Got my main navigation menu finished up today, and built out 5 pages featuring my primary services I do as a contractor. Making great progress on the site.
I can’t believe I’ve gone this long without actually…having this?
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Alex Standiford
Today I’m spending a bit of time setting up some clear service offerings on my personal site. Love my site’s archiving capabilities, but it’s time to start leveraging it a little more for work.
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Alex Standiford
Well I just lost a day going down a rabbit hole of improving my personal website. I’m glad it’s done because it’s much better now, but I’m disappointed in myself for losing focus on the work I was supposed to be doing today.
That’s alright, I think I can just swap my plans for Friday with today. Seems a worthy sacrifice. Especially considering the updates I made on my site really sharpens the myriad calls to action that I have spread out all over the interwebs.
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Alex Standiford
Making some minor updates and upgrades to my site, and it just makes me so happy. When I made this site originally, I was on a mission to make it something I use regularly, and is something that reflects my personality online. Something that 13 year old me would have looked at and said wow this is so cool! my very own website!
And I think this site has accomplished that. 😄
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Alex Standiford
The Friends WordPress plugin, Mastodon Apps, and ActivityPub plugins have come a LONG way in the last few years. With some setup, and a few tightly-coupled plugins, you can make your blog a fully-functioning WordPress-based private Mastodon instance. It’s amazing!
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Alex Standiford
Experimenting with the a Mastodon app connecting directly to my blog. No idea where this is gonna go or how it works, but seems pretty cool.
Set up the friends plugin today and followed a bunch of people I used to follow on Fosstodon. Curious to see if all of this populates this app natively.
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Alex Standiford
This little update on my site makes me so happy. My following of people who follow my website directly as opposed to following on social continues to grow. I still strongly believe that federation is the future of a healthier, happier (see: not “dead”) web.
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Alex Standiford
So I set up a script that runs once a day on my home server. It grabs all content that hasn’t been saved from my personal site, and saves a markdown version of it with images, and everything. Not just for backups, but also so I can start using some local LLM stuff with my blog and my personal notes. Kinda neat to see all of my content ever published automatically get put into Obsidian.
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Alex Standiford
I think I just found my winter break project. I have a collection of plugins on my site that handles syndication. Would be really nice to bundle it up in a PHPNomad Package. Looks like Bluesky really easy to set up.
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Alex Standiford
Bluesky + Mastodon are the last pieces of the puzzle to allow me to publish from my mobile without actually having the app on my phone. This will allow me to stay connected with the world, but still allow me to keep social as “a place” instead of an omnipresent part of my life.
