In my last weekly digest post, I mentioned a change in the format. Or at least, I’ll be trialling one.

I’ve not found the current format too conducive because it relies on me picking up the motivation to review my week and mention the stuff I’ve been doing and look back through my saved posts and history to see if there’s anything worth linking to. Often, I don’t feel like doing this.

So here’s the new way. I’ve started microblogging on a Mastodon account for this site (which I may merge with my seldom-used “main” account). I’ve set up a scheduled pipeline on Gitlab (where the source files for my site live) to automatically fetch these microposts and compile them into a Digest post. This means I can just post links as I find them, and writes notes on my week as things come up.

The downside is the notes will no longer be grouped by topic, but to remedy this, I’ll tag my posts with emoji to make it easy to skim and find anything you’re interested in such as 🎮, 🔗, or 📖. Emoji are ugly, but they might solve this issue.

We’ll see how it goes, let me know how it is (if you like digests/week notes of course). This is all assuming the script that automatically posts my digest works at the scheduled time.