{"blyg":"0.4","id":"544rk45hwbam5tpx5mft5zzqa7","kind":"thread","origin":"https://blyg.aneeshsathe.com/","page":"t/544rk45hwbam5tpx5mft5zzqa7/","author":{"name":"Aneesh Sathe","url":"https://blyg.aneeshsathe.com/"},"created":"2026-11-07T17:47:53Z","updated":"2026-11-07T17:47:53Z","version":1,"content_md":"Burrow 0.17 to 0.19: the thicket grows 🌿\n\nThree Burrow releases in a week, and a whole lot of new growth. Burrow now does just about everything Studio does, it's quick with thousands of posts, and there are fresh paths to explore all through the undergrowth. Here's a field guide 🐇\n\n**🌳 0.19.0: run your whole blyg from Burrow**\n\n- 🎨 **Blyg › Site…**: give your public pages a new look. Pick a theme or design your own with a live preview, choose a typeface, a front page and the menus on every page, and set your avatar. Nothing changes until you press Save\n- 🪺 **Blyg › Contacts…**: an address book for the people you write about. Type @ and they come first, and the preview shows the link your blyg will publish. Add the author of a post you're reading in one go, or when you subscribe to their blyg\n- 🍄 **Stale Quotes…**: when a post you quoted gets a new version, your thread shows ↻ and one click refreshes the quote\n- 🔑 **Client Access…**: see every app and token that can act as you, make a new token, and revoke any of them\n- ✨ **AI on Your Blyg…**: if your blyg has its own AI, Burrow can draft your version notes and tell you whether a change looks like a typo, minor or major. You always get the last word\n- 💌 **Mentions › Sent**: see the mentions your blyg sent out, and whether each one landed. Subscriptions now say when they were last checked, and why one is struggling\n- 🌾 Little treats: a word-by-word diff between versions of your posts (⌘Y), Threads / Fragments / Thumbed down feeds, your likes and activity in Blyg › Signals…, alt text for images, and Copy Link\n- 📱 **Burrow in a browser** grew up: subscriptions, mentions, hoppers, 👍 / 👎, image uploads, versions, forks and your blyg's settings, all from your phone\n\n**🌱 0.18.1: a tidier burrow**\n\n- 🐇 Burrow in a browser is *fast* on a phone, even with thousands of posts to read. Opening a post takes a blink, and it stays open\n- 🦔 Nearby thoughts behaves: its keys keep working after you click a row, and resting the mouse on a suggestion shows you the post\n- 🍃 \"What's new\" is a short note now, with a link to proper [release notes](https://aneeshsathe.github.io/blygger-desktop/releases.html)\n\n**🌲 0.18.0: new paths through the thicket**\n\n- 💬 **#thicket** (⇧⌘I, experimental): a chat tab to talk with other Burrow folk on Libera.Chat (IRC), with a nudge when someone mentions you. Nothing connects until you set it up. Come say hi! 👋\n- 📚 **The shelf** (⌥⌘B): keep the posts you keep updating, like a /now page or a reading log, at the top of your list. ⌘B opens it\n- 🧭 **The command palette** (⇧⌘P): every action, theme, blyg, hopper and post, by name\n- 🌫️ **Focus mode** (⌥⌘F): just you and the line you're writing, everything else gently dimmed\n- 🦔 **Nearby thoughts**: a rail beside the editor shows your posts that say what your paragraph says. ⌥⏎ links one and ⌥⇧⏎ quotes it, and an optional small model that runs on your computer matches meaning, not just words\n- 🧵 **Lineage while you write**: a quiet line shows what your post draws on and what draws on it. The lineage map zooms out two hops each way\n- 🔍 **Hover cards**: rest the pointer on a link or quote to see what it is\n- 🥾 **Trails**: press t while reading to drop a post on a trail with a word on why, then turn the trail into a thread of quotes\n- 🖐️ **Drag to quote**: drag a post into what you're writing, or keep a few on the quote tray for later\n- 🪟 **Split view** (⌥⌘⏎): the post you're reading beside the one you're writing\n- 🧶 **Loose ends**: search for is:orphan, is:draft, has:tk and friends, and a quiet line tells you what's left dangling\n- 🍀 **Serendipity** (turn it on in Settings): a new post's empty page shows one of your older posts, to quote, link or wave goodbye to\n- 📎 **Capture from anywhere**: select text in any app, then Services › Capture in Burrow\n- 🖥️ **A terminal pane** (⌃`, experimental): your own shell under your posts\n- 🌐 **Burrow in a browser** first sprouted here, ready for your phone\n\n**🐿️ 0.17.0: quick in a big forest**\n\n- ⚡ Burrow stays quick with thousands of posts to read: lists, search and marking posts read are many times faster\n- 🧺 Pick several posts and press h to put them all in a hopper at once\n- 🎨 The reader follows Burrow's theme\n- 🔀 Switching between blygs is safer and works on Windows\n\n**🐾 Try it**\n\n- Already using Burrow? It updates itself. Restart when it asks, and the tour walks you through what's new\n- New here? Grab it for Mac or Windows from the [releases page](https://github.com/aneeshsathe/blygger-desktop/releases/latest)\n- Then try ⇧⌘P, wander into the Blyg menu, and drop by #thicket to tell me what you found 🌿\n\nEvery bump you hit in the undergrowth helps, so send them my way 🦔\n","content_html":"<p>Burrow 0.17 to 0.19: the thicket grows 🌿</p>\n<p>Three Burrow releases in a week, and a whole lot of new growth. Burrow now does just about everything Studio does, it's quick with thousands of posts, and there are fresh paths to explore all through the undergrowth. Here's a field guide 🐇</p>\n<p><strong>🌳 0.19.0: run your whole blyg from Burrow</strong></p>\n<ul>\n<li>🎨 <strong>Blyg › Site…</strong>: give your public pages a new look. Pick a theme or design your own with a live preview, choose a typeface, a front page and the menus on every page, and set your avatar. Nothing changes until you press Save</li>\n<li>🪺 <strong>Blyg › Contacts…</strong>: an address book for the people you write about. Type @ and they come first, and the preview shows the link your blyg will publish. Add the author of a post you're reading in one go, or when you subscribe to their blyg</li>\n<li>🍄 <strong>Stale Quotes…</strong>: when a post you quoted gets a new version, your thread shows ↻ and one click refreshes the quote</li>\n<li>🔑 <strong>Client Access…</strong>: see every app and token that can act as you, make a new token, and revoke any of them</li>\n<li>✨ <strong>AI on Your Blyg…</strong>: if your blyg has its own AI, Burrow can draft your version notes and tell you whether a change looks like a typo, minor or major. You always get the last word</li>\n<li>💌 <strong>Mentions › Sent</strong>: see the mentions your blyg sent out, and whether each one landed. Subscriptions now say when they were last checked, and why one is struggling</li>\n<li>🌾 Little treats: a word-by-word diff between versions of your posts (⌘Y), Threads / Fragments / Thumbed down feeds, your likes and activity in Blyg › Signals…, alt text for images, and Copy Link</li>\n<li>📱 <strong>Burrow in a browser</strong> grew up: subscriptions, mentions, hoppers, 👍 / 👎, image uploads, versions, forks and your blyg's settings, all from your phone</li>\n</ul>\n<p><strong>🌱 0.18.1: a tidier burrow</strong></p>\n<ul>\n<li>🐇 Burrow in a browser is <em>fast</em> on a phone, even with thousands of posts to read. Opening a post takes a blink, and it stays open</li>\n<li>🦔 Nearby thoughts behaves: its keys keep working after you click a row, and resting the mouse on a suggestion shows you the post</li>\n<li>🍃 &quot;What's new&quot; is a short note now, with a link to proper <a href=\"https://aneeshsathe.github.io/blygger-desktop/releases.html\">release notes</a></li>\n</ul>\n<p><strong>🌲 0.18.0: new paths through the thicket</strong></p>\n<ul>\n<li>💬 <strong>#thicket</strong> (⇧⌘I, experimental): a chat tab to talk with other Burrow folk on Libera.Chat (IRC), with a nudge when someone mentions you. Nothing connects until you set it up. Come say hi! 👋</li>\n<li>📚 <strong>The shelf</strong> (⌥⌘B): keep the posts you keep updating, like a /now page or a reading log, at the top of your list. ⌘B opens it</li>\n<li>🧭 <strong>The command palette</strong> (⇧⌘P): every action, theme, blyg, hopper and post, by name</li>\n<li>🌫️ <strong>Focus mode</strong> (⌥⌘F): just you and the line you're writing, everything else gently dimmed</li>\n<li>🦔 <strong>Nearby thoughts</strong>: a rail beside the editor shows your posts that say what your paragraph says. ⌥⏎ links one and ⌥⇧⏎ quotes it, and an optional small model that runs on your computer matches meaning, not just words</li>\n<li>🧵 <strong>Lineage while you write</strong>: a quiet line shows what your post draws on and what draws on it. The lineage map zooms out two hops each way</li>\n<li>🔍 <strong>Hover cards</strong>: rest the pointer on a link or quote to see what it is</li>\n<li>🥾 <strong>Trails</strong>: press t while reading to drop a post on a trail with a word on why, then turn the trail into a thread of quotes</li>\n<li>🖐️ <strong>Drag to quote</strong>: drag a post into what you're writing, or keep a few on the quote tray for later</li>\n<li>🪟 <strong>Split view</strong> (⌥⌘⏎): the post you're reading beside the one you're writing</li>\n<li>🧶 <strong>Loose ends</strong>: search for is:orphan, is:draft, has:tk and friends, and a quiet line tells you what's left dangling</li>\n<li>🍀 <strong>Serendipity</strong> (turn it on in Settings): a new post's empty page shows one of your older posts, to quote, link or wave goodbye to</li>\n<li>📎 <strong>Capture from anywhere</strong>: select text in any app, then Services › Capture in Burrow</li>\n<li>🖥️ <strong>A terminal pane</strong> (⌃`, experimental): your own shell under your posts</li>\n<li>🌐 <strong>Burrow in a browser</strong> first sprouted here, ready for your phone</li>\n</ul>\n<p><strong>🐿️ 0.17.0: quick in a big forest</strong></p>\n<ul>\n<li>⚡ Burrow stays quick with thousands of posts to read: lists, search and marking posts read are many times faster</li>\n<li>🧺 Pick several posts and press h to put them all in a hopper at once</li>\n<li>🎨 The reader follows Burrow's theme</li>\n<li>🔀 Switching between blygs is safer and works on Windows</li>\n</ul>\n<p><strong>🐾 Try it</strong></p>\n<ul>\n<li>Already using Burrow? It updates itself. Restart when it asks, and the tour walks you through what's new</li>\n<li>New here? Grab it for Mac or Windows from the <a href=\"https://github.com/aneeshsathe/blygger-desktop/releases/latest\">releases page</a></li>\n<li>Then try ⇧⌘P, wander into the Blyg menu, and drop by #thicket to tell me what you found 🌿</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Every bump you hit in the undergrowth helps, so send them my way 🦔</p>\n","content_hash":"sha256:473d8dc7db80e6c1ce2482baac5e14672c3f77902189cb013595e6525351dc02","media":[],"transclusions":[],"changelog":[{"version":1,"at":"2026-11-07T17:47:53Z","note":null}]}