Thursday, October 31, 2019

Integrations


I set up an IFTTT.com recipe that creates a post on this blog every time I post a photo to Instagram. It works pretty well.





The photo posted here is actually a link to Instagram, so I guess if anything ever happens to the external link function on Instagram, these blog posts will have broken image links. I suppose if Instagram shuts down, I'll have to download the images and redo the links. I guess that could be time consuming if I have a lot of them. But, I'll worry about that when the time comes.





The only other issue is that the linked photo is a little too big for the normal post format. This means if I bring the site up on a mobile device, the images look all wonky. My current fix is to manually adjust the linked image to the right size. For now it works. Maybe later I will try to find a way to automate the fix. Or perhaps there is a way to fix the IFTTT recipe.


Tuesday, October 8, 2019

It's Been Awhile


It's been a very long time since I posted anything other than a picture to this blog. I guess more entries are long overdue.





So why now? The answer is that I have been pondering an idea. The idea is to write some kind of mechanism that will grab the text from new entries to this blog and format them and apply them to my gopher phlog.





I've been looking into the WordPress API to do this, but I don't really have any current text entries. To fix this, I plan to make some over the next few days.


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