. 😊

@maique 😂 So, are the list items only emoji or emoji with text? Emoji-only groceries lists sound like a great way to make shopping a fun challenge.

@amit You might enjoy Mr. Penumbra’s 24‑Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan.

> It’s a tale of books and technology, cryptography and conspiracy, friendship and love. It begins in a mysterious San Francisco bookstore, but quickly reaches out into the wider world and the shadowed past.

@renevanbelzen Sure, most things are automatable. But in this case, I’m sure @manton would rather find and fix the root cause instead of me and you patching up the symptoms, though. 😊

@jemostrom Verkligen. Ändå tog jag min sked, krusade ytan och ödelade alltsammans till oigenkännlighet strax efter att bilden togs. Så dumt.

@cygnoir Here’s how to add the bookshelf page to the main menu.

  1. Go to Design → Edit Custom Themes.
  2. Click Moondeer’s Bookshelves followed by content/bookshelf.md.
  3. Add a new line with menu = "main" right below the line type = "bookshelf".
  4. Click Update Template and wait for your site to rebuild.
  5. Celebrate! 🎉

@amit If you’re comfortable with JavaScript, you can add the query parameter format=jsonfeed to the URL and get JSON in return. Then it’s up to you what to do with that data and render it any way you see fit.

@pimoore Great idea! That will make it even easier for people with Tufte installed. How will you go about adding the partial call to the template? I guess you have to safeguard, so the theme won’t blow up if the person doesn’t have my plug-in installed.

@cygnoir @skoobz Yepp, it will work just fine with Tufte. Of course, every theme is different, so the actual inclusion of the link might differ depending on your setup. But the plug-in should be compatible with most themes.

I’ve evaluated the beta version of the plug-in with Tufte and documented one installation approach here.

@artkavanagh, I think you’re doing it right. But something weird is going on with micro.artkavanagh.ie. I can’t reach it from Safari or Firefox on my machine. Looks like some kind of certificate error.

Try editing your reply and use an image from a different website.

@jeremycherfas Yeah, I hear you. 😊 Would a built-in sharing function be less manual, though? I tried Newsblur’s share to Twitter option just now, and the experience was pretty similar. I ended up with a tweet draft and had to manually hit the Tweet button to post.

@jeremycherfas Maybe it’s not what you want, but couldn’t you just tap the article’s title to open up the web view and from there share the link to your preferred Micro.blog client?

@maique Thanks! Hehe, maybe I’m not the only developer with a couple of days off from work around the holidays. 😅

@Omrrc Create a shortcut on iOS that opens the Settings app. Name it System Preferences and add it to the Home Screen.

@kimberlyhirsh @maique @pimoore Yay! 🎉 What a great team effort. ☺️ Please let me know if I can make the plug-in better or more accessible in any way. Hopefully, it will find its way into the official directory for easy installation in the future.

@prologic Ah, I see, that makes two of us. 😊 My own sketchy mental model is pieced together by the Micro.blog and Hugo documentation and fragments from @manton‘s blog. I’m sure it’s not 100 % correct.

You can list replies on your blog, but you might have to change a setting for that to work. On the web version of Micro.blog, go to ⚙️ Account and look under the heading Replies. There you can choose to include replies on one of your blogs.

After that, you should be able to fetch replies in your templates like this:

{{ $replies := first 25 (where .Data.Pages.ByDate.Reverse "Type" "reply") }}

Take a look at the Marfa theme for a complete example. You might find Hosted replies helpful as well.

@JohnPhilpin Yep, me too, really. My gut tells me it’s somewhere in the hundreds to lower thousands. But I would have to dive deeper and review the data to find solid support for that. Or write that crawler…

@pratik @jasraj It’s possible to determine the number of users by building a crawler for the task like @JohnPhilpin is hinting at. But by gathering open-source intelligence, I’m pretty sure we could make an educated guess that wouldn’t be too far away from reality. Some observations:

  • The Kickstarter had 3,080 backers.
  • KnockPy reports around 9,650 subdomains for micro.blog. That includes non-blogs like help.micro.blog and test blogs like manton-test.micro.blog. There are definitely blogs missing as well.
  • The Discover timeline is curated by @jean and features the same handful of people, again and again. She’s either really picky 😊 or the pool of active users just isn’t that big.
  • Wayback Machine’s site map of micro.blog has roughly 1,500 users indexed for 2021. The graph is interesting; it clearly visualizes a handful of people creating most content.

So, my guess is less than 10,000 (human) users, most of them inactive.

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