Nothing fancy to see here, just testing some cross posting fixes for my Drafts action. 🤞🏼
Trying to figure out the best way to introduce changes so that it is backwards compatible, but without making the code a nightmare to maintain, is always a fun part about software development.
I am so grateful and blessed that I have this amazing woman in my life. Through all of the ups and downs of loosing our first born and the emotional struggles of welcoming our second, she is the strongest woman, mother, and wife that I know. As much as I know that she would like to change her name after hearing mommy repeated for the 100th time, she never falters. She brings so much joy into our lives. Happy Mother’s Day my love, we love you so much and are thankful for you every day.
I’m waiting for my daughter to ask me to start her a YouTube channel. She’s starting to ask me to record her doing funny things that she sees on a fun channel that she currently watches. Not sure that I’m ready for that. 😳 😂
The Super Mario Bros. movie was super fun. I loved the soundtrack.
It’s-a Mario time.
The Pixelmator Photo app has been rebranded to Photomator. I like the new UI changes in this update. It’s still familiar, but fresh at the same time. The addition of masks, for selective edits, is amazing. This is one feature that I was wishing for. Looking forward to video editing being added as well.
Pure joy during the Easter egg hunt today. 😍
Forgotten!
I am a bit jealous that iOS doesn’t have a fun little mascot, like Android.
Morning commute.
Beautiful morning at the office.
I’ve been going down a themes rabbit hole in Drafts. So many good ones to choose from. So far I’ve narrowed it down to two that I like that have both a light and dark variation.
Posting to Micro.blog with Drafts
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.
Features
Blog Selection
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.
Post Status
You can select if you would like the post to be a draft or published. The action allows you to update a post, so if you post as a draft then you can update it later, directly in Drafts, to publish it.
Titles
If you would like your post to have a title just add # to the beginning of the first line and that will become the title for the post.
Cross Posting
Inspired by @manton’s recent addition to allow custom cross posting selection for each post, you can also select which services that you would like to cross post to with this action.
Category Selection
If you have configured any categories, for the selected domain, then you can select those to be added to the post.
Updating A Post
Once the post is uploaded then there are three custom tags that will be added to the draft. These tags will be used for another cool feature, which is to be able to update your post, directly from Drafts.
- The post status, to easily keep track if it is a
draftorpublished. - The domain that the post was uploaded to.
- The url slug of the post.
When triggering the action again for the post, the domain and post tags will be used to retrieve any existing categories for the post. You can then update the categories if needed. If you had originally posted as a draft, then you will have the option to change this and publish the post.
Handling Images
If you would like to add images there is a separate action to handle those. This action requires an accompanying shortcut. The shortcut, like the action for posting, will prompt for which blog that you would like to upload the image to. After selecting the photo it will also prompt for alt text to add to the image. After this is done then it will return to Drafts and paste the link to the image in the post.
Took me a bit longer than I thought that it would, but finally got my Drafts action working how I want it to at the moment. Need to clean up the scripts a little bit, but planning to post it publicly this weekend.
Just another test post. 🤞🏼
Testing out cross posting from my Drafts action.
How is it, that my five year old daughter can pronounce Parasaurolophus better than I can?
Playing around with some macro photography. Need to work on keeping my hands steady.
Fun playing after the rain today.
