Release-Notes on enumerator.dev

willow.camp Updates - October 7, 2025

Tue, 07 Oct 2025 11:25:05 +0000

I’ve spent most of my willow.camp work on finding a new backend language. But I’ve still updated the Rails app! Here’s what’s changed since my last update.

Moved HTML storage out of the post table and into ActionText. It was this deep dive that made me question using Rails. I went down a long rabbit hole, finding a good text editor and then realized this work felt more like building Ikea furniture than I wanted. I’m more interested in having access to the application end-to-end than plugging parts together. Anyway, in the meantime, your posts are now stored in an ActionText table.
Prevented email enumeration attacks by returning an ambiguous error on sign-up. This is my pet peeve with Devise, and I am a bit embarrassed I let this live in production for so long. Previously, the sign-up form would indicate if an email address had already been taken. Since I can’t guarantee people use unique passwords, this means an attacker could use a leaked email/password list to access accounts that use poor password hygiene. No more! I’ve done my best to give ambiguous, helpful messages when something is wrong on the signup page.
Updated dependencies! A whole bunch of Ruby Gems and npm packages got minor version bumps.
Fixed CI errors with vips. This is minor but tests were failing in CI because vips wasn’t installed on the machine.
Cleaned up the Hanami directory. There was a day when I was convinced Hanami was the next framework for willow.camp, and I started a migration in its own directory.
Cleaned up image things I was trying out with images and media handling.

willow.camp Updates September 21, 2025

Sun, 21 Sep 2025 12:58:00 +0000

Quiet on the updates this week. I could rename “Major Features” to “Major Worries” because I’ve spent more time worrying about how images should work than testing them with real users!

I enabled image uploads on the marksmith text editor this week, and a few people tested it out for me. Turns out marksmith doesn’t work how I thought it would with images. Image uploads are still enabled, but I’m going back to the drawing board with the editor UI and media management.

Major Features

Image storage and processing functionality with Active Storage integration, direct uploads, and automatic image processing
I heard you like willow.camp. How about deleting willow.camp? You can now delete your blog and account if you’d like. This will delete all your data and is irreversible. The option is there if you need it.

Improvements

Enhanced navigation to only show blog title or subdomain in menu
Updated testing configuration for quieter pre-commit output
Removed social_share_image functionality

Security & Dependencies

Updated JavaScript dependencies
Updated Ruby gem dependencies
Added new license file

willow.camp Updates September 7 2025

Mon, 08 Sep 2025 00:20:35 +0000

It’s been a busy month! I took some time off for a much-needed vacation and forgot to post about willow.camp. I’ve worked on some fun features in the past few weeks.

New Features

Favicons now use OpenMoji emojis! I think these are adorable icons. I have a few qualms with how they fit in the willow.camp design (they’re all a little bottom-heavy), but it’s not a deal breaker.
New favicon picker! You can now search for an emoji by name to pick for your blog.
Now you can have two blogs! You can click on the profile icon and add a second blog. I’m going to use this to document my garden and remind myself what I want to do next year.

I also fiddled around with auto-generating OG images for each blog. I wrote a script that uses your OpenMoji favicon and your blog’s colours to create an Open Graph image for your blog.

Here’s what the tiled image looks like for enumerator.dev.

Ultimately, the best approach for images is to enable users to upload them instead of doing some clever auto-generation. I’m going to put this on my project board and figure out how to do it. Since storage costs me, I might need to change the license on willow.camp and start charging for image uploads.

Here is the Claude-generated summary of the last few weeks.

Summary - August 17 - September 7, 2025

Major Features

Multi-Blog Support: Complete implementation of “Two Blogs per User” feature (#85) - Major architectural change allowing users to have multiple blogs instead of a single-tenant structure
OpenMoji Favicon System: Implemented comprehensive emoji favicon selector with search functionality using OpenMoji library (2d13fd2e)

Improvements

OG Image Generation: Added automated Open Graph image generation scripts (29ba2359, 290f2372)

willow.camp Release Notes Week of Jul 19

Sun, 20 Jul 2025 18:13:00 +0000

Features Added

Live markdown preview functionality using “Preview Post” button at the bottom. This is better than the Marksmith “Preview” beside “Write” because it shows the rendered site.
Automatic dark mode detection for Marksmith editor which is better than before but still needs work
Enhanced tag selection using the Choices.js library. Yay! I learned something about importing and CSS variables here. I’ll write a post on this soon.
API documentation link added to settings page.
Post footer feature with conditional display (hidden on about page). Find this on your settings page.
Tag functionality with tag counts and improved UI. I still want to work on this a bit.

Thanks to Mark for a few of these suggestions!

Bug Fixes

Draft post handling - Skip OG published_time tag for draft posts and allow nil dates
Colour fixes for UI elements
Landing page navigation - Fixed redirect behaviour when logged-in users visit the home page
Production optimization - Conditionally preload the app only in the production environment, fixes dev env hanging sometimes.
JSON error handling - Return 404 for JSON requests to non-existent resources
Accessibility updates for blog interface and voiceover support. Feedback please! I’m new to a11y and would love to know how to make this better.

Performance & Maintenance

Test optimization - Reduced markdown content in slow Mermaid tests
Parallel testing is temporarily disabled for stability (on my machine ☹️)
Security update - Brakeman updated from 7.0.2 to 7.1.0
Code quality - Multiple linting fixes applied
Documentation - Added CLAUDE.md project instructions