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Did this about six months ago over at my site. Was annoying to get it right but glad I did. Some people find these kinds of sites pointless these days, but I e

Did this about six months ago over at my site. Was annoying to get it right but glad I did. Some people find these kinds of sites pointless these days, but I enjoy keeping one even if I rarely update it anymore. Spirit of the web and all that. https://rymc.io/ https://rymc.io/

OJFord 7y ago
Nice site, it works well on mobile, which is a bit of a pleasant surprise when it happens from personal blogs etc.! FWIW the Twitter feed from, I assume, people you follow is a little odd though - it's not immediately clear that it's not you, nor about the article being viewed, which it doesn't necessarily have anything to do with, and it includes replies to threads. At the time of writing the top one is recommended reading that's 'racist from the start'.
- Klonoar 7y ago
  Yeah, it bleeds a bit too much on mobile - younger brother passed away recently and I shoved the site out the door before heading back home to be with him. Desktop view has it more marked as separate content - e.g, that tweet is actually a Retweet with a comment, which is kind of a pain in the ass to handle from Twitter's API. Should find time to clear it up a bit I guess. Site works well on mobile because I cannot stand sites that don't load quick + layout well on mobile, and considering the general content I post, I'd expect the audience to have the (relatively) same pet peeve. I open sourced the activity scraper as well, if anyone's interested: https://github.com/ryanmcgrath/activity-scraper https://github.com/ryanmcgrath/activity-scraper
  - agret 7y ago
    Looking at the feed you should see if it's possible to exclude any tweets that begin with "RT" (retweets) or the "@" (replies). This way only posts you write should show in the feed, would make it much cleaner as without the full conversation contexts those other messages make no sense. The GitHub activity feed is pulling in every comment you make, see if you can filter that to only show pull requests you've created to showcase your work. Maybe also include commits to your own projects if the commit length is more than a certain number of characters to filter out the small updates.
    - Klonoar 7y ago
      Heh, I should be clear: I consider the aforementioned Tweet/RT issue a UI/UX thing, it's otherwise working as designed. I'm perfectly happy showing my @replies, rando GitHub activity, etc. Nobody is actually reading that sidebar, short of a select few - I like having that junk indexed in search engines attributed to my own domain. It's free real estate. :)
_bxg1 7y ago
Indeed! Same feelings here. There's something about putting something out into the world that can be whatever you want it to be.
Nextgrid 7y ago
Irrelevant but I wanted to thank you for the Old Reddit extension for Safari. That makes Reddit somewhat bearable again, although it still seems to lag while it loads their stupid new UI before doing the redirect (not sure if there's any way to avoid that).
- Klonoar 7y ago
  Glad it helps! I hate when extensions aren't ported to Safari, so I just decided I'd do it myself. shrug Sadly Safari's API isn't that great compared to those found in Chrome/Firefox; there's no way to catch the url before the page actually loads. I inject some JS to catch and redirect as fast as possible, but sometimes you'll see a flash of the new Reddit experience. If a better API becomes available at some point I'd gladly swap it out. :)

OJFord 7y ago

Nice site, it works well on mobile, which is a bit of a pleasant surprise when it happens from personal blogs etc.! FWIW the Twitter feed from, I assume, people you follow is a little odd though - it's not immediately clear that it's not you, nor about the article being viewed, which it doesn't necessarily have anything to do with, and it includes replies to threads. At the time of writing the top one is recommended reading that's 'racist from the start'.

Klonoar 7y ago
Yeah, it bleeds a bit too much on mobile - younger brother passed away recently and I shoved the site out the door before heading back home to be with him. Desktop view has it more marked as separate content - e.g, that tweet is actually a Retweet with a comment, which is kind of a pain in the ass to handle from Twitter's API. Should find time to clear it up a bit I guess. Site works well on mobile because I cannot stand sites that don't load quick + layout well on mobile, and considering the general content I post, I'd expect the audience to have the (relatively) same pet peeve. I open sourced the activity scraper as well, if anyone's interested: https://github.com/ryanmcgrath/activity-scraper https://github.com/ryanmcgrath/activity-scraper
- agret 7y ago
  Looking at the feed you should see if it's possible to exclude any tweets that begin with "RT" (retweets) or the "@" (replies). This way only posts you write should show in the feed, would make it much cleaner as without the full conversation contexts those other messages make no sense. The GitHub activity feed is pulling in every comment you make, see if you can filter that to only show pull requests you've created to showcase your work. Maybe also include commits to your own projects if the commit length is more than a certain number of characters to filter out the small updates.
  - Klonoar 7y ago
    Heh, I should be clear: I consider the aforementioned Tweet/RT issue a UI/UX thing, it's otherwise working as designed. I'm perfectly happy showing my @replies, rando GitHub activity, etc. Nobody is actually reading that sidebar, short of a select few - I like having that junk indexed in search engines attributed to my own domain. It's free real estate. :)

_bxg1 7y ago

Indeed! Same feelings here. There's something about putting something out into the world that can be whatever you want it to be.

Nextgrid 7y ago

Irrelevant but I wanted to thank you for the Old Reddit extension for Safari. That makes Reddit somewhat bearable again, although it still seems to lag while it loads their stupid new UI before doing the redirect (not sure if there's any way to avoid that).

Klonoar 7y ago
Glad it helps! I hate when extensions aren't ported to Safari, so I just decided I'd do it myself. shrug Sadly Safari's API isn't that great compared to those found in Chrome/Firefox; there's no way to catch the url before the page actually loads. I inject some JS to catch and redirect as fast as possible, but sometimes you'll see a flash of the new Reddit experience. If a better API becomes available at some point I'd gladly swap it out. :)