There are a few Drafts actions that allow you to post to Micro.blog, but none of them did everything that I wanted in one place. That led me to create the Post/Update to Micro.blog action. This action will allow you to do a lot for a post, directly in Drafts.
If you have multiple domains configured for your account, such as a main domain and the provided test domain from Micro.blog, then you will be able to select which one that you would like to post to.
I’m having some fun working on this Drafts action for Micro.blog. I’m horrible with JavaScript, but I’m fumbling my way through it and feel like it’s coming along nicely.
I’ve still got some ideas for it, but wanted share a little bit, to give myself a push, so that I don’t keep it hidden forever.
I wanted to have one spot to post to my primary or test blog, so I added a prompt that will let you choose which blog that you want to post to.
I’m running into issues when trying to use NSDiffableDataSourceSectionSnapshot. I want to have this UI, where we have multiple sections and each section has builds, but the additional builds are collapsible. This works, however, since there are a large number of sections there is some significant UI hangs. I played around with the number of sections and the magic number appears to be 80. 80 sections or less and there are no UI hangs, but anything over that will experience a hang.
I was inspired to give this writing challenge a try after reading this post by Maique Madeira and comes from this challenge.
I always seem to fail at these types of challenges because of the pressure to finish without missing any days. With this challenge, it is more about just writing and posting at least 100 times in a year, instead of 100 consecutive days. It’s kind of late in the year already, but still enough time left to get close enough.
I guess that the clock is starting over. We found out yesterday that we were exposed to a Covid-19 over the weekend. After following the rules for several months and being very cautious it doesn’t surprise me that it happens the first time that we have been allowed to see friends since lockdown restrictions were put in place. At least before we could take a walk around the block to get some fresh air, now that is not an option. Thankfully, we have a balcony that we can step out onto. This will probably be the slowest two weeks ever, but hopefully it will pass without us developing symptoms. Though it does make me nervous that we may now be asymptomatic and still at risk of potentially spreading it.
I finally sat down this morning and imported all of the posts from my Wordpress site into micro.blog. I didn’t have many posts there so it didn’t take long and was pretty straightforward. Since Wordpress has some custom features for images, such as cover images and image galleries, I had to do some manual image imports. Once again, this wasn’t too bad since I didn’t have that many images at the moment. Overall, the import process was pretty simple and easy. Kudos to Manton and team for making that part painless. It’s such a good feeling to have all of my posts in one spot now.
I had planned for this to be my first post on micro.blog but I kept putting it off to see how I would like it. I have tried a couple of times now to start blogging, but each time I publish a couple of posts and then I quit. I struggled to figure out why. I had a desire to post things but I also struggle with public opinion and if what I have or want to say is good enough. There was also the issue of the tools. I really like Wordpress, however, I started to realize that it was also a problem for me.
I’ve recently started discovering, actually rediscovering, something about my devices. They make a lot of sounds.
For years I’ve been pretty strict about keeping my devices muted. For my iPhone it kind of made sense when out in public or in the office, so that it wasn’t distracting to others. From there it just became a habit and I kept mute on all the time. This, then progressed to my laptop and iPad. For the most part this didn’t bother me. Adapted and didn’t really miss anything. I turned on the haptic vibrations for notifications on my iPhone for when I needed to be alerted to something and all was good.
I sat down to write this on Father’s Day but obviously that didn’t happen. It felt like an appropriate time but I let myself become overwhelmed and afraid to put words down. Then July 2 came and went. That day is special to me as it marked 5 years since Shannon told me that we were having a baby.
I sometimes feel that it’s not ok for me to talk about certain things, such as emotions, because I am a guy. That’s just the environment I grew up in and have always accepted. My dad has tried to get me to open up before but it still felt awkward. However, I feel that it’s time to share some of the emotions that I go through in hopes that it can help others that may be dealing with the same things that I am.
What is it about a blank page that is so intimidating? That little blinking cursor so taunting?
For as long as I can remember I have had this desire to write. I’ve never been good with words or grammar, but for some reason I have this urge to write them down and put my thoughts on paper, or digital canvas. However, whenever I think of writing, my stomach turns into knots and I feel some slight anxiety building up and I shy away from it.
