Aaron Parecki

Last week, Barry Frost released Micropublish, a Micropub client written in Ruby. It's a very slick interface for posting a few kinds of posts. I noticed that his "category" field looked really nice, and discovered that he was using a Bootstrap plugin called "Token Field". Today I added this plugin to Quill, so now everywhere that you previously had to enter tags as comma-separated values, it's now using this "token field" UI.

aaronparecki.comDay 18: I updated my reposts to show the full contents of the post I reposted rather than just the URL.Day 19: I updated my website to automatically fetch the contents of my reposted URLs when I make new reposts.Day 24: I updated my reply posts to be able to show the full contents of the post I'm replying to.Day 25: I updated my website to automatically fetch the contents of the posts I reply to.XRayDay 20: I added Instagram support to XRay, so now XRay returns data when given Instagram URLs.Day 21: I added Twitter support to XRay, although you need to pass your own OAuth keys to XRay in order for it to fetch tweets.Day 22: I updated a few things in XRay to make it easier to deploy to shared hosting, and simplified its dependencies.LibrariesDay 23: I published my timezone lookup tools as a standalone library, and updated XRay and Quill to use the library instead of the duplicated class.

Today I worked on automatically expanding the contents of my reply contexts whenever a new post is created. I also have a utility to fetch the reply context for older posts. I ran it for the first page of replies on my replies feed, and I'm super excited that they are looking pretty good now!

Following last week's work on displaying full repost content, I modified those templates to be used to display reply context in my reply posts.