Indie

A place for independent writers and creators

Finish blog post ready for tomorrow

I'm sure I'll see some typos when I come back with fresh eyes tomorrow πŸ₯±

Dynamic sitemap.xml + robot.txt

I predict these will need to be behind a cache at some point but that's future Sam's problem πŸ˜„

Add ETag, Last-Modified, and Cache-Control headers to RSS feeds

Fix invalid RSS feeds

TIL that capitalisation is important for XML attributes in RSS feeds.

Draft a blog post about building a blogging platform

Making Indie will be the place I post updates on, you guested it, making indie.io.

Starting a blog is perfect for finding out what's not working or missing.

HTML mockup for managing blog posts

Making small improvements and additions. Really loving the icon set from remixicon.com icon set.

Start learning about cache purging with Nginx & Varnish

... but realised this should hopefully be a future Sam problem πŸ˜…

Fix things I broke customising the editor

Customising ProseMirror is not for the faint hearted - or maybe I just need to up my javascript game πŸ˜…

Reading and testing different PNG/JPG image optimisers

jpegoptim and OptiPNG seem to be the best at maintaining quality when optimising.

Read up on WebP + , ,
, and srcsets for responsive images

HTML images are more complicated than I remember them being πŸ˜