Explore Shorts

Bought a new SIM card for my dad, his old mobile operator is ceasing its activities. 🥺

Continuous Learning: Markets evolve, and so should your knowledge. Read books, attend webinars, join trading forums, buy trading courses.  Watch the odd YouTube video here and there but don't overload yourself and get analysis paralysis. Learn and follow a teacher and style you like, but be sure to crack on and start becoming self sufficient as soon as possible.

Break Tasks into Smaller Steps: Sometimes large projects can seem overwhelming.  Breaking them down into smaller, manageable tasks can make them less daunting and easier to tackle.

New week ahead, I should afford it day by day... 😫

• 🚀 You can now view all of your uploads (assets) that are part of your posts on a dedicated screen. This allows you to quickly download them in original format, view the post they are attached to and also search by filename or your post content. This is still a work in progress, so please expect some tweaks. You'll find this in the new "Assets" section that you can get to in the main dropdown. • ⚠️ Assets are tied to a post, so when you delete the post, the attached uploads will also be deleted — that's by...

The original email issue has been fixed by the upstream provider. Thanks all for waiting. I did revert some settings in the meantime which solved it momentarily, however we're back to normal and all up to date. It was not related to a development email (a feature I am working on) being marked as spam, phew.

This is a place you may sincerely miss. 😉 I will be writing microposts about everything here. Do not expect me to write anything super original, just daily random thoughts.

A quick update on sending emails. This seems to be an issue with recent upgrades, I’ll investigate and fix this and update accordingly.

❌ We're currently experiencing an issue with our mail provider that is stopping us sending confirmation emails, and others like domain name notifications. Will keep you updated once I hear more. I believe this is an automatic flag due to some testing yesterday which stopped further outgoing emails after one email was automatically flagged as spam. Please feel free to email if you need confirmations approved and I'll do it manually.

• 👾 Explore will now show both posts with and without title on the same page. This is something I wanted to do for some time as I didn't like to switch between the two and thought it was silly. Also, Amit, nails it that they're not supposed to be just "shorts" or labelled otherwise. There is also a new RSS feed for this. The existing feeds work as they did as I didn't want to mess with your flow.

A titleless post is not a micropost. By definition, a micropost is "a very short posted message." The hyponym is tweet or toot. Microposts are generally short, but titleless posts need not be. They can ramble along for as long as the thought warrants. Calling a titleless post a micropost is like calling a subject-less email an SMS. Both lack a particular property but are inherently distinct. Microblogging requires a different mindset, one that I have yet to master. However, microblogging is still blogging—it's in the name, after all. A short post is still a blog post. The reverse, though,...

Been trying to work on an "assets" view for a blog on Scribbles. Coming along nicely... but now it's way past 3AM and getting tired. I might ship this as a beta tomorrow. It'll look up all your assets across all your posts, then show them — you can then download them, or go to the post in question where it is.

Well, I did solve one issue with my big screen... the contrast was set to 100%... no wonder it looked so bad 😅 Looking a bit better now, which is nice. Also, nice to have a flow with typing again... so nice to work on a keyboard that works — and I still make mistakes!!! 🤪

• 👾 Improved the blog export to now also include all of your original images and videos. The HTML that will be created will use the images or videos as found in the folder instead of the Scribbles CDN URL. • ❤️ Added a Nitpick option to set a "powered by scribbles" image into the footer of your site. It's a lovely icon created by Ning. By default, any new blog will have this option enabled by default. Existing blogs will have it disabled — didn't want to mess with the Zen. Give it a try. You can see it...

• 🚀 For posts with images, you can now click on those images to open up a lightbox. Works great. Click to open, click to close. It'll always load the higher resolution image to maximise the space. It's super simple and hopefully will tick a lot of boxes. It'll have a blurred background in either white or black, depending on the colour scheme. You can of course override some elements with the ".lightbox" class in your custom CSS. The image will also take into account your screen height, so it'll fit as it needs. Give it a try:

• 👾 Tweaked the explore section to show image previews for posts that have them. I think it looks nicer and it's easier to see when a post does include an image or not. Especially great for photos that have a little bit of text. More work needs to be done here though, but a great step to make it look nicer.

Daily Planning: Spend a few minutes at the start or end of your day to plan the next day's activities.  This can include listing tasks, setting priorities, and scheduling breaks. • 🖨️ Productivity printables for your office • 📆 Today is the Day Planner

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