#morgenblau

The source detail page is also coming along nicely.

Saving posts in Morgenblau has landed, which also means that a second lexicon is now officially in use.

Published a lexicon for the first time 🥳

Well, four actually + the permission set. Which means that the permission screen now looks really clean :)

Link to the lexicons: pdsls.dev/at://did:plc...

I originally wanted to use Skyreader's lexicons fully, but by now, I think having our own lexicons might be beneficial (like Glean does it).

We're still gonna interoperate with the other two readers though!

Wrote about the plans in the spec: tangled.org/dominik.soci...

Updated/improved the specs document.

The sources tab now is a bit more polished and shows post frequencies and when the last post was published so you can quickly spot noisy or abandoned feeds.

Decided to remove the “Create” part from the app. Instead, the menu now looks like this:

Discover: People & sources to follow
Sources: Manage/view individual sources
Library: Saved articles and ones shared by your network
Digest: “Feed” with daily buckets

Fixed a small bug where users always got redirected to the current day when closing an article, even when that article was from another day.

Feed entries in Morgenblau are now grouped into daily digests so you don’t have to worry about neither unread counts nor overwhelm when opening it.

Hope this gives more of a “newspaper”- instead of an “infinite feed”-feeling.

Codebase pretty much halved and the app is way more performant and “ATproto-native” now. Very happy with how this migration turned out: D

Had this sudden urge to try out Go this week and decided to just go for it on an experimental branch.

So far, the difference has been night and day when it comes to the available ATproto tooling. Will report back how the experiment goes.

YouTube videos now also open in a clutter-free interface inside of Morgenblau.

Soooo much better than the native ui 😮‍💨

The reader becomes usable 🥳

Extraction for feeds without embedded content also works pretty well (see second article that I open in the demo).

Started working on the in-app reader view.

The feed now uses Inertia's deferred props feature to enable skeleton loaders instead of long waiting times.

Favicons for feeds now get properly fetched with the help of this package: github.com/php-feed-io/...

Started with the visual polish today. Always makes me more excited to work on an app when it starts to actually look good.

A bit of behind the scenes improvements today: Made the feed fetcher more robust (e.g. auto-muting failed feeds after a while). Having Miniflux & FreshRSS as a reference really helped here.

Feed fetching works. As you can see, I only focused on the backend part of the feature 🙃

Worked a bit more on the feed-io setup from yesterday and changed some AI workflow related tooling.

Reading tip for the day:

addyosmani.com/blog/agent-s...

Started with the feed fetching part of the application and trying out feed-io.

First PR on Tangled merged: The first iteration of the “Add Subscription"-Flow is done 🙌

Tangled is now the official home of the Morgenblau repo with GitHub being only a mirror (was inverted before). PRs, issues, etc. all live on ATproto from now on 🌌

• made a few small architectural improvements.

tangled.org/dominik.soci...

Made a couple more improvements to the "Add subscription" flow (like not allowing to accidentally add the same feed twice).

Started to work on the “Add Source” flow. Save to PDS already works, the UI still needs a bit of polish.

The overall layout is coming along nicely.

Morgenblau is now being powered by Laravel + Inertia + React.

Probably worth it's own blog post about the why behind the decision, but the TLDR is: Laravel is just my favorite framework and where I'm most productive in :)

Simple login flow with granular permissions

Having fun with shaders 🪄

Worked on the main layout with its "scrolling window"-like structure this morning.

Don't mind the content for now, just placeholders :)

Today, I started to design the overall layout for morgen.blue.

In the process, I discovered this beautiful icon set, which I really like:
www.basicons.com

Getting started…

Github: github.com/hfrdmnk/morg...
Tangled Mirror: tangled.org/dominik.soci...

I just sent the first devlog newsletter for Morgenblau: buttondown.com/dominikhofer...

If you haven't subscribed yet and want to follow the process, you can do so over at morgen.blue

Some core concepts to explore for morgen.blue.

(I'll write a bit more about them in the next newsletter issue.)

Quoting @dominik.social

In case you missed my blogpost from yesterday: I'm building my own take on an atproto-based RSS reader!

If you're interested, you can follow along by signing up over at morgen.blue or by checking this tag on my website: dominikhofer.me/tag/morgenblau