I’ve made a ton of progress in the big revamp of my personal blog that I’ve been working on, but I’ve still only gotten the last 8 years of archives tagged and cleaned up. So, uhhhh… 15 years to go. Which sucks, because I’m so pleased with what’s done so far that I sort of wish I could just put that up. I mean, maybe I could? Nobody is looking anyway.
Alright! All you bad influences have persuaded me, so behold: the new https://anildash.com/ Lots of shit is still broken, and I still have a decade and a half of archives to restore. But it should be pretty fast and look decent. Let me know what I screwed up.
But does it federate? 😄
@anildash looks good and stuff loads!
you are a crossword puzzle answer way more often than i’d expect
@amyhoy I mean, right?
@anildash Looking good!
@anildash
the sandwich button doesn't work
@anildash just took a brief spin around, but I LOVE IT
Congrats on the launch! 🎉💕🏆
@beep aw, thanks! I really just did it so I could have this page: https://anildash.com//tags/Prince/
@anildash this is now officially The One Good Site Redesign 🏆💜💜
@anildash just slap a nice “under construction” GIF on there and call it a day.
@anildash Does it have an RSS feed?
@henrygessau yep! Linked at the bottom.
@anildash Ah! So my newsreader did find the feed automatically from the home page, but there are no *new* articles. Soon there will be, though, right? 😉
@henrygessau hopefully so!
@anildash 5/7 perfect
@anildash congratulations! were you able to perserve permalinks? How did you do it?
I've been low key trying to migrate my blog off Blosxom for a year+ and trying to keep old links working is the big sticking point. Beginning to think I should just have 1000+ redirects for each important URL
@nelson yeah! I did a lot of that heavy lifting a while ago when I moved off of movable type, just by making a mapping table. It’s a little more of a PITA with a static site but amusingly a lot of the newer platforms solve it by just publishing a static archive to both the new & old URL. I’m using Eleventy, which is kind of absurdly analogous to Bloxsom, like if you just time-shifted it by 20 years.
@anildash thanks for the info! Eleventy looks good. I decided I didn't like Hugo, my latest attempts have been with Pelican. I'm overthinking everything.
@nelson I'm a big fan of Eleventy! It's been a few years since I worked with it, but I remember enjoying it.
@nelson it’s easy to get lost in overthinking it. I literally just remixed https://glitch.com/edit/#!/glitch-hello-eleventy (did a wget to pull in a zip file of all my blog posts, then unzipped them into /src/posts) and was off to the races. Lots of tweaking for design, etc but the basic “get these posts showing up as a blog” was literally 5 minutes.
@anildash It looks so grown up! Honestly nice. Just, you know, so different from the early days of blogs, or current day Eschaton. :)) Congrats!
@anildash
Oh, do you want the @ link to go to Twitter, or maybe now Mastodon?
@acm_redfox I’ve got mastodon in the footer, but amusingly it still doesn’t show up as verified for me here.
@anildash it's "@ ANILDASH" up there, not your handle. sigh. :)
@acm_redfox the masto link is in the footer
@anildash sorry, thought you meant like HTML code footer the first time. I see it there. still, which are you promoting?
@acm_redfox I’m not really promoting either I think. I just fit them in where I could.
@anildash It can take a couple of hours to register. I think the process is async.
@anildash It took almost exactly 2 hours for mine to go green.
@anildash I'm seeing it as verified over here on indieweb.social.
@rcade I'm not seeing it on your same server. maybe if I cleared my caches or whatever, but...
@acm_redfox Maybe larger instances take longer to process that kind of update. My instance has 1/30th the users of yours.
@anildash
The blog is showing up as verified in your profile now.
@anildash I wish there were more means than inserting an HTML link, a lot of the other things I link off my profile don't allow HTML.
I get why other methods might be easier to fake, though.
@anildash rel=me tag looks right. there's a delay before it shows up on the profile page, check in a day?
@anildash Yeah I wish it were easier to debug this.
@anildash check from the app, it’s not as slow
@anildash Try to update your profile and re-save, that did it for me.
"well actually" all you need to do is add ....
@anildash
sorry i'm testing some stuff. two mins
@anildash I noticed I couldn't get it to show up until I went back into my Mastodon settings and resaved the info. I didn't change anything, but the 'save' seemed to be a trigger to have the instance go out and search for the "rel".
Maybe that helps?
@anildash The link verification seems to be confirmed by and then cached at each viewer’s instance. So, each of us may have a different view.
@anildash If *you* can't get it to work, I feel a LOT better about my failure to do the same. 😀
@anildash do you even blog
@ericbrookfield I’m learning how
@anildash Working now.
@anildash Maybe it is missing the closing tag: </a>
Then delete the link in your profile and include it again.
@anildash Funny story, verifying those links works exactly as halfassedly as link previews do: each instance does it by itself, maybe when you edit your profile, maybe when they feel like it, maybe never!
@jwz there are a lot of things where the inefficiencies of decentralization leak through the abstractions
Ironically I cannot get my blog to show up as a verified link on my masto profile.