Almanac
This project is now deprecated in favour of posting on my micro.blog
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Almanac is a micro-blog I built for keeping track of everything I've watched, read, and listened to. It's built with Laravel and uses APIs for different media types to fetch data.
Post types #
Almanac has eight post types:
- Movies
- TV
- Games
- Music
- Books
- Podcasts
- Videos
- Quotes
Most of these types display the same with the exception of quotes; the content of the post is the quote and the title is the "author".
APIs #
- Movies and TV lookup use The Movie Database API
- Games lookup uses the Giant Bomb API
Automatic Media Embeds #
The post editor supports HTML so any media can be embedded in a post. This section refers only to automatically embedding specific services.
Although automatic media embeds are designed for video and music posts, any post type can automatically embed media by adding a link to a post. The following services are supported:
- YouTube videos
- Vimeo videos
- Spotify tracks, albums and playlists
Spoilers #
If a post contains spoilers there are two options to obscure the post:
- Turning "Spoilers?" on in the post editor. This will obscure all the content of the post.
- Wrapping specific section in
[spoiler]Your Spoiler Here[/spoiler]will obscure just that section, while leaving the rest of the content available.
Visitors can then click on the spoiler to reveal the contents.
Tags #
Tags can be added in the post editor and all posts for a specific tag can be viewed at example.com/?tags[]=TAGNAME
Rewatches #
Almanac will match up previous posts where the same thing has been watched and display this on the site. When visiting a permalink for a post, any other posts related to the same thing will be shown. Posts have a "repost" button so you can easily repost the same thing, with new content, again.