A Charming Birthday Getaway: pratik.micro.blog

@pratik birthday to your wife. It looks like you had a great time 👍🏽

@pratik Incredible photos! That place looks so nice. Nice to see that glightbox plugs works with Tiny Theme so you can hone in on the details. And did you make those galleries with Gallery Creator shortcut?

@pratik bummer the house is being renovated - it’s an interesting tour. It’s much different than most Presidential homes, as it’s relatively modern so you feel a bit more connected (“Oh, I remember those, my grandmother loved them”) and such.

@pratik @jarrod I wouldn’t hold your breath until the CSS standards evolve. There’s very little support for masonry (except in Safari technical preview!). I haven’t personally liked any of the Javascript based answers for easy of use and good output on Micro.blog, though if someone found something that looked reasonable, I’d implement it.

@pratik Oh neat!

@jsonbecker I don’t know the technical implementation behind the masonry view of @kottkrig‘s Photos page plugin, but I’ve been quite happy with its presentation. Here’s my photos page, for example, though I’m sure you’ve seen similar.

@jarrod the short answer is he uses Micro.blog’s image resize to force everything to a specific size and does a some clever math. I ended up removing image resizing from my plugin because I disagree with basically all the choices Micro.blog makes on image processing (which is more to say that the defaults on image processing libraries are bad and I don’t know how to fix them, personally).

That said, it also involves a fair bit of tinkering that I think would be hard to mix with my glightbox tinkering. If I were to make a masonry gallery plug in, it would probably have to be a totally separate plug-in that always assumes a gallery, combines the two, and rely on shortcodes, which is rough on portability out of Hugo and has gotten me/folks into trouble.

It’s kind of a different problem when you’re controlling most of a page and assuming a long list of photos versus letting folks drop a set mid blog post. It may just be beyond my imagination how to make it ergonomic.

I’m not in love with my CSS-grid approach, but I find it “good enough” while making it really easy to post and super portable to any other service. It’s very likely I will end up making a better version when I finish my site redesign, but also fairly likely I will not do that in a way that’s portable to other themes. We’ll see!

@jsonbecker Thanks for sharing your thinking!

@jarrod @pratik for what it’s worth, this would work, but requires users to set columns best I can tell, which I think is a bad experience. I might play with it though.

@pratik Dang. I think my last time there was Dec 2017, so sounds like I snuck in before the closure. If you find yourself back there after it reopens, it’s a fun visit.