Family guy and web developer
The Discovery page on the Bear blogging platform is a great way to discover new and popular content. I would love to see a similar feature on Micro.blog.
I’m not big on measuring posts by likes or whatever you want to call it, but it is one of the few ways to measure popular content.
Another Sunday afternoon golfing with the wee guy. He absolutely thumped me at match play over 13 holes. Doubt I’ll ever be able to beat him again!
Despite most of the trees having lost most of their leaves, the view from the home office is still great at this time of year.
Giving the Zen browser a try instead of managing two different profiles on Firefox. The new profile tool on Firefox is nice, but I don’t find it exactly smooth.
Slow Horses season ending was fantastic. Looking forward to seasons 6 & 7.
The Denver Broncos 1977 throwback uniforms are absolute class.
Watched A House of Dynamite tonight. Edge-of-your-seat stuff with a change in storytelling from the usual single start-to-end format, but it definitely carried a strong message at the end. I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Just saying, Micro.blog’s photo challenge should be in October. Such a great time of year for photos. Well it is, from my back yard.
I haven’t posted a single photo in October so far, which is unusual since it’s usually my favourite month for sharing many things.
Yesterday, I mentioned that I had created a Slack account just to send webhooks to and that perhaps there was a better way of doing this. After a few hours, I have managed to put together a tool for consuming and monitoring webhooks.
Hooknook (working title) allows me to create channels and send webhooks to different channels. I’ve still got some details to sort out, but the basic application works. Users and channels are made through the Rails console at the moment, and a single endpoint accepts all webhooks coming in. It’s the absolute minimum I could do to get it to work, and now it’s happily accepting webhooks from my Hatchbox deploys.
I used Anthropic’s Claude to flesh out the structure of the application to begin with, and once I had it working, I used Claude again to add some TailwindCSS styling to the screens. These screens are definitely going to get a once-over again, as the purple is a bit garish, but my wife seems to like it, so it might stay, but be a bit more subtle.
It’s been a welcome change of pace to be able to build something in a short space of time, and even better to be able to use it.
Over the next couple of weeks, I plan to explore adding more functionality for Hooknook and being able to handle more webhooks from different sources, including GitHub.
