Posts from May 31, 2026

Well, I wasn't expecting to release a new version of BlogMore quite so soon, given I made a release earlier today. But an issue came in that the Bluesky icon wasn't showing in the socials section on someone's blog, despite the fact that the docs suggested it should work.

Sure enough, the icon wasn't there despite the docs giving Bluesky as an example that should work. A quick check, and the reason for the problem was clear: the code was using a version of FontAwesome that didn't have that icon. An easy fix.

It's interesting to note that Copilot/Claude (which is what did this work originally) produced one thing in the code, and then made an unsupportable claim in the documentation. Furthermore, it didn't construct the tests to at least match the documentation's claims. None of this is a surprise, of course, but it is a good illustration of the fact that agent-based coding is just fancy auto-complete with no real ability to maintain a coherent view of the whole project.

Anyway, v2.35.0 is now available and I too can have a Bluesky link in my socials. Oddly, I hadn't thought to add it before now.

I've just realised that, somehow, I've managed to post something on this blog, every single day this month.

A large part of this is, of course, because I've been doing a lot of stuff on BlogMore, but there's no getting away from the fact that BlogMore exists and I feel compelled to make use of it, and also that blogmore.el helps make it a lot easier to kick off and edit a post.

Thinking back to other blogs I've maintained over the past couple of decades, I don't think I've ever come close to this. Last month did come close, broken only by the couple of days I was chilling in Whitby. The month before also came close, minus 2 days where I just didn't have something to write.

I don't imagine this will last; in fact, I know for sure that there will be fewer posts next month (I have a trip coming up). What I do know is that I feel more compelled to jot something down when an idea turns up, and I'm enjoying the habit of blogging more frequently. While I expect this run to calm down, I hope I don't fall back to leaving it months at a time before opening a fresh Emacs buffer and kicking off some new Markdown.

I've released BlogMore v2.34.0. This is a small update to make some changes to the newly-added dump command.

The first change is a small fix to the url_path property, which wasn't being populated; now it is.

The second change adds two new properties to the output which relate to links that can be found inside posts: internal_links and external_links. As the names suggest, the first gives you a list of all the internal links that can be found in a given post, with the values given being the same format as the id used for every post in the dump. For example:

"internal_links": [
  "posts/2026/05/2026-05-20-blogmore-v2-25-0.md",
  "posts/2026/05/2026-05-22-blogmore-v2-26-0.md"
]

This should give everything needed to write tools that do things similar to the back-links system in BlogMore itself.

The list of external links is, obviously, a list of all the links in the post that are external to the blog. It looks like this:

"external_links": [
  "https://blogmore.davep.dev/",
  "https://validator.w3.org",
  "https://json-ld.org/",
  "https://microformats.org/wiki/microformats2",
  "https://microformats.org/wiki/rel-me"
]

There is, of course, some overlap with the link dumping command, but given that the information is available it seemed to make sense to provide it here; it also means that it's available in a more structured form.

Also providing this sort of information in the JSON output means there's a lot of flexibility when it comes to analysing all the posts in my blog. For example, I can now easily satisfy my curiosity if I want to know exactly which posts in my blog have no links whatsoever.

blogmore dump | jq -r '.[] | select((.internal_links | length) == 0 and (.external_links | length) == 0) | .id'

posts/2015/2015-06-18-a-mild-chrome-annoyance.md
posts/2015/2015-06-23-and-now-for-some-ios.md
posts/2015/2015-07-01-odd-ipod-update.md
posts/2015/2015-08-03-best-update-ever.md
posts/2015/2015-09-04-unknown-promo.md
posts/2015/2015-10-19-microsoft-accounts.md
posts/2015/2015-11-11-voice-search-failing-on-nexus-6.md
posts/2015/2015-11-12-i-miss-until-next-alarm.md
posts/2016/2016-04-28-i-now-own-a-macbook.md
posts/2017/2017-12-12-on_to_something_new.md
posts/2020/2020-06-24-swift-til-3.md
posts/2020/2020-06-26-switch-til-5.md
posts/2020/2020-06-28-swift-til-7.md
posts/2020/2020-07-05-swift-til-10.md
posts/2022/2022-06-03-failed-successfully.md
posts/2023/2023-07-21-encouragement-i-guess.md
posts/2023/2023-07-29-home-pod-stuck-installing.md
posts/2023/2023-10-20-constant-siri-voice-loss.md
posts/2026/05/2026-05-04-my-new-favourite-game-on-steam.md
posts/2026/05/2026-05-11-steam-controller-is-close.md
posts/2026/05/2026-05-25-this-is-not-fun.md

Sure, I don't know what I'd do with this information, but at least I can easily ask the question.