The eagle-eyed among you may have spotted that I've add an upvote button above the comments section. Don't worry it's an IndieWeb thing not CorpoWeb thing. If you haven't heard of bubbles.town then where have you been this past few months? 😉

It's a place for discovering IndieWeb content a bit like a HackerNews for nontechnical blogs and articles.

The problem I have is, I read in FreshRSS. I Think "I should boost this on Bubbles", So I have to go check it is on Bubbles with their "Is a blog on Bubbles?" page. Then search for the title. Then I can upvote it.

Seeing as I do get some traffic from bubbles.town:-

Referrers for past 30 days, Successful GET requests only

I wanted a way for people to boost me but also to promote Bubbles at the same time. I found that they have an upvote button thingummy, so I've added it to my post template. I have an Idea how I can make this a thing in XBlog's feed reader but I'm not at that point yet, yet another feature for me to add later. 🤓

One thing to note is that if the post isn't on Bubbles yet, The widget renders nothing at all. Once the post is imported via feed polling, the count shows up on the next page load.

If you want to add it to your posts then you can find everything you need on the "Embed the Bubbles vote count" page.

Foot note - I have no idea how I got into Kagi, but I am psyched that I have😁 google can go do one🖕.

Today's Earworm Is…

Stupid Girl - Garbage YouTube Spotify SoundCloud

"Stupid Girl" features lyrics about a young woman's ambivalence and is a musical arrangement centred on a repetitive bassline and a drum sample from the Clash's 1979 song "Train in Vain".