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+Document: WM-026                                                 P. Webb
+Category: Project                                             2018.01.19
+
+                           Socii Dispatch 01
+
+Abstract
+
+   Updates with Socii's development
+
+Body
+
+   For the past month I've been hard at work, developing basic social
+   network features. Namely, account and post creation and editing your
+   profile. To be honest, it's not glamorous work but I've been having a
+   blast doing it. Here's what's been completed thus far.
+
+   1. Profile
+
+      📸[First look at your profile][IMG1]
+
+      On your profile, you'll see your avatar in whatever shape you
+      choose from available options which are a triangle (the default),
+      circle (classic), square (old-school), diamond, and inverted
+      triangle. Below your avatar in the first sidebar, you'll find your
+      name and username.
+
+      When you sign up for Socii, you're automatically logged in and
+      given a generated username based on your email address so feel
+      free to change it if something like `paul927465` doesn't quite fit
+      you. Anecdotally, I've noticed that as people go through life
+      changes they tend to want user/name changes as well so I've made
+      Socii unreliant on usernames on the back-end. Friends and
+      followers would want to know if you go from `SuperAwesomeMegaTon`
+      to `netop://~tonton` and I'm building a notification system to
+      accommodate that.
+
+      There are currently no limits on username changes and I can
+      conceivably see how harassment could occur with it. You'll be
+      equipped with proper muting and blocking tools should you
+      unwittingly connect with an annoying person.
+
+      In the other sidebar, you'll see something called "top 8". Older
+      readers will remember the *glory* that was MySpace and I wanted to
+      bring that back as I found it useful.
+
+      Sometimes I just want to visit a friend's page and I forget what
+      their username is (and, if you follow a lot of people who post
+      more often than your friend(s), you'll miss their posts). I sure
+      know what my friends *look* like though and it'll be pretty sweet
+      to see which shapes they choose for their avatars.
+
+      And of course you'll find your personal stream of posts. Within
+      each post block is a menu indicator that contains actions for
+      editing your post, quick copying of the direct link to the post,
+      pinning the post to your profile, and deleting the post. If you
+      want to like your own post for some reason, you can definitely do
+      that. You can also create threads by responding to your own posts.
+
+   2. Post creation
+
+      📸[Post creator, clean][IMG2]
+      📸[Post creator with a code snippet][IMG3]
+      📸[That rendered code snippet…wish it had color][IMG4]
+
+      Socii supports Markdown! I'm using a customized version of
+      Showdown[1] to enable it. The eye icon in the footer of the post
+      creator allows for previewing what your post will look like when
+      it's live. The character limit is 150 for reasons that will become
+      apparent in a couple months, after I ship a major
+      (secret) feature.
+
+      However, your post can be up to *5,000 characters* long if you so
+      choose! 😰 That'd be *extremely* annoying to attempt scrolling in
+      a feed so posts longer than 150 characters will be truncated by
+      default with a button to expand it should anyone want to read the
+      entire thing. The question mark icon will give you quick tips on
+      how to use Markdown to add a bit of flavor to your posts.
+
+      If you'd like to read a long post but don't have time at the
+      moment, you can save that post for future reading.
+
+      📸[Respond to your own post to create a thread][IMG5]
+
+      For the moment, only one post status type is available and that is
+      "publish". Forthcoming updates will bring three more: drafts,
+      queues, and schedule. Similarly, the only post creator mode
+      available is "text" but future updates will bring photo, audio,
+      and video options.
+
+   3. In progress
+
+      There's still a good amount of work to get done. For starters,
+      there's no way for you to change your avatar and that's the
+      *first* thing I do when joining a new service. I also want to get
+      notifications and the global/top 8 feeds working. I think being
+      able to toggle between what everyone is talking about versus
+      whomever in your top 8 is talking about will be neat.
+
+      I want to be more open about developing Socii for a
+      couple reasons:
+
+      1. I want this social network to be good for people.
+      2. I develop in a vacuum and while I share updates with a couple
+         people IRL, I think other people could benefit from what I'm
+         learning in the process.
+      3. External reminder of what I have accomplished. Most people can
+         agree that we accomplish things but beat ourselves up for that
+         *one* thing we didn't do. That's demoralizing and I don't want
+         to stop before Socii gets into people's hands.
+
+      With that said, I'm making a new commitment to releasing Socii at
+      the end of this month for alpha access to members of my mailing
+      list. If you haven't joined yet, you can find it at
+      socii.network[2]. For more information about Socii, you can read
+      this post[3] or check out the manifesto on Socii's official
+      marketing page.
+
+   4. Things I've learned
+
+      I figured it'd be a good idea to share what I've learned since my
+      last blog post about Socii:
+
+      1. I'm tired of rounded corners everywhere. I've removed
+         `border-radius` from all the Sass files.
+      2. GraphQL is awesome. However, I've been building REST APIs for
+         the past month and have two microservices to handle things thus
+         far and that means I'm not transitioning to GraphQL until maybe
+         version 1 of Socii is solidified. 😤 Wish I learned of it
+         sooner (it's basically a better way to do REST and talk
+         to servers).
+      3. Styling with `:root`. This[4] is how everyone will have
+         customized profile pages. I don't know why every example I've
+         seen it used has root styles overriding each other. I try to
+         write my CSS in a way that doesn't have style overrides because
+         it's a hassle to deal with. If you have `:root.user` styling,
+         just have `:root:not(.user)` for your default styling. Easy.
+
+   That's all for now, see ya! 🕸
+
+References
+
+   [1]    <https://github.com/showdownjs/showdown>
+   [2]    <https://socii.network/welcome>
+   [3]    </WM-023>
+   [4]    <https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/:root>
+   [IMG1] <https://🔥.pixels.wtf/blog/image/2018/socii-dispatch-01-a.jpg>
+   [IMG2] <https://🔥.pixels.wtf/blog/image/2018/socii-dispatch-01-b.jpg>
+   [IMG3] <https://🔥.pixels.wtf/blog/image/2018/socii-dispatch-01-c.jpg>
+   [IMG4] <https://🔥.pixels.wtf/blog/image/2018/socii-dispatch-01-d.jpg>
+   [IMG5] <https://🔥.pixels.wtf/blog/image/2018/socii-dispatch-01-e.jpg>