After listening to Chris, Dave and Matt talk about their ideal CMS setup on Shop talk I felt it was an ideal time to share my ideal CMS features as well as some context around why I'm more interested in them than I should be.

Due to the new job I've given myself permission to consume even more design systems related content. In doing so I listened to a recent Syntax FM episode featuring the folks from Shoelace, now Web Awesome, where they talked about joining up with Font Awesome and their Kickstarter

The link-peek Web Component allows you to turn a regular anchor link to a rich preview (also known as an 'unfurled' link) to show description, meta image, website name and more using a JSON API.

There are a handful of people I'm interested in on Threads that I want to follow from my Mastodon account, so to zero in on this awkward intersect I've used the following very crude method

The mastodon-post Web Component allows you to turn a regular link to a Mastodon post into an embeddable post quote including metadata such as reply count, boost count, favourites and more.