How to really get into custom themes and customizing image display

Developers
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Hey hey hey everyone!

I’ve been happily using micro.blog for a couple weeks and am feeling the natural frontend dev’s urge to customize the theme and get into all that.

I know that I can edit all the files of the theme in the online interface but wanted to ask if there’s a hot workflow to maybe edit the theme locally somehow, push changes to Github or alike and see deploy updates? Or just see the updated version of the theme?

On a possibly related note: I’ve noticed that images currently are downsized pretty significantly – which of course makes sense to have them load quickly – but do I have control over that somehow? Or could I even let the CDN render more than one version of the image and then use the html <picture/> element to show those differently sized images?

Thank you all so much in advance, this platform really is everything I always wanted to build myself for a while :sweat_smile:.

Cheers

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The downsized stuff happens pretty aggressively from the Micro.blog apps but not from the web or other apps like MarsEdit.

As for local work flow, yes, you can have a custom theme sync from Github. To test things locally, get an export with Markdown and Theme, then only push your theme files and not the content once you’re done to a repo. You can have that theme be “cloned” from a repo and go in and pull when you want to make a change take effect.