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I have a thousand Kindle books in my Kindle Library. With Amazon's recent announcement to remove the download option for users who purchased Kindle books by Feb 26th, I'm planning to download them all and stop purchasing ebooks from Amazon altogether. Recently, I moved to Kobo Libra Colour and couldn't be happier. 

🥾Hiking at Wadi Degla Protected Reserve 📍Well since the movement from Kuala Lumpur to Cairo, we have been looking for hiking spots here. And except for the Wadi Degla the city has no other place to offer. Wadi Degla is a limestone valley which seems to have formed from water flowing — whether river or sea is unclear, as people have different stories. As you can see from the photos below the landscape is the exact opposite of what we had in Malaysia. But it has its own charm. You are exposed to the elements — wind and sun. On...

• 🐛 Fixed an error when selecting a blog with no posts and the empty (get started) view was trying to figure out if you have previously set up your blog or not.

• 🐛 Fixed a bug where setting up an uptime monitor would throw a page error straight after creation.

• 🐛 Fixed an issue where in rare cases a 404 page would throw an error when no associated blog was found. • 🧹 Gave the domains page a bit of a refresh to make it more informative.

• 🐛🧹 Fixed an issue with the documentation page where it would overflow on smaller screens on Step 2... so I just created a new style design whilst I was at it.

• 🐛 Fixed an issue where a link to a post might return a 404. Sorry about that.

😵‍💫✌️ Looks like all hits have now been processed and because of redundant systems you may have had two email reports today (or more, like 10 or 15 😅). I am monitoring this although it should all be cleared now (hopefully). On the bright side, you may have noticed the new email template for stats.

😵‍💫🐢 Hit collection and processing is running a little slow. All hits are being recorded but not yet be reflected on your site dashboard. I am monitoring this and will provide another update once everything is running smooth again.

• 🚀 You can now set a default date filter range for your sites which will automatically be reflected when you open up the stats page or when viewing the site list. Go to your site settings page and select a filter range that suits your needs — we've kept the default 30 days. Note that is for paid accounts only.

Feeling guilty for having started another blog 🤦‍♂️

• 🧹 Made underlying changes to the codebase to improve developer happiness (mine). Hoping everything works as it should, but please let me know if anything seems a little amiss. I'll be pushing these kinds of updates throughout the week also.

iTunes has a sale on Alien 7-Film Collection for $39.99, including Alien: Romulus. Will probably pick this one up just to get Alien and Aliens in 4K.

• 🚀 Added a new option to allow you to share posts, using a unique URL, when a post is in a draft state. That means you can share these drafts with anyone with the link. Great for sharing a work in progress post. Give it a try and you'll find a new option, once you're viewing a draft, in the posts options (the gear icon). You'll see a "Shared" state on the post list, which you can click to open it. You'll also have access to a "View post" button on the post editor page that takes you there...

• 🐛 Fixed an issue where the "ALT" button would still appear in the editor even if you don't have an image. • 🐛 Fixed an issue that would cause blogs with multiple domains (this is a "by request" feature) to not always bring back the correct data. Scribbles will now automatically redirect an "old" domain to the new one for all pages & posts. • 🐛😅 Fixed an issue that would cause an error to show when going to the Assets page when you had no images in the first place. • 🧹 Made a few underlying tweaks to...

The folks at the Iconfactory released their new app Tapestry today! I've been beta testing the app and love it. It lets you view blogs, social media feeds, Reddit subs, Youtube channels all in one chronological timeline.

• 🧹 Tweaked the way the dates look on posts and reader view. Nothing too exciting.

• 🐛 Fixed an issue with image uploads getting stuck in the background due to recent config changes with our provider. Hopefully this fixes some of the broken images when editing posts (if not, please re-upload, and you should see the original in "Assets").

• 🐛 Fixed an issue that caused background processes to fail, for example checking domain names, or generating Komments for your posts, backups and many others. Sorry about that.

I saw a couple of news stories saying that there is “substantial evidence” that DeepSeek used the output of OpenAI’s models to help develop its own technology… and OpenAI isn't too happy about it. 😂 That's rich! I guess it's perfectly fine for them to steal everyone's content, but the moment they get a taste of their own medicine, they start crying foul.

Ben Thompson's DeepSeek FAQ is a great explainer if you're wondering what you missed over the last 72 hours and why the US market seems to be in a panic. After reading, it feels like there still isn't any moat for any AI tech company, and maybe the chip bans are actually helping to make AI more efficient.

• 🐛 Fixed an error that would occur on the Verification blog settings page because of a typo.

• 🐛 Fixed an issue that could cause an RSS feed to return a 404 error when you have 2 or more domains set for your blog (this is not a feature that is enabled by default). Also fixed an issue that would cause a 404 for all feeds 😅 • 🧹 Made some tweaks to wording and layouts, plus fixed some spelling mistakes and wrong input hints/placeholders. Simplified a few things whilst I was at it.