thanks :) mine is manual + some of them, automated. i built a custom telegram bot which periodically/on-demand asks for data points, run basic algos to calculates these stats and push to realtime firebase storage.
I have seen people listing the media they are consuming but I would like to think of it as them posting what is important to them.
While I do have media on my now page, I still do have some sections that are updated manually (mainly the top half of the page). To me travel is more important than media and a lot more of my friends ask me where I've been recently, hence why I put that higher up on the page over the media stuff.
Anyway, might be something for me to think about later on if I decide to switch up the format (which I likely will)
Your project also sounds interesting. I did think about how I could add/track loads of different things on my site, but given it's a static website, I decided to keep things simple.
Music was a bit tricky to track and the update frequency would have been too high for my site so I just left it out for now. Maybe I'll go back and change that one day in the future if I change my mind.
Yes of course someone could log into a service and see what their friend has reviewed recently. That would however require someone to go through the effort of creating an account on each of these services/websites.
I think using those services/websites is great for keeping a general track of what friends are watching, playing, reading, etc, is great, however, it's not orientated around an individual. That's what the now page tries to achieve. Instead of checking a friend's status/logs across multiple sites, you can just find everything on their now page (or more specifically, my now page).
The purpose of this post was just to walk through how it all worked. A lot of this stuff was new for me and I got to learn quite a few things in the process that I then went on to use in other projects so in my eyes, I think working on this was an overall success :)
In case my original comment wasn't clear, I thought your post was cool and interesting. I also use Hugo but had never considered the challenges of automating something like that. I liked the write up a lot.
Thanks for spotting that. I do have a function to check for HTML escaping to handle things like this but it seems like I might have missed the check for this. I'll add it in soon.
>Nice, took a while to find the actual now page to see.
I'll try and update the page to make that a bit clearer
Noted! I'll add an extra mention of it. I thought I had it covered in the first line of the post but it's probably a good idea to link it again at the end of the post as well
I would highly recommend looking into something like this. I found the whole process really interesting and I used what I learnt on this project in later projects as well.
