Oh No Why are there two author icons?! We’ll get back to that in a moment. Webmetion Bliss After setting up and documenting how I deployed webmentions on micro.blog it got picked up by a few people on the site! That was really nice - especially since it worked for the most part. I attempted to make it as clear as possible so others could follow in my footsteps and I succeeded - a few people got set up and were running with mentions. …

Last update 12/21/19 removed reply count buttons HTML and JS adding a note about switching to native micro.blog webmentions in the future Past updates added <ul> for shares back in Background As part of getting back into using micro.blog I’ve been working to customize my hosted site. One of the things I wanted to do was add webmentions rather then comments like Disqus. Webmentions are coming to MB at some point and most themes already contain references to them: …

Background A day or so ago someone posted in one of the micro.blog slack channels asking how to add a lightbox. I had been meaning to update my setup here on the blog and add a lightbox since my current images weren’t linked. Mostly though, I wanted to get rid of jQuery. So with that in mind we’re going to go through the first steps of adding a lightbox. We’ll first add it so images in individual post are linked. …

Whoops Our last Issuer post left out one small bit of code. Let’s fix that and wrap this up. Also, let’s cover how to test the webhook before moving to Google Cloud Functions. Missed if As I published Issuer to Google Cloud Functions I meant to update the code. The idea is to only create new issues when the originating payload action was opened. The final revision of the post left that out though so here we go. …

Functioning In The Cloud Welcome back! We are just done with our GitHub TODO issue creator thing. This time around we’re going to go through the steps to deploy it as a Google Cloud Function. To do this we’ll need to alter the code. But before we dive into the code itself we’ll need to get setup to use Go modules. Go Mod First, we’ll need to get our mod file ready. …