Goodbye, Feedly. Now that Inkwell has soft-launched OPML sync If you are a Premium user of micro.blog, go to the Account page and click the “OPML Sync…” button in the Feed subscriptions section. It asks for the URL of the OPML file you would like to sync with, though from my experiments “Sync” is a bit of a misnomer as it will only add the RSS feeds it finds there that you don’t yet have on Inkwell but it doesn’t remove the ones that are on Inkwell but not in the syncing OPML. I can go back to FeedLand as my source of RSS feed subscription truth. This also means that my blogroll is due for a makeover. Would it not be much better if I could show the most recent posts for each recommended feed, FeedLand-style?
The second update is to Hugo, micro.blog’s static website generator of choice, which is now version 0.158, from 0.91.
Hugo versioning is absolutely idiotic so you can’t tell, but this is a 60-version jump. The tradeoff for the noticeably quicker site generation — from around 2 minutes to <1 minute, important for someone who keeps finding typos in all of their posts — was time spent whack-a-mole-ing errors until I came to just a single WARNING which will hopefully not snowball into anything more serious.
The biggest errors, and the reason why initially the blog wouldn’t render at all, was that a bunch of functions were replaced by different, similarly sounding functions, made for reasons unknown. Petty stuff like .Site.Authors is now .Site.Params.authors, or .Page.Hugo is now hugo.Generator. Things that in the background may have been a life-and-death battle between warring Hugo factions (originalists versus those deathly afraid of technical debt? free spirits versus pedants?) but whose result is mere end-user annoyance. These were a simple Find and Replace away.
Second-order issues came from plugins that have not yet been updated. So in addition to Feedly I have also said my goodbyes to the Stats section of this blog, and to various rarely used functions — how often do people share this stuff on Facebook anyway, and does Facebook still have those web cards for each site?
The last is a warning that the term taxonomyterm has been deprecated and that, per Gemini, I should and I kid you not change taxonomyTerm to taxonomy and the old taxonomy to term. I thought I did this everywhere, but apparently not as I still get that warning each time I post something. But that I can live with.