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Postalgic for iOS v1.0 is now live on the App Store. How cool!
I guess that went pretty quick after all! I just submitted Postalgic to App Review to get it up on the App Store. This project moved pretty quick, my first commit was April 19th. So about 42 days between when work began and work really ended. I didn’t work on the app every single one of those days either, so all told I probably built the app out in about two weeks? Three weeks? Thank you Claude Code.
Once 1.0 is out I can start working on the remote services meant to be coupled to the app, the “portal” idea as well as “pro” static site hosting… but I should put some more love into my other apps before getting started on that stuff. We need to polish PiBar 1.2 up and also get 1.2 versions out for Aislingeach and Inneal. Anyhoo, that’s not Postalgic related.
I’ll post the App Store url for Postalgic later on when it’s approved.
Lots and lots to do still…
Join the Postalgic Beta
Postalgic beta is up! Join the beta over here.
I submitted Postalgic to TestFlight App Review today so I can put it into beta officially. Pretty cool!
Claude Code wrote this app description for me.
Postalgic - Pocket-Sized Blogging
Transform your iPhone into a complete blogging platform with Postalgic, the all-in-one decentralized micro-blogging app. Create, customize, and publish beautiful static websites directly from your device.
Key Features:
• Write with Ease - Create posts using Markdown with rich embed support for YouTube videos, images, and link previews
• Complete Customization - Design custom themes, manage colors, and organize content with categories and tags
• Flexible Publishing - Deploy automatically to GitHub Pages, AWS S3, SFTP servers, or any Git repository
• Full Blog Management - Handle everything from post creation to sidebar customization and static file management
• Mobile-First Design - Native iOS experience optimized for creating content on the go
Perfect for:
- Personal bloggers seeking independence from social platforms
- Developers wanting GitHub Pages integration
- Writers who prefer mobile content creation
- Anyone building a decentralized web presence
Postalgic generates completely static websites, ensuring fast loading times and maximum compatibility. Your content remains yours - no vendor lock-in, no subscription fees, just pure blogging freedom in your pocket.
Ready to reclaim your corner of the web? Start blogging the decentralized way with Postalgic.
We’ve got favicons and share preview image support now! Wowza! However the favicons don’t appear in Safari now, not sure what voodoo I need to do there… code is the same as Wordpress I think, so…
We’re getting close to the first beta! And technically 1.0 at that point. We’re almost there, just one or two more features to figure out how to work in.
Implemented keychain items to store sensitive passwords, took some finessing Claude Code to get it to stop messing the implementation up. Always a struggle…
Milestone Get!
So the main reason I finally started building this app after two years of sitting on the idea is that I got really big mad at the Wordpress.com hosting I was using to run https://staires.org.
For the past several months Wordpress had a bug which would delete entire paragraphs of text as you were writing. The official explanation was that a Shift+Backspace shortcut was slipped into Gutenberg, their writer interface, and that people (like me) end up accidentally hitting Shift+Backspace all the time. I don’t know if I believe this because I have no real idea how I would be hitting that shortcut on accident.
Either way, needless to say, other people were very upset about this as well. I felt like I got the brush off when I reported it, so I reported it again. And I went so far as to email Matt Mullenwag directly because it frustrated me so much (no response).
Allegedly they’ve fixed it now, though no one has reported in the support thread that it’s been fixed. And I wouldn’t know, as I’ve been building Postalgic, and as of today staires.org is now a Postalgic blog. Cool!
I won’t be turning my back entirely on Wordpress, as I’ve never had any real issues with my self-hosted instance over at https://amiantos.net, though it would be cool if Postalgic could be powerful enough to host my “full blog” and not smaller focused setups like staires.