LinkLocker

I'm pleased to announce that a number of new customization features have gone live on the site as of this afternoon. We've added a new Settings pane where you can adjust the way that your links are displayed: you can toggle between a few different overall display modes, and you have the option of showing / hiding various bits on each link's metadata (like its tags, its category, its "starred" status, and so on). There are a couple of other long overdue additions ...

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 ...

I've recently done a deep dive on general accessibility across the entire site. While there are likely still plenty of issues to be found, I'm happy to say that I've been able to address every a11y issue that automated scanners like Deque's Axe tools are able to detect. While no substitute for in-depth manual testing (which I will continue working on over time), addressing all issues reported through automated scanning puts us in a great position from today forward.

If you ...