willow.camp Updates September 7 2025
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)
