Read: Recursion by Blake Crouch ★★★☆☆ enjoyed the morph from crime to sci-fi. A nice page turner, maybe a bit too much recursion😀📚
Kind: Notes
short content: a post or status update with just plain content and typically without a title
Shuggie Bain
Read: Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart ★★★★☆ set in my home town powerful stuff. Growing up poor with an alcoholic mother Shuggie didn’t have to look for his troubles, chinks of hope shut down one after the other.
I’ve been asked a few times about embedding PDFs in #GlowBlogs, I’ve just discovered how: embed pdf
An Advent Calendar in #GlowBlogs
I’ve been asked about this sort of thing a few times now and not had an answer. It came to me on Friday, but I couldn’t test it at lunchtime as we had no internet in school.
I’ve played around with the idea this weekend and it works. Of course it could be a lot prettier.
Basically I’ve set up an Advent Calendar where you can click on doors to revel information. You can only see the content that has been published and the info is qued up in Scheduled posts (pages in this case).
Using the Draw Attention and my favourite Display Posts plugins. Here is the Demo: Advent Calendar – An Example Glow Blog for Christmas
Here is a gif.
We went to The Necropolis for a walk this morning. It surprisingly quiet compared to the park. Or maybe the “graveyards in a pandemic” effect.
Saw a sparrow hawk going through the trees & stones.
Later geese over Glasgow Cathedral, should have brought a camera.
So I think I’ve figured out how to make a time sensitive advent calendar in #GlowBlogs. A bit late. It might do for another time or another time sensitive project.
It involves the Draw Attention pro and my favourite plugin Display Posts.
I couldn’t test the idea at lunchtime as the network is down today.
Just a thought.
#mbnov border. At the moment my borders have shrunk to the Glasgow city council limits. This keeps me away from places that are both close and close to my heart.
The Wayback Machine is storing more than 475 billion webpages!
I just sent them some change: Donate to the Internet Archive!.
Post Kinds: Read problem
I use the post kinds on this blog. I set different post kind for different types of post. One of the kinds I use is Read for books I’ve read. There is a section to site the books, author, link ect in the “Response Properties” section of the post editor. I use this for replies, bookmarks and other kinds but not for book. I am wondering how to have these show up without the empty quote and other empty brackets (). I can hid them with css but then they show in the rss feed and in micro.blog. I also use the read kind for some articles so want the cite section there.
I could change the 90 odd post to a different kind, but don’t want to go through them all one by one.