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I added the ability to automatically pull down and embed Cohost posts. I just paste the URL on its own line and my automation takes care of the rest (checking it in so it doesn't need to make a separate request each time the build runs). Hopefully this will be the first of many sites I do that with: I want to see if I can integrate the notion of the Tumblr-style "reblog" with a more traditional site-specific blog structure.
In celebration, please enjoy a post I still think back on and chuckle:
Breaking: In an effort to push video game enthusiasts to take graphical fidelity less seriously, the Academy of the English Language issued a ruling today that the term "4K" will be officially pronounced "forkie". This ruling is effective immediately for governmental sources, but non-government entities have until the third of February to update their materials before facing fines from the FCC, CRTC, Ofcom, or other relevant regulatory body.
Immediately afterwards, California-based studio 2K Games issued a press release saying "Fuck dude we really dodged a bullet there. Goddamn can you imagine"
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Once I add the ability to embed arbitrary blog posts from other blogs on here it's over. I'm gonna be reblogging like a wild animal. Y'all are gonna have your eyes blown clean outta your heads.
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Reblogging posts with h-entry
posted Once I add the ability to embed arbitrary blog posts from other blogs on here it's over. I'm gonna be reblogging like a wild animal. Y'all are gonna have your eyes blown clean outta your heads.
Thrilled to announce that I now have this up and running, at least in its most basic aspect. The embed above is automatically generated and pulled down directly from the source post. Nothing in this is specific to my blog; I can also do it with someone else's. By way of example, please enjoy this post from my beautiful wife:
posted on seaslug.garden there is a very specific feeling of relief upon realizing I don’t need to hurry to finish a library book before it’s due, because I definitely will want to buy a copy for future reference and cross-checking.
(the book in question is Gossip Men: J. Edgar Hoover, Joe McCarthy, Roy Cohn, and the Politics of Insinuation by Christopher M. Elias)
Injecting embeds
Here's what the embed looks like in my blog source right now:
{% genericPost "https://nex-3.com/blog/once-i-add-the/", time: "2024-09-20T07:06:00Z", tags: "#meta", author: "Natalie", authorUrl: "/", authorAvatar: "/assets/avatar.webp" %} <p> Once I add the ability to embed arbitrary blog posts from other blogs on here it's over. I'm gonna be reblogging like a wild animal. Y'all are gonna have your eyes blown clean outta your heads. </p> {% endgenericPost %}I have a template for the embed, some CSS to style it, and a little custom Liquid tag to bring it all together. But the real magic is in how I generate the
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I've added WebMention support, both sending and receiving (although not currently displaying). I'll write more about that later. I've tightened up the microformats I'm using, particularly including them on nested embeds. It's fun and I'm happy to have this blog set up to play real nice with all these interoperable standards... but so far I don't know anyone else who I can actually interoperate with.
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I was all set to set up a custom Tumblr scraper so I could reblog art and stuff on here, but it turns out Tumblr already uses the h-entry microformat out of the box! I don't have to do anything special at all! Except maybe to handle reblog chains, but that's something I should really do anyway.
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RECCANTI asked: RSS feeds for embeds
I was trying to parse the content field of your RSS (Atom?) feed, and I noticed I get a sort of flat structure for embedded posts like this:
<img src="..." width="64" style=" float: left; width: auto; max-width: 64x; margin-top: 1rem; margin-right: 1rem; border-radius: 32px; ">
<div class="npf_row">
<div class="npf_col">
<figure class="tmblr-full">
<a class="post_media_photo_anchor" data-big-photo="..." data-big-photo-height="680" data-big-photo-width="669">
<img class="post_media_photo image" src="..." srcset="..." sizes="..." alt="image">
</a>
</figure>
</div>
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<p> have you heard about the <b><a href="https://itch.io/b/2672/sickos-selection-1">Sicko’s Selection</a></b>? me and 14 other adult artists/authors put together a bundle of artbooks, novellas, and comics for you to enjoy! there’s over $75 worth of our hot hot smut in here, and you get it for just $15! </p>
<p> i, for one, have offered up Poker Night with the Arizona Dogs, AND if it reaches its stretch goal of $5000, i’ll be premiering another new artbook a few weeks ahead of its planned release! </p>
<p> <b><a href="https://itch.io/b/2672/sickos-selection-1">so what are you waiting for, sicko?? go get your porn!</a></b> </p>I'm having a hard time figuring…
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posted I was all set to set up a custom Tumblr scraper so I could reblog art and stuff on here, but it turns out Tumblr already uses the h-entry microformat out of the box! I don't have to do anything special at all! Except maybe to handle reblog chains, but that's something I should really do anyway.
oops I lied
Actually it's just the theme Taylor Titmouse was using that has the right metadata. There's no way to get it for any arbitrary tumblr post. I'll have to write that custom scraper after all 😩
At least this post motivated me to come up with some sort of a story for reposts!
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trying to get tumblr post embedding working properly, which is to say using the official API to get the semantic building blocks of each post instead of the dog vomit HTML they actually contain, and I've found myself shaving a yak. hopefully someone other than me will find this useful
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I got a new commission from the inimitable subspaceskater! This one's going on my 404 page to greet everyone who doesn't know where they're going.
