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Lamb 0.5.3

Sander @ April 25 at 11:43 am

Lamb is Literally Another Micro Blog -- Barrier free super simple blogging, self-hosted.

The update includes several feature improvements and design/layout enhancements:

Features:
- Added support for meta descriptions to improve SEO and content representation
- Enhanced metadata semantics with elements like itemprop and for better accessibility
- Introduced a dynamic title rendering function to manage site and page titles
- Updated feed styles in the 2024 theme, including SVG background integration
- Replaced the author meta tag with a more flexible author_name field
Design & Layout:
- Refined the page title logic to use a global site title as a fallback
- Adjusted H1 element styles for visual consistency
- Refactored post rendering to improve layout and meta information display
- Removed opacity issues and modified borders for better accessibility
See the link below for a full changelog:

Originally written on lamb-releases:

#projects #lamb
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Sander @ April 24 at 1:13 pm

I should really add pagination to my #lamb blog. There's an issue already.
Lamb 0.5.2

Sander @ March 31 at 12:57 pm

Lamb is Literally Another Micro Blog -- Barrier free super simple blogging, self-hosted.

This is a tidy up release, with minor functional changes:
- Menu items are no longer showing in timeline
- More secure sessions
- Deferring scripts for improved performance
- Lowercase tag pages for canonical SEO
- Add 'published' date to Atom feed entries for better aggregation
Originally written on lamb-releases. #lamb #projects
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Lamb 0.5.1

Sander @ February 21 at 11:30 am

It's been a while since 0.5.0. Changes:
- Mainly third party package updates
- Compatibility fixes for atom feed
Originally written on lamb-releases:

What's Changed

Create FUNDING.yml by @svandragt in #97 Bump symfony/yaml from 7.1.5 to 7.1.6 by @dependabot in #99 Bump squizlabs/php_codesniffer from 3.10.3 to 3.11.1 by @dependabot in #100

#projects #lamb
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Lamb 0.5.0

Sander @ October 18 at 9:08 am

Originally written on lamb-releases:

New in this release:

Crossposting from feeds. Support for user themes. A new retro 2024 theme.

I've been able to move the project closer to my vision for a frictionless blog and rss aggregator. #projects #lamb
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Sander @ September 27 at 9:37 am

I switched back to the vintage theme as the 2024 Lamb theme I'm working on has some display issues on mobile. #lamb
Sander @ September 4 at 8:40 am

There is no barrier when there is no UI friction. #lamb #projects
Sander @ September 4 at 8:39 am

By the time you're logged into your CMS or web service you could have already posted something. #lamb #projects
Sander @ September 4 at 8:38 am

We need more instant publishing on the web. All the UI holds back our ideas. #technology #lamb #projects
Sander @ June 12 at 4:11 pm

Trying out a new 2024 theme I've started working on. It's not super clear yet where a new post begins, and it's a bit bland. #lamb #projects
Lamb 0.4.0

Sander @ April 12, 2024 at 10:58 am

Originally written on lamb-releases:

What's Changed

Image upload support! by @svandragt in #34 PHP8.2 + devbox support by @svandragt in #46 Bump symfony/yaml from 6.4.3 to 7.0.3 by @dependabot in #48

#projects #lamb
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Sander @ January 3, 2024 at 2:07 pm

What would it take to make writing vanilla JavaScript more pleasant? After reviewing the code for my blogging engine Lamb I concluded:

Most of the code adding interactivity to personal websites comes down to running code after the page has loaded; niceties to query the DOM and hook into events. There's probably more but this is a start. The result is shorthand.js. Hint: it's not dissimilar to jQuery, but you can fully learn it in 5 minutes.

Which simplifies code to:
```
onLoaded(() =&gt; {
    const forms = $$(&#039;form.form-delete&#039;)
    forms?.forEach($form =&gt; $form.on(&#039;submit&#039;, ev =&gt; {
        cancel(ev)
        let confirmed = confirm(`Really delete status ${ev.target.dataset.id}?`)
        if (!confirmed) return
        ev.target.submit()
    }))
})
```
This is just a prototype and will evolve.

#technology #projects #lamb
Lamb image test

Sander @ December 6, 2023 at 2:28 pm

Image upload support has landed in the Lamb repo:

Drag images into the composer textarea and they will be automatically uploaded behind the scenes and inserted into the post as markdown, similar to how GitHub works:

This has been the main missing piece for me, so I'm very pleased. #lamb #projects
Lamb 0.3.0

Sander @ July 28, 2023 at 11:43 am

Introducing Lamb 0.3.0 - Literally Another Micro Blog. This release brings new features, improvements, and bug fixes, making blogging even easier. The update includes Docker support, an optional config.ini with support for menu items to customize your installation, improved documentation, and more.

Lamb offers a simple, self-hosted single-author blog with a Twitter-like interface, friction-free Markdown entry, discoverable Atom feed, hashtags support, and a 404 fallback URL feature.

Download the latest release from GitHub and provide your valuable feedback. #lamb #projects
Lamb 0.2

Sander @ March 24, 2023 at 9:46 am

I've released Lamb 0.2, my micro blogging app that's powering this site.

What's new?
- Posts! Posts are statuses with a title. The title can be added in the front matter (front matter is parsed as an ini-string). Posts have a slug based on the title when the post was created.
- Individual statuses / posts have opengraph tags for improved sharing fidelity.
- The text editor grows to accommodate the input.
‎ #lamb #projects

More info and download link
Basic routing using REQUEST_URI

Sander @ March 21, 2023 at 12:41 pm

So for nginx it is not straightforward to setup PHP-FPM so that PATH_INFO is correctly populated. Lamb uses the following /index.php/some/other type routing, where /some/other should be the PATH_INFO. Instead I want to make setup for a variety of web-servers straightforward, so I've switched to the more robust REQUEST_URI. This simplifies nginx configuration and Caddy and the PHP built-in web-server are compatible.

REQUEST_URI contains everything after the domain name, including the query string, so that needs to be removed:
```
$request_uri = '/home';
if ( $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] !== '/' ) {
    $request_uri = strtok( $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], '?' );
}
```
We can see that for a request for the root of the site, REQUEST_URI returns / whereas PATH_INFO would be empty, so the code above takes that into account. We can then deduct a router action as follows:
```
$action = strtok( $request_uri, '/' );
```
Once the $action is known, it can be checked against an allowed list of actions:
```
switch ( $action ) {
    case 'edit':
        ...
        break;
    default:
        respond_404();
        break;
```
‎ #php #lamb
Sander @ March 16, 2023 at 4:49 pm

404 Fallback comes to Lamb

I've added a 404 fallback feature to Lamb. What this means is that if you request a URL that doesn't exist on your Lamb instance, it will redirect to the same relative path on the domain you have provided in the configuration, if you enabled this feature.

This means you can move your site from example.com to say 2023.example.com and then set that as the 404 fallback url and you will not lose any SEO traffic! Here's an example! #lamb #projects
Sander @ March 15, 2023 at 12:42 pm

Alright got the webserver configuration figured out and the full site is up. Didn't forget about Caddy. #lamb #projects

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What's new?

404 Fallback comes to Lamb