Write.as Development @writeas_dev@abunchtell.com

Maybe it's as simple as forwarding the object on to the actors mentioned in the event.

Hmm, apparently I need to do something on my end to handle boosting / "Announce"-ing. I just boosted a post that came in from @matt and several following instances pinged it, but it's not showing up anywhere else -- including on this profile.

Noticed https://fediverse.network crawling for stats, so I made a #golang library for adding NodeInfo to any federated site, and then added it in.

https://github.com/writeas/go-nodeinfo

Made a small script for generating simple avatars: https://code.as/writeas/text-graphic/src/branch/master/avatar.sh

Okay, knocking out ActivityPub support this week. First, generating avatars for everyone.

Working on some updates to albums/galleries on @snap_as today, including a new interface to manage them all.

As part of these changes we'll start tracking pageviews on albums, just like we do on @write_as blogs.

Adding some caching on the backend to better handle bursts of traffic.

Today Write.as serves over 1.2 million page views a month, plus another 2 million+ API calls -- all very manageable on their own, but hundreds of requests at the same second (e.g. from a new link shared on Mastodon) slows things down a bit.

Just sent out a small fix to the iOS app -- thought this was fixed before, but now it definitely is. Should be available to everyone in the next few days.

Also, added a new "Bugs" category on the forum for future reports.

https://discuss.write.as/t/write-as-ios-app/39

Getting there... Now just need a good #golang #activitystreams library

Experimenting with webfinger and activitypub this afternoon. Let's see how this goes.

I also plan on experimenting with new editor features via browser extensions.

So instead of adding a Markdown preview in the editor, you can install an extension that'll show you a preview when you click it. Instead of adding a @snap_as uploader, there'd be an extension that lets you upload files and get the Markdown back, or see your existing photos and click one to insert the Markdown into your post.

Just ideas now, but the goal is adding functionality without cluttering up the interface.

Looking at setting up a forum to collect product feedback in one place.

Got back from NYC this weekend, spent it decompressing. Almost completely cleared out a large backlog of communications that piled up over the last few months yesterday (sorry for the delay, everyone). Today: finally back to coding, mostly on @snap_as

My biggest priority over the past week or so has been getting ready for TechDay in NYC on May 10, where we'll be exhibiting.

Needed to put together a demo, get stuff for the booth, polish parts of the site that really needed work. Pretty much all of it is out of the way now, so back to focusing on development again.

Interesting thing about building a native app for any computing platform is taking advantage of the unique features of the platform.

With a desktop app, users get a dedicated computing space with access to the file system and DE. So we build around that.

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Done. Now it'll be much nicer to add custom CSS and JS. Update going out tomorrow