Did this about six months ago over at my site. Was annoying to get it right but glad I did.
Some people find these kinds of sites pointless these days, but I enjoy keeping one even if I rarely update it anymore. Spirit of the web and all that.
Some people find these kinds of sites pointless these days, but I enjoy keeping one even if I rarely update it anymore. Spirit of the web and all that.
FWIW the Twitter feed from, I assume, people you follow is a little odd though - it's not immediately clear that it's not you, nor about the article being viewed, which it doesn't necessarily have anything to do with, and it includes replies to threads. At the time of writing the top one is recommended reading that's 'racist from the start'.
Site works well on mobile because I cannot stand sites that don't load quick + layout well on mobile, and considering the general content I post, I'd expect the audience to have the (relatively) same pet peeve.
I open sourced the activity scraper as well, if anyone's interested: https://github.com/ryanmcgrath/activity-scraper
The GitHub activity feed is pulling in every comment you make, see if you can filter that to only show pull requests you've created to showcase your work. Maybe also include commits to your own projects if the commit length is more than a certain number of characters to filter out the small updates.
I'm perfectly happy showing my @replies, rando GitHub activity, etc. Nobody is actually reading that sidebar, short of a select few - I like having that junk indexed in search engines attributed to my own domain.
It's free real estate. :)
Sadly Safari's API isn't that great compared to those found in Chrome/Firefox; there's no way to catch the url before the page actually loads. I inject some JS to catch and redirect as fast as possible, but sometimes you'll see a flash of the new Reddit experience. If a better API becomes available at some point I'd gladly swap it out. :)