It’s a pretty low-effort thing to get a big fancy link preview on social media. Toss a handful of specific <meta> tags on a URL and you get a big image-title-description thing. Here’s Twitter’s version of an article on this …
As a little experiment, I shared a development tip on three different social networks. I also tried to post it in a format that was most suitable for that particular social network:
Interesting idea for a “chat room” from Postlight:
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- Create a Yap chat room.
- Invite others to join and talk.
- Share a URL of just about anything.
- Everyone gathering can comment on what you’ve shared.
- If you think your conversation deserves
The IndieWeb is a thing! They’ve got a conference coming up and everything. The New Yorker is even writing about it:
…Proponents of the IndieWeb offer a fairly straightforward analysis of our current social-media crisis. They frame it in
The Web Share API is one that has seemingly gone under the radar since it was first introduced in Chrome 61 for Android. In essence, it provides a way to trigger the native share dialog of a device (or desktop, …
I love the idea of programmatically generated images. That power is close at hand these days for us front-end developers, thanks to the concept of headless browsers. Take Puppeteer, the library for controlling headless Chrome. Generating images from URLs …
This past summer, I wrote The Essential Meta Tags for Social Media about how developers can prepare web pages to optimize their appearance when shared on social media. But what about creating the links to let users share these web …
