LinkLocker

LinkLocker.co will see some planned downtime this Sunday evening, June 19th, from 10:00 PM until perhaps mindnight Pacific Daylight Time. During that period, I'll be performing some maintenance upgrades which will make the service briefly inaccessible. Reliability may or may not be spotty initially during that time window, so please remain patient as we make these updates.

Ever since the service launched nearly six years ago, I have wanted to update the behavior on pages that display saved links so that the content will automatically refresh itself. Finally that feature is now live, as of this afternoon. Your content will now update itself every minute or so, and will do so immediately any time you switch back to a tab where LinkLocker is already loaded. Good stuff.

Will be on the lookout for bugs here, as this is a pretty substantial change ...

LinkLocker is now a Progressive Web App (PWA), and it can be installed on both mobile and desktop devices. The easiest way to install on a laptop or other dekstop computer is simply to visit the site in Chrome, and follow the prompt to install from there. The exact sequence varies a little from one mobile platform to the next, but here's the basic gist.

While we still hope to make some fully featured native apps available, the new PWA functionality will somewhat bridge ...