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gRegor Morrill

My name is gRegor Morrill, a.k.a. gRegorLove. I live in San Diego, enjoy tinkering on the web, and try to make people laugh. Yes, “Gregor is a weird name,” and I know gRegor is a weird capitalization. More about me

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Hello, Blaugust 2026

I learned of Blaugust from the IndieWeb wiki a couple years ago and decided rather spur of the moment to join in this year for the first time. I have honestly been in a bit of a rut (burnout?) when it comes to writing, so a community event like this could help. I have participated in National Blog Posting Month (NaBloPoMo) a few times in the past successfully and often found inspiration where I did not expect.

You should check out the intro post “Blaugust 2026 is Coming!” and consider participating. There are some suggested prompts but they’re totally optional. You can even get awards! I appreciate that they have awards for various levels of participation, not just for completing all 31 days.

So who am I? Conveniently, I just recently updated my about page. The quick version, though: I live in San Diego; grew up in the Midwest; enjoy tinkering on the web for my day job (and as a hobby); love music; have an interesting relationship with Christianity; and special interests in disability justice and community care.

I have a few ideas for things I might write about this month, though mostly I am leaving it up to inspiration. Again: joining in spur of the moment. 😆 Some ideas:

  • Write about some of my experiences growing up in the church, Teen Mania Ministries, and the connected Shiny Happy People documentary from last year
  • An Ask Me Anything (AMA) type post about still being covid-cautious in 2026 (masking, cleaning the air, vaccines, etc.)
  • Photos from my regular walks
  • ...and maybe some of the IndieWeb Blog Carnival topics I have not written about yet

I look forward to discovering some new-to-me bloggers, reading, and commenting this month. If you’re new here, feel free to follow along, comment, send a Webmention, or send a message.

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Photos

Flyer with headline 'Anti-Prime Days Fundraiser'. In the middle left, a thermometer with a goal of $500 in recurring monthly donations. In the middle, the We All We Got logo and a QR code linking to the donate page. In the middle right, another thermometer with a goal of $1500 one-time donations, currently filled to about $270. At the bottom 'Let's unite to support community instead of billionaires!'

Hey San Diego, We All We Got is running a fundraiser to help sustain the free grocery distribution and deliveries. Can you spare some money to support the community instead of billionaires? Every dollar helps!

weallwegotsd.com/donate

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#MutualAid #SanDiego

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Notes

animated image of construction person shovelling dirt into their own face This section is under construction

Happy send a friend a watermelon day, Matt!

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gRegor Morrill

I took a second pass at the indiebookclub UI I was working on. I kept getting stuck because I wanted to let people update the title/author/ISBN in case they were incorrect in Open Library, but I also thought that made the form feel too busy.

Eventually I realized that most of the time people will not need/want to update that information, so I can keep them read-only. This keeps the form minimal for the most common scenario. I can still include an edit link that will open the full form for people that want that level of control.

Since we already have the title from the search results, Read Status is the only other required field. I decided a minimal form would show that and the Tags field. The other fields can be tucked away under Advanced Options. I also tried shortening the Read Status field. I think that helps the visual flow. All of the dropdowns on this form have relatively short text anyway.

screenshot of new posting UI that has the book cover top left, beside it are three lines for title, author, and ISBN. Underneath that block are form fields: read status and tags tags; all displayed in a horizontal layout on a larger screen. Underneath those fields is a collapsed Advanced Options section

Screenshot 1: The default form is much more minimal

Next I updated the Published field. Previously, the field was always displayed and had an instruction to leave it blank if you wanted to publish the post right away. A better UX is if the default says “Now” and the datetime field only appears if you choose to change it.

screenshot of the same posting UI with the Advanced Options expanded. Additional fields shown: post status, visibility, and publish. Publish option has two pill-shaped buttons 'Now' and 'Select Date and Time'. 'Now' is selected by default and highlighted green.

Screenshot 2: Advanced Options expanded with the default Publish set to “Now”

screenshot of the same posting UI with the Advanced Options expanded. 'Select Date and Time' is selected and highlighted green. Underneath, a datetime field appears and a field with your timezone offset from UTC.

Screenshot 3: Advanced Options expanded and the “Select Date and Time” option selected

The next thing I am working on is lining up the left side of the title/author/ISBN text with the form inputs below them.

I am quite pleased with how this is turning out. Let me know what you think!

#indieweb #dev #indiebookclub

gRegor Morrill

If you don’t want your GitHub repositories in HuggingFace’s data set used for LLM training, unfortunately you need to opt-out.

Find out if you’re in the crawl and follow the opt-out instructions at the bottom.

#dev #indieweb

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Improve your vibe-coded project with this one neat trick:

sudo rm -rf /

#slop #efficiency

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I got a new domain after voicing an idea I’ve mulled over for a while: mutualaid.rocks. I still don’t know the exact shape of it, but I think it will start as a collection of resources for groups getting started or experiencing pain points with the tech side of things. Dreaming bigger, perhaps eventually offering some open source software to help with those, avoiding less ethical big tech services.

#MutualAid

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