On This Day page dates are broken
When you fix one thing, you break another. ISO dates are nice, but now my “On This Day” page doesn’t understand what these mean. American dates have and will always be an “old man yells at cloud” issue for me.
Doctorow reflects on how, in a way, his life’s work can be summed with one angry poop emojy:
Pluralistic: A free, open visual identity for enshittification (24 Apr 2026) pluralistic.net
Needless to say, I got myself the sticker.
So far, I’m enjoying Inkwell. The main advantages over my FreshRSS setup is mainly the speed and the cleaner UI.
Since I discover most of my RSS feed via blogs and reading posts online, I already have the browser open, and adding a new feed to Inkwell is faster then doing so on FreshRSS because my Synology needs to wake up if it’s hibernating, then it needs to log me in - and sometimes the container FreshRSS is on is not available for some reason and I need to restart it or wait patiently. Not an issue with Inkwell.
There are a few issues that need to be polished out, especially on the web and the Mac version, but I’m already leaning into the philosophy behind the app: read what’s new today, and don’t worry about what I missed. It’s easy enough to visit the Inkwell blog and read past posts if needed.
Things I want to do with my website (part 1)
I want to do more with my website. I play 2 plus hours of Linux games daily, but blog about them once a month, maybe. Why? Because one game deserves 5 posts, not a paragraph. I kind of have a solution, just not the time. A familiar pattern, I know
Testing Inkwell by Micro.blog
Running FreshRSS on Docker synced to Elfeed has served me well, but since I actually read most feeds on my Android, Inkwell’s beta is worth testing. Micro.blog expanding into RSS reading makes sense, and it looks pretty good so far.
Archive by month
So I guess I am on a roll?
Added a small square as a decorative element (a little square) for the dates in the posts. That’s the small change.
I also figured out why Manton’s plugin, for archive by month, didn’t work for me. It clicked when I realized what went wrong last time.
The plugin is meant to replace the default layouts/list.archivehtml.html, not the one I have, which is slightly modified by TinyTheme. So what I just went and snatched the code from the above and pasted it inside layouts/list.archivehtml.html, write after the condition to activate the microhook partials/microhook-archive-lead.html in there. Now I have an archive page built around years and months. Good stuff.
ISO dates are back
Got ISO dates working on my blog again, just like the old days. Had to dig into microhooks and Hugo’s recommendation (hat-tip goes to Claude for making those more understandable). Turns out that “2006” is not just some random year value that can be replaced. Don’t worry, I’ll tell you why anyway.
What makes a good blog good?
Up early (again) with coffee in hand, pondering what separates the blogs I actually enjoy from the noise. It’s not the platform—Micro.blog, Bear, whatever—or perfect grammar. At the end, it’s the human showing through. What do you think?
My blog on Manue’s Prople and Blogs today!