Chris Hannah

I’ve done enough for v0.4 of Slate I think, so I’ll upload that to TestFlight now. And then I can start working composing for v0.5!

Here’s the raw release notes:

• The vertical spacing in the post cell, and also separating them has been adjusted.
• Names are now slightly bold, with the username being less distinguished.
• Inline images now load for urls with https.
• Fix scenario where login fields would not adapt properly to the keyboard height.
• If you view your own profile/author view, it will hide the follow button.
• Inline images are resized vertically, if they are in landscape orientation. However they will not be resized vertically as that could lead to a very bad reading experience.
• Tapping anywhere on a cell for an author will now open their profile.
• The Favourite and Conversation swipe actions now have images.
• Started localising the text for US english.
• Fixed relative dates being completely inaccurate!

Feel free to sign up to the beta.

It’s time for me to push another beta version of Slate!

Honestly, I didn’t complete everything in my plan for this version. But versions don’t really mean anything at the minute, as it’s probably better for the whole process if I just release more often.

Here’s the raw release notes for this build:

• Added pull to refresh on the profile and author views.
• Profiles and author views now have the name as the title.
• Times on posts are now relative.
• Links are no longer underlined.
• Instead of verifying the app token every time the app is launched, it moves straight to the timeline, and checks in the background.
• There are now no separators in the post tables.
• The light theme is slightly lighter.
• The menu adapts to the theme as well now.
• Fixed the issue where some tables were not getting their background colour changed when a new theme is selected.
• Line height is now slightly bigger.
• You favourite posts now by swiping from left -> right.

Feel free to get in touch about joining the beta, it’s compltely open to everyone.

I finally bit the (very small) bullet and did a minuscule amount of editing to my blog’s theme, to make publishing from Ulysses much simpler.

I used to specify source urls for linked articles with a custom field named “external_link”. Previously this was fine, because I’d publish via Workflow on iOS, so I could specify this perfectly fine. However, although Ulysses have a section to add a title link, it will add it to a custom field named “linked_list_url”.

For a while, I’ve just been using the action to open the Editor, pasting the link in the web interface, and hitting publish. But I’ve now slightly modified my the code to search for either value, and use whichever is there.

In the grand scheme of things, it’s nothing. But it now means I can do all my blogging inside Ulysses. Of course not including editing posts, but I rarely do that anyway.