I've been enjoying the simplicity of my bearblog, but am torn on whether to keep it, replicate it back into Kirby, or with an eye on the future recreate in maybe 11ty or Astro. Too much choice.
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9 posts · July 2025 – November 2025
November 2025
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Article Finalising my bearblog theme. For now... Having spent the last few weeks of my bearblog project focusing on function, I used the first day of my long weekend to complete the first … -
Article What's in my inventory? The topic for November's Bearblog Carnival is 'what's in my inventory?' Here I talk about the items that follow me everywhere. -
I had webmentions working pretty quickly on bear last night, displaying them where the upvote counter is not used took longer to refactor.
October 2025
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Installing CDN video hosting into my BearBlog, along with a clips section, with plans to migrate all of my macretro youtube work into my own environ.
![Screenshot from my website showing a hosted video player in an iframe]](https://prry.uk/media/legacy/2025-10-26-video-hosting-for-my-bearblog/55-1.webp)
In one quick experiment last night, I tested Bunny for video hosting. That was really simple, embedding an iframe with the video url as src, and applying a minimal amount of styling in the theme to make the borders look better.
I then added my Clips section to the site, which I'll need to replicate on my front page. If costs are sensible, I will migrate all of my youtube hosted retro gaming content here.
It does seem to use a cookie, which I need to look at, but I don't think tracking anything beyond the session.
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Article Bearly here Talking about my journey to Bear, and my plans for this blog
July 2025
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Article Using Microformats with Bear Discussing implementation of microformats on my bearblog project. -
Article Setting a favicon and site logo in Bear Setting the favicon on my Bear blog site to an existing png file -
Article Hello Bear? Talking about contemplating completely rebuilding my website on BearBlog.