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This is one of the most unique Airbnbs I’ve stayed at. Also beautiful inside. Near Round Top, Texas.

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Testing templates

Greg Morris is considering migrating his site from WordPress to Micro.blog hosting and had a question about referencing photos in a template:

Card previews I really want to be able to solve - does anyone know how to pull an image out of a hugo post in order to put meta property=“og:image” into the head?

Micro.blog uses Hugo themes because they are fast and there’s so much flexibility to customize them. To test this, I created a theme and edited the layouts/partials/head.html template, adding this somewhere along with the other meta tags:

{{ with .Params.images }}
  {{ range first 1 . }}
    <meta property="og:image" content="{{ . }}">
  {{ end }}    
{{ end }}

This looks at the photos on a post and takes the first one, adding its URL to a meta tag. If instead of the original photo you want to include a smaller thumbnail, you can use Micro.blog’s special photos.micro.blog resizing proxy. Here’s an example to include a 300x300 thumbnail:

{{ with .Params.images }}
  {{ range first 1 . }}
    <meta property="og:image" content="https://photos.micro.blog/300/{{ . }}">
  {{ end }}    
{{ end }}

I still want to add more built-in designs, as well as add design settings so that custom themes aren’t necessary for common features. But there’s a lot of power here to make your blog whatever you want it to be.

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Film Fest Friday Test

We recently added support for including videos in your microblog posts. We’ve seen some interesting and fun uses of the new feature, and starting today, we want to highlight them in a weekly “Film Fest Friday,” which you can follow on @friday.

Each Friday, we’ll link to a few of the videos that caught our eye. The only requirement is that they be micro-sized, i.e. one minute or shorter.

Jean Kapsa (@kapsa)

Holly Honeychurch (@hollyhoneychurch)

Tom Cutting (@stickmandiaries):

Follow @friday and send us suggestions for videos that you recommend for the next Film Fest Friday.

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Enjoyed watching the Bucks this year. Congrats on a great season. I still have mixed feelings about rooting for Kawhi… He’s an incredible player. Disappointed he left the Spurs, but maybe making the finals with the Raptors will temp him to stay in the east. 🏀

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The New Yorker: Can “Indie” Social Media Save Us? — by Cal Newport, featuring Micro.blog, Mastodon, and the IndieWeb’s alternative to big social networks. Welcome everyone discovering Micro.blog today!

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This week’s episode of the Micro Monday podcast features David Johnson, talking about his experience on Micro.blog, discovering new users, being a life coach, and thoughts about starting a podcast.